with toolmaking and technology as survival aids. Not long after they achieved spacetravel, an unknown advanced alien race attacked their homeworld and almost wiped out their entire race; this inflamed their instinctual distrust of strangers into full-blown xenophobia. Goola-Goola encountered offworld are usually trying to acquire high technology and bring it back for the defense of their people. Jezzadei: A race of peaceful scholarly Bovinoids. They can store psychic power effects in "enchanted" talisman-objects called a Bi-Athlon by using attuned ritual wands or staves called Atohk ("life staff"). Some large Atohks have compartments to contain Bi-Athlons to allow them to store and use psychic powers. (Jezzadeic Scholar) Researchers, artificers, and scientists that focus on their area of interest. They delight in finding similarities and differences between cultures they encounter, discovering something new, or rediscovering something old. Few are met off-world because the average Scholar is rather too reclusive or obsessive to travel widely. (Jezzadeic Priest) Missionaries that travel the universe using their psychic healing powers to help others. They want to spread their culture's pacifist pantheistic religion. Most Jezzadei encountered off-planet will be missionaries, as they are the most common group allowed to travel. Misha: Frail, transparent humanoids with delicate crystalline bones. They sleep for long periods of time and are otherwise in a semi-conscious "sleepwalking" state. No Misha have ever been encountered in a fully conscious state. (Dream Merchant) They can enter a psychic "Dream State", where they can perceive potential futures or manipulate a particular future into being. Friendly The following races are seen as friendly or are seeking Protectorate status. Ashanti: Slender, grey-skinned four-armed warriors; they have elongated skulls and flat faces. They show emotion through pheromones rather than facial expressions. Ashanti also have a gestalt "sixth-sense" that allows a group of Ashanti to perceive objects in their environment through their linked perceptions; a squad of Ashanti arranged in a circle can use it to see everything in a 360° panorama. Furbl: Furry absent-minded brachiating mammals known for their agility. Once thought of as clever pets by the Orions, they were freed and given race status when they were discovered to be sapient by the Alliance. They are usually found serving in a technical or skilled manual trade like mechanic or cook, as the Orions traditionally used to use them for household servants. Furbls like to steal objects or pick the pockets of a friend or co-worker