Before the First Systems Commonwealth Civil War, a Glorious Heritage vessel was barely a match against a Pyrian Torchship. The Pyrians use atmosphere generators to pyroform other planets. The main weapons utilized by the Pyrians are plasma weapons, Artificial Gravity Mass Packets, and neutron packs. Trivia []

The Andromeda had gone to Samsarra because the Commonwealth colonists had sent a distress call. The Pyrians had dropped 24 atmosphere generators that were spewing carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon sulfides into their atmosphere, and left without a word to the colonists.

The Pyrians are a methane-breathing imperialist race who are an intergalactic power in the Local Group of galaxies. Prior to the fall of the Systems Commonwealth in 9786 CY (4860 AD), their most powerful class of warship (Glorious Heritage-class Heavy Cruiser) was barely a match for a Pyrian...

The Pyrians attack the Andromeda with Artificial Gravity Mass Packets, slowing her down. Dylan returns fire, then orders Beka to take them to cover behind Samsarra's largest moon. The Pyrians contact the Andromeda, but the image on the screen is not a Pyrian, it is a humanoid woman.

Pyrian, a grotesque, tentacled orb like species who are one of the most powerful enemies of the Commonwealth. Than-Thre-Kull (Than), a tough and highly intelligent and civilized insectoid race divided into various function-specific castes.