Conglomerate (species)

A vicious, bloodthirsty, and manipulative alien race from a neighboring galaxy, the Conglomerate have been the biggest threat humanity has ever faced.

Origin
Main article: Certain Death

In the aftermath of a terrible war, four of the dominant HILT nations (Brewtan, R.O.M.A.N, Shanducha, and Tsukonia) united to gather up and banish all members of the Los Lobos race. A gargantuan spacecraft, originally meant to serve to expand the human race outside the solar system, was then repurposed to load up all Los Lobians and hurl them blindly into space, unable to control their own course.

Somehow, through sheer willpower, the people on board the ship survived. For generations, even after food supplies ran out, they engineered new ways to grow food and to adapt to their living conditions. Partly thanks to intentional genetic experiments and partly thanks to deep space radiation, everyone mutated in a variety of unusual and unpredictable ways, eventually bearing little resemblance to their human forerunners.

In time, the ship came to land on a habitable planet in the Andromeda galaxy, and the descendants of Los Lobos chose to call themselves by a new name: The Conglomerate, based on the name written on the side of the ship.

As the Conglomerate grew, stabilized, and mutated, the humans back on Earth soon forgot all about them, focusing instead on their project of terraforming the galaxy.

First Contact
At the outmost edge of the galaxy, terraforming was finally becoming widespread. As some humans were hard at work developed a massively hostile planet, they witnessed strange looking ships approaching. Initially, the humans tried speaking to them. These aliens obviously understood every word being spoken, but would only reply in their own tongue. In the entire encounter, the aliens said one word in perfect, clear English. "Conglomerate." Immediately after the humans experiencing this first contact reported what had happened, the Conglomerate slaughtered them all.

Conquest
In the span of just one generation, the Conglomerate had conquered the entire galaxy. After subjugating the entire Snickers galaxy, they mostly left the outer rim and settled in approximately the middle 50%, where all the richest and best developed planets were. While still maintaining control over the whole galaxy, they pretty much ignore the outer rim, content with occasional scouts and human mercenaries to keep order.

Characteristics
In addition to their previously described personality ("vicious, bloodthirsty, and manipulative") the Conglomerate are distinctly alien, though possessing a few human traits. Two arms, legs, ears, eyes, etc. They have even been known to cross breed with humans, leading to a hybird human/Conglomerate creature, though instances of this are rare.

They have their own language, but all seem to understand humans when they speak, though they have uniformly never spoken in a human language, aside from uttering the word "Conglomerate".