The race that called itself The Imperium was a race that spanned half the Milky Way galaxy; it governed thousands of lesser races. The Imperium, before it had become such, was named The Falcorians. However that name was lost during the thousands of years of Imperium reign. The Falcorians were very similar to humans psyically, they possessed the appearance of a human skeleton, except their heads were vaguely human. Their skin was either a pure white with a black hue, or a pure black with a white hue. Their hair was always a pure white, and most of them possessed a feature on their skin. Two lines, the opposite of their skin color, extended diagonally downwards out from the lip on either side, with a similar pattern emerging from the corner of the eyes. The rest of their body was precisely like a human skeleton, except the chest area was covered with a layer of skin a centimeter thick that was colored the same as their facial skin. Their legs and pelvis were covered by skin about an inch thick of the same color. The gaps between human 'arm bones' would be filled in with the same skin. They only possessed three fingers.

The Imperium was a deeply telepathic race, and their movements were flowing and graceful, and if one coupled this with their skin color they always appeared very serene. They also shared a deep telepathic link with their brothers, if a mass group of Imperium citizens were killed, then ones within several light years would feel this, and lapse into deep sorrow, and usually would have to sleep or hibernate to several hours to soothe the deep mental pain and headaches they were receiving. They are also diligent and unrelenting workers, usually fanatical in their loyalty to their three patron gods. Khaine, their god of war, a Falcorian that was banished from this plane for bathing in blood, he became the god of war and death. Lorien, their god of peace and harmony was the one who discovered Khaine, and was banished with him for the act of eavesdropping, Lorien was graceful and quiet, but several times fiercely defended his patron Falcorians. The last, Shinova, the god of all creation.

Falcorian cities were usually lofty towers, the surfaces reflective and smooth, the towers stretching into the sky. Their shapes were usually cylinders or rectangles that narrowed as they stretched towards the sky. The Falcorians, as they were a communal species, erected many public forums and parks for their citizens to commute through. The cities on Falcoria itself were said to be “[Like] towers of shimmering gems reaching for the sky, as if to snatch the shimmering stars and add them to their reflective surfaces”

In the beginning, as the communal Falcorians slowly began to expand into the stars, their expansion grew at a phenomenal rate. Thanks to their telepathic link, once one Falcorian knew something, the entire race did. This enabled them to expand faster and faster. By the fiftieth year after they had launched their first craft, they landed a self-sustaining colony on the second planet of their solar system. Twenty years later, they were diligently exploring the rest of their solar system. Soon later, the peaceful and ethereal race slowly began expanding into the galaxy.

Then a stark realization smashed them. A race known as the Vek, harsh, expansionist slavers, assaulted their home system of Falcoria. Falcoria was destroyed, the planet utterly obliterated. The Falcorians, reeling in shock as the telepathic backlash sent many of them into shock, tried to fight back. Their only warships were small Destroyers, armed only with several Mass Driver and Rail Gun weapons, and did nothing against the modern Vek Monitors.

The Falcoria system turned into nothing as the Vek swarmed over it, and then, as the Falcorians realized what the Vek had done, they fought back. Their communal societies banded together with telepathic precision and put together new, modern warships, using technology given to them by a race known only as the Golnoth, they attacked the Falcoria system. Their new, sleek and deadly ships bombarded Falcoria’s remaining planets to dust in order to purge the Vek from their system.

And the Falcorians turned on the galaxy with a vengeance. No longer were they a peaceful serene race, they were now The Imperium. Angered beyond belief by the Vek destruction of their home, they unleashed their crusade on the galaxy. As they advanced, methodically taking Empires and Republics in their mad search for the Vek. They took dominion over almost half the galaxy, stretching from Mezt to Otid, to Bakka to Kelmaon. And still they did not find the Vek.

That was when disaster struck.

Part One - The Coming of Darkness

One of the races The Imperium governed over was named The Zeji, and before the Imperium had ruled the galaxy, they had been a gigantic power, and were not confortable under Imperial rule at all. As the rule of the Imperium dragged into it's several thousandth year, the Imperium's fleet began to slowly dwindle, as the Imperium entered an age of peace and began to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their rule, the Zeji acted. In dry-dock, hundreds of Zeji who served upon Imperial warships began imputting codes of override for the time the reckoning came.

The Zeji took control of nearly thee fourths of the remaining Imperial Fleet and launched war upon their masters. Hundreds of Imperial vessels attacked their brothers under dock, as most of the actual Imperial Fleet was crippled. Slowly, as the Zeji took world after world, the Imperium responded. Their massive industrial base began grinding slowly into action, and as it sped up, hordes of Imperial ships made war on the rebelling Zeji. The galaxy was ravaged by war, and a few select worlds were bypassed with occasional skirmishes. One such world was Earth, although during an orbital skirmish, an Imperial craft was shot down and crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. During the war several passing Imperial saucer like ships attracted the interest of Human alien conspiracies.

The races the Imperium were dominating threw in their hands with the Zeji, as at the beginning it looked like the Zeji would slaughter the reeling what Imperium. And as the Imperium responded, most of these races were annihilated with the Imperium's enemies. A few last refugee ships escaped to outer worlds, and stayed hunkered down, weary of the Imperial wrath. However, on the planet of Earth, where the Humans were, something had escaped the Zeji and Imperium. The Zeji, which were blue skinned humanoids, looked almost identical to the Humans. The answer lie with the Imperium. Hundreds of years before the Great War of Darkness, an Imperial had mated with a Zeji and produced an offspring race. The Humans.

Part Three - The Darkness Falls

Although, the Zeji were defeated in the end, the Imperium was defeated aswell. Only a few Imperial worlds posessed any real infrastructure sufficient to sustain an Empire, these were located in The Ji nebula. A few Imperial 'exodite' worlds remained aswell, worlds that were bypassed entirely by the war. However all of these were small outposts, possessing nothing more than frightened Imperial colonists and habs.

The Imperium, now realizing it was possibly the last sentient race in the galaxy, fell into deep telepathic mourning. After 50 years of war, most Imperials could now take the time to properly mourn their billions of dead friends, and almost half of the Imperial survivors fell into telepathic hibernations to heal their wounds. Inside the Ji Nebula, the last remaining government official, a mere Planetary Governor, assumed command of the last Imperium planets. Inside the Ji Nebula, upon a mere five worlds, the Imperium hid itself. Though it knew the Zeji had been eliminated, it feared other threats, and vowed to stay hidden.

Slowly, in the 25 years after the War, the Imperium reawakened, and slowly stretched it's proverbial arms. Slowly, cautiously, scout ships were sent out and they realized they were indeed alone.

Part Four - The Legacy

Then they discovered humanity, when it was torn by Civil War. What they called it's Third World War. And they realized what Humanity was. A mix of their great enemy, and their own blood. They took a silent telepathic vow, their entire race, to protect these unknowing progeny.