Yvekiyr Oru

"Yvekiyr Oru. A shadowy fate that came when we least expected. Our fate is sealed, but this warning may release the fates of countless more. We beseech you: Andromeda has a shadow, and it feasts upon its host when it wakes."

- Unknown transcription on precursor architecture dated to have come from over two hundred million years ago.

The Yvekiyr Oru, otherwise known as the Oru, the Shadow of Andromeda, Candlelighters (though this is only used in hushed tones by the Crawth), or their most commonplace descriptor, The Designers, are a precursor race speculated to exist, based off scraps of evidence, at their most, 2 billion years ago, and are thought to have been adept in the making of new life, whether it be to simply live, or to use as their own weapons. Now, however, as very little remains to even assert their very existence, necessary information was then discovered in unknown relics in Andromeda. With the discover of the aforementioned evidence, many looked out to the stars and feared that there laid sleeping beasts, and that their hunger was coming to awake them.

History
The History of the Oru is a long, tragic, and horrific tale that spans hundreds of millennia, and while few may remember it, they remember it in its entirety so that they may warn those who wish to learn.

First Communions
The origins of the race that would come to be the Yvekiyr can be scarcely traced back to I'jifa, a frozen ocean moon orbiting a gas giant. In modern days, this system can be found in the frontiers of Ankoran space. However, this matters not, as if one were to travel to I'jifa today, they would find a dead world, devoid of even single-cellular life to its core. However, hundreds of million years ago, in the volcanic depths of its frigid seas, life flourished in all of its strange machinations. This included the ancestors of the most feared, as well as most forgotten, banes of Andromeda. The beginnings of these eventual monsters were mere shelled cephalopods that sustained themselves on tube worms and crustaceans. Eventually, as evolution does, things would shift into another manner.

Adaption
It is unknown when the first iterations of the Oru race began to arise in the deep cold seas, but when they did, they grew quickly. Reproducing and creating vast complexes around the volcanic vents their primitive ancestors had called home, the Oru began to expand at a pace they could not maintain. But, for their ingenuity, they would be gifted great rein over the beasts that lived in the depths, domesticating creatures for their own gains.

Objects of Interest
Sigil Astrodaeus= "The mere size of it is... incredible. The truth of its purpose is much more terrifying."

Tiamat's Dormancy= "Though it may seem like waste to simply leave such a weapon as the Dormancy to the wake of the galaxy, it is the Yvekiyr thought that they will have little use of it in the whole of their weaponry that explains the abandonment of it. If such a thing as the Dormancy is something not worth the time to take... Then I worry for what awaits outside our home."

Residuary of Harvest= "The Ascendancy fears this place. They call it an abandoned butcher's home. They aren't far from the truth."

Hive of Furious Revival= "The reports have been getting more and more gruesome in the last few years. Vicious mutilations on livestock. Mass dissapearances. Gruesome murders. This world has been vexed, but has it been so long before we colonized it? And are we only just incurring it?"

Sheol= "THERE ARE PLACES NONE BUT US SHALL TREAD. AND SHEOL SHALL KEEP THIS SUCH."

A glimpse into the sarcophagi of millions of restless locusts, awaiting the call of their trinity to reawaken, and sate their endless hunger anew.

Quotes
"Look to the stars, brothers! For the Brimstone Pillar points towards lands renewed. And when we find ourselves in these lands, we will pass the greed of the metal-wielding, and rise to the power of the Slumbering Gods, and join them in their voracious awakening!"

- Grand Kell Miir of the Vakia Star Empire