The Tri-ark Collective

Introduction
Evolved on a central core system with three large planets, the Tri-arks were not known for what they are today. At first there were two separate races. One a highly intelligent and technologically advanced race with a lust for knowledge that led them to the stars. They were nine-foot-tall hairless bipedal humanoids with six arms and white skin. The other race was on the nearest planet; insectoid creatures with endoskeletons. They were the size of lions and possessed massive psychic potential.

History
The two races became space-born at roughly the same time; the humanoids using 'traditional' spacecraft, and the insectoids using a specially bred first generation flyer-bug, crewed by 'coloniser-bugs' controlled by the only known intelligent bug, the Queen.

Both races, when space-born, traveled to the other planets and once there they attempted to set-up colonies. Both colonies were destroyed, but not before each civilisation gathered useful intelligence on the other.

Eventually the Insectoids achieved primacy. The gathering of humanoid DNA allowed the production of a new breed of bug: a Hybrid. This new breed was a bipedal 9 foot tall intelligent psychic. The addition of intelligence forced them outside of the hive mind, but they were still able to communicate with the Queen, who they achieved dominance over after a generation or so. The new Hybrid-led hive then went on to invade and absorb the other two planets in the system, eventually becoming starborn.

Now the bugs inhabit all three of the planets and new bugs are bred rapidly for new purposes. Psychic potential and intelligence have been increased in all bugs and whilst bio-tech is strong in the Tri-arks they have bred ways to incorporate technology into their bodies.

The Tri-Arcs never encountered the Terran Empire, originating as they did in one of the few nature preserves created by the Terrans in the First Age. They remained relatively obscure during the Second Age, and are only beginning to become known in the galaxy now, at the dawn of the Third Age.