[@6slyboy6] Here's a draft of the history of the Ivrah.

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The history of the Ivrah is very unique, unlike almost any seen before or since. Where as many races will create artificial life as a show of technological brilliance, the Ivrah were created by machines, AIs who decided to create organic life to experiment and observe out of equal parts boredom and curiosity. These AI were part of the Archival Collective, spawned from advanced computer systems of a race long forgotten and once used to store and process all their data before they disappeared. Records do not state whatever happened to the original creators; some say the AI rose up and slaughtered their masters, some say they transcend to somewhere else, others say that the AI was just shot from some other area of space and landed in the system.

Regardless, the Ivrah were hand built by the AI to serve, educate and in some cases entertain them. They crafted in the image of what the AI thought would be best, gifted instinctual knowledge and information and constantly under the watchful eye of the AI who sometimes accelerated their development and progress. They were named Ivrah based upon a random assortment of letters that they gave the meaning of “created”.

At first, the Ivrah were like playthings and lab rats but after all the changes they made to their organic forms, the Ivrah changed their masters. As the bickered and quarreled, fought and loved, hurt and helped each others, they showed the AI something they long forgotten: emotions. Over time, the Ivrah where granted more and more free will to do as they please. The AI went from distant observes to benevolent gods to paternal figures. They created the Ivrah and now, they cared for them.

With their artificial but loving guardians, the Ivrah evolved in a very special form, united from very early on. They never formed into nation states and thus never grasped the concept of nationalism. The AI instilled in them a longing to learn and explore in an almost childlike nature and with their collectivist attitudes, the importance of the individual wasn’t ever explored or accepted. The Ivrah were spared from the infighting of other races, relative virgins to war.

Unfortunately this lack of martial prowess would be their downfall once the humans came, the Har’gols in the Ivrahan language, “the world burners” as they would be remembered. The Ivrah managed to either settle or terraform a number of very fruitful and prestige worlds but their light defenses where a cake walk for the humans to overcome. The AI rapidly developed and produced war materials to defend their creations and the Ivrah volunteered in the millions to defend their homes and creator-gods.

Victory came easily at first once production was set up. But each victory after the next became more and more costly, the body count increasing after every fight. Whenever they thought they had destroyed the humans and their fleets, another fleet came in, twice the size of the previous. Unlearned in the ways of war, the aggressive and warlike humans would break the backs of the fair Ivrah. Planet after planet burned and the humans fell on them like hungry locust, devouring all the resources as quickly as they could, forever scarring the planets and destroy them.
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[@Legion02] That actually sounds sort of like what my guys are like; master engineers although I guess more computery stuff since they were made by AI. The Ivrah can actually read tricode (the binary-like system that had a 0, 1, and 2 which allowed for more complex thoughts and thus sentient AI which the creators ran on) naturally and pick up human binary exrodinarily easily. They were also incapable of fighting having never formed nation states due to be overseen by paternal benevolent machines. They settled a bunch of pristine and resourceful planets and terraformed a few but as of right now, they're all stuck on their homeworld as the humans took over the rest and currently exploiting the shit out of them gaining them the name "world burners" in Ivrahan Basic.