Arume Military

The Arume are a space-faring humanoid race that play a major role in the manga and anime Blue Drop. The Arume are humanoids which typically, but not always have a pale complexion and white hair, and all members of the species possess blue eyes and blood which turns white when exposed to oxygen, possibly leading to their pale complexion. The primary distinguishing characteristic of the Arume is that, for the past thousand years, every member of the Arume species has been female, reproducing through some form of advanced bio-engineering. Nonetheless, the Arume possess an effectively vestigial sexuality, with all of them being homosexual.

The Arume civilization is far more advanced than that of Earth, possessing technologies such as directed energy weapons, faster-than-light travel, and advanced genetic engineering to name a few example. It is implied, however, that the Arume civilization has been in decline ever since the death of the male population, likely due to a lack of genetic diversity that Arume biotechnology cannot completely correct. During the past, the Arume were said to be even more advance, being capable of interstellar personal teleportation, a technology that has long since been lost. During this period, an Arume male teleported to earth and successfully interbred with a human woman, placing Arume genetic material into the human genome.

In a last-ditch attempt to reclaim their genetic material, the Arume invaded Earth in the year 2000. In spite of their massive technological advantage, the Arume suffered heavy losses in battle with human military forces, implied to be the result of a combination of the fierceness of human resistance and the wasteful and sometimes downright suicidal tactics of the Arume, whose military culture highly values death in battle, and thus emphasized overwhelming the enemy with wave for disposable cannon fodder, or even outright suicide attacks. While the Arume suffered heavy losses, in the end, they defeated the human resistance thanks to the use of biological weapons and a reality manipulation device known as the Emil Force Drive.

After the war ended in 2008, the Arume set up a government which treated humans, particularly males, as second-class citizens. Within a year of their victory, the Arume goal of regaining the their lost genetic material within the human genome was all but forgotten, with Arume scientists using humans as subject for unethical experiments, and many high-ranking Arume officials and officers taking young human women as little more than sex slaves. While the Arume regime lasted for one thousand years, they were never able to eliminate human resistance to their rule, which continued for as long as the Arume controlled Earth.