Creature:Criii

Society
The Criii are extremely aggressive species, attacking other species without proper declaration of war. They have gladiatorial arenas were they pit captured species (particularly sentient species) agents one another or to feed them to hungry predators. Because of their war like society they are openly shunned throughout their arm of the galaxy even other war like species. This is because unlike many other war like species who have a code of honer or a fanatic religion to fight for, the Criii fight for pure enjoyment and have no code of ethics and follow no rules. This rings true for the galactic code, as they have use weapons of mass destruction to devistate their enemies. However there are some whom they hold as friends, the Grox being the most powerful. Although there is no official alliance between the two species, the Grox view the Criii favorably and the Criii view the Grox likewise. The Grox favor the Criii because of there destructive nature, which they hop they can use ageist the rest of the Galaxy, and the Criii view the Grox as the ultimate challenge and the closest species to their society.

Biology
The Criii are insect like, having compound like eyes and an exoskeleton in some parts of their body. They are rather fragile however, as their are large parts of their body that are unprotected, relying on speed and agility to survive in the wild and on a battle field, because of this and their ultra aggressive nature most Criii do not live beyond twenty years. However what they lack in longlivity they make up in numbers, an average Criii pair can give birth to twenty or so Criii eggs per liter, and a pair of Criii can have up to ten liters in their lifetime. The Criii also have one more advantage, they are both male and female, meaning that any Criii pair can give birth to a new liter. The Criii also mature relatively quickly, being able to mate at ten years of age. At first in the wild, most Criii children would die before there tenth year, but when the Criii became sentient the birth survival rate increased dramatically, meaning that by the time that the Criii reached space their planet was over populated. Meaning that the Criii could gather huge armies to wage war on other species, a fact that there closest neighbors came to know all to well.

Military
The Criii, although a very militaristic race, are relatively primitive in much of there weaponry. They make up with this weakness with huge numbers, and being highly noble, they are well known for avoiding head long fights using vast numbers of solders on foot to surround and over whelm any opposition.