Shi-Lai

The Shi-Lai are an infamous alien political entity spreading forth from the world of Shi-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 warships binary-bonded to 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 the Broadsword-class interceptor/destroyer, Gladius-class dreadnoughts, and Falchion-class harrowers.

Fiction

Classics

Sometime around 1971 (by Earth reckoning), Phyrion and Amory defected from the Shi-Lai navy and set out on their own. Cheap Shots

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 006.0 Kappa, the Blood Tyrant Gastrathrameferous III of Shi-La participated in a high-stakes game of Triad on Monacus. He lost, with the grand prize ultimately going to Spacewarp. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/17

Beast Wars: Uprising

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 As it turned out, the Shi-Lai were more than a match for the old and outdated human ship and handed them an ass-kicking, intent on making sure they couldn't tell anyone about the violation, until they were driven off by the Cybertronian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