Khell'Zen

The khell'zen are a mercantile species originally native to the M84 galaxy. They hailed from Khellzakka, an frozen world with high mountains.

Because of their planet's rich resources, the khell'zen developed an economic culture, trading with other species and expanding their influence through business rather than conquest.

Biology
Khell'Zen are an anthropoidal race like the alari and velutarians. Their skin is pale-yellow in color, with a flat nose and a stripe of cartilidge running from their foreheads to the top of their alleged nose.

Their blood is copper blue in color.

Although life on khellzakka is carbon-based and oxygen-breathing, it is built on right-handed amino acids. This places the khell'zen in a distinct galactic minority, with the tal'akkur and the yl'khahan being the only other right-handed protein races. The food of alari, velutarians, or humans (who evolved in left-handed amino acid based biospheres), will at best pass through khell'zen systems without providing nutrients, or at worst trigger an allergic reaction that can be fatal if not treated immediatly.

Culture
Khell'Zen culture is mercantile in nature. They have a reputation for being shrewd traders and merchants, often being stereotyped as greedy. However, they possess a rather strict series of trade rules to ensure a good deal for both parties.

Religion
The khell'zen have a polytheistic religion.