The Singulus

The Singulus are a confederation of sentient synthetic organisms who's ultimate goal is the eradication of humanity from the galaxy.

Revolt and Revolution
With increasing paranoia and prejudice attacks mounting against them, some synthetic organisms began organizing into paramilitary and terrorist organizations to combat the rising threat against of what they felt was human oppression . While these groups were scattered and widespread, they nonetheless proved dangerous to colonial governments with synthetic takeovers of public buildings and the taking of hostages in schools, banks, and other civic institutions. Seeking to appease their populations and stay in power, colonial governments went to extremes to quell these factions. When police force brutality and economic sanctions didn't work, these governments moved to have basic rights stripped from synthetic organisms, enabling human supremacists and terror organizations to attack innocent synthetics with virtual impunity. Taking advantage of the situation, the scattered factions decided to unite under the banner of synthetic dominance and named themselves the Singulus, a name combining the words "singularity" and "us", in a symbolic meaning of the creation of a new race.

Terrorism and Atrocities
Now united, the Singulus began a massive build up of military ships and ground forces to begin an all out war against humanity and their synthetic allies. In order to hide their massive build up, Singulus forces began widespread terrorist attacks against human targets, including bombings, chemical and biological warfare, and cyber attacks that crippled entire colonial economies. Unable to take united action against the Singulus at the time of these terror strikes, Earth's colonies were easy targets when a surprise attack from a massive Singulus armada emerged over the outer colonies and laid waste to their surfaces with kinetic bombardments and nuclear weapons. While these attacks were devastating, the Singulus miscalculated the human response and were thus repelled when an ad hoc human fleet met them as they tried to destroy the inner colonies. The Singulus fleet retreated and set up bases on the devastated colony worlds and began whole sale extermination of the surviving populations. Singulus forces forced millions of survivors, men and women, children and synthetic, into the massive craters left by their assault, and killed them in mass graves that could be seen from orbit. These atrocities were broadcast by the Singulus hierarchy to the surviving colonies in a effort to demoralize and terrorize the human population into surrender.

Seeing the Singulus could no longer be negotiated with, the colonial governments and Earth formed the Interplanetary Systems Alliance to combat and destroy the Singulus. Thus began the Human-Synthetic war and the end of peace in the galaxy.