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It is unclear how far in the dim and distant past that the Galadorans started their technological developments, but it is over a millennium since they entered a post-industrial society. They are non-native to the present day Galador itself, originally hailing from a distant corner of the galaxy. However, their homeworld was destroyed by an expanding wormhole centuries in the past. Fortunately, the Galadorans were forewarned and therefore prepared long enough to build a fleet of massive ships to escape their dying world and set out across the galaxy in search of a new home. These ‘ark’ landed on the deserted but fertile planet in the Strunoc system that they renamed Galador 2 (the second Galador effectively). The warm moist climate suited their needs and they settled in the lowland swamps near the equator where they constructed their domed cities.

Galadoran society is comprised of two sister races -  the Toaijans and the Gnaijans (known as Trojans and Ganizers to outsiders), but they are on good terms and co-exists peacefully. Each group live in their communal domed cities, and their society often appears to act like an extended clonal colony rather than a state of many individuals, although strictly speaking they are not a super-being, but follow more of a hive mentality.

The jelly-like Galadorans prefer wallowing in shallow warm pools under their domes of tranquillity than for venturing outside. Without use of their personal travel machines, they would be only able to ‘slide’ their way across open ground or shallow water. The Galadorans are also able to glow in dark light. This ability is due to luminescent pigments in their blood.

 

The two main groups of Galadorans are the Gnaijans and the Toaijans. The main physiological differences between the two are more superficial than deep-rooted. The Gnaijans are taller and more slender, and have many trailing tentacles, or filaments that extend from their body, emitting light and vibrations. They are generally considered to be the more developed and higher caste of Galadorans. Meanwhile, the Toaijans could be more generally, if not politely, referred to as more grub-like in appearance with talon-like limbs, and more obvious internal organs showing through their translucent bodies.

Galadorans have strong psychic energies within their own species, able to communicate freely with one another without the need to use their more conventional light and energy emitting forms of communication. This mental ability, however, does not extend to reading the minds of other races. The only telepathic ability they have in regard to other species is being able to project their voices into the minds of others via telepathy.

Lacking any obvious limbs beyond stout pod like appendages, it is a marvel that they have been able to even wield basic tools, let alone build spaceships to fly amongst the stars, but in fact the early Galadorans were able to control small rod like devices that used a combination of chemicals and electro-magnetic fields to control larger pieces of equipment. It took them many centuries, but eventually these simple machines were used to builder more complex devices, and their technological development snowballed from there. Now with advanced robotics and nanotechnology, the physically frail Galadorans are masters of machinery.

They are traders in energy and nano –technology. Their highly developed matter conversion systems are very similar to replicators, but on a much larger scale. These also tend to be more concerned with the conversion of raw materials such as rock and water into highly concentrated energy packets. The Galadorans are working on finding a more abundant alternative to dilithium crystals.