Each race has been balanced with countless hours of play. Each with their own unique flavour, flags, dialog text, victory conditions, strengths, weaknesses.

When the Second Shakturi invasion force arrived they were targeted by the armada for their abandonment despite them staying loyal to them towards end of the first war. 16 new races for Distant Worlds set in the Distant Worlds universe bringing the race total to 38. Like many of the other races they lost the ability to travel to other solar systems when the artificial disease arrived at their borders. They were loyal allies to them until their demise at the hand of the Freedom Alliance. Notionally, Distant Worlds is about building an empire, moving your people from planet to planet and system to system in an attempt to dominate the other spacefaring civilisations of the universe. The Gizureans were originally part of the Shakturi Axis during the initial invasion by the Shakturi. Gizureans typically build their underground hives in rocky areas of dry, desert like planets but sometimes when such a planet is not available they prefer to colonize active volcanic planets instead. They have a very high reproductive rate, and thus Gizurean empires can grow and expand rapidly. This trait makes it very difficult for them to assimilate into any empire. this is probably due to them losing the first Shakturi war against the Freedom Alliance. Gizureans have an intense hatred of other alien races, especially non-insectoid races. These remarks often leads to frequent inter-tribal wars. They often make inflammatory remarks and boasts of their own tribal superiority, viciously mocking and insulting other tribes within their race.

These insectoids tend to be highly belligerent and crazy.

How they manage to make it to the space age twice without killing themselves in the process is beyond anyone's guess. Despite the contrary belief they are not very intelligent. Gizureans are an aggressive and unfriendly insectoid race.

Distant worlds universe races