Blood Let - Vampiric Wars, #1

The League is on a continual path of expansion. Galactic corporations always reach out farther into the Galaxy to search for new profit planets and people. Three missions underway are reaching out hundreds of light-years in search of opportunity. NovaTron Universal was one of the largest corporations that had launched the three missions. There was always a risk for a starship crew, but the expectation of wealth on an excellent discovery was worth it.
Three starships went into uncharted space; Discovery, Searcher, and Looking-Beyond. Each starship was crewed by individuals seeking wealth. For the first two months, the starships traveled close to each other. After a couple of months, they would alter courses to search different sections of space. Once separated, each starship would be alone for many months. Discovery - in the search for new opportunities, the starship Discovery discovers a new and vile species and must self-destruct to prevent the LayChays from locating the League.
LayChays don't fit the mold of Vampires, but with their handspikes, the result appears the sameSearcher - has the misfortune of discovering a planet that seems a fantastic opportunity on the first examination. Landing on the planet, the first contact team finds a friendly species. A new starship appears shortly after Searcher arrives, and a shuttle lands on the planet's surface. Looking-Beyond - the search for new opportunities finds a massive starship under attack by two different types of starships.
Looking-Beyond moves in to help the starship being attacked and finds itself outnumbered by unseen hostile starships. Looking-Beyond is boarded, and Captain Justice Storm gives the order to evacuate. Though he doesn't know, his friend Lieutenant Linder Shellac is part Vampire and turns off her fake heartbeat to escape on the captain's yacht. Captain Storm is bitten by a Vampire and stabbed by a LayChays before he reaches an escape pod.
His pod is drawn into the massive starship, where he is altered to become a Guardian. Two different variations of Vampires would be found to loath each other. A fact that, if utilized, could work to benefit the League. Vampires and LayChays might despise each other, but they viewed the League as a tremendous source of different-tasting foods. The League would be thrust into a two-front war with two very evil species.
The war would be for survival as free beings or a falling to a food supply. The League was large and robust but would have to wage war with two-star nations that amassed three times as many solar systems as the League. Fortunately, the number of the solar systems against the League was large, but not the actual number of beings.