Creature:Veribal

The Veribal are a space-faring empire, controlling roughly a fifth of the arm they inhabit. The Veribal are reptile-like, but are warm-blooded. The Veribal, due to long past generations of violence and takeover, are violent by nature, but also respect and often ally with greater powers, only breaking ties when the Veribal are stronger.

=History= The first Veribal who built a civilization were a violent tribe, so they eyed the three newcomers of their continent with suspicion. The smaller city-states were quickly engulfed by the much larger Veribal Nation, as the Veribal Nation had claimed all spice gysers on the continent but one. With a full continent to their name, the Veribal Nation set their sights on two other city-states on another continent: the Red Nation and Pink Nation. Following the capture of those two and an inadvertant war with the Yellow Nation, the Veribal turned on their once-allies, the powerful Orange Nation. The Veribal captured a city, but the Orange Nation retaliated, capturing the city of Chawremer. In revenge, the Veribal Nation reclaimed Chawremer and stormed the rest of the Orange Nation's cities, uniting the planet of Floria under one ruler.

=Space=

The Early Age
When the Veribal first entered space, they were, for the first time in millenia, scared. On Floria, they dominated, in space, they were a single system in the void of space. Five empires were found in the void: the Dubel, Minor, Gnosh, Bananaz, and Goulgan. The Veribal expanded to five systems, creating an alliance with the Minor and discovering the Poppero, Frug, Shaggles, and Wortgon. The Poppero began demanding money, and the Veribal invaded and conquered the inferior Poppero. Subsequent wars (the Gnosh War, the Shaggles Wars, and the the Goulgan) further expanded Veribal territory. Meanwhile, the region known as the Empire Core was active. The five Great Powers, the Veribal, Minor, Dubel, Frug, and Bananaz, were at a sort of cold war for the most territory. The Frug, being farther from the true core, were booted out early, and the Minor surrounded the Dubel. At the end of the Core Cold War, the Minor held the most territory in the Empire Core, though the Veribal were larger across the entire empire. The five Great Powers were strong allies all the way around, and it would stay that way until the Age of Conquering.

The Age of Diplomacy
As the Veribal expanded, they met many empires: the Demetrius, Gooplet, Flitt, Kirgle, Aepox, and such like. In an attempt to keep the immedeate area in relative peace, the now dominant Veribal created strong ties with most empires, only exterminating the small and weak, to create an ideal environment to expand. The end of the Age of Diplomacy came with the Galactic Community honoring the Veribal with the title of Omnipotent. Thus, the Age of Expansion began.

The Age of Expansion
During the Age of Expansion, the Veribal pushed their borders. They expanded from what is now the Western Expanse into the Mouthy Sector, and from the Outer Arc into the Beta Demetrius Gap. Inferior empires in the way or great empires that have fallen to the wayside were absorbed, and alliances were made with empires in the Mouthy Sector, Western Expanse, Beta Demetrius Gap, and Outer Arc were created, stablizing the regions for expansion. Contact with the Grox was made early in the Age of Expansion through a black hole outside of Frug territory, then though a second black hole in another arm. Empires in what will be known as the Far Arm were largely ignored during the Age of Expansion; only during the Age of Exploration and the Age of Conquering is the Farm Arm seriously considered.

The Age of Exploration
At this point, the Veribal had a large empire stretching from the Mouthy Gap to the west to the Beta Demetrius Gap to the east. The Veribal pushed beyond their current borders, exploring a barren region to the north of the Empire Core called the Northern Frontier, a region beyond the Beta Demetrius Gap called the Star Sheet, and the Far Arm. The Veribal Empire was at relative peace during the Age of Exploration, remaining neutral to most empires discovered. Case in point: relations with the Grox hit a high point during the Age of Exploration, and have since leveled where it peaked. Multiple systems were bought from the Grox, creating a chunk of territory at the edge of Grox-controlled space. A series of wars marked the end of the Age of Exploration: the Flera Wars, the Tron Wars, and the Raal War are the most notable.

The Age of Conquering
During the Age of Conquering, the Veribal set their sights on the territory of any empire they have met, save for the Grox and the Frug. The Veribal conquered the Dubel, Minor, and Bananaz, claiming all of the Empire Core save for a small patch of Frug territory. Colonies were placed in the Far Arm and Northern Frontier, several Star Sheet empires were absorbed, and two the large, wealthy empires of the Mouthy Sector were conquered. Creatures and tribes were monolithed to create empires for the Veribal to farm; empires such as the megaeyes, Jordanous, eeljaxzab, and Leonus were created; most are still growing. A portion of the Far Arm, seperated from the rest by a large gap and a tiny isthmus, was fully explored and two empires were conquered, with many still expanding. Two empires on the border of Grox territory were discovered. This is the current age the Veribal are in.