Dhayut

Large, powerful arachnid race, The Dhayuts are an evil race of insectoids whom's military might had to threaten much of the galaxy in the past.

Dhayuts are highly aggressive and very mean. They are proven to be treacherous partners, betraying their allies whenever their needs have been filled or no longer require their services.

They reproduce slower than the average arachnid, this is probably due to their large bodies and Dhayut children needing a lot of food to get that big.

When Dhayuts are angry, they become frenzied and temporarily insane, thus appearing rabid or wild. when this event happens they become extremely dangerous, totally fearless of death. Dhayuts are infamous for their ruthlessness. They generally have no remarks about stealing, cheating or murdering if it furthers their own interests.

The Dhayuts need for resources for their armada has led them to develop the Velocity Drive ST3, an extremely fast and efficient hyperdrive. The preferred worlds of Dhayuts are dry rocky planets, but are known to colonize swamp and continental worlds.

History
During the first invasion of the Shakturi, the Dhayuts allied with the Shakturi in an insectoid only alliance known as the Shakturi Axis. During joint operations, the Dhayuts were sent shock troopers to destroy heavily defended planets own by such Mortalen and Human. Once the Shakturi were wiped out due to the plague made by the Freedom Alliance, the Dhayuts, sensing a weakness in the Axis, abandoned the alliance and sought to take over the galaxy on their own. This didn't work however as they, like the rest, lost the technology of FTL travel thus many were stranded on former colony worlds with no way to contact the homeworld. During the second invasion, they and the rest of former Axis members were targeted for abandoning the Shakturi in the first invasion.