I think I will participate with some kind of altered version also when it comes to the appearance.

I will still participate in contests(though I dont know in how many out of the three) 

I guess so maybe a part of the Legion could make it with the help of folks like you.

(The part about a race based on asteroids is the most important for me be it origins or ship design)

I will adjust them as they were warmongers in the past but now after their first big conflict with the known galaxy lore wise they will seek the knowledge of the Endless and loose intrest in war fought with conventional weapons (pacifists)

And now focusing more on the spread of their hostile Dust with the help of some pirate clans (diplomatics) (last lore chapter)

I already saw some good races in the contest who also dont see the pacifictic way 100% rigid. We can work with that.

And btw that you believe they could (could have won) is one of a compliment.

Thank you very much for that.

Btw @ Admin/mods

Feel free to delete my old thread in the ES One forum if you like so.

Zennock

BlackBird1696

monkeynaut

Xafron

phanemy

lo_fabre

I want to say thank you for all your super nice words ; ) It makes realy all the effort worth it. Awesome guys, awesome community.

lo_fabre wrote:

You deserve the respect of all of us who participate in this creation forums with faction ideas.

An impressive work here.

As a side note, how did you make to putt all that in consecutive posts without any interruption??

Of course it was interrupted a lot in the Endless Space One section ; )

I think I posted the earliest version of the Legion back in april 2013  and improved them step by step chapter by chapter over the last 3 and a half years.

It was originaly completly written for Endless Space One and got some overhauls for ES 2 and the Faction Creation competition.
After I finished my last overhaul I took all my heavly edited posts and reposted them here in the ES 2 forum section as it was now dedicated to ES2 not ES 1 anymore.

[To a moderator:

I am currently transfering this topic from the Endless Space One forum.

-I need to do this as it always was ment for ES 2

-Also I will post a lot of new content (New Lore Chapter; big overhaul)

- I need an uninterrupted line of my posts to make it a clear topic.

-Feel free to delete to post in the Endless Space One forum as soon as I am done here thank you.]

"The Legion"Development:

Created for a possible Faction Creation Competition in the future for Endless Space 2.

Intro "poem":

I was born by Dust and immeasurable pain.
Twisted whispers of dead gods,
since then I am cursed to reign.
Alive against all odds.

Thousands of years I ruled my kin,
a memorial for the greatest of sin.
We fought the Endless full of ambition,
following our selfish tradition.

Now the Gods are gone and so are we.
except me...except me...

- The Nameless 

(Entity of the Legion) 

Table of content:

* First post
Race Overview/  Affinity

*Second post:
Visuals (Soldiers,Drones, Spaceships)

*Third post

Take a closer look:

(Culture,Personality / Society, Governmental system / Biology,reproduction/Habitats)  

- Current Ideas giving the current informations from GDDs

*Fourth post
Current Ideas with the atm giving informations from the GDDs

(Feedback needed)

*Fith post and beyond
A fully fleshed out Lore:
-Origins Chapter 1-3 (Lore)
-Origins Chapter 4-5 (Lore)
-Origins Chapter 6 (Lore) 

-Origins Chapter 7 (Lore)


-Outro 

Some words of mine

PS: Little hind, if you are to lazy to read the lore let the Google Translator just speak it for you ^^ 

Species: The Legion 

Overview in general points: 

-Asteroids! Its all about Asteroids.

 in combination with strategic resources and a hostile Dust a unique form of the Dust.

(can be scrapped if you dislike those ideas)

-On rock feeding fungoid golems.

with a fungoid like appearance.

-Spaceships are based on asteroids aswell. (they use asteroids as base frames)
A Dreadnought? Put a big ass engine and a shit load of weapons on a massive space rock and you are good to go! LETS ROCK. 

- Weaponry? I could imagine some high end on acid based weapon platforms.

-The living and colonizations of asteroids, moons and gas giants
-Orignated from an extra dimensional multiuniverse Empire who fought the Endless themselfes.
-One powerful being, the living and colonizations of asteroids, moons and gas giants
-Waged war against a faction of the Endless themselfes, was altered after the Endless used HOSTILE Dust against the Legion,
-Mastery and use as a weapon of the hostile Dust. Seeks Truth, seeks Wisdom of the Endless to remove all undesirable side effects of the hostile Dust
to unlock its true potential rebuilding the glory of its former empire and to bring the galaxy the god and the nation it requieres. In this and in all other universes.

-Can and have to blow up planets to create new asteroid fields as their most benefical habitable space.
-Uses hostile Dust instead of normal Dust.
-Infests other systems with HOSTILE Dust to bring chaos and weakness to all hostile aliens.

-Not food but Strategic ressources and  (such a Titanium hexaferrum etc) are used to grow your basic Legion population of your empire. 

What does that all mean:

-Appearance: The Legion comes in all shapes and forms of fungoids and is a extradimensional genderless silicon race which is controled by single being called "The Nameless"
-Governmental system:The "Nameless" is a single indiviudal which inhabitats every single Legionary who exists.
-Home Planet Type: Asteroids/Moons and gas giants

 There could also be different ones of them like Standard asteroid belts like in the solar system, ice belts out past the frost line, and circumstellar debris/dust disks in young systems.For example having a standard asteroid belt near the habitable zone could provide different bonuses. 
-Diplomatic Alignment: Protectionism; Unknown
-Gameplay: Anti-Terraforming(Xenoforming), Mastery of the hostile Dust and the strategic Resources.
-Main Victory Type:  YOUR VISION their future.

Affinity :

1. ASTEROIDS ASTEROIDS ASTEROIDS- Thewhole race theme is based on the life on asteroids and can also live on gas giants.
2. Xenoforming ("in case of the Legion this means the transformation of habitable planets into lifeless asteroid fields or gas giants)
The Legion suffers HUGE penalties when colonizing normal planet types making the creation of new asteroid fields essential for its survival.

Side Note: This would logical wise force the implementation of a Asteroid terraforming option for the other races to prevent scorched earth tactis (And we all want a "terraform asteroids tech" for all the other races since a long time didnt we?) ;D
Also we could add an option to "catch" Dust rich asteroids and form new asteroid fields to create a another peaceful way to create new habitats for the Legion enabling them to play as isolationists.

 The whole race theme is based on the life on asteroids also gas giants could be added as possible habitat.
-1. ASTEROIDS ASTEROIDS ASTEROIDS- Thewhole race theme is based on the life on asteroids and might also live on gas giants.

And this leads to "Xenoforming" ("in case of the Legion this means the transformation of habitable planets into lifeless asteroid fields) 

Side Note: This would logical wise force the implementation of a Asteroid terraforming option for the other races to prevent scorched earth tactis (And we all want a "terraform asteroids tech" for all the other races since a long time didnt we?) ;D 
Also we could add an option to "catch" Dust rich asteroids and form new asteroid fields to create a another peaceful way to create new habitats for the Legion enabling them to play as isolationists. 

-2. The Legion uses strategic ressources as raw material for its population and let them grow in combination with their (hostile) Dust.

-3. The Legion consists out of mindless shells making them valuable slaves pops for other factions while themselfes having a unique political

government to reflect issues in co-existing with xenos.

-4. The hostile Dust principle: Only race which uses a unique kind of Dust simply called "hostile Dust" and uses it as a storable substitution instead of food and Influence.
The Legion has to BUILD(let grow) its population by using hostile Dust (special programmed Dust nanobots)  as rawmaterial in combination with strategic resources using it as "nectar" for its silicon based larvas. 

-5. Live among the Stars: „The Legion“ can colonise asteroids and gas giants without any technologie.
"The Legion" can create new asteroid fields by either destroying a planet or gathering Dust rich asteroids out of the star systems asteroid belt

The Legion suffers HUGE penalties when colonizing normal planet types making the creation of new asteroid fields essential for its survival
SIde Note: This would logical wise force the implementation of a Asteroid terraforming option for the other races to prevent scorched earth tactis (And we all want a "terraform asteroids tech" for all the other races since a long time didnt we?) ;D 
Also we could add an option to "catch" Dust rich asteroids and form new asteroid fields to create a another peaceful way to create new habitats for the Legion enabling them to play as isolationists.


Overall Design: 

They represent a fungoid species with influences from golems with a very "rock-ish,stone-ish,asteroid-ish" looking design.

The Legion comes in all shapes and forms of fungoids . They are silicon based and look like they were made out of asteroids.

Humans would describe them as large on asteroids living fungoid golems.

They are a non carbon based extradimensional lifeforms that are controlled by a single identity called "The Nameless"

They do not have actual DNA but an equivalent based on hostile Dust as they are related to the Endless themselfes.
In short they are one giant golem machine which grows and evolves like a biological being.

SPACESHIPS
(See images and even more infos in the second post in this thread called "Visuals")

Short overview:
Spaceships are based on asteroids aswell.
A Dreadnought? Put a big ass engine and even bigger weapons on massive space rock and you are good to go! LETS ROCK.

Capitalship design: Capital ships of the Legion are supossed to be large hollowed asteroids equiped with large (more primitive) engines on the rear because they were designed as interdimensional conquerors not interstellar ones and a even bigger weaponphalanx at the front. Their capital ships should be basically small asteroids turned into carriers and dreadnoughts with a xeno-ish appearance.

Color design: If i think about the legion I see a overall synthetic but note complete mechanical appearing theme in the natural colors of asteroids added with shades of gold/ember/ orange to give them their dust/honey bee like flavour.

"The Legion"
An attempt of summarizing my fully fleshed out Lore Chapters about their History (still recommending reading the Chapters when you find some spare time to fully understand what the Legion realy is): 

The silicon based ancestors(so called Acteons)  of The Legion originated from a different universe without any hyperstrings and therefore  offered very limited  living space. They fed on strategic resources and were tunneling through planets and asteroids to reproduce themselfes.
They began to construct portals into other universes and started to expand in a different way conquering a multi-universal empire.
At some point in the history they encountered "our" universe and as fate willed an isolated enclave of the Endless.
They declared war on the Endless but hadn't planned on encountering such a powerful thing as the Dust which the Endless used as a weapon against them.
But in the end the Endless were only few and they were fighting an empire possesing hundreds of worlds in hundreds of universes.
As a last resort the Endless programmed the Dust so that it would behave like a virus, killing all Acteons (ancestors of the Legion)  but leaving their bodys intact, so that the Virtual Endless could upload themselfes into their bodys and use them as handy tools.
Something went terrible wrong and lead to the death of all Virtual Endless of the enclave who tryed to load themselfes up and also to the downfall of the

cross-universe Empire of the Legion. During that process some new form of live was created. The souls of the of the virtual Endless were devoured  and so the Nameless was born. A living "god" ruling over a race of  mindless stillbirths.

LEADERSHIP :

Monocracy of the Nameless

At first organics have to understand that what they call the Legion species is nothing less then a single gigantic body for just one single individual being „The Nameless“.
Image you would wake up tomorrow and suddenly you were in control of all the bodys of your entire species, the minds of their former owners just vanished into nowhere.
That you could not only navigate and control them but also that you would see,fell and smell anything they can and in addition using all their brains to your capacity. You would be the lifeform with the biggest „body“ in the history of the known universe.
The Legion is the body and the Nameless is its soul...its only one.
If you would ask one of those Legionary limbs what it is doing "at the moment" it would take estimated over 450 solar standard years to transmit this information via on sonicwaves based communication.
This is the easiest way to explain what the Nameless is.
But actually his nature of existance is so far beyond those of man they cannot even imagine it.


SOCIETY (OR the lag of one)

The definition of an society is:
The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

In the Legion there are no "people" there is only the omnipresent Nameless who is controlling all the Legionaries no matter where and no matter to what purpose.
Legionaries are nothing more then platforms to the Nameless used as tools and their brain capacity used to enhance the Nameless intellect.
The Nameless is a  supreme being cursed to everlasting soltitude.
As soon as The Nameless tries to breed new legionaries in their moment of birth.
Their "souls"  are just dragged into the infinite nothing of the Nameless nature...Stillbirths.
A  result of the Hostile Dust and its Virus which the Endless used against the Legion over a thousand years ago..

Just in the most recent past The Legion started to accept different lifeforms who  sworn allegiance to it,
The first once were pirates which agreed to help the Legion to spread its hostile Dust throughout the galaxy in exchange for riches and sage harbors in Legion controlled asteroid fields.
The second one were religious fanatics who are seeing the Nameless as some sort of living God.
And the third are those who were lucky enough to live on a planet that the Nameless out of reasons unknown didnt decided to turn into a gigantic asteroidfield. (Probably because they contained not
enough ressources or were places of ancient Endless ruins in which the Nameless is highly intrested to explore and to study as its highest goal is to fully understand the Dust and for one day
reverse the impact of the hostile Dust on the Legion to allow other individuals amongst it and so bringing back the original potential of the species.

Homeworld/Homesystem:

HADES- Starsystem

Home System of the Legion known as the "Hades asteroid field"
Their ancestors were forced to live among the stars  only on asteroids for thousands of years due the help of Dust they become their natural and beloved habitat.
Hades Prime was once the name of the one and only big celestial body of the star system where  the Legion entered the universe of the Endless for the first time.
During the conflict between the Legion or at this point in history known as "Acteons" the on space station living Endless blew up the entire planet in order to render the HADES System unattractive and useless to the invaders.
With the advanced knowledge about Dust the Legion was able to rapidly ada

Chapter 6: War of the Universes.

THEIR VISION. YOUR FUTURE.

The first Legion Conflict, was a war fought between the United Empire and the Legion, wich should ring in a new era of total war in the history of the known universe.

Shortly after the devastating defeat of the Sheredyn fleet in the new discovered home system of the Legion fears among the imperial senators began to emerge that the legion could start an invasion on the far reaches of imperial space. The United Empire sended a large fleet to protect the whormwhole wich lead into the Hades system and the imperial government was preparing for war. But still the proposals of laying a big scale minefield arround the whormwhole entrance were rejected by the cooperate senators with the argument that mines with a Identification, friend or foe system (IFF) would be to expensive and a minefield made out of IFF-less mines would prevent further raids on the large Dust stockpiles of the Legion in the near future. Once again the greed of the human species should let to a catstrophic disaster.

Events came to a head with the arrival of the Legion invasion fleet a few months later. The defense fleet of the united empire relied heavily on big scale capital ships and large squadrons of bombers as the ideal counter tactic to the massive asteroid capital ships of the Legion which were seen during the first contact battle.Unfortunately for them this time the Legion consensus decided to approach with a different strategy and was planning to take prisoners to gather more knowledge about the galaxy and its inhabitants. Instead of capital ship the Legion sent thousands of small fighters,spaceborne Legionaries designed for boarding. Hundred of swarm ships attacked a single target at once, which overwhelmed the victim's point defenses.

The „great“ United Empire was humiliated a second time in a row by a species they thought they could hunt down like animals for their dust.

After this second devastating defeat of the imperial Fleet,

The Legion spread itself now having acess to new technlogies and hyperspace strings through the infinity of space almost effortlessly.They devasted the galaxy as it were just a ordinary body made of flesh and bone falling pray to a foreign substance in its organs.Legion forces were slowly overrunning human space destroying ships,stations and planets.

After a vicious strike on several of the human worlds on the edge of the galaxy, most notably the Sheredyn HQ Planet the entire human race was stunned by the appearance of such an enemy.

When the Legion started its war it made no difference between the various factions of the homo sapiens (UE,Horatio,Pilgrims,Vaulters). And any attempt to communicate with them failed. It took the Legion sometime to penetrate the minds of their prisoners through torture with hostile Dust and to learn that the homo sapiens was not a united species but was rather a race in a state of eternal civil war and that many other hostile and dangerous factions are populating this galaxy too.

This ultra different foreign species seemed to have unexplainable intensions. While some worlds were burned down to the ground others were completely ignored.

Shifting the balance of powers in between the entire galaxy.

At this stage the empire was unable to provide a solution for this crisis and the imperial senate was even debating to form an alliance with the Horatio and the Vaulters, when suddenly the Legion stopped its crusade and retreated back only keeping a handful of systems near the whormwhole to their home sector.

Some poeple say they had encountered the Dust hating Harmony which took the initiative and landed a number of defeats against this new on hostile dust based lifeforms. But there are no confirmed reports.

Whatever it was the Legion retreated out of the territories they had conquered leaving back a great vaccum of power in the galaxy.

The United Empire didnt enjoyed a period of peace and stability after the drawback of the Legion on the contrary.

The next years the United Empire was bussy to wage war against all the other races who were now trying to claim the former star systems of the UE abandoned by the Legion while at the same time many slave worlds revolted and joined the Pilgrims or declared their independence.

The Legion just vanished by sheer luck, just barely. With billions upon billions humans left dead in ther wake.

Legislation by all human faction was put in place never to allow entering Legion space or even try to contact them...ever.

And for a certain time it seemed humankind would have learned its lesson. No one ventured to look for the Legion not in decades.

But then again it was discovered that some faction or individuals thought differently...

What about you? Are you brave enough sending into Legion space?And if yes what will be your message and what are your intentions?
Hope?
Despair?
The thirst for knowledge?

Or do you just want knocking on their door?

Press "send" now. And listen carefully behind the background noise of the universe.

Lore:

Chapter One :

 One universe to rule them all.
"How our Ancestors embracement the idea of war"

[The big one is an Acteon Legionarie.]

„Desperation and a bunch of mad admirals

the two pillars of a new stellar empire"
-exalted Actaeon

The exact time of rise  of that what we know as "the Legion"  is largely unknown.

Basically, very little is known about the Legion in general and the limited information that we have come from that historical data itself gathered by the races of our universe after the first contact.

The data reports, that the Legion didn't originate in this universe, but that they  forged their empire  at about the time as in our universe, the "Dust wars"  the civil war of the Endless came to an end.

The Legion or "Acteons" as they formerly called themselfes were silicon based lifeforms from a another universe. They were or respectively are  composed out of all kinds of minerals rocks and strategic resources like for example hexaferum or adamantium.

Legion physiology is very different from the carbon-based species more commonly found in the universe and galaxy of the Endless. They fed on rock, and thus they are able to nourish  themselfes by tunneling. 

Speaking of their appearance a human would describe their bodys as arachnid like.

fungoid looking golems with a great variety of shape and size.

The Actaeon were an extremely advanced race , but never developed super luminal speed drives, as this has already been declared in their atomic age as mathematically impossible.

And as a matter of fact, in their universe hyperspace strings were just not existant, efectivly trapping them in their home system which contained nothing but their barren homeworld and an small asteroid belt with only a few number of asteroids worth of mining.

Their low gravity home planet was the only major planet in the system, and all systems had within nearby. Therefore, the Actaeons investigated in their desperation other ways to expand.

When the scientists successfully opened the first portal to a parallel universe, companies and government finally saw an opportunity to expand. However, there was a problem. Each universe portal was fixed to a particular universe and the parallel universe system to which they had opened a portal was already inhabited by another advanced species.

Scientists demanded the construction of a new portal, but the voice of the military was stronger. The home world of Actaeon was on the brink of an ecological disaster. The overpopulation was going to make the planet uninhabitable and in case the universe portal program would have not been successful weapons  of mass destructions were already planted and ready to go, which should decimate their own population.

Unnoticed from the species of the other universe, which was conjured the Actaeons would be interested in diplomatic and friendly relations. All remaining resources were spent from then on to create a new and massive interstellar military strike force simply called "The Legion" by the common folk. 

Unleashed on the unsuspecting victims, the following conflict was more like a massacre than a war. 

The Acteon Legionaries were like giant fungoid golems to the aliens, exceling them by a wide margin.

The Actaeon decided that they would need all the space for expansion and let the strangers species eradicate completely by the Legion. The Actaeon saw that they had not only saved their civilization, but also that their new  spacefaring military in combination with their cross universe gate technology constituted an instrument of immense and unlimited power giving them the ability to suprise attack a new parallel universes everytime as a new gate was constructed.

The centuries passed, and the expansion process was repeated dozens of times.

Whenever a new universe gate was completed and a other species was discovered behind it, The Legion eradicated them to conquer more space for the expansion of the Actaeons.

The Actaeons built over the centuries a multi universal empire that spanned in the end hundreds of worlds in hundreds of different universes, all connected by a network of multi-universe portals. Behind the latest multiverse-portal the Actaeons discovered large orbital stations circling a seemingly uninhabited giant T1 planet, but they quickly noticed that this stations were anything but uninhabited. They had actually met up here an isolated and mixed enclave of the "Cabal of Pure Thought" and the "Logic and math system" of the Virtual Endless secluded on the edge of their galaxy, survivors of the "Dust-Wars".

Whether physical or not the Legion was again sent to destroy any "population" of these space stations.

Chapter two : „Virtual slumber“.

„01010100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101100 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110011 00101110 00001101 00001010“ 

http://www.qbit.it/lab/bintext.php?text=ok&enc=Encode+text+to+binary+code 

-"Anaid" Virtual Endless

Dust Nanobots doing their work in the nervous system of an Acteon legionnaire.

For the first time in the history of the Actaeons they were facing serious resistance.

The weapons systems of the Endless were based on a kind of extremely miniaturized nanobots superior then everything they ever saw. The artificial neural nervous systems of the Legionaries  were hacked or so badly damaged that the crews of ships began to attack each other. For each orbital station that they managed to destroy the Legion were suffering thousands of casualties. However, the Actaeons possessed the resources of several hundreds of worlds, and the virtual endless didnt have had left any own ships to carry the war to the Actaeons. After a few year's fiercest war and the death of hundreds of thousands of legionaries, the Acteon Legion had improved through their innatural artificial evolution and evolved an adaptive tolerance against Dust attacks on their nervous system. The fortunes of war turned.

Aware that they would be now overhelmed the Virtual Endless blew up the planets with weapons of mass destruction, in the hope that the Actaeons obsessed by their greed of a new living room would then lose interest.

However, the virtual endless didn't consider the incredible arrogance of the Actaeons.Even though the war had already swallowed up enormous resources and aware that the war would bring no profit or new habitats, a retreat was no option to them.

"Anaid" a virtual endless scientist in his capacity of the "Logic and math system" planned as the legion started their assault on the last big space station in the asteroid belt, to transfer all the virtual endless to the Neural nervous system of the Legion vessels themselves. The Virtual Endless planed to be acting as a virus in the Legion to to rewrite protocols and to use the ships as a temporary body to destroy the multi universal portal.

What exactly went wrong remains a mistery

but the fact that the ships did not stoped their attack suggest that the Endless failed. The Legion destroyed the last space station of the virtual endless.

Their servers with their datas were lost forever.

Chapter three : „The Hounds and the Cervine“

„ cogito ergo sum“

„I think, therefore, I am“

-Rene Descartes

After their victory,

the Actaeons tried to understand the Dust to make it usable for their own purposes while also spending at the same time on rebuilding the Legion to compensate the losses which they had suffered to make them ready for a new conquest campaign.

However, it should not come to that.

At a certain point in history of the Actaeons many marines of the Legio began due suffer an overload of their nervous system resulting in instant death after a short period of agony and madness . Over next months those isolated cases escalated into a species wide epidemic. Scientists failed to localize the universe where this disease originated from and set all universes of the empire under a general quarantine interrupting any interuniversal traffic by deactivating the entire cross universe gate system. But the gate stations didnt responded. None of the military facilities did.

Out of reasons unknown suddenly the military of the Acteon empire began to start a crusade against their own species.

There was virtually no resistance of the Actaeons, there was no other armed organisation besides the Legion at all, which  jumped from universe to universe from system to system, eradicating systematically every singel Actaeon world. Leaving nothing behind but debris fields. After a few months the Actaeons were nearly wiped out.

The last of them fled to the Dust Research facilities, located in the only universe which was not been attacked yet. Due to the extremely low population the former universe of the Endless was not a target of high priority for the Legion so the scientists assumed.

The last Actaeons were able to send a signal which they hoped would be complex enough to break through the by the Legion installed firewalls of the local interdimensional gate initiating a self-destruction command and so isolating them before the Legion armada would arrive.

However, the signal was not sent in time. The inter-universe gate system destroyed itself too late.

The Legion in its full strength had already jumped into the last universe in Actaeon possession. The planet was blasted into an asteroid field. And the mysterious disease killed of the last Acteons whether civilian or legionnaire. 

The last Acteon scientists died with the just recently achieved knowledge that the "disease" was infact a super agressive form of hostile Dust which either killed an Acteon or "reprogrammed" ones mind to kill all uninfected of his kind.

In the end their entire species was extinct.

So it seemed...

Visuals:(Keep scrolling scrolling scrolling)

The Legion Should remind you on all kinds of  silicon based on an asteroid living fungoids:

They are (mostly) silicon appearing sentient being's with a on strategic resources (like Adamantium e.g.) based hybrid exoskeleton.

While their armor is a kind of a hybrid out of metal and stone like plates their overall look is more natural and fungoid like.The organs of the Legionaries are fusions out of metal and a extradimensional equivalent of carbon which have a extraordinary high amount of Dust in its molecular structure .

Spaceships:

Possibly design for capital ships like Dreadnoughts/Battleships. Those should be basically asteroids retrofited with huge phalanxes as weapon platforms and gigantic engines to make them mobile:

Possibly Fighter/Bomber Design: 
made by Stealth_Hawk: 

I presented you a few pictures (unfortunately none of them are mine) around you to gain a better perception of the Legionnaires. 

I really hope that I can make one by myself in the future and deal with painting or find a motivated graphic designer with has time and wants to help me. It would be awesome if the Legion could get their own images to make the Legion in combination with my lore
(in which I try to be as deep and so detailed as even possible)

All I want is to create a exciting, creative and authentic on asteroids/the void living race.



PS:
And it all started with me playing arround with gimp many years ago^^:
A Legionnaire [Fighterblueprint](is hunting a nyan cat ^^)

Governmental system:

The Legion is controlled by a single individual personalty.

A being called "The Nameless".

Their entire "species" serves as the "body" for this single but supreme consciousness.

It is NOT a hive mind (One word spoken by a tempest of voices ) it was just one single personality (Only one voice , billions of bodys) one gigantic "artificial" organism.

THIS WILL ALLOW THE LEGION TO USE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MECHANICS AND SUBSTITUTIONS INSTEAD OF THE REGULAR SENATE SYSTEM. AND COULD LEAD TO VERY UNIQUE INTERACTIONS WITH ALIEN POPULATIONS WITHIN THEIR EMPIRE.

Most of the time this "Nameless one" bases his decision making on math and rational logic. But his true intentions remain a mystery.

The Scientists of the galaxy are not sure if some could compare a lifeform which uses an entire race as its body to the psychology of a mere humanoid.

But in one thing they all agree.

If the mind of "The Nameless" is even remotely similar to the one of an ordinary lifeform...chances are very good that the millenia of being alone drove him into madness. And the sudden encounter with a galaxy filled with billions of individual beings could overexert him/she/it.

In anyway "The Nameless" has been declared incalculable and any contact was forbidden by the governments of most of the known races after the bloody first contact war anyway.

Biology / reproduction:

The Legion is a on silicon based race but are outlandish as they contain attributes from biological beings despite being  not being carbon based in any way.

Biological attributes:

Most laity would call the Legion a synthetical race but that is not true they actually do have attributes of biological species. But this can be overseen cause their bodys are not based on carbon but rather on silicon and strategic resources aswell but hanks to their hostile Dust it still allows evolution based on the "concept" of DNA.(But of course it isent actual DNA)

Since the Actaeons(their ancestors) evolved into the Legion, theiy  possess characteristics of mushrooms. They are created by extra dimensional engineering and evolution adjusted for surviving in space and live on asteroids. They are in a position to expand their "growth code" by using the Dust, meaning they can change their appearance to a certain point which led to the birth of the various different blueprints amongst The Legion.

But because their base "code" was made out of the Acteons some parts of the Legion are still hard "coded" and even "The Nameless" is not able to reprogram them.

Synthetic attributes:

Outwardly, although more reminding on fungoids ,their reproductive process is rather more a genetic "constructing" or cloning process using premade spores as "blanks"

Larvas: (and all Legionaries bodys) are made of out strategic ressources and silicon based materials.

Using Nanobots (Dust) those larvas get a certain "growthplan" programed into them which let them methamorphose into a worker drone or if many larvas are merging together into a larger warrior.

The fact that Dust became a major part of their equivalent to DNA and nervous system is the reason why the Legion needs to find new Dust deposits before a new brood can be hatched.

- Warships:

The biggest growable bodys of a Legionary have the size of small space ships like fighters and bombers. They need huge amount of strategic resources to create the needed amount of synthtical larvas.

The Legion was not able yet to grow bodys in capital ship size and in this category they simple put gigantic engines and a even bigger weapon platforms on an asteroid. Those ships are unsentient and need an actual crew to control it.

Regarding their past where the Legion used almost exclusively inter-universe portals to discover new habitats it is only natural that now their FTL and STL (slower than light) engines are underdeveloped in comparison with other races of this universe.  Also the high mass of their ships (in the end they use asteroids as base frames) their engines end up being very large.
Only recently they invented their own technology to make use of the hyperspace nodes and strings of this universe.

Nourishments:

Though being a non carbon based synthetic race Legionnaires are not being build. Instead, they grow. In order to hatch and grow all the needed body parts and to fuel them with energy Legionnaires have to "eat" Dust and a variety of minerals by tunneling through a asteroid. Legionnaires are genetically engineered for warfare but also for mining. Legionnaires eat ore, and then use it to grow metallic limbs which can grow up to several dozen meters long.The Legion has reached perfection when it comes to mining asteroids,and they can even mine one and the same asteroid in different universes at the same time.

Personality / Society :

So far known characteristics:

Aside from fighting instinct, the instinct of brood protection is very strong and if some understands the principle that the Legion serves actually as body for a single being which survival and intelligence depends on it it becomes very logical.

If some mosquito bites you (attacks your body) you kill it without mercy.

Their paranoia and obsessive distrust towards other species are a product of the millennia of isolation of the Legion. The "Nameless" the controlling and ONLY consciousness of the Legion is distrusting and strongly paranoid towards aliens. Also it has a strong territorial behavior.

The different blueprint shells of The Legion:

Worker shells:

The regular population of an asteroid of the Legion are the all purpose worker drones.

As workers only rarely leave their asteroids they look more like sea crabs  those are mainly a trademark of the warrior caste which are designed to conquer all kind of planets with atmospheres before they got finaly anti-terraformed into asteroids.

Warrior shells:

The warriors caste includes ground troops aswell as

small warships serving as bombers and fighters.

Living places:

Inhabited asteroids of the Legion tent to be always not to far away from the next nest. As "The Nameless" is used to keep his body close together.

As gas giants serve more as outposts then habitats for the Legion, Asteroids stay there primary livingroom.

The Nameless gave the asteroids of his Legion different purposes:

"Nests": Are mostly on the largest of the asteroids and are serving as hotbeds were the blanks, the "larvas" of the Legion are made out of the strateic resources available and fed with Dust. Also those asteroids are the place were the Nameless stores the most of his hostile Dust deposits which he needs to (re)extend his body by using it to build new Legion shells for him.

"Dust-Nebula Gathering Outposts": Smaller asteroids which are used as bases and interim storage. From those Asteroids hundred of thousands of worker drones commute between a Dust Nebula were they collect their Dust and the Dust Gathering Outposts.

"Dust and interdimensional Mines": Those asteroid are used to mine "strategic resources" and or Dust.Those asteroids are filled with technological wonders which are able to bring the whole Asteroid in a phase of interdimensionality if needed which gives the Legion the ability to mine the asteroid in more then only one universe. Because of this it takes very long before one mine is considered fully mined and exploited.