Vyrium
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The Vyrium are a spacefaring race of sentient lizards from the real-time strategy video game Conquest: Frontier Wars.
Originally, "Conquest: Frontier Wars" was to be a game with 4 playable races, but this was later reduced to three: the Terran Federation, the Celareon, and the Mantis. The fourth race, the lizard-like Vyrium, were at first going to be included, but then cut. The result was that they became a "ghost-race"; rudimentary elements of their programming code existed in the game, so if someone was modding the game with custom setting they would appear as a possible, half finished ship.
Although cut from Conquest 1, it had been announced that "Conquest 2: The Vyrium Uprising" is in development as a sequel, and its plot will feature on the titular Vyrium.
Details are sketchy at the moment, but it appears that the Vyrium were once slaves of the Celareon (who are normally thought of as a benevolent race), and they no longer control their homeworld. As the game begins, 40 years after the Frontier Wars against the Mantis, the Vyrium have started a revolt. This effort is bolstered by the Vyrium discovery of a treasure-trove of technological marvels left over from a "precursor" race (Progenitors of a sort), which has vastly improved their military capability.
Details about their unit and tech tree are also severely limited, but it is known that they possess the awesome Vyrium Leviathan, a massive vessel that augments its firepower through use of tractor-beams, which pull an enemy ship into close range for more concentrated attack.