The Sealed Kingdoms

Humans were not the first peoples to be experimented upon by the arrogant Arctopelagans, though their descendants - Lepidosians, feldeans, evermornans, xymerians, and more - are the most widespread by far. The chitiquish are an honest, hive-like crustacean race with four arms and durable carapaces infused with iron. The ashquilish, shell-less relatives of the chitiquish, pick over the remains of the Arcopelagan civilization and offer their services as talented navigators. The four races of the snake-like vbyifabid family-flock, linked through biogenic radio connections into globe-spanning hive minds, seak peace and an expanded knowledge of the cosmos. The floating, methane-breathing, trilaterally-symmetric gant linger at the edges of known space, their motives inscruitable. The t'chirp krothraq, burly and split-armed, wait their turn to join the galactic community. Lastly, the small, crafty, raptor-like emoxi bound from their low gravity world to prize valuable resources from the battlefields of other species.