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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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