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==== Canian ====
Astonishing and baffling xenologists and politicians alike across the Union, Canians are often considered one of the strangest beings ever discovered by man, and one of the most fortuitous. The Canians are a plasma based species composed of magnetically charged protein chains that conduct obscene amounts of energy throughout their lives and live off of the radiative solar wind of their home world star, Wolf. They often live nomadic lives moving to place to place, frequently inhabiting sunspots in large numbers or assembling near sites of solar flairs for religious ceremonies. Canians are massive balls of plasma often exceeding a kilometer in diameter and covered in a number of tendrils like a starfish that can easily reach ten or twenty kilometers or more in length. The number of tendrils varies often with age, with new ones growing usually every six years. A Canian can often live for hundreds of years or more, and upon death will detonate violently, sending protein chains scattering across the area and eventually giving birth to new Canians. Because their star is unusually cool, they have been able to exist in peace, but have been trapped by their own evolution unable to develop industry, space flight, or even written language. They communicate through powerful electromagnetic pulses, and spend most of their time wandering aimlessly in a culture that places great importance on introspective philosophy and religious contemplation. Since contact was first made by the Confederacy, a massive wealth of literature has been extracted through recordings of the Canian peoples, creating entire libraries worth of philosophical musings and leading to a new rise of alternative healing in modern popular culture within the Union, with the Canians often being cited by naturalists as the perfect example of enlightened living.

The Canians are not only interesting due to the strangeness of their existence, but also because the star on which they live is the site of one of the largest Canderon deposits known to man. Required for the production of Alcubierre Warp field generators and Quantum Power Taps, Canderon is one of the most valued commodities in known space. While efforts to employ the Canian population and convince and coerce them into operating stellar core mining rigs started well enough, Canderon mining efforts have resulted in fierce fighting and civil war across Wolf. With the promise to assist in finding and facilitating the colonization of other stars, many Canians have agreed to allow mining operations to continue, and even assist, while many others claim the industry is killing Wolf itself. Canians have traditionally worshiped their star, believing it to be a living creature upon with they live and exist to entertain, appease, and guard it in exchange for its life-giving energy. As such, the prospect of mining Wolf's core is considered an unforgivable blasphemy. Violence between these factions has been growing in intensity at a steady rate, and due to the nature of the landscape itself Union officials are left mostly helpless to intervene in the conflicts. To make matters worse, the plight of the Canian extremists have given rise to numerous sympathizers of varying degrees of extremism, ranging from activist groups to terror cells.