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===Alien Races===

* '''[[Fraal]]''':  The gray aliens; slender, telepathic humanoids with black eyes, the fraal arrived in the Sol system thousands of years ago, having forgotten both their homeworld and their destination.  Over the centuries they attempted to communicate with humanity but without success until humans began to colonize the solar system.  The combination of terran mass reactor technology and fraal gravitic propulsion made the stardrive possible, allowing faster than light travel.  After contact, Fraal society divided into the ''builders'', who live among humans, and the ''wanderers'', who went back into isolation.  

* '''[[Aleerian]]s (Mechalus)''': The nice borg; a fully cyborgized species.  Typically pacifists but they don't regard cyberwar to be violence.  Their trade agreement with the Rigunmor Consortium leases mechalus recruits as contract hackers and tech experts to anyone who can pay.  

* '''[[Weren]]''': Hulked out trolls with fur.  Weren are a brutish pre-modern species that recently invented flintlocks and printing, with the same effect that those inventions had on Earth (ie, [[Renaissance|the thirty years war]]).  A small recruiting outpost in the wastelands allows individual weren to take their chances in the stars, but those who leave may never return.  While most who emigrate become soldiers or mercenaries, a surprising number adopt the Orlamu faith and become missionaries.  

* '''[[Sesheyan]]s''': Batpeople.  A primitive race of nocturnal avians, the sesheyans have the ignominious distinction of being the first species enslaved by humanity due to not reading the fine print on their trade agreement.  Most free Sesheyans live outside the law as pirates and criminals.

* '''[[T'sa]]''': Excitable velociraptors.  The t'sa colonized several systems without FTL before humanity encountered them, and consider themselves to be a sovereign stellar nation (despite being as outnumbered as the [[Tau]]).  However, the t'sa have an inquisitive and cosmopolitan nature, and have emigrated throughout human space even as their home nation has continued to grow.