Saurians: A race which was great when the earth was young. 65 million
years ago they noted a planetoid on a collision course with Earth. Their
technology was almost entirely organic-oriented, space exploration was very
primitive, considering their other technologies, but none-the-less they
made an effort to save the planet and send colony ships sublight to other
systems to reestablish the race, just in case.
The planetoid was partially broken up, but still resulted in the death
of all Saurian life on earth, and the destruction of all signs of their
technology on the planet.
One unlucky colony ship stumbled on the natural jump point past Pluto's
orbit, and the whole ship and crew died before they came out at Alpha Centauri
due to the disrupting effect of hyperspace on living tissues. their ship
remained in far orbit, a dead, desiccated corpse until it was discovered
by Pioneer 10, which also accidentally found the jump point in 2001.
Most of the other ships faced similarly disastrous fates in the ends.
However, at least 2 found habitable systems after millions of years (absolute,
not ship time) in space. The surviving Saurians had troubles surviving in
their new worlds, but have prevailed to the present. It has only been in
the last few thousands of years that the transplanted Saurians have had
time for any pursuits besides survival. So, while their medical science
is unsurpassed, their other technology seems somehow primitive to the other
star faring races.
Saurians have a good percentage of psychics.
Breen: A very xenophobic race to Coreward of Earth, the first race Earthers
encountered in 2115. They have never been seen outside of their massive
spaceships. When speaking to other races, they haven't been seen directly
via video - they speak in the native tongues of the other races (they knew
earth languages already when first encountered) and use VR simulations of
the race they are speaking with. Little is known about them, other than
they already knew about, and were known to the other major races, but neglected
to share this information with Earth, letting us discover them on our own.
They did intervene on their own accord in the Earth-Tigean war as a 'neutral
party' to establish a peace.
Tigeans: The oldest known space faring race, who have been traveling
the stars for 5000 years. An old, and technologically more advanced than
the other major races, they are generally considered to be a calm, peaceful
people. Encountered by earthers less than 50 years ago, after 6 years of
initial coexistence, a war broke out between the two which lasted nearly
10 years, and dragged in their allies for the last 300 years, the Crystalline
Empire.
The basis for the war was rooted in the religion and biology of their
race. The Tigeans have 3 sexes needed for procreation, but it was discovered
that an Earther could take the place of two of the three in the mating triad
due to a quirk in xenobiological chemistry (though the resulting combination
did not result in viable offspring without a tremendous amount of technological
help). This fact, how it was discovered, and a postulate put forward by
a prominent Earth scientist (that was later grudging, partially verified)
that stated that Earth was the cradle for life for most of the Interstellar
races, prompted the War. Eventually the Breen stepped in as the war pushed
back towards Earth to bring everyone to their senses.
The Tigeans have a moderate number of Psychics.
The Crystalline Empire: The largest space faring group in Known Space,
the Crystalline Empire is comprised mainly of a humanoid race that has turned
out to be almost completely human, with some slight modifications to the
genetic code. They were apparently created or transplanted from Earth a
million or so years ago. their 'benefactors' are unknown, possibly the Forerunners
whose ruins appear on several nearly destroyed planets throughout this region
of space, though no such ruins exist on their 'homeworld' Zarastra.
Detailed comparisons have found that humans of Zarastra to be the product
of the splicing of homo sapiens and avian DNA from Earth. They did not accept
this discovery easily.
They rose to the Stars a thousand years ago, and swept through their
nearby systems like birds of prey. They invaded, conquered, enslaved, moved
on, outward. Then they met the Tigeans 500 years ago, who fought them to
a standstill, but refrained from pushing back. The Zarastran "Crystalline
Empire"slowed its expansion, and internal strife and Civil War caused
some contraction and division. For the last 300 years it has been stable
under the Rule of the Royal Family and have had an alliance with the Tigeans.
They joined in to the War with Earth reluctantly, though some factions
were more earnest because of the idea that they were derived from human
stock.
The humanoids of the Crystalline Empire have generally few occurances
of psychics, with a few exceptions. One of the many insurrections many hundreds
of years ago involved a revolt of psychics, which failed spectacularly.
Psychics are outlawed in the Crystalline Empire, though a few exist for
'official' purposes, and an underground exists on several worlds. Survivors
of the original revolt managed to seize a number of systems Spinward and
have kept out intrusions. The Empire tried for a few hundred years to reintegrate
them, but now leaves them mostly alone. Current imperials don't even speak
of them, because psionics has become almost a terror to frighten children
with.
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