Sunfall
Arkilar and Vleestern(character) united a never-seen before armada around them. Since krakmars have always been able to travel in the void of space with little to no assistance, they never took interest in spacecrafts. But in a frontal battle, even their ferruginous chitin was of little protection against the relentless assault of hundreds of battleships.
Sunfall was arranged around a mothership, the Blazing Star. As large as a small planet, it could shelter up to two millions krakmars, functioning like a mobile homeland. Aboard were hundreds of thousands of individual spacecrafts designed to be piloted by a single krakmar, as well as double that amount of exosuits, acting as plate armour for the warriors.
Despite the astonishing display of strength and skill, Sunfall suffered defeats after defeats, always backing down and threatened by fleets ten times larger. Heavy defence was not enough to balance millennia of technological gap in armament. Krakmars were down half of their original number when they found themselves cornered at the Battle of Kalima.
The theory was known for a long time, yet it has always been deemed too dangerous to even try. With no other options, Vleestern and six of the most talented fighters took to space and turned themselves into suns. They shattered the enemy fleets with the might of seven suns, annihilating one of the most powerful alliances of the time in an instant. Vleestern perished in the attempt, but it gave enough breathing room for Arkilar to escape with the rest of Sunfall. The armada retreated to their homeworld, strengthened by the experience and decided not to let their race go extinct.
Raging Blaze
Of the krakmars that did not respond to the call of Sunfall, many went into hiding, burying themselves deep inside telluric planets and at the core of gas giants, and entering a dormant state similar to hibernation. The rest would not go down without a fight. Among this largely pacifist society, some pursued the way of the warrior. Mainly out of intellectual and cultural interest, a passion they would put to use as they became the most fearsome creatures of the war.
Fighting for none other than themselves, members of the Raging Blaze would sometimes appear on battlefields to wreak havoc. They were not looking to tip scales, advantage one side rather than the other, but purely to cause as much chaos and death as possible. They fully embraced the madness of the galaxy, and chose to be an active part of it. Rather be the hunter than the prey.
If people thought that inexperienced krakmars were formidable foes, the Raging Blaze was on a whole different level. Favouring ground battle where their huge size was an advantage, they would emerge from the ground and tear through helpless armies, their shrills silencing even the loudest virtuoso. It seemed like they were indifferent to their survival, ignoring gaping wounds and missing limbs, fighting to their very last breath.
Sometimes, after an exhausting battle, they would stand on a mountain of corpses, having halted a skirmish by depleting both opposing forces. When their wounds were too severe to keep on fighting, they would dig gigantic craters until they exposed the bursting mantle of the planet, nesting themselves in the depths while recovering. They would wake in hundreds or thousands of years, fully rested and eager to spread death once more.
Vindictive and well-deserved, I like these! My kind of creature.
Too low they build who build beneath the stars - Edward Young