Fiction:The Khilai Empire

Description
The Khilai are a relatively young empire of 680 star systems and a fleet of just over 8,500 space craft. the Khilai wear plate battle armour made from an icredibly robust alloy called Netorium which is created by placing several of the ores found on the planet under high pressure and then imediately exposing them to focused void energy (the Khilai's main power source), Many of the battleships and vehcles are also plated with Netorium alloy.

Anatomy
The Khilai have a peculiar anatomy with large muscular upper bodies and double jointed legs with two sets of knees. Their mouth spealises in ingesting flesh and bone and its saliver is a powerfull toxin which it can launch out of it's mouth.It's powerfull jaw muscles give it a crushing bite of over 1000g but Khilai rarley resort to this primative method of combat.

Location
The Khilai are located at the end of the fith arm of the milky way galaxy. The empire is a dense cluster of stars all of which are regularly patrolled and surveyed. All colonised planets are completely self suficent and requrie almost no suport from the home star system(wartime is an exeption and all surounding starsytems combine a single military forse to protect the combatted star system).