Shi' Reilan

Shi' Reilan are an ancient alien race who live only aboard space stations, no longer united in a single empire.

=Evolution=

The Shi'Reilan home world, Rei was a moon orbiting a large gas giant, Ii. The system's star, Hajna was very old, shining intensely with massive ammounts of UV radiation. It was very difficult for life to get started here but, deep at the bottom of Rei's oceans it did. The genetic structure within Shi' Reilan cells is highly resistant to change, having many layers of protective proteins and active maintanence molecules.

=History=

At the time that the Shi'Reilan mastered space flight the ancestors of humans just began to use fire. From that point on the species began to quickly spread to the other moons of Ii. Soon though it became clear that Hajna was growing old and was going to die. Knowing that the explosion would surely destroy Ii and all of her moons the Shi'Reilan began an aggressive extrasolar colonization effort. Two seperate scientific opportunities were researched, the first was the seeder pod, the seccond was the jump gate. The seeding project was much more successful in the short run and several planets were seeded with Rei-originated life. The jump gates proved a more difficult research task due to the gravitational instablility of their local lunar system. The desperate search for faster than light travel in the final years of Hanja's life saw the birth of the Neuro-Lattice computer system, finally allowing for jump calculations within the Ii system.

Several enormous jump stations left from Ii into the far reaches of the galaxy, beyond the range of the seeder pods. One of them went to the planet of Sangredeus and broke up in its rings.