Vessels

Can travel as far as they’ve been but no further, so if they want to go further they must travel at what most would consider impulse drive. They travel by essentially creating a personal wormhole. Fold space. How they do this is unknown. They don’t know either. They just do it. They need riders to focus them for some reason. Can’t do it alone. They can only fly so far on impulse speed, then they have to go home and get water and sunlight and to molt.

They can move pretty fast, almost at light speed, but that’s not fast enough when you’re talking the vast reaches of space, and if there’s nothing to use as a reference for returning, then what?

They eat through Photosynthesis (they work in the way plants do, needing sunlight and water and minerals for food)

They must return to Lyrend to molt to grow. They continue to grow throughout their lifespans which are Millenia long.