Vox

The Vampires of the Stars
A paracitic alien race known only as the "Vox" (origionally called so because a lot of their vocalizations sound like the word "Vox") are one of humanitiy's greatest threats. In their natural state Vox resembled 4 ft long armored lampreys with thousands of hair-fine sensory tentacles emerging from their sides that live under water. They have since enclosed themselves in liquid-filled battle armors to allow them to engage in conquests on other worlds (as their biology is uniquely adapted to their own world and very sensative). They use the various hooks to drain or restrain (with a violent paralyzing shock) their prey. Vox use planet-scale weapons to incapacitate their hosts and harvest their bodies for their blood in great ship-side factories.

The Vox Armada
The Vox are as technologically advanced as the Accord and while their designs may differ they have many of the same ship categories and roles that they do. Their ships are fillex with liquids and have a very small ammount of oxygen in them.

Vox ships tend to have a more organic design. All Vox ships can cloak, though they must remain motionless to do so. Vox ships are also less skilled with their sensors and have no understanding of underspace. However, Vox have, on average, faster, better armor, and their carriers have up to three times as many fighters in them.

Fighting Vox
Hunters are tasked with tracking down and eliminating the Vox when the find them. Often times this involves poisoning their blood-supply (leaving out tainted corpses, etc) or otherwise destablizing their delicate ecological needs. In a straight fight against their battle suits humans are normally out-classed. Their strength is equal to that of a gorilla and their many shocking mechanical appendages make it difficult to get close to them. They have armor that can stand up to most small arms fire but there are a few key vital spots that Rangers know to look for. Like their ships Vox battle suits can cloak when they are not moving and hover when they do. While they can't fly they can move very quickly (up to 30 MPH). The best tactic is to not close with them and hit them with high powered weapons from a distance. Planted explosives and grenades are effective as well, though the Vox have grown cautious. Vox battle suits also have heat sensors and a very good zoom capacity in their computer-aided suit's visuals. Finally, they have a computer aided sense of smell that is very keen to pick up the scent of blood- sometimes from miles away.

If you are caught by a Vox their robotic appendages will stun you first (if you are lucky) before they drain your body of all of it's fluids after turning your internal organs into a slurry. "Drinking" a human takes less than a minute and can sustain a Vox for about a day. Rangers hunting Vox tend to wear shock-resistant suits and swallow a toxic pill that reacts to the acid they use- so if they are drank the Vox dies with them.