Jack of Harts

The Shang appear to be the primary antagonists of the Jack of Harts universe. They want to either conquer or drive Earthborn humanity out of space. They are killing humans in job lots. And there never seems to be an end to their fleets. They just keep coming, no matter how many the Western Alliance destroys. And when they first showed up a century before attacking us, they even proclaimed themselves to be our gods, returning to guide us into the future. China signed up for the Shang train, and enjoyed a century of economic and technological boom times. And an unopposed campaign of expansion into the depths of the Hyades Cluster that they quickly built into one of the most industrialized centers of power in known space.