Shi-Lai

TheShi-Laiare an infamousalienpolitical entity spreading forth from the world ofShi-La.Ruled by a Blood Tyrant, boasting an army of Suicide Legions armed with death-bolters, and policed by relentless interstellar hounds, the Shi-Lai are probably not among the galaxy's best neighbors.

The Shi-Lai navy is noteworthy for consisting entirely of intelligent warshipsbinary-bondedto their organic pilots. This bonding process is sufficiently unkind to the ship's AI as to be widely known as "slave-linking". Their ship types are named for bladed weapons, including theBroadsword-class interceptor/destroyer,Gladius-class dreadnoughts, andFalchion-class harrowers.

Fiction

Classics

Sometime around1971(byEarthreckoning),PhyrionandAmorydefected from the Shi-Lai navy and set out on their own.Cheap Shots

Ask Vector Prime

InAurex 006.0 Kappa,the Blood TyrantGastrathrameferous IIIof Shi-La participated in a high-stakes game ofTriadonMonacus.He lost, with thegrand prizeultimately going toSpacewarp.Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/17

Beast Wars: Uprising

In the 25th century AC, the Shi-Lai dramatically violated theTreaty of Prysmos,and was found out by the human shipThe Problem of Infinities.As it turned out, the Shi-Lai were more than a match for the old and outdated human ship and handed them an ass-kicking, intent on making sure they couldn't tell anyone about the violation, until they were driven off by the Cybertronian shipRusty Mace.The Inexorable March