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The Keth
Oh snap! I forgot to do something for Worldbuilding Wednesday!!
Tag list: @muddshadow @cedar-west
The evil race of aliens that are constantly mentioned but never encountered in my story are the keth.
Space-faring societies know very little about them.
They seem to have come from out of nowhere.
They appear in a system without warning. They strike swiftly, going in first with a wave of fighters to capture their target. If they aren't able to obtain it, they destroy it by wiping out the area its in through in-atmosphere bombardment.
Very few have seen the face of a keth. They're always in full body armor, and have an uncanny valley way of moving. They have horns extending from their elongated heads with large solid dark eyes holding speckles that glow blue through their featureless helmets. They have six long fingers on each hand, two arms, two long, slim legs, and four tentacles extending from their back that wrap around their torso.
They use an energy source no one has been able to recreate, and it doesn't respond to conventional means - including ephypsan particles (which are used to power pretty much everything), so their technology can't be reverse engineered. No one can activate keth technology. If they capture a ship, no one can fly it, because they can't turn it on.
Their ships are solid black thorn-shaped vessels with streaks of glowing blue light like veins, pulsating with the throb of a heartbeat belonging to a creature that oozed out of the Void.
The Alliance military branch - the Regents - named the keth single seat fighters "Darts."
Their capital ships were named "Scars." They're given that name, because of the sight of them appears like someone ripped a wound into space. They're 8,000 meters long. One of these is capable of leveling a medium sized city.
Two attacked Mikra - the second human homeworld - and took out half of the major coastal metropolis.
Seeing a scar is terrifying enough.
But the most horrifying sight anyone can see is their elusive worldship deemed "The Reaper." The nightmare of the abyss.
If this shows up in your system...
Run.
The Reaper contains a central sphere the size of a small moon. Lines of blue light bleed out through cracks along its circumference. Beneath it, the thick, solid, claw-like points of the surrounding razors converge to focus an intense beam of energy.
Should the keth decide to use this ship, that means an entire region of a planet, or the planet itself is doomed.
is responsible for the destruction of the advanced planet of Ephypso 400 years ago.
This attack turned the once prosperous, one of the most advanced races, beautiful ephypsans into an endangered species, scattering survivors across the galaxy.
The Alliance of Worlds formed the Regents to combat this new threat.
No one knew why they attacked Ephypso, just as no one knows why they attacked Quora Ness 20 years ago.
They only attack a world, colony, or space station if they deem something or someone on it to be a threat to their superiority.
The keth and the altaran-humans have been enemies for thousands of years. The destruction of Ephypso, the war that followed, and various complicated reasons over the next 400 years wiped out the altaran-humans. Only myths remain of the once long-lived, powerful species. If any are still alive, they're scattered and in hiding.
The altaran-humans were the only formidable force that could take on the keth at equal power and win.
Will saw this ship enter the Terran system - our system - the night he and 999 other children were spirited away from Earth by the Alliance.
The keth were after them.
Zoe Keating & Paul Mercer - We met on friday
(Since my soul is voiceless I have to speak through music)
