User:Bmwguy13/sandbox

Your synthesis is unsourced and is too short, and is additionally in need of editing and proofreading, but is the right general idea. Jmdeane1 (talk) 23:33, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Consu
The Consu, a fierce and incredibly intelligent, though religiously zealous, alien species. They believe in helping deserving races to reach "Ungkat", a state of perfection for a whole race. The Consu are the most advanced alien race presented in the Old Man's War. They possess technology such as skip drive detection that even the CDF can't reverse engineer or fully understand. They are a religiously motivated race and wish to convert other races to their religion by killing them in battle. Because they are the most technologically advanced of the alien races presented in this book when they fight battles they use weapons technology similar to their opponent to keep the battles fair. They rarely meet with outsiders and any Consu that does meet with an outsider gets killed and shot into a black hole so that their atoms can't defile any other Consu. The Consu believe in staying pure from any lesser alien race than them and so they send criminals to meet with outsiders so that high ranking Consu don't have to be killed when the meeting is over and rather and undesirable Consu can be killed instead. Their home world uses a dyson sphere around one of their suns to harness all energy leaving the sun. This energy is used to power an impenetrable shield that surrounds their home planet.

Covandu
The Covandu are an alien species that are very similar to humans besides the fact that the tallest of them are an inch tall. They are very gifted in the arts specifically poetry and drama. They are just as aggressive as humans when it comes to planetary real estate. Biologically the Covandu differ from humans and are immune to a virus that forced humans to abandon a colony. The Covandu being immune took occupation of the planet and colonized it causing conflict 63 years later when humans found a vaccine to the virus and tried to return.

Rraey
The Rraey are a species with great scientific skills and consider humans as a part of a "balanced breakfast". They even have celebrity chefs showing how to best butcher a human. They had the ability to predict the trajectory of a vessel's skip drives, a feat that is widely considered impossible, given to them by the Consu. The Rraey are physically described in The Ghost Brigades  as being roughly the same size and shape as humans however their knees bend the opposite way and they are bilaterally symmetrical. Their eyes and ears wrap all the way around their head implying that they have 360 degree vision. They are less technologically advanced than the CDF however they are close enough technologically that the skip drive detection device given to them by the consu enabled them to wipe out an entire fleet of CDF ships without any causalities to their fleet.

Whaidian
Whaidians are a strange alien species, both in terms of form and psychology. They are described as looking like a cross between a black bear and a large angry flying squirrel. They are artistically gifted and are nearly as technologically advanced as the CDF. For this reason they are targeted by the CDF and their spaceport is completely destroyed by a fleet of CDF ships.