The world of IKAREE · Member of the Planetary Union since 2203
Vaelori
Tall, around two metres, and slender, with grey-violet skin and no hair. Glowing lines run along their temples and necks and betray emotion in colour and pulse. In public they wear hoods and high collars. Showing your lines to a stranger is an intimate gesture.
History
The Vaelori are weak empaths. 1,800 years ago the panic of one city spread across a continent and set off the Burning Chorale: the collapse of a civilisation and millions dead. From the ashes came the Discipline of Calm, emotional control as a civic duty. The Vaelori have not fought a single war since.
How they live
In public, a quiet and ritual society that decides by silence: the council stays silent until no one objects. At home it is the opposite, colourful and loud family chambers no stranger may enter. Vaelori live about 220 years.
Technology
The best sensors in the Union, gravity technology, crystal resonance computers. Slow, but precise and almost never failing.
Ships
Smooth rings and lenses of pale ceramic, with no visible nacelles. The drive is built into the ring, which glows faintly. Their ships are silent, even inside.
Friction inside the Union
Peacemakers and mediators. They voted against admitting the Hallowed, consider the Khurgani dangerously emotional and the Blood Clause barbaric.