Guthic Horde

The Lost War-Horde (Drauhts Fadreinns Lusnan), more commonly known as the Guthic Horde or simply The Horde, is a multi-species nomadic horde that comprises of three large "refuge ships" surrounded by a massive spatial navy. The Lost War-Horde was formed in the wake of the Battle of the White Terror, known to the Guths as the Battle of Sorrows, after the Guthic Theudereiks was definitively annihilated by the Gathic Khanate, and what few survivors remained of the Guthic War Fleet fled, gathering up refugees as they went.

The horde gets their name from an eponymous Guthic legend of a war-fleet led by an ashamed Guthic hero, after having lost her bid for control of the Guthic Theudereiks, gathered up her loyal supporters and exiled herself into unknown space. The horde's remaining aristocrats and generals view themselves as the last contingent of an honourable Guthic future, independent from Gathic domination. While the Guths had originally evolved on a highly inhospitable world, ongoing pollution and Guthic-caused climate change forced the Guths to abandon their life on their homeworld in favour of the void, becoming space nomads, and extracting tribute for resources, ships, and people on those that neighboured them. They have lived this way as long as any of them can remember, with their terrestrial origins having been abandoned long, long ago.

As the Guthic Horde has approached the center of the galaxy, every habitable planet and any even remotely-sapient species has been conquered, stripped of resources, recruits, and technology, and left barren and lifeless. Only just now, four years after their Great Migration, has their presence begun to be felt by the space-faring empires of the galactic core.