Petrin

Created by: Garry Stahl
Appearance: Starbase 600 game
Number of Members: 10 billion
Nature of Members: Sshagaa (Us): Three eyed, primate hipped frilled lizards, with short tials that do not reach the ground. Colors range from reddish brown to pure red. The frills are edged in yellow to orange, no two frills being identical. Females have smaller frills. They are placental non-mammals giving birth to one to two young at a time. They wear clothing for modesty, status and protection. Brown being considered a formal color. One meter is a good conversational difference. Of note the third eye is not as good as the other two. It at best can make out vague shapes and the intensity of light, it does have lids. Those that loose it do suffer a decrease in visual acuity, so it plays a role in vision.
Organization: Cyber-democracy, your third eye is your vote. They vote on everything. 
Game Role: An Encounter
World Role: Life happening
Relative Influence: Minor
Public or Secret?: Public
Publicly Stated Goal: Increase the greater welfare.
Relative Wealth: Three planet union, minor, they have no client races.
Group advantages: A strong adherence to reason and reality.
Special Abilities: Marvelous programmers and engineers.
Group disadvantages: They are a touch dull.
Special disadvantages:Hagin Pirates
Those who favor them: Themselves
Those opposed to them: Hagin pirates
Area of Operation: -19.7/-52.7
Headquarters Location: Petrin
Public Face: Lizards of reason and calm
Notable Members: Slurepp Over Greeter, their chief diplomat. A person of calm reason.
History of the Organization: Vulcans would find the Sshagaa an agreeable people, other than the Sshagaa are not Pacifists. They are emotional, but you do not take action based on emotion. A failure of this principle accounts for most anti-social behavior. They don't start it, but like the Ane they will bloody well finish it. 
They have not engaged the Hagain because they are good at math. Their tech is better, their numbers are not even close. And the tech difference is not that great. For now they hold them off and hope for reason. The Federation interlopers are very welcome.
Sometime in their past magical thinking damn hear killed them. The reaction was a strong swing to reason and reality. While they are good artists (The realism school) and write good music they are not good story tellers, because at the heart of the matter story telling is a lie. There is a quiet movement away from the strict literalism they currently practice. 
There is a body of old (Renaissance equivalent) fiction. Their social literalism means you do not whitewash history. Ergo it is cherished. There is a quasi-bohemian movement that engages in fiction. All of it prefaced with a good deal of dancing over how it is not truth, but a fancy. They get a disapproving frill shook, but are not causing trouble, so are left alone.
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