Velans

The second xenosophonts to be classified by humanity, the Velorans are named after the constellation in which the first world where their unambiguous artefacts were identified. Ironically, it was only this discovery that led to the realization Veloran 'artefacts' had been known and misidentified for almost half a century; the feral 'xenodrones' (seperate and distinct from those from recognizably Human origin) which had been generally believed to be distantly derived from Precursor machinery were in fact of much more recent provenance.

The Veloran homeworld has not yet been discovered and is estimated to lie up to several hundred light years outside of the nebulous outer boundary of Human-explored space, however, various education assumptions have been made about it.

1) Its parent star is a non-flaring M-type red dwarf, similar to Gliese 581