Creature:Vihindru

Also known as Vihindruraptor/Vihindrusaurus/Vihindruatsauronian/Deinonychus sapiens

Description
Vihindrus are apprixmately 3.4 meters (11 ft) long and about 1.8 meters (6 ft) tall. Covered in red and sometimes brown plumage with brown/red scaley skin, like a bird. Vihindrus are in direct relation to their Dromeasaurid relatives of the later Cretaceous period. The males of the species adorn beautiful feather displays while the females carry just feathery fluff on their heads. Vihindrus hail from the planet of Sauronia with ties to the planet Earth. When the asteroid was on a collision course with Earth in the Sol System 65 million years ago the Vihindru evacuated the planet leaving behind their bretheren and the original species arrived on Sauronia approximately 100 years after their departure. Life was evolving on Sauronia in a similar fashion to Earth, and convergent evolution had taken place involving the Vihindru of Sauronia and the Vihindru of the Old World only subtle differences in their physiology existed, but they were genetically compatible with one another. Soon the two species became one and the native Vihindru of Sauronia lost their "wings".

History
The Tribal Wars

After a while the Primitive and Advanced Vihindru began to intertwine in their cultures and technology was largely forgotten about in this age with only the Tribal Leaders developing advances in secret to maintain followership amonst their clans. The Tribes began warring on Sauronia in regards to their origins, scaveged technology, and territory. A few remembered the stories of their brothers from the stars and wondered where they were now while some felt that their brothers were still among them. Finally a uniformed idea was made in the warrior mentality causing the end to the wars and the various tribal warlords that sought to seize control of the Chieftan's technology. Also known as the Great Feast that brought the chiefs together and society moved ahead based on the Chieftan's ideas, the Chieftan known as Diractor.

The "Civilized" Years

Rediscovering advanced technology the first Emperor, Diractor, re-organized the Sauronian Empire's way of thinking. The Vihindru while war-like still held the tones of science among all other practices destroying any religious zealousy that would take place of nonsense of gods and deities. Diractor re-discovered the original podship that his ancestors came on and started understanding their collective knowledge and wisdom. He began searching the stars with experimental technology trying to determine what caused his kind in the past to flee the Old World. After another set of wars on the same thing that happened in the Tribal years the Vihindru united in a society that was unparalleled with a final understanding of the sins of their past they wanted to move forward and find out what happened at Earth. The species reached for the stars with unparralleled advanced technology and encountered many alien races. By the end of Emperor Diractor Varidian's life he had revolutionized his people into the old ways of science and exploration, but he reminded them to be vigilant of the Grox as he found several warnings in the Sauronian Database regarding them.

First Contact: Iragoran

A war that would span a hundred years was the war with the Iragoran, an insect race that hailed from the planet Iragoa. The Iragoran were biologically the most advanced biomechanical race around that paralleled the Sauronians in every way and also one that was potentially the most destructive. The Iragoran would invade a planet and eat the inhabitants and when that planet was empty? They would turn it into another hive world and move onto the next one. Controlled by a group of Queens - eventually it became one singular queen. After a hundred years of war the Iragoran were finally defeated by the aide of a young scientist known as Kalthius Iarras. He proposed a Gravitation Wave satellite that would wipe out most of their hive worlds with minimal casualties to the Empire, it broke Galactic Code - but it was a case of two wrongs making a right. Race relations with the Vinhindu declined due to their free-use of these weapons. Then Emperor, Tiranis Varidian, justified it as "Absolute Victory, absolute cost." Eventually the Sauronian Empire invaded Iragora and fought the combined threats of what was responsible for hurling the asteroid at the Old World, a race of grey aliens known as the Unhsiv and the Iragoran's insectoid hordes. Kalthius was awarded his own command ship known as the Tyrant and placed in charge by then Emperor, Tiranis Varidian, and Sauronian Parliament of advanced reconassiance expeditions for First Contact.

Meeting with the Grox

Despite Diractor's warnings of such an alien race existing and the discovery of wreckage from a Grox ship on their homeworld of Sauronia, the Empire eventually encountered the Grox. Negotiations were hostile at first, but after many diplomatic ventures a trade agreement was negotiated with the Grox regarding free passage to the Galactic Core. The Vihindru and the Grox became allies even though the Sauronians knew the terrible truth from Earth that they, in conjunction with the Unhsiv were responsible for the destruction of the Old World. In exchange for the Grox's cooperation, and being the Sauronian Empire controlled a large galactic community, they allowed the Grox safe passage through their territories.

Finding Earth

Kalthius's forces were the first to locate Earth. They discovered the third rock from Sol via long range wave lengths by old Radio Transmissions based off the coordinate data they received from the Grox and speaking with Steve. Some reports indicated that Earth was found prior to this due to Kalthius's advanced knowledge of Quantum Mechanics. In a rush to investigate they arrived only to find the planet deserted and devoid of life with the buildings being ruins and the humans reduced to bones. While the planet was recovering ecologically, albeit slowly at a T1 score and given the reverence the Sauronians held for the Old World they resettled the planet and terraformed the world to the environment of Sauronia and spread Late Cretaceous based animals on the planet. After doing this they discovered the horrible truth, that the Grox and the Unhsiv - in a partnership were responsible for the destruction of the Old World and were the reason their ancient brothers were forced to leave. Being the encountered the Unhsiv during the Iragoran-Sauronian War the Empire began to hunt for the Unhsiv for blood while remaining uncertain with the Grox as they had entered into an alliance with them to gain access to the Galactic Core. Kalthius proposed to the Emperor a subtle opposition to the Grox as an outright war would surely doom them and the entire galaxy.

Unhsiv War

Greys, as they were sometimes called, were headed up by a leader known as the Ellyaweh. He was the supreme being would be otherwise known as God-Emperor. He posed to other races sometimes as Spode and often promises his people - the humans he collected - the promise of rapture. What "rapture" meant was being taken back to the Unhsiv homeworld, a toxic environment, and forced to work in the many work camps or be experimented on and advanced into an Unhsiv artificially. The war was over before it began, lasting only three to four decades compared to the 10 decade war of the Iragoran. The Unhsiv used slave humans - as a worker class and maintained a religious order that lead to eventually a lot of slaves betraying them. A young Vihindru by the name Valt, inspired this revolution as he was a prisoner of the Unshiv for two decades. When the Sauronians invaded, under Vice Admiral Kalthius, Valt knew it was time to help lead the final assault on the Unhsiv Homeworld. The Sauronian Empire obtained victory through another war, but there is more. There was an ancient race - known as the Torodan, the Old World Vihindrus, that were located. Sensing a brother in arms Kalthius freed the Torodan people, lead by Mayor Sisemen from the work camp they were forced to live in. It was revealed the Torodan were in fact the first evolution of the Vihindru race that came to Sauronia millions of years ago, but some of them got hunted down by the Unhsiv and captured. In time they started to look different than their bretheren, but that was because of what the Unhsiv had done to them and natural evolution of their species in their sixty-five million year old prison sentence. As for the fate of Valt, he lost his life protecting the Torodan in the battle from Unhsiv.

The Torodan were freed, there was cake, and the Sauronian Empire ushered in a new age of peace and exploration with causing the Vihindru to rethink their presence in the galaxy. They changed their archetype from warrior, to scientist.

The Future

Currently the Sauronian race helped the Torodan return home to Earth for the first time in sixty-five million years. The Torodan have joined the Empire as fellow wanderers though forging new alliances with the Diablos race and helping the humans from the Unhsiv homeworld also adjust to the new life on Earth. The Empire is currently fighting their shadow war against the Grox. The other races in the Empire though, due to publically seeing the alliance have declared war on the Sauronian Empire as a result. After Emperor Tiranis Varidian explaining the issue to a few localized races and sharing their plan the tensions have eased somewhat. Due to the nature of their shadow war only certain agents are sent to help in overthrowing the Grox on key worlds and helping other races combat them. The Grox? Are oblivious to the quiet rebellion of the Sauronians, but if they were to catch wind of such an issue there would be outright war.

Notable Sauronians (Vihindru)
Diractor Varidian - Chieftan during the Tribal Wars and first Emperor of the Sauronian Empire. Emperor Tiranis Varidian - Descendent of the Chieftan Diractor, carrying his lineage and legacy onward into the future. Emperor Tiranis is the current Emperor of the Sauronian Empire. Science Admiral Kalthius - War hero, decorated and honored many times Kalthius is the leader for first contact with alien races along with being in charge and responsible for numerous advances for the Sauronian Empire. Valt - A Sauronian prisoner responsible for helping the humans on the Unhsiv homeworld to uprise against their false gods.