Jack of Harts

The Peloran were never numerous enough to defend the Albion from the Ennead. But once the Albion let them off their leash and ordered them to kill the Ennead, the Peloran proved their true capabilities. They fought from warships that could burn planets for the materials they needed to repair themselves and could feed on stars for the energy to travel. They sailed anywhere and attacked without warning. They were the perfect guerilla force with nothing left to defend, no supply lines, and only their orders to follow. They destroyed world after world and system after system. The other races soon learned that the Peloran would ignore them if they did not interfere, and the Ennead faced the Peloran alone in the end. The Peloran showed them no mercy. Their orders allowed them none. And so it was the Peloran and their cousins who killed the Ennead.