Pleruga

"We are the Pleruga! We are your future! One day, the Pleruga Empire will cross the galaxy, all non-Pleruga will bow before us, before you become Pleruga yourselves!"

- Emperor Plerugini I's message to the rest of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy

The Pleruga, whose name comes form the N'Akkiarlian word for "Plague", was a race of humanoids from the Pleruga system on the outskirts of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy, which reproduced by spreading the Pleruga virus to others. The Pleruga virus was spread through bites, once bitten by a Pleruga the victim would become a Pleruga themselves in short order.

Because of the highly infectious nature of the Pleruga virus, the ferocity of the Pleruga themselves, and the intentions of the Pleruga species to spread their empire across the N'Akkiarl Galaxy by infecting the rest of the galaxy's inhabitants, the Pleruga System, which represented the extent of the Pleruga Empire, was placed under permanent quarantine by the rest of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy.

Numerous times, the N'Akkiarla had tried to destroy the Pleruga through orbital bombardment, which is not successful, due to the advanced and extensive underground tunnel cities created by the Pleruga, but generally stopped short at invading Pleruga-held planets, due to the catastrophic First Battle of Pleruga I, in which most of the N'Akkiarlian invasion force was turned into Pleruga, the N'Akkiarla have since employed a policy of aggressive imposed quarantine on the planets of the Pleruga system, to the point of destroying anyone who threatens to take the Pleruga virus out of the system.