Searoshire

A winged, worm-like Past Race that once inhabited the hollow volcanic spires of their home world until Zykezx's Conquest forced them to abandon their world.

Home World
The Searoshire evolved on a largely volcanic world, and gained sentience as the volcanic activity cooled. They were accustomed to life in the hot atmosphere. The low gravity of the planet allowed for strange vertical structures created by skyward jets of magma that cooled into huge vertical spires. After the local volcanoes went dormant, the Searoshire had grown to carve out an existence on these spires, gliding from one overhang to another. They had not yet achieved space travel when the first Keldronians crash-landed on their planet.

Genocide
A Keldronian pilot crash lands on the Searoshire home-world, marking their first extraterrestrial contact. The Keldronians attempt to warn the Searoshire of the oncoming wave. Their recent probe activity has transmitted radio signals into deep space that alerted Zykezx's army to their presence. The drones will be coming for them now. Many Searoshire cooperate with the Keldronian's defense plan, but there are those who deny it. They are swiftly killed at the arrival of the drones. The Searoshire retreat to caves. Keldronians advise that scorched earth will have no effect on the drone advance. They need no resources, no rest. They have no supply trains to target, no susceptibility to disease. The Searoshire fight back in bands, adopting a strategy that becomes famed for its effectiveness. The resistance is made effective due to the Keldronian advisors, and the recent failure in the Drezdak situation had taught them well.

The resistance proved so effective that Zykezx himself arrived at the planet. The war ended shortly after that. Zykezx, while physically crippled, still possessed a great amount of power from his mother's side of the family. This made him a glass cannon of sorts, and a very powerful weapon when on the planet's surface.

The Searoshire were evacuated from their world, now crawling with drones, and removed by Keldronian warships.

Finding a New Home
A Searoshire was present aboard the Needle ship that killed Zykezx as he entered the Sol system. The remnants of the Keldronian fleet were scattered, lost. Locating the world that Zykezx had been approaching, a damaged ship was forced to make an emergency landing there and wait for retrieval. During this time, survivor groups were separated by attacks from local fauna. One of these, a Searoshire colony of refugees, was isolated in the mountains, sending a messenger to the other group to make sure they were not left behind. Unfortunately, the messenger was intercepted by a pack of Terran predators, and thus his message was never received. The Searoshire were presumed dead, and abandoned by rescue ships.

Survival of the Fittest
Many thousands of years later, a reduced, cave-dwelling tribe of Searoshire were discovered in hiding below Earth's surface, regressed to a primitive level, with desiccated wings and a fear of outsiders.