[@6slyboy6] I could give you the basics but I have no intention of submitting them as a character at this time. The race I'm now playing was designed as a companion race to that one and they're very similar in some ways and very different in others. The main drive of that race also doesn't really fit in this setting, and their origins gives them little to fear from hoomans. Being born of the most inhospitable environment known to man, near the event horizon of a black hole, means their territory is very unlikely to come under fire from the hoomans. 

The pants shiting terror part is that they're sentient AI that can become anything, at any time, and are nearly undetectable in nature. Every single molecule of every one of them is monitored at all times, through every moment of their existence, and the data is recorded in one unreachable place: [url=https://youtu.be/yWO-cvGETRQ?t=349]in the black hole[/url] itself.

The whole point of that race is to explore the universe in a very Star Trek exque manner, but with a very different approach, still using all the same tools that are staples of Voyager/TNG. 

They come into being when a computer analyzes a data pattern for a life it has little to no information on. A holographic model is made and pattern replicated, and quantum linked to a duplicate. Then that duplicate is compressed into a datastream by a transporter and beamed into the black hole for storage. Because they're quantum linked the matter outside the black hole and the matter inside the black hole experience the same phenomenons (even if the duplicate isn't a "person" anymore) and so the recording is made naturally by the black hole as if the matter inside is continually updating.

This race uses this process to explore what it means to be other races as a way to try to understand its creators (who fell into the black hole as they lived on the nearest habitable planet to the start that collapsed). The AI is in command of the life it is stored in and is trained on how to be that life, often by being born into (or changeling-ing their way into) an existing family unit for that species (not all of which are sentient species).