Fiction:Venhokwe Oligarchy

The Venhokwe (Also known as The Ancients) were a race of creatures that were some of the first empires in existence in the universe. They lived in the Andromeda galaxy.

Origins
The Venhokwe evolved three billion years after the BIG BANG. They evolved on an cold planet, that was abundant in the element of silver. They evolved in peace, never having a war.

Space
When the Venhokwe developed Space aged technology, they quickly colonized their whole system. They had technology to colonize anything, stars, comets, gas giants, you name it. The Venhokwe grew quickly, and started colonizing other systems.

Life was found outside themselves, but no intelligent life. This gave the Venhokwe lots of room to expand there empire. The first kind of intelligent life they found were four giant creatures; Spode, The God That Will Come, The Source, and The Oracle. These beings were fighting and destroying the universe. The Venhokwe used there technology to subdue them, and imprison them on four different planet; Spode was imprisoned on Planet-Spode, The God That Will Come on a rogue planet outside the Galaxy, The Source on Earth, and the Oracle on a small asteroid. After that, the Venhokwe continue expanding until they fully controlled two galaxies.

S.K.U.T.H.E.R.
The Venhokwe were growing with their technology, believing there was nothing out in the wastes of space, when disaster struck. A warlike empire known as S.K.U.T.H.E.R. attacked and wiped out half the Venhokwe empire. The Ancients had no weapons to fight them with, because they had never encountered anything that they needed to kill.

The Venhokwe were testing a wide range of tools against S.K.U.T.H.E.R., but none prevailed. When S.K.U.T.H.E.R. However hope would soon come. S.K.U.T.H.E.R. attacked a mining colony, with no way for the Venhokwe to escape. One the Venhokwe used a mining tool to defend himself, and it worked. Other miners started using tools against S.K.U.T.H.E.R. and drove them back. Although the mining gears firepower was almost insufficient to kill a S.K.U.T.H.E.R. soldier, it did inflict pain upon them. With the mining tools, about half the miners managed to escape.

A New Hope
The mining tools were further developed into effective weapons, so the tide of the war soon changed. Half the Venhokwe lost worlds were regained, but S.K.U.T.H.E.R. didn't give up. Super weapons were thrown into the war, time loops, time freezes, and time travel was used by both sides. S.K.U.T.H.E.R. was over-zealous that they had more strength, and decided to go the war with another civilization. This new civilization were a group of creatures called Gar. These creatures were only level I in the Kardeshev scale, but they stood there ground.

Marchin' into Nothin'
Both sides of the war used teleporters. However, they used different kinds of teleporters. The Venhokwe used the kind most empires use today. S.K.U.T.H.E.R. used a crude and sloppy variety. When a Venhokwe teleporter was destroyed, the other end would shut down, when a S.K.U.T.H.E.R. teleporter was destroyed, the other end stayed online, so if anyone went through, they would be torn into nothingness outside the universe. The Gar were the first to start destroying S.K.U.T.H.E.R. teleporters, and the Venhokwe soon followed. Thousands of S.K.U.T.H.E.R. soldiers were unknowingly marching to their doom.

Attacking the Source
The Venhokwe could not beat the S.K.U.T.H.E.R. just yet, so they tried to attack their cloning facilities. Several suicide ships went into S.K.U.T.H.E.R. space and time looped entire planets. The ships were destroyed, but S.K.U.T.H.E.R. had less clones being produced than previously.

Final Battle
The final battle occurred on Zencrie, the planet the Gar inhabited. Details of the battle were mainly unknown, but it was known that the Gar were attacking a S.K.U.T.H.E.R. base. At the end of the battle, the S.K.U.T.H.E.R. species were declared extinct. The Gar were declared critically endangered, with only one suvivor. The Venhokwe themselves were also now endangered, and so the remains flew into a black-hole, attempting to follow the Krass. None would ever be seen again.The S.K.U.T.H.E.R. species was declared extinct. However, the Venhokwe had made a fatal mistake. They kept prisoners...

Biology
The Venhokwe were Hydrogen based lifeforms. The breathed in oxygen and breathed out Hydrogen Dioxide. Their blood was silver, and (according to the S.K.U.T.H.E.R.) tasted good.

Castes
The Venhokwe have several social castes.

Workers
The workers, as their name suggests, work. They come in both male and female, and can give birth to all four castes. They are usually used for mining and building colonies. They can came in both male and female.

Soldiers
The soldier castes fight. They are physically more powerful than the workers, and have wings in order to fly over obstacles. They are kept in hibernation, and they are released when something threatens the Venhokwe empire. Are all male.

Leaders
The leaders lead. They are smarter than the others because they need to know how to get everything organized. They also have horn-like structures and wings, in order to make themselves look important. All leaders are females.

Technology
Most of the Venhokwe tools and buildings were made of silver, because of it being the most abundant substance on their planet.

Their weapons resembled claws, and were made of silver. The weapon shot a beam of pure light, rather than the plasma most empires use today. The beam killed in three seconds, and could destroy robots. Which it had to, as the S.K.U.T.H.E.R. soldiers were robots.

The Venhokwe had magnificent slipspace. They had pretty much mastered slipspace to the piont where they could fire weapons inside of it, see each other in it, and even colonize it. With their slipspace, it takes only half an hour to get from Galaxy to Galaxy.