Race Name: Noctis’Erus  

Nicknames: ‘Smokers’, ‘Dusk Walkers’, ‘Reapers’, ‘The Devourers',


Faction: Noctis'Erus

Summary
A conglomerate of various alien species who have all been enslaved by a malevolent energy being simply referred to as the ‘Mind’. They are not of this galaxy and like a swarm of locust, have come to strip this galaxy bare of all resources and life. It is often said that Noctis’Erus is the result when one combines the savage ruthlessness of the Raiders with the technology and cunning intellect of the Remnant; it is a very accurate description to date.

History
Little is known of Noctis’Erus’s history before their arrival, but since their arrival to the Peragus galaxy, they have done nothing but wreak carnage and destruction on a frightening scale. The first appearance of Noctis’Erus was over twenty years from current star date in the Voragus System, located in the South Western wing of the Peragus galaxy, in the form of a glowing ball of light. At the time, the ball had done nothing but simply stay immobile until five years after its appearance, absorbing a passing raider fleet as it suddenly expanded until it was double its original size. Another five years had passed before it suddenly doubled in size again, growing to the size of a moon, absorbing a Remnant station that was at the time trying to figure what the ball was in the process. Another five years of inactivity followed, both Remnant and Raider factions avoiding the ball entirely. That’s when they appeared.

Five years before current star date, the raiders of the Voragus system cleared away from the orb of light, expecting it to expand again. Instead something completely different happened. The ball suddenly changed color, from its original white/blue, it suddenly turned into a sinister mix of black/purple and then it got worse. Noctis’Erus came barreling out of the portal; effortlessly slaughtering a group of curious Raiders before getting to work on the moon sized ball of dark colors, constructing stabilizer platforms, processing centers, hatcheries, essentially an entire military base around the ball, its purpose revealed to be a gate to Peragus from some other galaxy.

The following year was spent in pure destruction and carnage as Noctis’Erus brutally hunted down and slaughtered everyone and everything there before literally stripping the Voragus system of all its resources, leaving the entire system dead. Noctis’Erus proceeded to convert the five planets of Voragus into their beach head. That was five years ago and if history has taught the races of the Peragus galaxy anything, Noctis’Erus will expand once again.

Physiology
As mentioned above, Noctis’Erus, or Night Lords in English, is made up of multiple slave races. All the enslaved races have been extensively modified through the use of surgery, drugs, and genetic engineering in a way that they appear different from what they use to be. The few common similarities the slaves have include; cybernetic implants, an aversion to sunlight or bright light, pale skin, little to no free will, the occasional vomiting of a black caustic substance, and a strange emission of a thin black smoke from their pores. Several of the enslaved races encountered so far include:

Noctis’Preliator: Meaning ‘Night Soldier’, they are one of the new races brought in with Noctis’Erus. Like all slaves, they have the characteristic cybernetics and black vomit/smoke, Preliators are the main warrior slaves used by the Abyssal Empire. Preliators are physically bat-like with mammalian, reptilian, and insectoid features, bearing a short tail that carriers a large stinger, along with numerous spines on their bodies. They have two sets of arms, while the lower arms end in sickles, the main arms are long with wiry muscles, uniquely, the main arms actually splits from the elbow in what normally ends as a pair of wings but said wings are normally amputated. They are savage creatures; their minds are modified in such a way that their psyche only finds enjoyment in the actions of war. They see killing, violence, looting, destruction, and gut wrenching carnage as enjoyable and fun, making most raiders look mild in comparison.

Nego’Rector: Meaning ‘Task Master’, they are the ruling body of the slave legions currently within the Peragus galaxy. They are powerful psychics in both telepathy and telekinesis who link the slaves to the Mind like some kind transmission repeater. They appear semi-humanoid in shape with navy blue skin, a rather blank and featureless face with only six horizontal slits for eyes. They have a pair of wings; though the connecting skin and webbing is removed they still float, likely due to their telekinetic abilities. Their waist is segmented and gets thinner as it nears their hips, which like their legs, have been amputated.

Loricatus’Operor: Meaning ‘Armored Laborer’ are the normal builders and workers of Noctis’Erus. They are large crab/lobster like creatures with pincers and thick chitin shells. Their gnarled exoskeletons are normally dotted with various robotic harnesses or implants that allow Operor’s to do work that their large claws leave them unable to do. Uniquely, they are modified in such a way that they can actually survive in the void, allowing them to do emergency repairs and construction in space.  Also, they are sometimes used as walking shields or small gun platforms by Preliator’s due to the Operor’s size.

Novus’Servus: Meaning ‘New Slave’ are the enslaved members of the Peragus galaxy’s races. They are normally used for menial and hard labor as well as cannon fodder.

Culture
Genocidal and destructive, Noctis’Erus is heavily militant and is devoted to two goals; the utter extermination or enslavement of all life to the Mind and the harvesting of all natural resources. The life of a slave in Noctis is poor and terrible, at least if the slaves themselves had enough free will to say it was. Except for the Preliators and the Rectors’s, all Noctis slaves lack any form of free will, Rectors only have it as they need it to lead effectively and Preliators because it enhances their violent nature.

Reproduction
The slave legions of Noctis tend to be bred in large cloning hatcheries, normally located in their ships and bases.

Technology
Noctis technology is quite advance and sometimes even more advance then even Remnant tech in some areas but their technology is mainly devoted to three main things; subjugation, annihilation, and exploitation. Most notably is their use of phasing, nano, and teleportation technology. Phasing tech allows Noctis machinery or soldiers become intangible for short periods of a time (a minute at most) and all them to pass through any object except for the ground they walk upon. Though their teleportation, or worm hole tech to be more accurate, gives them an advantage in long distance travel, the appearance of the energy orb, like the one that heralded their arrival, gives others advance warning of their arrival, it’s also noted that the it takes longer for the gate to open depending on how far the exit should be.

Weaponry
Noctis soldiers employ the use of laser and rail gun technology for their soldiers. Their phase and teleportation technology has also been modified into weaponry, in the form of phase missiles, which have a 50/50 chance of completely ignoring a ships or vehicle’s shields and armor. They use of portal technology in combat situations is rather interesting at best, from porting enemies into deep space or onto each other to porting missiles and incoming fire back at the enemy, but due to the power needs of teleportation, its reserved only for important situations.  

Soldiers
As stated above, Preliators form the backbone of the Abyssal Empire’s armies.  The training of any Preliator, is honestly basic or poor at best, but their natural and augmented strength is more than enough to make up for it most of the time. Noctis society as it is, soldiers are just seen as tools to be used and discarded and the only real way to advance in their armies is to either survive a suicide mission or bully and tear their to the top.

Ships
All Noctis fleets are centered around their ‘Planet Cracker’ ships, massive as any Eurlian ship and surrounded by dozens of support and hundreds cannon fodder craft, A Noctis’Erus fleet is rarely small or weak and is truly a frightening thing to behold. It should be noted though; Noctis’Erus lacks fighter and bomber craft of any kind.

Air force
As mentioned above, Noctis employs no form of fighter craft, they make up for this by employing the use of either suicidal missile drones or anti-fighter ‘gunboats’. The cousin of the Noctis gunboat is the Noctis gunship, which while lacking the guidance systems required to shoot down aircraft, they are instead used to pound enemy positions in lieu of a bomber.

Vehicles
A common identifier of all Noctis vehicles, aside from the obsidian black paint job and smog like exhaust, is the fact that every land based vehicle they employ is a walker. Often crab or beetle like in appearance, their infamous for the fact that they tend to run over infantry and ram vehicles. Also notable, all Noctis vehicles and aircraft aside from space ships, are directly controlled by a Rector or Preliator hard wired into its frame.

Home Planet/System/Capital
Noctis’Erus main teleporter array is located in the Voragus system, located in the South Western corner of the Peragus galaxy. Originally, the Voragus system was home to eight planets, five terrestrial and three gas giants. During the invasion, the three gas giants were absorbed and its core mined into nothing, the five remaining planets, stripped to the useless bed rock now serve as a both beachhead and a line of defense to the Portal array.