The Velvinci are the descendants of merchants that were using a trading post near the edge of the galaxy as a safe haven from the horrors of the Annihilation War. Their homeworld is unusually large in size for a terrestrial planet, more accurately described as a gas dwarf, and as such has a significant gravitational pull. Over time, their bodies adjusted to this granting them increased physical strength. This is compounded by the fact that cybernetic enhancement are not only common, but encouraged among their people. The spirit of their merchant ancestry carries on as their government is based purely on capitalism and led by a series of allied corporations. When the other races were discovered, a series of short conflicts broke out among the corporations known by Velvinci as the Contract Wars, as the corporations literally fought for the right to produce the races primary war machine. The Contract Wars were a brutal conflict and may have resulted in doing what the Annihilation War had not if it wasn't for a lucky breakthrough that gave one corporation a blatantly clear upper hand. After they had pounded back the competition it was decided that the Armstein Industries Heavily Armed Vanguard Operations Core or HAVOC would lead them into battle as the powerful mech surpassed anything competitors had come up with.