Creature:Pirakkei

The Pirakkei were omnivorous winged bipeds from Ummale, a small habitable moon of a gas giant in the.

History
In the early years of the Second Galactic Federation in the 4th millennium BC, Ummale was home to a Cyberion research base, dedicated to studying the native biosphere as well as the then-Tribal Stage Pirakkei, who lived a simple life hunting on the plains of their homeworld. Ummale was later invaded twice by Conqrix during the Second Girdo Grox War. In the first battle, also the first time that the Conqrix were fielded during the war, the Cyberion Army was alerted to the invasion by their scientists and repelled the attack; the second battle saw the arrival of a much larger Grox air support force resulting in a Cyberion defeat and the destruction of their research base.

In the aftermath, several Pirakkei tribes took advantage of damaged but still-functional Grox and Federation technology, using spaceship wrecks to build fortified structures so that they could remain hidden from the eyes of the invaders. After the Grox retreated from the galactic arms at the end of the war, most of Ummale was left as semi-xenoformed desert, and over the next thousand years, it became increasingly less habitable. The tribes of Pirakkei who, forced by the circumstances into a scientific revolution, could figure out how to make their starship homes spaceworthy again, left the moon and took advantage of the then-tumultous state of galactic civilisation by adopting a life of piracy.

Another thousand years later, by 1300 BC, Ummale's ecosystems had completely collapsed and the final Pirakkei on the moon had died, while several of the most powerful pirate clans had formed a sparse trader confederation across their sector of space. Although their influence grew ever greater over time, with trade routes spanning the entire Southern Arm, their expansion was too slow: border conflicts with the Grox in the galactic centre preventing them from reaching into the Northern Arm, and the finally conquered them in AD 2685 and had fully dismantled their pirate networks by 2760.

Notable Individuals
Shirider, the leader of a Pirakkei clan who surrendered to the Empire early on in the campaign, was rewarded by being granted the title of Commodore in the Imperial Space Force and the starship Galaxy.

Commander Miakelain, previously a member of the same clan, was a Pirakkei who led one of the four fleets under the command of Commodre Bracheps during the First One Campaign.