Species

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Alien life is plentiful in the Milky Way galaxy, but sapient life is rare. Only three sapient species are currently known: Guardian, Human and Thargoid.

## Sapient Species

Sapient species are capable of higher thought and culture. It is the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom. This goes beyond mere practical wisdom and includes self-knowledge, interconnectedness, conditioned origination of mind-states and other deeper understandings of subjective experience.

### Construct

The Constructs are a sentient, robotic species that were created by the Guardians millions of years ago.

### Guardian

The Guardians are an alien humanoid species who became extinct 1 to 2 million years ago. People are discovering the exact reasons why that happened.

Their Ancient Ruins were first discovered in the Synuefe XR-H D11-102 system by CMDR XDeath on October 27, 3302. They used artificial intelligence, neural implants and the Monolith Network as the heart of the Guardians' society. The monolith network was used for practically all of their society's communication. The formal basis for the Guardians' communication behaviors was visual rather than verbal, a distinction that arose very early in their development. Their written language consisted of glyphs that evolved from a form of sign language that the Guardians developed while hunting to communicate stealthily.

### Human

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Humans are the most well known species with a robust physiology. They are bipedal mammals and generally strong, fast and agile. They reach physical maturity at around 18 years old. Then they enter the workforce or continue their education for a profession. The average human lifespan is naturally about 79 years, but advanced biotechnology and cybernetics has substantially increased human lifespans. Humans primarily reside in a colonized region colloquially known as "the Bubble", which contains about 19,000 star systems. They originated from the single-star system Sol and the terrestrial planet Earth in the Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way.

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As it has been throughout recorded history, mankind is not very prone to agreement over ethical, political, religious, and economic views. It remains this way today in the 34th Century, with the realm of human-colonized space held by numerous groups under various ideals, some benevolent and others not quite as much.

There are three major factions known as galactic superpowers and several Powers in human-colonized space. The Federation is based in Sol and is a representative-electing democracy. The Empire is based from the system of Achenar and is a hereditary monarchy. The Alliance is based from the system of Alioth and is a confederation of independent systems working cooperatively. Powers are powerful individuals or organizations who strive to control inhabited space for their own agendas in Powerplay. Each Power can control a vast amount of systems that is aligned to both major and minor factions. In addition to the three galactic superpowers and the powers, there are also many minor factions. The faction with the highest influence within the system will usually be the controlling faction of that system. System control falls on the faction that owns the controlling station. The government of a system is ruled by a controlling faction and if that faction is an anarchy no laws will apply in the system.

### Thargoid

The Thargoids are an alien insectoid species who are said to originate outside of known space, perhaps existing in a parallel universe or spacial dimension. They are very hostile and aggressive and have not been interested in diplomatic relations to date. Not much information has been obtained about Thargoid society or culture. The only known fact is that the society is hive based, with no sense of close family. It is thought that the society is divided into colonies, possibly along the lines of ant colonies. On January 5, 3303, Commander DP Sayre reported the first known encounter with a Thargoid Interceptor, then known only as an "Unknown Ship". These ships were determined to be of Thargoid origin by Professor Palin on June 16, 3303.

## Non-Sapient Species

Non-sapient species are living beings without the capacity for higher thought and culture for survival. They are sentient with the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

### Baltah'sine Vacuum Krill

Vacuum Krill are astonishing creatures. One of the few species to live in the hard vacuum of space, they are native to the ice rings around Baltah'sine 4b. Their eggs grow in vast numbers in tiny water pockets within the rocks - kept liquid by secretions from the mother when the eggs are first laid. When mature, they eventually burrow their way out, propelling themselves between rocks with tiny excretions of fluid, in search of a mate.

### Delines

Delines are rotund feline-like creatures with rich, black fur. They're indigenous to the Diso system.

### Giant Irukama Snails

Giant Irukama Snailsare a molluscoid **species** which resemble snails. They're native to Irukama and a food delicacy. The meat of one snail can fill several standard cargo canisters.

### Giant Verrix

The Giant Verrix is a hardy beast of burden now found throughout human space, especially on the emerging worlds of the outer rim, but naturally bred Verrix are very rare and highly prized.

### HIP Proto-Squid

HIP Proto-Squid are huge creatures of HIP 41181. They share many evolutionary similarities with the now extinct squid once found on ancient Earth.

### Indigenous Species of Achenar

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The planet Capitol in the Achenar system had alien sentient life. They unintentionally went extinct due to human colonists who brought bacteria to the planet in the middle of the 23rd century. The bacteria were deadly for the indigenous species. There wasn't much appreciation for alien sentient life at the time.'

### I**torilleta**

Itorilleta are the most cunning and fiercest creatures of Biggs Colony in the Altair system. They look like a cross between a dinosaur, a spider and a scorpion of old Earth and crowned with a waving mass of sensitive tentacles. They were mentioned in Frontier: Elite II lore.

### Karsuki Locusts

Karsuki Locusts are an insectoid species native to Karsuki Ti. They have a sweet flavor due to the native fungal parasites that infest their bodies**.**

### Ling Lang

The Ling Lang is a dangerous animal, a carnivorous or omnivorous life form. Some people keep it as a pet such as the Imperial Prince Aristide de Lavigny.

### Robotic Species

Machine sentience has been banned in Federal, Empire and Alliance space due to it having been proven very dangerous when it was created on a few occasions. AI which imitates humans is less advanced than machine sentience. However, it is believed that one or two AI (sentient machines) have escaped into deep space.

### Trumble

Trumble are small, round, rapidly breeding creatures. If too many breed within a ship, they can be culled by overheating the ship near a star. They are currently only in the original Elite.

### Whispering Plants

Whispering Plants are alien carnivorous species from Quphieth. It has a thick, fairly short trunk, with a fringe of bright blue plumes sticking out horizontally for a distance about half the height of the trunk, then a mass of astonishing red fronds at least twice the length of the trunk topped the whole thing off. It's sessile, and uses colour, odour and sound to attract its prey. They were mentioned in Frontier: Elite II lore.

## Alien Life and Relics

### Alien Life

The first alien life was discovered on Taylor Colony in the Tau Ceti system around 2160 in the 22nd century. The Tau Ceti colonists ignored Earth's decrees and guidelines such as native ecological preservation and the exploitation of natural resources. The native wildlife was brought to near extinction levels over a period of approximately 20 years. In 2242 The Federation Accord was signed which outlining certain rights and responsibilities for members, uniting many of the new colonies. Now, the last remnants of the Tau Ceti aliens are in zoo enclosures for tourists.

### Non-Human Relic

The first non-human relic was found buried on Mars in 2280. The relic is no bigger than a child's hand and still surrounded in secrecy, even in 3300. There's no public information about its properties and origin other than being non-human.

## Life in the Galaxy

David Braben said *"If you look at galactic history and life on Earth, as a percentage of time it has taken hundreds of millions of years to evolve and a small number of millions of years to evolve sentient intelligent life. By the 21st century humans are not a space faring race yet. So even by the 34th century it's still a tiny slice of time. You can imagine different populations spotting up and you wonder how long we will last which is slightly depressing, but you know we might go beyond. The point I'm trying to make is the chance of two races that are at the point of being able to interact whilst both are still alive is actually small. This is the basis for the story, because the beauty and interesting thing with things like artifacts and unknown probes is that it creates wonderful speculation and that great feeling of discovery. There's a lot of interesting things in the history of the game such as the Thargoids which are mysterious and very dangerous, that have been in previous games, even interacting with them and then suddenly disappeared. So there are a lot of interesting mysteries such as the alien ships with hyperdiction. In the previous games the Thargoids have been a very powerful race. We don't know whether the sightings are real or manufactured. We don't know how peaceful they are so we have to see how that pans out. This is perhaps the first story where millions people interact with the same story. Where people on all the different platforms are cooperating or competing with each other in the same servers and story. How the story unfolds is determined by how players react and what they do."*

Michael Brookes said in the Elite: Dangerous Fiction Diary #1: *"Alien life in the galaxy is very plentiful. However, sentient life is very rare. So the various races and types of indigenous that was reported in the original elite are considered a dominant species of their planets, but they aren’t sentient species. As far as humans are concerned they’ve only encountered a small number of sentient species. There was a sentient race on Achenar which the people who later became the Imperials wiped out. There’s the alien artifact that was discovered in the solar system. That’s a mystery although we hope to reveal a little bit more about where that came from in the future. And, of course there’s the Thargoids"*

## Videos

A summary of the alien story so far within Elite Dangerous, from the history of the Unknown Artefact to the discovery of the Barnacles.

Elite Dangerous - The Alien Story So Far - Part 1Elite Dangerous - The Alien Story So Far - Part 2Elite Dangerous - The Alien Story So Far - Part 3Elite Dangerous - The Alien Story - Part 4 "A Mystery Revealed"
## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6z5OK8J5pg&feature=youtu.be&t=9m34s
2. ↑ http://sapience.askdefine.com/
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom#Sapience
4. ↑ 6/28 : Civil War Log – Dawn of the Construct
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Interview with David Braben - PAX East 2017 - Elite Dangerous
6. ↑ 10/28 : Civil War Log – Annihilation
7. ↑ Galactic News: The Thargoids have Returned
8. ↑ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentience
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 In-Game Description
11. ↑ https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/12-JUL-3301
12. ↑ The Fiercest Creature on Altair, Stories Of Life On The Frontier by David Massey
13. ↑ https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/55decfaa9657ba6a2b5b8fda
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6z5OK8J5pg&feature=youtu.be&t=8m31s
15. ↑ https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/229816-Artificial-Intelligence-Why-is-it-prohibited-in-Elite-Universe/page3
16. ↑ http://www.elitehomepage.org/faq.htm#A8
17. ↑ When a Plan Works Well, Stories Of Life On The Frontier by David Massey
18. ↑ Tau Ceti In-Game Description
19. ↑ The Founding of the Federation - GalNet
20. ↑ Data taken from Tourist Spot 0174, Tau Ceti system
21. ↑ Tau Ceti in-game description
22. ↑ Tourist Beacon 0175