Ansa Dur Adaptive

Introduction
Known for their biotechnologies, survival in the harshest of environments, and for desperate resource stripping of worlds during the wars. Ansa Dur society has been warped by their losses from explorers and stewards-of-worlds into a bred-to-task caste-based society focused on clawing back from near-extinction.

History
Evolved on a high-G world with oceans full of dissolved metals the Ansa Dur - resembling large, metallic squids - managed to get starborn and colonise a few easily reached systems before the Terrans came.

Grueling warfare smashed the Ansa Dur and scattered them onto ark-ships and hidden enclaves, while behind them their worlds burned and suns guttered and died.

Only when the wars began to turn were the remnants able to re-emerge and while the battlefront closed on Terra, in the hinterlands the Ansa Dur reclaimed their worlds. In the decades since, outposts have been rediscovered and more ships have straggled home, but the Ansa Dur Adaptive remains a shadow of its former First Age glory.