Minra

The Minra are an unknown race, presumed to be extinct, known only from a few artifacts and a single set of ruins discovered on the Scain world of Koytuneo.

Originally discovered by the Scain, they were unaware of the magnitude of their discovery until joining the Senate. Upon declassifying the location of the ruins, a Senate science team was dispatched to examine them. The architecture matched no known profiles of existing races. However, the ruins do not appear to be very old (comparatively). They depict the fall of Ketrarch, the first known Progenitor, which occured two billion years ago, and other etchings appear to date back to the Alintean war against the Gatekeepers some seven billion years ago. This is also the earliest identifiable event found in the ruins.

Whoever the Minra were, they possessed technology based around the manipulation of antimatter. Throughout the ruins, holding tanks contain samples of anti-hydrogen and anti-helium, and most of the structure's defenses are still active and powered by these. The ruins cannot be approached from the air, but ground-based investigations have little trouble reaching the structures.

A few unknown samples of genetic material have been collected from the deepest parts of the ruins. These seem to indicate a species based on lithium, but the material is too degraded to find out more. Furthermore, it is unclear if the lithium-based DNA strands are actually those of the Minra. If not, it points to the existence of a second unknown race.