User blog comment:WhiteSeraph/Alternate Timeline Idea That I'm Really Psyched About/@comment-3341288-20110925214210/@comment-25033299-20110926042731

Here's what I've come up with: The Shak'Tor(just the name I'm going with now, subject to change) are a humanoid race that successfully conquered their own galaxy sometime around M29. After four thousand years, they decided to expand their empire. That was not a simple task, as they are incapable of warp travel, but have their own form of faster-than-light transportation referred to as solar-jumping. [To summarize what that is, its a semi-controlled launch across space, stopping at a designated point. The easiest point to lock on to is a star, due to the amount of energy it has. Thus, it is called solar-jumping.] It takes them five-hundred years to find a powerful enough energy source to launch to, when their galaxy lines up perfectly with the Milky Way, and they solar-jump to a star in the outer Eastern Fringe.

As for their traits, they are highly intelligent, mature in one Terran year from birth, but rarely live past 45 years. To maximize what they accomplish in their lives, they have constructed exo-skeletons that supply them with nutrients and stimulants. The exo-skeleton also records data, can access pre-existing archives, and enables communication with other shak'tor. They need only one hour of sleep per 50 hours. One thing I'm debating is whether they should have emotion. Lack of emotion would definitely make them more productive, consistent with the purpose of the exo-skeleton, but I feel like its a cliche at this point.