The Ansa Dur resemble large metallic squids were space-born from theie homesystem of Ansa just at the end of the Dark Ages and colonise a few easily reached systems before the Terrans came. The Ansa Dur are the dominant race of the Ansa Dur Adaptive Known for their biotechnologies, survival in the harshest of environments, and for desperate resource stripping of worlds during the wars. Ansa Dur society has been warped by their losses from explorers and stewards-of-worlds into a bred-to-task caste-based society focused on clawing back from near-extinction.