Fiction:Nentus

The Nenti (the collective name for both species of the genus Nentus, Nentophins and Nentocrems) are a usually peaceful, lawful empire that only goes to war to forcefully teach empires that do not respect life, and if that doesn't work, destroy them. They are an independent empire that does not make permanent alliences, but makes small, usually temporary friendships for the express purpose of buying terraforming tools and spice from them. The army consists almost entirely of unmanned, small probes with a turret mounted on them that are used for defense. The rest is called "The Attack Fleet", made up of 100 manned ships that carry more advanced weaponry. The Attack Fleet is used to show anti-life empires their wrongdoings. However, this is not used on the Grox because no matter what anyone does, they just don't seem to care. The Nentus Empire, unlike many others, enjoys it to watch one of their stones of life or scrolls of science being carried away by an alien probe. They see it as spreading the knowledge. While they are particularly aggressive towards regularly warring empires, they do not care for monarchies, as democracy and the freedom of choice is the only way for life and sentience to truly express itself. Nenti also do not approve of most Zealots because of their non-science ways, but respect the Cantus Empire of Zealots because of their relative respect for science.

THEIR HISTORY:

Nenti began their adventure billions of years ago, when carbon-rich meteorites struck the surface of planet Espyrius. In one of those chunks of rock, a cell lay, dormant. When it fell into the watery oceans of Espyrius, it woke. It divided into many of its kind. At first, it was an herbivore, passively eating plant matter. Later, however, a carnivorous cell ripped open a smaller cell. A Nentus absorbed the DNA of the cell, making the Nentus grow sharp spikes from its surface. It passed these traits off to its offspring. Because these new, spiked cells could defend themselves, they thrived and slowly the older kind went extinct. The Nenti then killed cells with their spikes and absorbed DNA from them, allowing them to grow omnivorous mouths, water jets, and small electricity bulbs. They grew larger and larger, turning into multicellular plankton and eventually grew to about the size of a housecat. They grew short limbs and lungs and climbed onto land. They evolved a primitive brain and met many creatures. The Nenti developed a love for other life. After learning much from other creatures and their surroundings, they became conscious. The Nenti built a small tribe and made friends with or conquered other tribes. One day, the chieftain was running into battle when something caught his eye. He ordered his tribe to stop. The chief examined the strange, black rectangle thing standing in the field. It had a large hole in the upper part of it. The chief stared at it, rubbed it, kicked it, set it on fire, and eventually threw an axe at it. Nothing happened. The chief didn't know what to do, so out of curiosity he looked in the hole, expecting to see the meadow on the other side. What he saw, instead was a world with cities, big lines made out of fire making larger explosions than any torch on the planet, a big, shiny animal carrying big balloons on its back, and even a shiny bird that didn't flap its wings and made the most annoying sound. The chieftain realized that this was a prophecy, this was going to happen. He loved the idea of it. He ordered his troops to keep moving into battle. They destroyed the village, and in the wreckage of the main hut a small warrior named Samuel found a glowing blue... something. It had no shape but it was clearly there. Samuel picked it up, and to see if it really was shapeless, shoved it into the black thing's hole. There was a flash of light. Samuel suddenly realized how they could get to the world that the chieftain had described: a simple message, from a long-dead planet. "Everything is made up of atoms. Atoms attract each other at first, but repel if they get too close." It didn't seem like much, but Samuel recognized it as the basis to all science. He told the rest of the tribe, who's immediately began researching everything around them. They built a civilization and watched as, around the world, other tribes slowly came to realize the same thing. The Nenti took over the entire world by force and developed the technology to build a spaceship and began colonizing nearby planets. That is how the Nentus Empire established its place in the universe.