Creature:Centapedus

The Centapedus are an insectile species created by FYIIHealSpiesz12

Overview
The Centapedus are an insectile race. They are green with yellow stripes along their entire body. They have a small mace on the their tales, along with several spines on the head. They have large mandibles and four arms, two strong arms (upper) and two small, skinny, and weak arms (lower). All of their characteristics are shared by all subspecies of their kind. The Centapedus have evolved on a rather large planet known as Blrince, the planet that all subspecies call home. The Centapedus have several subspecies which are the, , , , , , and the feared

Empire
The Centapedus have one of the largest empires in the galaxy. They are well known for being a great ally but as well as a devastating force to be reckoned with. They're empire is mainly traders. It is made up of them and they're subspecies. Each species in the empire play a different role. They control the outer parts of the galaxy but are moving closer to the center. It grows by buying other empires completely out or viciously attacking others. They have a grave dislike for Zealot and Warrior empires. They are friendly towards all other types of empires. The Centapedus make allies or enemies depending on the other empire's personality. If that empire is arrogant, boastful, or over confident, the Centapedus will wage war upon it. Much of their empire is actually built from fallen empires. They will defend their allies from any other empire, including defending them from the Grox. They're allies are almost completely protected, with Centapedus fighters patrolling all along the boundries of their empire and others. An Uber Turret is placed on almost every planet controlled by the Centapedus. This makes the ultimate defense. Most Empires have a lot more to gain if they ally the Centapedus.The exact number of allies out ways the number of enemies.

Expanding is one of the fastest things the Centapedus do. With their extreme intelligence, they have mastered the art of Terra forming. They can Terraform any T score0 planet to T score 3 just in a matter of minutes. They keep in their cargo a couple of species to fill in a food chain.

Clothing and Markings
The Centapedus take pride in their race. This is shown through their clothing. They wear certain parts of their armor according to what happens in the Centapedus history or in the history of their family unit. The Centapedus symbol is worn by all species of Centapedus (except the ). Their symbol is a simple, three sunsets, one on top facing upward and two others facing each other witch sort of resembles a beetle. This symbol is what makes all Centapedus apart of their empire. If this symbol is not worn or tattooed on, the one who doesn't have it on will not be part of the Empire and be banished never to return, not even if wearing the symbol once one comes back. The have their own symbol witch is greatly hated by all other Centapedus. The symbol is a shield with a ninja star shaped emblem in the middle. Strangely, it bares a similar appearance to the symbol.

Exile of the
For many years, tension between all subspecies of Centapedus and the was extremely high. The have always thought that superior gentetics should rule over all others, while all other subspecies especially the, thought that all should be equal. The thought that any baby that had physical disabilities or was mentally challenged, was not worthy, so the they tossed them out of the hatcheries. The Centapedus did not know they were doing this for quite some time. They did not know why the babies were disappearing or how. On one day while a mother went into the local hatchery she caught them stealing her young. For a while the Centapedus thought that it was only this particular Gigapedus who was taking them. Soon more were caught. That's when the Crystalpedus accused all Gigapedus of being Octauragawd's (the Centapedus devil) minions. This angered the Gigapedus, and so they started to murder the Crystalpedus. Soon the entire planet was abuzz with rumors about the Gigapedus. Soon they found evidence of what the Gigapedus were planning. They were planning to take over the entire Centapedus government. That's when war started. All Centapedus along with their subspecies were at war with the Gigapedus. The war lasted over 130 years. Until all Gigapedus were driven out of the cities. Once space technology was invented, the Gigapedus were banished from Blrince and forced out of the empire. The Gigapedus became bandits in space. They started raiding other empires and laying waste to civilizations. They grew and began to attack the Centapedus once they're empire was big enough. Soon the Gigapedus became an ally to the evil Legion. This angered the Centapedus even further. This led to more war. Both empires are still currently at war.

Project S.F.L
Two years after the were banished, the Centapedus started to search for intelligent life. So far all colonies that were placed were on barren planets. The Centapedus were starting to become lonely and felt that there is no one else in the galaxy that was intelligent. After six years of construction and planning, the Centapedus launched a massive search, of over twenty thousand ships were sent out across their star cluster to search for any intelligence. Years of searching turned up nothing. They were not discouraged by this. They launched probes to search the star cluster. Soon one probe started catching strange radio signals, the Centapedus were excited about the whole thing. They started to launch even more probes to the area, and they picked up the signals too. The Centapedus knew they were on to something. Soon a ship was launched to search the area. The ship had one of every subspecies aboard it, and had a small radio on board to pick up the transmissions. As the ship neared it's destination the radio started to pick up signals. Unfortunately the ship could not find the exact planet or star where it was coming from. After many years of searching a strange object was spotted hovering over the colony Dvoiv. A signal came down. It was a message from a space faring empire. It said "Greetings we've seen your ships hovering above our colony. We didn't know who you were or why you didn't contact us. We are the Richer Empire and we welcome you into our territory under one condition. You buy at least one thing from our Bazaar!". This became known as Project S.F.L or Search For Life.

Fluor Fiend Wars
After about 200 years in the galaxy, the Centapedus encountered their first real threat. A five star empire known as the Fluor Fiend Empire. The war began when their allies, the Calerby, contacted the Centapedus for help and that the Fluor Fiend were attacking. The Centapedus responded by successfully defending colony. The Fluor Fiend counted that as an offense against them. They declared war upon the Centapedus. They soon attacked several Centapedus colonies at once. The Centapedus Military Rulers (CMR) was outraged by this and demanded to attack at once. During this war the Centapedus government was weak, so many decisions were not wise. The CMRs' decision was not approved by many of the Centapedus branches and citizens. The Fluor Fiend continued their relentless attacks. This angered the CMR even further. The WRO (Weapons Research Organization) soon found a new break through in proton weaponry, the Mega Proton Missile, and the new Justa Bomb. These new weapon breakthroughs allowed the Centapedus to fight back. Soon the Fluor Fiend attacked the Centapedus home world, Blrince, taking thousands of lives and two cities. This was the final straw. The CMRs' decision was now approved. With this new technology, the Centapedus viciously took back all captured colonies. The Centapedus also called upon the help of three allies, The Vectron, The Calerby, and The largest in the star cluster, the mighty Richers. All three empire fleets joined the Centapedus in the final assault upon their home world. The Fluor Fiend Empire pleaded for mercy and even offered to give them 1,000,000 spore bucks, but the Centapedus denied the offer and savagely attacked the every city. Without taking prisoners, the Centapedus wiped the Fluor Fiend off the face of the galaxy.

Introduction of the
Several hundred years after the Flour Fiend wars, the Centapedus were starting to mysteriously lose contact with some of their ships, never to be seen again. They soon designated a nearby nebula as a cause due to the high levels of radiation detected from it. The Centapedus simply avoided that region of space, but it never seemed to solve the problem. It actually seemed to worsen it, as the "danger zone" was growing ever larger. Soon one of the Centapedus' allied races, the Vectron, complained about a planet being attacked by an unknown threat. The Centapedus assured the Vectron that it was going to be looked into. The Centapedus just saw the situation as a Grox raid. The "Grox raids" became worse, until the first Vectron planet that was attacked was destroyed. The planet itself wasn't destroyed, but it was heated to massive temperatures. The planet was known as "The Flaming Ball of Pink" due to it's pinkish color after the attack. This horrified the empires in the star cluster. The Centapedus set out an all out search for the culperate. Over 1,600 ships were sent out and only about 100 returned. None of the ships that survived knew what happened to the others. All they did know is that something was stalking them, and they were picking up blurry transmissions from creatures with very small and squeaky voices. Soon similar transmissions were picked up by other empires and the Centapedus' home planet, Blrince,. This worried the Centapedus. Then stories of a vicious empire known as the Hermicees were destroying other empires for pure entertainment. That startled the Centapedus and gave them a hunch that this was their mysterious destroyers. The Centapedus sent out a transmission asking "Why are you doing this?". Soon a mysterious ship with a peculiar shape arrived. That's when every screen on the planet Blrince appeared with a transmission from a short, stubby creature with several weapons surrounding it. The creature had a shell like structure upon his back. It said "We are the Hermicee Legion and we require that you pay us 40,000,000 moneez or you will suffer the same fate as your hideous allies. So PAY UP!". The Centapedus denied this request, but insisted to start a trade route saying that this will get them money and spice. The Hermicee Legion accepted their offer. The Centapedus soon saved their empire by creating an unstable relationship with the Hermicee Legion. They did this for the safety of their empire, but this did not garantee the safety of their allies, especially the Vectrons.