Editing Fraal (section)

==History==
The Fraal arrived in the Sol system in human pre-history, roughly eight thousand years BC.  They were interstellar travelers, moving in a fleet of large generation ships, and had been traveling for eons, so long that both their origin and destination had been lost to their knowledge.  Desperate and short on resources, they discovered an inhabitable world populated by primitive humans forming fledgling civilizations.  The Fraal made initial attempts at contact, but found humans to be difficult to work with, fearful and prone to seeing them as either monsters to be destroyed or gods to be worshiped.  

Discouraged but patient, and lacking the resources or will to continue wandering, they withdrew to the most uninhabitable fringes of Earth and waited for humanity to catch up to them.  Human explorers in the Renaissance drove the Fraal to leave Earth for Mars, deeming humanity still too warlike for contact.  The next few centuries of human warfare and space exploration pushed the Fraal further out to the fringes of the Sol system to avoid detection, although not always successfully.  Chance encounters began occurring in the 20th century, although it wasn't until the early 22nd century that the Fraal began overt attempts to open a dialog with the human governments.  On July 17, 2124, a Fraal vessel escorted by warships from all six great powers landed on Earth and formally established contact with the Terrans.  

This contact quickly bore fruit.  The union of fraal gravitic technology with terran mass reactors made true interstellar travel possible.  The terran designs could produce bursts of power output many orders of magnitude beyond what the fraal had ever contemplated, enough to punch a temporary bubble in space time that could be used for superluminal travel.  

In 2501 (present day for Star*Drive) the Fraal are found throughout known space, but are particularly common in the Orion League.  Their society has divided into the ''builders'', who live throughout stellar nations, and the ''wanderers'' who have built a new wave of generation ships and continued the aimless travels of their ancestors.