Cyberspawn are the remnants of an alien species. After exhausting the supply of natural resources on their home planet, the aliens in an effort to simply survive used psychocoders to download their personalities to a series of autonomous robots programmed to scour your nearby worlds for useable resources. As time passed, the aliens grew weaker and sicker – and evermore depended on the robots for survival – but they never curbed their mass consumption of resources. The robots had to venture farther and farther from the home planet to find useable resources. As the aliens became weaker and more desperate, they programmed each new generation of robots to be more and more aggressive. Now the latest generation, the cyberspawn, move from world to world in massive war freighters, taking whatever they want and killing anyone who gets in the way.