Xirong

The Xirong were descendants of criminals sent by the Commonwealth to the prison planet of Yronwode. By the time the pathfinder ship Pegasus visited in the late 72nd Solar Century, the Xirong made up 96% of the planet’s population, residing primarily in the desert wastes of the planet’s major continent.
The Xirong were divided into major tribes, each of which dominated an urban area of the planet’s major continent. They were constantly at war with each other and with the Midians, who were the more civilized descendants of the Redeemers (missionaries) who had come to the planet in ancient times in an attempt to redeem the lost souls of these criminals. An exception were a small number of northern tribes located on the planet’s minor continent, who seemed to get along with the Midians and engaged in trade with them. 
At one time, the Redeemers and Xirong were able to share the planet in relative peacefulness. Relatively peaceful in that the Redeemers were subject only to individual acts of violence, rape, and murder. This change with the rise of a Xirong Chieftain named Tsi, who taught his fellow Xirong that the Redeemers were the cause of all of their deprivation. Tsi urged total war against the Redeemers and many of his fellow Xirong followed him; attack Redeemers en masse and driving them out of their homes until the Redeemers were forced to withdraw to fortified settlements. Later, as the result of a “Peace Agreement” forced on them by meddlesome aliens known at the Kariad, the Redeemers retreated to a remote peninsula of the planet leaving the whole of the major continent to the Xirong, who promptly made a mess of the place.
The typical Xirong tribesman is a nasty piece of work; more violent than cunning and more offensive in smell than appearance; both of which are appalling. They’re culture is based entirely upon violence; taking what others have made through force. A few of them have reformed and managed to make peace with each other and the Midians. But for the most part, they are complete bastards and the Ancients did the galaxy a favor by locking them up.
[Worlds Apart Book 07: Yronwode]
Category:Alien Races