The Suitrox
Background
The Suitrox are a race of pure energy beings who's empire is smaller than that of the Voretox. Their empire spans an eighth of the galaxy and is the oldest in existence. Being pure energy beings, they utilize bio-mechanical suits to be able to move things in their environment. They were the first to master space travel, and they are also very reserved about sharing their technology with other races.
Government
The Suitrox government is a confederation of independent and sovereign nation-states, each with their own form of government. Their governments range from democracies to dictatorships to monarchies. What unifies them though is their peace (more or less) with one another. They have remained unified for the last 2,000 years ( since around the time they first mastered space travel. They have no standard government. They pool their resources and military might between all nations. Their diversity in government also led to a diversity in their culture. Each nation-state has different customs, ceremonies and rites.
Cities and transport
Just like Voretox cities, Sutrox cities are marvels of engineering, though for different reasons. A sutrox city spans a shorter distance than the sprawled out metropolises of the Voretox empire, but instead of spreading out, they build up. Sutrox cities can expand all the way into the upper reaches of their planets' atmosphere's, beyond anything humanity has ever even built or the rest of the galaxy for that matter. Their buildings are all made from on type of material, a liquid energy building material called "Zortra-sten", named after their god of creation and knowledge, Zortra. It is a building material, created from quantum energy, that is liquid in it's natural state; but when introduced to electro-magnetic fields, can be forced to take shape of any object. Once it turns into the designated form (such as an office building), the energy then begins to convert itself from energy into matter, forming an immensely strong, yet thin structure. This technology is only used in Suitrox engineering. To put this into perspective, a building made from Zortra-sten could withstand a direct strike from a meteor without even budging and would shield the occupants from harm as well.
Unlike their structures and cities, Suitrox vehicles are made from metals such as Iridium and Boron, mainly because some of these vehicles are sold on the Galactic markets, and as stated before, the Suitrox are reserved when it comes to sharing technology with other races. Their hover cars and mass transit vehicles are all powered with fusion energy reactors, again because they are reserved with sharing their technology.
Military
The suitrox military is the most advanced in the galaxy, but actually is one of the smaller ones. Their infantry consists of Suitrox in military grade bio-mechanical suits using plasma and electron weaponry. Their infantry weapons range from plasma burst guns to plasma pistols to electron grenade launchersand anti-tank plasma weapons.Their infantry have different roles in combat, just like the Voretox. These range from troopers to snipers to AT (anti-tank) gunners. The Suitrox use combat suits in their military, but are of totally different designs than Voretox combat suits. They, again, are outfitted for different roles. The only real similarity between Voretox and Suitrox combat suits are what their roles are in combat, meaning there are no unique combat roles between both armies. The Suitrox, even with their highly advanced military and technology, are not interested in galactic conquest. Their military's true purpose is to safeguard their species from the dangers of the galaxy and the unknown in the Universe.
(A/N: A side note, the damaging power of all weapons in the galaxy vary, since different races have different tech. The power of weaponry in the galaxy are as follows from least to greatest:
bullets, laser, fission, fusion, electron and plasma (same stopping power, different purposes).
Quantum energy is not used in weapons, other than in weapons of mass destruction, because of it's shear destructive power.)
Biology
To say that the Suitrox have any blood or organs relating to biology would be wrong, at least in the way organic's understand it. The Suitrox, as stated before are pure energy beings, but at the same time; they are also sentient beings with their own unique "biology." Suitrox have don't have organs, rather they have only one system in their body. Somehow, through their evolution (I stress somehow because even the Suitrox themselves do not know why this happened), they managed to formulate a list of electro-magneticand chemical signals into a working "nervous system" of sorts. They are fully sentient (aware of surroundings and the fact they are alive). They have emotions, though they express them very differently from the way an organic, lets say a human would express them. They have very good problem solving skills and are capable of learning from their mistakes. All in all, they aren't that much different than the Voretox or humanity. The only thing that separates them from us is a) being pure energy beings and b) their unique "biology". Mentally, they behave almost like the Voretox or humans.
Being pure energy beings, Suitrox don't reproduce like other organic's do. They reproduce by a male and female (there is a difference in gender between their kind, but nobody aside from another Suitrox can distinguish gender) combining their energies (DNA) and forming a new entity (the child). The difference in gender has to come with their differing electro-magnetic signals. Males have one type of signal frequency and females have another.
Outside of their suits, if a Suitrox tried to grab something, let's say a rock; their hand would just phase right through it. The only objects they can naturally react with are: each other(obviously because of last paragraph), other objects that emit energy, such as fire (inferred energy) or certain metals, like Uranium (radioactive energy). This is how they were able to build their first suits. Their home world (their real home world before they became space faring, Sutrose) is rich in carbon-14 and metals like Uranium. So they took Carbon-14, which emits radiation, and Uranium and made their first bio-mechanical suits.
Well, that is the basic info for the Suitrox. Sorry about taking so long to update any of my stories, I've been dealing with college, homework, friends, etc. I will try to update at a more rapid pace (which should be easy considering summer semester of college ends in 1 week.) Again I want to apologize for the complex word choice and concepts about the Suitrox. I know this might confuse some readers, so I'll try to condense the next species which is the...(sorry, it's a surprise). All I will say is that this next species actually has OC's that appear at the end of the story.