Qire, as individual/culture (colloquial, no official term known)
Khu’y-Re El’tlekhune (The Great Expedition), as interstellar collective
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COLLECTIVE SUMMARY
The Large Magellanic Cloud, the Expedition's home galaxy
Suspected of being a 10-20 million year old civilization, their arrival on the Milky Way and possibly other nearby galaxies can't be much older than 5 or 6 million years. Known brief contact with early Earth hominids date to about 1.8 million years ago.
First contact with the Arrene (allegedly) around ~14,000 CE, as the original proposers of the Dominion accord. Humans theorize the Qire haven't returned to the Orion Arm up until up 5,000-10,000 CE, during the Spark Veto era.
Joined the Dominion in 14,650 CE (0 AdF) as original signatary.
Origin
A long dead planet, somewhere in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ~100kly from Sol (inferred).
The Local Group(?), the entire Large Magellanic Cloud (allegedly), and an undisclosed fraction of the Milky Way. Prefer dark hot-house carbonic worlds around red dwarfs, but are comfortable within a wide range of temperatures and pressures.
Description
With six-sided radial symmetry, standing 9 to 15 feet tall and weighing 200 to 400kg, their body is a vertical pillar of dark, leathery hide, textured like wet bark, capable of bending at a right angle to navigate small spaces. The base consists of six tentacles for ambling locomotion, ending in three webbed short claws, six pseudo-arms half the length of the tentacles are positioned in between legs. The midsection has posterior and anterior tentacles. The six posterior tentacles are thin and firm like steel cable, each branching in six appendages, and each one branching another six times — each tip being able to be twisted at will, the total length compounding to about 4 feet. The anterior tentacles branch alike the anterior ones, but over 16 feet in length, possessing a leathery thin webbing connecting each branching, serrated at the edges, covered in iridescent purple-orange scales, which carry swirly and blotchy moiré patterns, this wing is capable of powered flight and retracting fully against the body.
The apex ends in six tentacles with sharp scales around the radula. At the external base of each tentacle, a retractable eye-stalk positions each peach-sized compound eye carefully. Bioluminescent tendrils at the base of the “head” pulse with yellow-red light for communication.
Known carnivores (?), can regulate body temperature from ambient to the flashpoint of paper, vocalize with organometallic buzzes and hisses.
Known to rapidly cull loud technological civilizations that either threaten the overall silence of space or their future domain — they've done it at least once, as far as Dominion history accounts. Seem attracted to pockets of alien life in the galaxy for study and evaluation of future threats, also known to be advanced bioengineers.
Spacetravel
Their preferred method of travel seems to be A/M-AM drives (aneutronic matter-antimatter annihilation) for internal affairs (?). Likely buzzard ramjet drives in their larger Elder Starships brought from the LMC as braking engines. Presumed capability to use pulsed kugelblitzes or photonic rockets (?). Their Elder Starships are the fastest known objects in the universe — might as well be considered c minus -0.0001~0.000000001, within uncertainties.
Relations
Largely neutral/hostile to foreign powers. Territorial, non-expansionist, anti-social, curious, and rather protective of “lesser” beings (?). Largely ignore technological races below a certain threshold.
Tried to annihilate the Arrene upon first contact. Cautious on the edges of the Dominion.
Unknown fleet size. At least four Elder Starships stationed within the Dominion.
Unknown personnel size.
Unknown objectives.
Unknown number of active friends or foes, at least two (?).
Unknown civilization age and lifecycle.
Unknown degree of historical interference.
