The Vhortican Empire

A reptilian race of hard skinned beings with distinctive facial spines. They in their own right carved a mighty empire from their wars with the Yuchin Dynasties, but submitted to the Shari Trifecta for fear of Yuchi invasion, in the era of the Yuchi's mass interplanetary expansions.

In the present day the Vhortican territories are a satellite state of the Union of Humanoid Atraxian Republics; and have broken all ties with the old masters. To date, they are among the few peoples whom maintain an aggressive stance against the Shari, and will attack their ships on sight despite the declared galactic armistice.

Vhorticans are almost as well known for piracy as the Siramese, and have a multitude of splinter groups that operate in deep space.