Militarist insectoid devourers of planets, the Cravers are a people bent on war, expansion, and consumption.
Endless Space 2 - The Cravers - Prologue
Created by the Endless from an insectoid life form, the Cravers are in the purest sense hunter-gatherers who would never have independently evolved the systems and infrastructure needed to raise crops or domesticate animals.
Their life cycle is based on consumption, and as such they are capable of digesting any form of plant or animal matter. As their home world is close to being consumed, they must leave in search of further nourishment.
For if they do not continue to expand, discover, and exploit new worlds, their society will eat itself to death. Feeding the hive is their all-consuming purpose; the notions of 'treaty', 'trade', and 'peace' do not exist.
Lore[]
The cravers are a race of humanoid bio weapons created by the endless with the purpose to destroy planets.
Leadership[]
Though the Queen is the most important single member of the Craver hierarchy, she is not necessarily its leader or decision-maker as her time is spent in the production of future generations.
Though she has an unquestionable right to veto and would be consulted in the case of extreme risk to the hive or a deadlock in the process, her importance is more social than political.
The true leaders of Craver society are a caste known as Bishops; this small percentage of intellectually advanced Cravers forms the backbone of society and is responsible for decisions on construction, warfare, development, reproduction, and exploration.
Homeworld[]
It is difficult to define a homeworld for the Cravers, as they were an artificially created species. Much of the research was done on the Virtual world Bejek, but as they were DNA patterns shared across the Virtual federation and vat-grown in numerous locations it is hard to determine a single site. Perhaps the best, if arbitrary, definition of a homeworld would be the planetary factory of Kovanyuv, where many of them were created.
Society[]
The Queen could be viewed as the leader of the society, but only in the sense that she has the capacity to refuse plans proposed by the Bishops.
She lacks a creative or directive role in the development of those plans, however, and simply passes judgment on them. In fact it is difficult to apply the concept of a political system to the Cravers, as a good two-thirds of their population barely have enough of a sense of individuality to understand the idea of casting a vote.
In-game, the Craver form of Government is the Autocracy, a unique and reflavored version of a Dictatorship.
On the official ES2 Wiki, it is instead refered to as a Stratocracy, meaning "a form of government headed by military chiefs". This likely refers to the few Bishop Cravers that are self-aware enough to carry out administrative tasks.
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Trivia[]
- The Cravers were a major faction in Endless Space 1, you can read more about them here.
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