A technologically advanced, nomadic race who travel and trade throughout the galactic whorl. Outsiders do not trade material goods, like the Puppetteer , but rather sell scientific knowledge. Outsiders, incidentally, are known for driving a harder bargain than Hiram Taine. The sophistication of the Outsider ships themselves varies tremendously from photon sail to drives incomprehensible to even speculative human science. However, most Outsiders seem to live exclusively on their city-sized ships.
Outsiders live on thermo-electricity.
Their outposts often include a labyrinth of low walls. An Outsider will lie near a wall with head in shadow and tail in sunlight. The difference in temperature between the two ends produces a current which the Outsider thrives on. Outsider ships, for reasons known only to themselves, follow the path of Starseed migrations. One such starseed led the Outsiders to We Made It for the first time.