Mendorie

Mendorie
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 * Civilization: Mendorie
 * Race: Mendorie
 * Adjective: Mendorian
 * Place of Origin: Unknown – Presumed Leo Galaxy
 * AL: 4
 * TL: 8+
 * Association: Whikilas
 * Status: Exist

No direct Union Contact has ever  been made with the Mendorie and all information comes from The Golden Archives.

Th Mendorie are accroding to the Golden, a civilization of traders, but unlike the Golden do not operate any markets and trade in Information, small items (and Fuel) only. The Mendorie buy and sell infromation of any kind. The Mendorie's basic culture revolves around exchanges of items. They believe that giving without receiving is barbaric. the Mendorie economy is based so it seems  on the exchange of items of "intrinsic value". Polonium and Iridium is readily accepted as payment. The Mendorie are particularly interested in obtaining new information about alien life-forms, without specifying how they use the data, though it is probably safe to assume that they simply sell it to someone else. They claim that they have "a thousand secret sources of knowledge in space and time" and that all secrets are available for sale.

Mendorie are highly sensitive to a broad spectrum of colors; their single eye, while incapable of perceiving depth, contains numerous wavelength-sensitive cone cells. Red is for travel, purple is generally assumed to be for trade. Blue signifies a response to an unexpected threat and emotional distress, and also has the effect of permitting the Mendorie Trade Master to see the weapon consoles more clearly. The Mendorie possess a large amount of knowledge and according to the Golden unique technology,alowing thm, despite their apparent TL to travel between Galaxies. Mendorie have been seen and encountered by Golden traders in nearly all Galxies of the Local group. The Mendorie claim to be able to travel to many thousand Galaxies. They travel in convoys of about 50-60 ships. The ships are able to defend themselves and have, devent shields. The Golden have records of the Mendorie being attacked and destroyed by aggressive species of TL 6-7 Usually they try to escape and if they fight they have a powerful weapon beam but with very limited   range. They also emply something called the Confusion Beam that confuses ship sensors and minds, allowing them to escape. The Mendorie know about the Dark Ones and the Strong Hordes. They know about the Pree and he Uni. They mentioned to know the Narth, but the Narth know nothing of them. The Golden say they can be encountered occationally in the Downward Sector. No known civilization of the Upward, Spinward and Coreward Sector has ever encountered them. No Mendorie sightings have been claimed by the Attikans or by known Andromeda Civilizations. Since it is deemed important to meet the Mendorie, the first Science Council/ Golden Expediton to one of the known spots they appear is currently underway to the Large White One.