Lorako

The Lorako are an artificially created species, created by the Forebears to replace scuttled warships because a dragged out civil war was causing a critical shortage of crew. Also serving as a patriotic flagship for the empire's flagging morale, the Lorako are living ships that also produce the crew required to crew them, as well as helping to repopulate the Forebears. It ultimately proved too little too late in the end, but it was a magnificent species in the end, and as a latch ditch effort to save what was left of their culture, history and way of life, they bestowed everything they had to the Lorako, and then erected The Great Barrier to keep their precious children from getting embroiled in The Final Conflict and being caught in what would become The Temporal Wastes. The closest any Lorako was allowed to get to them, is a special space station called The Silent Witness Station. It is just outside the Great Barrier and due to spatiotemporal distortion, allows a remarkably unimpeded view of the absolute destruction within the Great Barrier's protective shields, all of the shattered worlds, asteroid belts where rich lush planets used to be, cracked and ruined moons, or even black holes and neutron star remnants where core star systems with megastructures used to be. The Silent Witness contains an archive of the final events, chronically the last moments of the Forebears for the Lorako descendants of their kind. All Lorako are genetically hardcoded the FTL coordinates to mourn and visit the official gravesite of their beloved home.