Creature:Bloogill

Early Origins & Evolution
Evolving from the microorganism Meatioid some billions of years ago, the Bloogill - named as such because of its patently blue coloration and its vestigial gills - emerged onto land with little difference from their original forms. After millions of years of competition with their rivals, millions of pounds of meat, and scores of close encounters with the epic Nastyroach the Bloogill coalesced into various tribal associations.

Planetary Strife and Factiousness
Conquering all tribes by military force, choosing axemen over gift baskets, the Bloogill developed industrial technologies and settled in cities. Their military nature still in effect, the victorious faction of the Great Bloogill Schism of SARDate 0001 relied on a mixture of rovers, battleships, and jet-powered bombers to attain victory. Secretly, a space program had been in the works, and shortly thereafter, Bloogill became capable of space flight.

Spacefaring Era
Planet Yahle constituted the first extrasolar colony of the Bloogill, and it was from here that they contacted the spacefaring, funloving race of the Gibolobs. By the time the Planet Homestar had established relations with Miss Cleo, the local prophet/intergalactic telemarketing scammer and her empire, they had amassed a sizable empire. However, forays to expand territory were met with frustration; the empire's size was limited by frequent pirate raids - these tenacious raiders attacking every 2 sectons. Further compounding the problem was the fact that due to costs incurred in turret replacement and general ungratefulness and parsimony on the behalf of colonials, the empire would only pay for one active-duty vessel. The result was that the Bloogill would just barely reach the galactic core or the Sol System before having to run back along the arms of the galaxy to barely thwart pirate attacks. The galactic core was finally discovered in a mad dash that consumed 18 Mega Repair Packs and led to the loss of over half of the Empire's citizens. It was during these years that the infamously Uber Turret was deployed again and again, each time proving useless.

Legacy: Waiting For Decent Expansion Packs
Having barely escaped from a great cataclysm known to the universe as Patch 1.02, the Bloogill peacefully float throughout the galaxy, their sole aim being the discovery of the fabled Storybook planets, "achievements", and of course they mysterious path to the unreachable Grox planets.