Terket
In-between the systems of almost every empire, sits a void of darkness that ships only pass through in an FTL motion, millions of kilometers between the tiniest speck of space-rock that will aimlessly wander through the cosmos until the end of time, back into the maw of chaos that it was borne from.
The same was the truth for the Lizard-people of the Ner-Ner Vygon, their clunky FTL driving them between systems, passing through the empty darkness in the FTL lanes that held their few planets together, in their relatively small empire. With such small holdings, one'd think that they wouldn't be the target to any, however...
Something, just changed. In the emptyness in-between these systems, sat a small "Delta" fleet, enemies almost unknown to them, except for the first sighting of one of their major commanders.
The fleet numbered in the 10 large ships, 20 medium ships and 40 fighters. They lay in await with a rather simple FTL interdiction technology, able to pull their ships from their relatively long jump down to a halt, but that does not mean that they'd be able to call for help. After all, once they had been forcefully outed from their FTL, Delta Interdiction would kick into motion, a special type of interdiction that is known to block long-range communications altogether.