Reapers

The Reapers, also called the Reavers, the Silencers, and the Black Death (by the K'Taknor), the Plague (by the Yalon), the Horde (by the Thimoid), and the Swarm (by the Caloctora), are a fanatically xenophobic species of unknown origin that controls a large region of space between the K'Taknor Republic, the Yalon StarCorp, the Thimoid Empire, and the Caloctoran Hegemony.

Ships that enter their territory are destroyed. Though their territory is not well-defined, a history of attacks in specific regions have led their neighbors to give those regions a wide berth.

Contact has never been made with the Reapers, who were first encountered by the K'Taknor Republic in 1874, so their origins, appearance, and population are completely unknown. While they do possess advanced technologies, roughly equivalent to those of neighboring species, the full extent of their technological advancement is not known.

No details of the Reapers' internal government are known.