Krael

The Krael are an alien race from Stalag-X: Blood War.

Biology
The Krael are clawed aliens around seven feet tall able to tear a human with ease. Krael do not experience emotions like humans do, thus they are unable to sympathize. Attached to their lower jaws are tentacles that enable them to merge their minds to another sentient soul and mind allowing them to transfer feelings.

History
The Krael have been fighting a decade long war with humanity and appear to be on the winning side of the war. However it also appears they are in the middle of fighting another race thus creating a two front war.

To maintain an image of strength, the Krael who had been utilizing superior numbers to overwhelm humanity's forces, switched tactics and began employing traps and ambushes on the human fleets. Additionally to alleviate the stress of the Krael war engine, the aliens began taking prisoners and establish penal colonies to acquire more resources.

The Karel made sure that knowledge of their weaknesses remained secret, by taking the dead from plundered worlds and replacing them at recent battlefields to maintain the illusion that their kind did not take prisoners so as to prevent the human government from learning of their precarious situation.

Culture
They are a spacefaring culture, with their technology being almost organic in nature. They are an imperialistic culture, and view other species as weak and as animals. Part of their enslavement of other cultures, involves culling the weak through marches through the wild. They utilize collaborators to facilitate assimilation of other species into their empire.

While they see humans mostly as animals or beasts of burden, through their continued contact with younger species, the Krael have come to appreciate certain pieces of culture from their enemies, such as chess, etc. Human emotions which some members of the species feed off find them to be addictive. However such ounces of respect do little respect humans, as Krael take joy in inlficting pain on them, as according to them human screams are soothing.

Those rare individual humans that they do respect, are those that are considered dangerous and deadly and regard them as equals more or less.

Source

 * Stalag-X – Blood War 001 (2014)