Who's Out There
Five named species share known space. Most are friendly, one isn't talking, and the silence between contacts is filled with civilizations we have not met yet.
Post-scarcity, post-unification, post-everything, humanity expanded into the Verse on fusion power and hasn't stopped since.
A civilization older than human agriculture. Patient, precise, unreadable, and, for the last century, our friends.
A species where the guild is the nation. Banu society has no single government, only hundreds of trade guilds in loose confederation.
Nomadic. Predatory. No embassy. No trade. Every known Vanduul encounter began when they were already shooting.
Twice-defeated, once-exterminated, now UEE citizens. The Tevarin are a living reminder of the sins of the Messer era.