Drej

The Drej are a race of aliens from the movie Titan A.E.. In the movie they are the main antagonists, since they are trying to destroy the human race. However they are afraid of what the humans will become. They have some resemblance to other science fiction alien species but not a lot. Their social order seems to consist of two castes: soldiers and what appears to be a king. They do not seem to be capable of speaking english but do have their own consisting mostly of mechanical rumbling noises.

All Drej are made entirely out of pure energy and are a deep blue. Despite this they are actually tangible and can manipulate objects just as easily as other sapient races. When a limb is destroyed they can regenerate it in a matter of seconds, possibly by extracting energy from their surrounding environment. Drej can blast portions of their substance at foes but it probably weakens them if they do it too many times. At the front of their heads is what appears to be an eyespot. Their technology is a similar color and is likely made out of the same energies as them. It has been proven that escape from a drej prison is possible by putting two objects against the wall and then separating them. The ship in which they travel is called the Alahenena, supposedly the Drej language term for planet killer. This ship positions itself over the North Pole of Earth and fires an energy beam at it, causing the planet to spin faster and faster, until centrifugal force overpowers gravity, thus causing Earth to fly apart at the seams.

History
Not much is known about the Drej, other than the fact that their social structure is much like that of bees, with a queen and several armies of drones. One thing to notice about the Drej is that the queen is the only one who has eyes; the rest are eyeless drones.

Ships
The Drej have two primary modes of transportation; the large mothership called the Alahenena, and swarm upon swarm of smaller ships called Stingers. The Stingers are very aggressive looking; a small central fuselage with a pair of sharp fins on the back and another pair on the sides, and a pair of long arms coming up at an angle from the sides, then leveling off, and coming back down at a slight angle inward toward each other.



Physiology
The Drej are not much different from our species, yet they are made of bright blue pulsing energy. They're not corporeal entities, yet they have a physical form which appears to be both skeletial and humanoid. Their ships are also made of energy, a fact that young Cale Tucker exploited. You won't need a dictionary to know that the Drej were victims of bad karma. Cale Tucker reconfigured the Titan's systems to use that very energy from which are Drej are made; they and their ship and their queen were absorbed into the interior of the starship Titan, and as she awakened from her 15 years slumber, she unleashed that energy in three violent bursts. These bursts created three beams, each long enough to span a planetary radius. This created a gravity well, which caused all material around the Titan's position to coalesce into a hot clump of molten matter, thus giving new life to a planet upon which the human species could live

The Novel
In the book, the Drej were seen quite diffrently, in the biggining when Cale saw them on Tau 14 "one of the creatures had its mouth open, and the interior was... pitch black", while in the movie they had no mouths. Cale noted they had a black fleshy envelope above the pulsing energy. Also, when Cale was captured, they spoke using pulses of light instead of rumbling and whirring noises. There were different kinds of drones too: Deeheh were attackers and scouts, Daiheh, who were needed for ground transport, Droheh, who could fight and Douheh with high level cognitive abillities.

The book also included a few chapters from the Drej's perspective. The Drej queen's name was Susquehana, one year, of the planet the drej were from was called a making, because every year the Drej would make more Drej. They could calculate much faster than any human, they had a piece of technology called the Orb which would act like a computer, only much stronger and capable of doing things. The Drej believed that nothing except duty is important. They were not even fimiliar with the concept of a friend. They suffered no disease, lived for thousands of years, and where not afflicted with a need to procreate. They possibly got more Drej by the Lanoor, a piece of technology capable of making more Drej, but it is unknown how they created more Drej before they had technology. They called their stingers Slijah. The ones specifically shown were Praojeh class.

Technology
The Drej had very advanced technology. They could go through doors, which were possibly made of neutrinos. In the book the doors turned red before someone went through them. They had weapons called Focus Burners wich focused photons in a ray that could melt through things, because light energy turned into heat energy. Their ship is powered by a white dwarf star, thus they don't need fuel. The Orb, a computer only for the queen can see through drones' eyes. They have technology similar to hard light, like the Forerunners