Draj

The first to make contact with the Erathis races, the draj are a lizard-like and much more technologically advanced species than those on Erathis. At the time of First Contact, they had already colonized their own moon.

Draj males tend to be purple in color, and the females blue. This is due to a chromosome similar to the ‘Y’ chromosome in humans that carries a dominant gene giving the skin its color.

History
Draj are multifaceted in their talents, but many strive to further their understanding of the universe around them. This lead them to be the only former-IPA race to have achieved space flight during First Contact. Many of the starship manufacturers are located on Behlum. The draj and Erathis races began relations on a bad note. The Alpha Gate research team was immediately captured by the draj and interrogated. The draj considered the gate to be of holy importance, and unknown beings trespassing in holy lands was seen as an offense and a threat. The researchers were able to convince their captors to allow them to demonstrate how the Gate worked and even took some draj to Erathis with them.

Erathis and Behlum were the founding members of the IPA during the Jalek Expansion that started the Alliance-Covenant War, and together they drafted the other members into the centralized interplanetary government. This allowed the systems to catapult each other into a new age of discovery and advancement with Ardaithian relics and push back on Jalek Expansion and the Allied-Covenant War later on.