Who wants to talk to us about the Vanduul?
TL;DRLittle is known about the Vanduul, a brutal, adaptive, clan-based species with no central government and no diplomacy, who have taken systems from the UEE, prompting a more proactive military campaign.
So we do not know much about the Vanduul. They're basically a very clan-based, warlike species that we had stumbled upon, I guess. There was a massive expansion to one side, we call it the western side of the UEE systems, even though there's obviously no directions. But it turns out we had settled on a planet that was a hunting ground for them. So a clan came in and wiped out a small town, which was our first introduction to them. They are a very methodical, brutal, cold species, so they just wipe stuff out and they decimate planets, but they don't have a central core government or anything like that. They operate in clans, so there's these roaming clans, which makes them very hard to combat, because you knock out one clan, it doesn't really affect any of the other ones. They don't talk to each other. They have never made an attempt to establish diplomatic relations with humans. So it's been purely violent. And there have been a lot of clashes with the Vanduul over the centuries, I guess. And to the point where we've had to abandon systems because they've had huge pushes into a system. The UEE tried to hold them and failed and then got pushed out. So we've lost a handful of systems basically to the Vanduul, and it culminated with one of our big events, which we did back in 2016, which was the attack on Vega II, where they basically attacked a UEE system and nearly destroyed an entire planet, but were pushed out by Admiral Bishop, which kickstarted a more proactive military campaign to fight our way back into Vanduul space, which is our current conflict on the west side. But yeah, not a lot is known about them. They're obviously very violent, but they also seem to be very adaptive. Their physiology allows them to actually exist in a vacuum for a little bit. So they're very resilient, very smart, and very deadly.