GikDaa Concept Sketch
The GikDaa are a dead race. They evolved on the same homeworld as the NorAellians, but died off thousands of years ago for an unknown reason. Little more is known about the GikDaa, the NorAellians do not like talking about their "Little Cousins", as a rule.
It's believed that the GikDaa were a very technologically adept race. The NorAellians describe them as infinitely fascinated by technology and never content until they could understand not just the 'how' of something, but the 'why'.
¶ History
Almost nothing is known about the GikDaa before their disappearance. The NorAellians take the blame for their extinction, claiming it was the greatest mistake they ever made. Often, this is in reference to the free sharing of technologies, but little else is known.
¶ Subspace
Rumors have circled the academic community that it was the GikDaa, not the NorAellians who first discovered subspace travel, but they were unable to comprehend it. So, they taught the NorAellians technology until they reached a point where they could explain subspace to the GikDaa.
¶ Biology
GikDaa were a near-mammal species. They were small, mostly hairless, and only vaguely humanoid. They were capable of speech, and were known to speak a derivative of NorAellian.
¶ Focus
It is unknown what their affinity for [Focus][] was.
¶ Society
GikDaa are believed to have a very weak sense of their own society, preferring to embed themselves in whatever society they happen to be in. They were known to work in small groups, preferring the company of other races over the company of their own species.
Some Xenosociologists have managed to find [NorAellian][] records describing the GikDaa, and it seems they had a tendency to adopt technology, philosophy, or even languages into their culture with such a speed, the things they adopted quickly became inseparable. Additionally, the GikDaa seems confused when others would refer to a time before that thing was there; they behaved as if their society was always the way it was in that moment.
¶ Plot
The GikDaa are not relevant to the plot.
¶ Behind the Scenes
Originally, I'd thought of the GikDaa as the personification of 'gremlins'. The idea that most ships would have some, unbidden, like rats, that could come in, in a pinch, amused me. I decided to drop them and focus on a few races and really flesh them out, but I couldn't get rid of the GikDaa entirely. So, I made them a dead race, and an interesting point in [NorAellian][] history.