The Official Spore The Next Level Blog: Eme12 Forced This Upon Me, Part 2: The Garadreads

Part 2 of the eme12-induced madness begins as we examine the very first villains in the Spore Revolution universe: the Garadreads!

FUN FACTS

The Garadreads were originally made by eme12 WAY back in the Tribal Stage for STNL, and they remained the primary antagonists until the 11-part series finale, Journey's End.
The Garadreads were originally highly intelligent and very evil due to being made by the equally smart and evil Experimenters. After Journey's End, most of the bad Garadreads were banished to a dimension of eternal torment, leaving a few benevolent ones to reform the empire into a democratic society of peace and love and all that happy feel-good stuff.

According to eme12, the Garadreads expanded beyond the Milky Way into other galaxies when they were still evil, even destroying a few of them for no good reason. It is unknown if these outposts are still active following Journey's End.
As mentioned earlier, the Garadreads were originally created by the Experimenters as a new breed of supersoldiers, but these plans went awry when the Garadreads became too smart and cut all ties with their masters. This plot point was made to explain the Garadreads' advanced intelligence as well as to expand upon the series' backstory.
Shadow II, once a lowly crewmember on the Titan, became leader of the Garadreads and furthered their reformation. She still holds this position today.

Originally, Plytha (one of fungus3's bad idea btw) was going to reprogram the Garadreads with the Universal Source Code (also a bad idea) to make them all nice and eliminate the possibility of there being any evildoers in their society.
In 2013, the Experimenters would've replaced the Garadreads as the series' main antagonists. The decision not to do this was in no way influenced by another bad idea of fungus3's; I just felt the Garadreads were more notable and were the original baddies.

If this were to pass, then the Garadreads would've been wiped out entirely by the Experimenters, and the series finale would be a DS9-style assault on the Experimenter homeworld.