Ngkanukgr

Ngkanukgr, also known as the Undead Hive, are a Mid-Age race of previously hive-minded humanoids who are believed to have been responsible for the construction of the Third.

Origins
The Ngkanukgr are said to be descended from a four legged swamp-colony, but the Ngkanukgr government did not release an official statement concerning their biology until after the fall of the High Community and the rise of the New Ngkanukgr Republic. The first Ngkanukgr would have had considerably longer arms and more sloped posture to enable use of all four limbs in movement. These traits were likely eliminated in success by the Ancients and their interference in the evolution of primitive beings they thought were capable of being modeled after themselves. Early Ngkanukgr civilization prospered under Gluknsuste rulers, until the last Gluknsuste died out around the 1200s. Without their hive mind controllers, the Ngkanukgr were able to function independently through some miracle of evolution (or more likely an unfinished attempt by the Ancients to liberate the individual from a queen) and continued on as the greatest engineering and scientific race in history.

Ngkanukgr Traits
Ngkanukgr are stereotypically ingenious and clever, yet easily distracted. They are a grey-brown mottled color with sagging, wrinkled skin. Gluknsuste have significantly larger brains and smaller limbs. They stand upright with a hunched posture.

Industry and Government
The extinction of the Gluknsuste created a power vacuum eventually filled with a democratic government. This government was fractured by a civil war when a single child developed into a Gluknsuste, and was resisted by those protesting his "mind control" and two Ngkanukgr nations developed. One was assimilated by the High Community and the other barely resisted, and when the Community fell they took over former Sarnate Empire territory and became the New Ngkanukgr Republic. Ngkanukgr industry is based largely around innovation and manufacturing. They dream up the ideas and then build them. They invented the next generation laser weaponry that caused a galactic conflict.