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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 3094070" data-attributes="member: 363">Pierson's Puppeteers from Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories are interesting. They are odd-looking - a body something like that of a camel, three legs (one in back, two in front) and two necks topped with an eye and a mouth. They are descended from herd animals, and have become a race of cowards, essentially. Very powerful, clever cowards. Theie ingrained fear of predators makes them avoid any contact with aliens, so only Puppeteers who are considered insane by their own kind become merchants or diplomats. The Puppeteers have manipulated the history and genetics of races they considered potential threats. They are so concerned with safety that the bulk of them never leave their home planer. But, they have used astounding technology to actually move their entire planet, along with others they use for resources, into a "Rosette" which they currently using to leave the galaxy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette</a>Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye" features the Moties. These aliens are somewhat humanoid - in D&D we might call them "goblinoid" - with three arms, two on the right (usually) that are slender and dextrous, and a large, strong left arm. They are generally smaller than humans. Moties are divided up into several castes, which are all very different from each other physically and mentally - leaders, warriors, engineers, etc. They breed at an extremely fast rate, and can overwhelm local populations of other species very quickly. They are very territorial, which makes them even more dangerous. Here's a good wikipedia article about them: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moties" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moties</a>Puppeteer pic:</blockquote>

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