Rhoisoans

A race of telapathic shape shifting cat-people of Proto-Paragangian ancestery. They were a splinter group of the Spacers who left Terran 8 after destroying the surface, left behind stranded by those who did not aprove of their genetic manipulations on a planet called Rhoisoh
they learned through experiance the danger of genetic manipulation, but had to continue it jsut to be able to survive as a race on the planet. 
rohosoian reproduction is difficult and complicated, as there is an alternation of the manifesting of a gene as shape shifting and telapathy, and shape shifting mothers can easily be inadvetantly killed by unborn telepathic offspring.