Creature:Omnisnave

The Omnisnaves are a sentient race of powerful 'wizards' who have the ability to manipulate space itself. Instead of helping the rest of the Galaxy with these gifts, the Snave species has isolated themselves in fear of The Grox who seek these gifts for themselves so that they can destroy all life. This led to them becoming completely cut off from the rest of existence.

Anatomy
Omnisnaves are quite comical looking for their powerful abilities. They are biologically bipedal avians that evolved to be able to walk on two legs. To withstand the cold winters on Valdramed, feathers were also implemented into their appearance along with scaly reptilian skin beneath it. One of the major factors in their evolution, which dramatically increased the rate that they developed as a specie, were the large solar flares that jumped of the twin suns of the Belia system. These killed off many native species to Valdramed and many Snaves died, their ancestors which had split into several distinct breeds were killed off leaving the Snaves as the sole powerful being on the planet. The radiation given off also increased the rate at which the Snaves developed sentience. They have retained their original beaks, with which they crush Gem Bugs which have been exported to every planet in their Empire and are their primordial favourite food.

Origins
The Omnisnave species is a race that spread across the cosmos over hundreds of years and managed to grasp the power of spacial change. This granted them the title of Omni and since then, the species has kept primarily to itself following an isolationist policy set up after a cleansing of a race that declared war upon them. The Snaves evolved on the planet Valdramed in the Belia system, the site of a rare formation within the Galaxy where two Binary stars were being slowly ripped apart by a black hole that had formed in between them. Belia-A and B were gradually being pulled towards each other and after becoming sapient on Valdramed, the Snaves realised that their race was doomed. They then set upon building a space program to rescue their race from extinction.

History
After having become a space faring civilisation, the Snave's quickly realised that their region of space was a hotbed of violence and destruction. The Beria System is situated quite close to the centre of the Galaxy and thus, is the location of most of The Grox's expansionism.

Caught in the middle of a war between The Grox and another powerful Empire, the Snaves quickly became a war faring race. Utilising powerful vessels that could fly into Wormholes and striking at Grox Inner Worlds at the centre of the Galaxy, they began to win an astonishing amount of battles against Grox forces.

A Snave scoutship, having accidentally found itself at the Galactic Core, managed to pick up a Staff of Life. The scoutship returned to the Snave Empire with the 'Staff of Life' however this was not received well by the Elders who said that the uses of it were limited.

After hundreds of years of a prolonged and devastating war with the Grox Empire and several others which intruded into their space, the Snaves managed to perfect a device that could alter the fabric of reality itself. They tested it in their home system of Belia and using a temporal shift, managed to move the Black Hole.

They molded this device into their brains over a long time and it fused with their very minds creating a race of powerful beings that could take on maybe even the Grox. Instead of attempting to rid the Galaxy of them, the Snaves (now granted the title of Omni, which in their culture meant that they were now almost Gods) instead decided that their powerful gifts they'd received were too dangerous and would make them a target.

The Omnisnave Elders came to the conclusion that they would keep the device to themselves from now on and proceeded to build huge barriers around their Empire using the spatial device. Effectively forgotten by the rest of the Galaxy, the Omnisnaves defend their borders against intruding vessels and bar entry into it using a system of supermassive Black Holes that can block any space fleet from entering it. Eventually, even The Grox decided that the Omnisnaves weren't worth the trouble and instead set about exterminating other races.

Within the set boundaries of their own little 'Universe', the Omnisnaves have advanced hundreds of other species that have become vassals of them and live beneath them in a dimensional scale and are the ones who do all of the trading and other material things the Omnisnaves believe are pointless.

Nature
Omnisnaves have strange personalities by other specie's standards and due to their prolonged millenia of isolation, have become an extremely xenophobic race. Unlike The Grox, who harvest this fear into aggression, the Omnisnaves just want to be left alone and their space (while unknown to most) has become famous to treasure seeking sentients as the location of many rare artifacts from a long lost era. Omnisnaves are typically quite 'stuck up' and believe themselves to be on a higher pane of existence than other species.. which strictly speaking, is true. They are in general quite kind however and because of the Utopia culture that has arisen, crime is mostly non-existent.

Culture
A thousand yeard of being mostly isolated from other species means that the Snave culture hasn't evolved much. Virtually every planet within Omnisnave space has been colonised and terraformed into a lush world of trees and plants and the Snave's believe that they were raised to their height of power to beneficial towards nature. Individually, an Omnisnave will give birth to around 7 children and after a right of passage, most of them will leave on a voyage into space to visit colonies and potentially become a Whisperer. Every Snave has a duty to visit the 'homeland' of Valdramed and pray for the wellbeing of the Omnisnave Grand Elder, who leads the Empire and keeps it safe from the prying eyes of other species.

Religion
The Omnisnave religion exists as a belief that all good things exist to be made better by the Empire, the Elders and the race as a whole. They believe that by making worlds as beautiful as they can be, and by uplifting other species, they can unite the entire Galaxy under one glorious banner.

A Whisperer is a member of the race that has exiled themselves out of Snave space to become a religious hermit and teacher, they swear by their race not to reveal any secrets of their people as they search the Galaxy for true meaning. This was until The Barrier was created cutting them off from the rest of the Galaxy and now the religious beliefs have been slightly altered. The Elders decreed that the rest of the Universe is not ready for the gifts that the Omnisnaves have to give, and until power hungry races such as the Grox are gone from existence, these gifts can never be shared out among others.