THE TERMINIDS

Following the defeat of the so called "Buggers" during the First Galactic War, these beasts were confined to farms and bred, raised, and harvested to produce E-710. This, along with Super Earth conducting tests on them, forever altered the biology of the Buggers, making them more spindly and creating a toxic version of E-710 called Bile. Now solely a biological source of spaceship fuel, the Bugger were redesignated by the Ministry of Science to the "Terminids". 

This farming would last all through the Great Democratisation until February 2184, when billions of Terminids would seemingly rise up and overrun the Eastern sectors. Now guided solely by an instinctive urge to reproduce, spread, and destroy Democracy. They are a fast-evolving plague, a shapeshifting infestation that threatens to devour and disenfranchise every single child on every single planet. This is a scenario we cannot let stand...