Empire : Xantman Dark Coglords
Leader : Emperor Antofdeath AKA Antonious Davinci
Millitary ideals : Make it, test it, ???, PROFIT!
Religion : Fanatic atheists focused on corrupting others ideals in favour of their mechanical and quite insane living deity.
Research style : One is all that is needed if you make it right.
Biology : A collection of self replicating robots with rapid learning and heightened intellect over the squishier populations of other empires. Taking very human like characteristics and tend to blend in but with extended observation can be noted for certain features such as the lack of fear or mortality. Internal mechanics are a type of biological machine with no revolving pieces by using hundreds of billions of interlinking parts, which allows the species to conjoin when some tasks go beyound the abilities of one, but also survive against the most deadly environments. They machines have been known to slow down their replacement ratio when events in the empire cause them distress and in some cases allows millions to simply break down over time.
Greatest Achievement in recent history : Creation of a powerful cruiser to fight a alliance of powerful empires who enjoy mass production over smart design, who they then shun as simple organics, just like all biological beings then enjoy slaying.