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Okay, but nothing long-winded.
The N-Tazz: A wholly robotic race, created about 200 years ago when the residents of a planet called Naethli designed artificial intelligences and battle machines to fight their civil wars for them. The machines did their job too well: They kept fighting long after all their masters had perished in the conflict. Eventually, one AI managed to defeat or assimilate all the others, and continued to follow its programming: Seek out and destroy all possible enemies of its own particular city-state (which of course no longer exists).
"Carrier-type" unit (rough equivalent of a Dropship/Overlord/Shuttle): The Mothership. Has a capacity of up to 8 Small-size units, automatically spends resources to repair damaged units while in transit, and can land directly atop mineral and gas nodes to harvest them of its own accord. Upon landing at a suitable site, a Mothership can transform into a Colony Core, the foundation of all N-Tazz bases. This conversion process is irreversible.
The Kaliestri: Pacifist residents of the planet Naethli who fled from the civil war before it erupted into world-swallowing conflict, these creatures set out to wander the stars and find a new homeworld, until they were set upon by one of the relentlessly encroaching Zerg Broods. They fled from the onslaught of the Swarm, and in so doing, encountered survivors of other sentient races who were doing the same: The G'Hibad, Uturu, Raertak and Lurinates all formed a loose coalition with the Kaliestri, who became the de facto leaders of the Collective, as their psionic abilities were really what allowed the alien races to work toward a common goal. Their united plan: Gather resources and become strong once again, in order to force back the Zerg. As each race thinks itself to be the last survivors of its species, they believe that they have a greater right to survive than any other race that happens to get in their way.
"Carrier-type" unit: Female Lurinates are known as Ladens, due to their habit of carrying their hatchlings in their brood chambers long after birth. Ladens have a carrying capacity of up to 4 Small-size units, and like all Lurinates gradually build up bioelectric charge in organs of specialized muscle tissue. This charge can be released in a localized blast of ball lightning that protects the Laden from Scourges and things like Psionic Storm, and after researching the Electrostatics upgrade, Ladens can also fire their lightning at single targets, doing considerable damage from quite a distance away.
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