Introduction
A race of long-lived centauroids, the tehud have been slowly spreading across the Carina Arm for the last ten centuries. No tehud faction has ever been considered a powerhouse in galactic history. Some have been rather more ambitious than others, but rarely with any great success.
Origins
The tehud arose on Marageesh, a large-diameter but low-density world near the coreward edge of the Carina Arm. Tectonically inactive, low on heavy metals, and at the outer edge of the system’s habitable zone, it would seem to be an unlikely birthplace for any sort of sapient race at all, let alone a starfaring one.
But the tehud, being a mostly herd-based society, seem to have managed it through slow, plodding patience. Wars between tehud herds tended to be over scarce metals or richer feeding grounds. The temperate areas of Marageesh have very short growing seasons, and the ice caps cover over a third of the planetary surface. These wars tended not to be of the level of savagery seen among other races, but more simply a matter of forcing the opposing herd away from the contested resources. Continue reading