Bydo

The Bydo were originally bio-engineered as weapons sometime during the 26th century. They were placed in an orbital facility the size of a small moon where a combination of natural evolution, genetic tampering, and "black magic" (psionics) changed them into virulent germ-warfare agents.

The facility was driven into a wormhole to an enemy planet in a neighboring galaxy. The Bydo parasitized the inhabitants and their technology, and became active in the Milky Way.

The Bydo organisms were eventually rounded up and tossed in an alternate dimension. They escaped and returned, thirty years before they were actually created to make war on their creators, as all Frankenstein-like monsters seem to do.

Forces
Forces are "tame" Bydo organisms that can attach to synthetic vessels to add their energy to the vehicles. They are used by both R-Type pilots and Bydo starfighter organisms.