Arkhir Empire

The Arkhir Empire is an expansionist, totalitarian pseudo-state. It is totalitarian yet extremely decentralised; they do not even have a capital city or planet.

Society
Arkhir society is extremely racially stratified. Laan are the only species with rights (with very few exceptions). Tsesk, as well as any other race conquered by the empire, are all slaves. Life in Arkhir space is very brutal for all non-Laan. Tsesk and any other race conquered by Arkhir have literally zero rights.

History
The history of the Arkhir empire stretches back millennia. Their origins are unclear, however, but some things are known:

The Sirgu Era
The Sirgu were the original rulers of the Arkhir Empire. They enslaved the Laan and selectively bred traits into the Laan to make them heartless, brutal, and psychopathic, so they could be warriors strong enough to destroy the Tsesk Kingdom that was their main rival on the planet, and subdue the Tsesk species. From here, they expanded off their planet and system, looking for more worlds to conquer and "lesser races" to subjugate.

The Laan Coup
After a war against the Kudai species which ended in a formal Arkhir surrender, many Laan soldiers were outraged at what they saw as cowardice. En masse, they overthrew the Sirgu, completely genociding the entire race. Not a single one was left. The Laan assumed all administrative positions for themselves.

Slavery
The number of slaves in Arkhir vastly outnumber the amount of Laan. It has been estimated there is a ratio about 13:1. Despite this, there has been no major slave revolt documented in Arkhir history.

Slaves in Arkhir are regularly mistreated horribly. They are treated as property and have no rights whatsoever. It is completely legal for a slavemaster to rape or kill a slave under their watch.

Warfare
The Arkhir operate on a blitzkrieg strategy during warfare. Without any warning or a formal declaration or anything, they will send several cloaked motherships to surround a planet and deploy thousands of drop pods containing 100-120 Laan soldiers and a commander. The pods double as slave processing centres, with vitals scanners, DNA testers, holding cells for unruly prisoners, and a shuttle dock for transport back to the mothership. Vehicles, mechs, and ammo caches are also dropped.

When these drop pods land, the soldiers burst out and begin to kill or capture anyone they can. Nothing is off limits; theft, rape, torture, and even eating the victims is commonplace. The attack only ends when the government surrenders or the entire populace has been killed or subjugated.

While the land and space forces of the Arkhir Military are fearsome, their naval and air skill is lacking. The Arkhir rarely deploy a navy, sometimes instead deploying a massive siphon to suck up water and turn it into land. This seawater is used to power their ship, as well as purified into drinking water. Any sea life is crushed into a paste served as food to slaves.