Kleer

The Kleer were a mammalian species who shared a solar system with the Sirians before they were eradicated by Mental's Horde. Peaceful by Nature, the Kleer were completely defenceless against interstellar hostility.

Overview
The Kleer were gentle mammals with short horns and fur and mobilised using their frontal paws to support their hind legs. The Kleer were an extremely peaceful species, the very concepts of war and violence being incomprehensible to them. Although they shared a home system with the Sirians, the Kleer never saw any need to develop technology or leave their homeworld, and so the two races acknowledged but largely ignored each other.

When Mental's Horde attacked the Sirians, the Kleer were bewildered by the latter's calls for help. Having never known conflict of any kind, the Kleer were unable to understand what was being done to the Sirians until they were rendered extinct. Horrified by the genocide of their neighbours, the Kleer fell into arguing amongst themselves, questioning why they did not help the Sirians, why they were so blind to the threat before them and what they could possibly do to avoid sharing their fate. Despite their harmlessness, Mental saw fit to eradicate the Kleer as well, either as a precaution or for sadistic enjoyment. At his command, fleets of automated starships bombarded the Kleer homeworld from orbit, burning the global forests into a barren wasteland. Nothing remained of the Kleer race save for mountains of charred bones and their restless, wandering ghosts.

Seeing an opportunity to bolster his armies and practice necromancy, Mental had the skeletons of the Kleer reanimated using technomagical links. Proven to be one of Mental's most vicious assets, these Kleer skeletons are armed with bone-blades at the end of their arms and the ability to conjure and launch a flailing chainball. However, the technomagical links puppeteering them are fragile, and so Kleer skeletons can be easily destroyed with sufficient force.