Agori

The Agori are a primary species on Spherus Magna, and were formerly the main species on Bara Magna and one of the secondary species on Bota Magna.

Early History
The Agori developed on their homeworld over millions of years, originally a crawling, nameless race devoid of structure or the ability to create. Eventually, though, they began to form themselves into large tribes for safety in numbers, and began to roam the land in groups instead of in small familial units. It was only a few years later that their entire world changed again.

In the skies above Spherus Magna, a massive mechanical creature created by the interstellar Hadrax race was orbiting the planet, attempting to determine if it was able to support the life within its form, and if not, whether to accelerate the development of this new race or to wipe it out and start over for its creatures. However, a passing asteroid, combined with a scanner malfunction, ended its ponderings and sent it crashing to the planet. Typically, it would have been able to activate a defense grid to balst the asteroid to powder if it got within twenty planetary miles of the robot, but due to its scanners not working as they should, the asteroid had not only gotten through, but it had punched a massive hole in the drone's side. As it hurtled down to the planet, it only just managed to activate enough thrust to keep it from crashing into the ocean before its landing, which was right in the middle of the natives' land.

Intrigued, the tribes traveled into the drone in search of discovery and answers for how it had suspended itself so far above their world. Most of the living things that had originally been inside the drone, having been exposed to air that was incredibly low in the gases that they needed to process and high in many others useless to them, had died of suffocation; many of the ones that had not had perished in the crash. However, a few creatures fled the drone as the natives were coming in. They marveled at the creatures' physiology, which was so different from what they had seen on their world, and soon came to something even more incredible: a massive city inside of the drone. The drone was still emitting life-enhancing energies even in death, and as the natives delved deeper into the inner workings of the now-abandoned city, it went to work on their feeble minds and bodies. Slowly, the very air inside the city was pumping intelligence into their minds and mechanical enhancements to strengthen their bodies. When they emerged, they had a name for themselves, the Agori, and a new way to live. They still preserved the tribal way, but now bettered the system with what they could now do, and began reorganizing their society in general, even developing a language.

Obviously, not all members of the species had gone on the expedition; roughly a third had stayed behind to keep onto the Agori tribes in case the others never returned. Once they did, and were evolved for their experience, most of those that had not entered the drone began to feel jealous of the Agori and their new higher intelligence, and entered into the dome to absorb knowledge in the way they had, but to do it for longer, in order to be the masters of the new order. They were eventually cut off from all Agori society, and while they were now of more intelligence, their latent anger and obsession with power greater to those around them carried through into racial memory. Soon the energy ran out, and the still-unknowing beings began to regress due to their own malice and self-exile. When they finally emerged, they were no longer what would be considered Agori. Their time away had led to a merge of their races, and their regression had turned them into aggressive beings with nothing to lose. They were no longer part of the Agori race; they were now Skrall. The few members of the original species, who by this time had evolved naturally, becoming more durable, more powerful, and able to live in the world without as much mechanical advancement, had gradually moved together as one group after being ostracized for their "unenlightened behavior". They raided the drone, the first of many raids, and stole what artifacts had remained in the gleaming city, and in several smaller areas in the drone's surviving tentacles that the Agori had missed and the Skrall had entered but barely disturbed. This ragtag group of raiding beings survived for thousands of years, becoming the scourge of all that the Agori worked to achieve. They never named themselves, but soon adopted the name the Agori gave to them: the Bone Hunters.

More recent history coming soon...