Cyran Nationalist Empire

Government: A parliament presided over by Cyran executive "elder"
Enemies of the Empire: The Cyran Empire has a hellishly formidable enemy: the Orisian Empire, which is gnawing at Cyran borders. The empire's most hateful and dedicated opposition comes from the Hawk clan and its Royal Hawk Legion, although this is a clandestine rivalry and as of yet has not involved the rest of the Triconian Empire to a great degree.
Resources: The empire has at its command all Reynolds-owned companies, including Xaxtal Intergalactic (a misleading name for the largest independent producer of spaceships in Cyran-held space), and CyGenetics Unlimited. Plus the empire has at its disposal the crime-house of D'vorre. The empire controls vast industrial holdings scattered across the sector, and have easily as much power as any great empire on its borders. But its best asset is the most obvious; every citizen is a superhuman Cyran.
Races: The Cyrans are generally a fiercely racist and elitist people; they condescendingly tolerate humans not affiliated with the Orisians or Triconians. The only beings allowed full citizenship in the empire are standard Cyrans and the far fewer feral Cyrans. There is little to no tension between the two subspecies.
Scope: The Cyran Nationalists rule over a sprawling mass of 219 solar systems, conquered over thousands of years. They harbor highly covert plans for piercing into the Orisian Empire, and with the strength thus gained (they hope), return to Triconian space and beat the living shit out of the upstart human puppet-whelps running their annoying little sideshow from what once was the Cyran Empire's capitol planet. The Cyrans are an angry empire at the moment.
Origin: The old Cyran Empire was arguably the true offspring of the ancient race of human Triconians, which they think of with the same distaste as a nineteenth-century Earthling hearing Darwin say he is descended from a monkey; however, Cyran historians know this to be true. The Cyran genome was engineered by the man who unwittingly began the Reynolds clan, Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus' creations propagated and "evolved" beyond anything Cyrus could have imagined at that time. After the fall of the old Triconian regime, the descendants of Hawk, Reynolds and Sterling took it upon themselves to fill the vacuum made by the Triconians' collapse. Ruling from Cyrus' Star, they consolidated a cluster of 248 systems and guided their people through the Galactic Dark Age. At this point the Empire was merely a benevolent and dedicated caretaker of worlds which otherwise would have sank into the same chaos that consumed the rest of the Triconian planets.
This continued for roughly four millennia; a time of peace and preservation. The rulers had organized themselves into noble houses, and developed a system of rule by rotation: upon the death of one family's chosen emperor, the next family in line provided an emperor. Hawks, Reynolds and Sterlings proceeded to shepherd the Cyran people with admirbale success.
Eventually the system began to stagnate. The triumvirate of clans prevented any new exploration, and no alien races appeared in the empire. The population grew lazy and utterly dependent upon the government to provide for their pampered way of life. Few new technologies were developed.
Eventually their isolationist oblivion was interrupted by the arrival of humans claiming to be Triconians. Their leader was Jake Stalin, who nominated himself for rulership on the grounds that he was a descendant of the Sterling family.
The Sterling family itself had deteriorated into a feeble mockery of its former might; the clan elders were unable to disprove the man's claim, and Jake Stalin stepped into the void left by the death of Tomahawk, the late ruler of Cyrus' Star.
The Reynolds family was appalled! The new leader of the clan, Harm Reynolds, ordered the immediate exodus of all Reynolds family, clansmen and chattel from Cyrus' Star. Harm was the son of Grip Reynolds, who had engineered the death of Tomahawk and paid with his life at the hands of Jake Stalin. However, Harm exceeded his father in both malevolence and ingenuity; he swiftly declared himself Emperor of all Reynolds-dominated worlds, which far outstipped that of the Hawks' and Sterlings combined. He decreed the planets of Glyptol and Megathere to be the twin capitols of the empire, and moved to sweep several neutral Cyran worlds under his banner. Many were only too happy to comply with this intense, venomous young man who had a terrible difficulty in taking no for an answer.
Since that, the empire and its ruling Reynolds clan have remained an enigmatic and powerful foe to most everyone else in the sector. Harm's grand plans of taking back Cyrus' Star have been rudely interrupted by the resurgence of Orisian expansion on Cyran borders. However, Harm and his people are rather arrogant and don't believe that mere humans like the over-cybernated Orisians could ever defeat the glorious and ancient descendants of Cyrus Reynolds.
Leaders: The empire is masterminded by Harm Reynolds, who is best described as an evil genius. He has no mercy or scruples toward anyone except his people. He is sworn to protect them to his death, which is one oath he takes with utmost seriousness.
Harm has a body of senators from each Cyran world to assist and carry out his plans. Each world furnishes one senator to Harm's parliament.
Economy: With all Reynolds clan companies promoted to full federal departments funneling cash straight into Harm's treasury, the Empire is doing well for money. The unemployment rate is a staggering 0.6% throughout the empire; Harm does not gladly suffer inaction and lassitude from his people, pointing out Cyran complacency and laziness as the prime reason for infidel humans running free through the halls of Cyrax.
Welfare: The people of the Empire (245 billion) are well supported for their efforts to further Harm's cause. Standards of living are excellent, with starvation or disease being increasingly routed from the empire. Medical treatment is provided free by the government, as is food.
Tech Level: 4 (folding)
Dilemmas: The Cyran Empire is basically surrounded by empires of "lesser beings" who may or may not be fully hostile. However, it is a fact that the empire has NO allies anywhere in the sector. Were the Triconians to invade at this critical point in time, the Cyran Empire would surely be crushed between the Orisians and Triconians. Harm knows this painfully well, and has acted to keep the Royal Dog Legion, as he calls the Hawk paramilitary, off his back by having kidnapped the heir of Ragna Starhawk, her great-great-grandson Atlantis. Harm realizes this will only serve as a truce enforcer for so long, and is milking the Hawks' inaction for everything it's worth.