Sowers

The Sowers were the original humanoid race in the Milky Way Galaxy. Existing millions of years ago, the Sower race was the first species to create FTL capable ships. The Sowers were excellent engineers of both standard machinery and organic life. Desiring either to found a Galactic community, or to simply promote biodiversity among their own species, the Sowers embarked on a quest that lasted some countless generations, possibly millions of years. Sower fleets scoured the Galaxy, attempting to find new races deemed "biologically worthy" of bearing their DNA. Virtually every humanoid race in the Galaxy is the product of ancient hybridization between an original native species and Sower genetic material. The oldest known race to be a product of this "Seeding" is the Reticulan (or Grey) species. The entire Reticulan species is now dedicated to retracing the steps of the Sowers (and uncovering their lost technologies) in order to find their creators.

The Sowers are virtually unknown among humanity. Only top xeno biologists know of the Sowers, and even then only bits and pieces.