The Galji (commission for Ryan Bowers).

Galji are the most extreme example of total matriarchy that can be seen in the galaxy today. Their civilisation is, metaphorically speaking, a longhouse. The males of their species are diminutive compared to the much larger females, and male Galji are incapable of complex thought, as well as being completely incapable of imagining hypotheticals. The sole purpose of a male is to compete with other males for the attention of a female; yet only 1% of males go on to pass on their genes. Males are used as an expendable workforce by Galji females and are subject to perpetual societal-wide hen-pecking all their lives (which are comparatively short). 

Galji civilisation on their homeworld is global, homogeneous and uniform. All distinctions between groups, religions and cultures have been eliminated to achieve ultimate cohesion between all territories. Galji history is shrouded in mystery, it has been altered so much to avoid any offence, disagreements, or division that it may cause to the point that the story they tell themselves has huge holes in it and is most certainly a complete fabrication. Their world-view is thus completely universalist and utilitarian. There is no room in it for particularism, nuance, or exceptions to their universalist beliefs.

This informs Galji culture, or lack of culture I should say. Everything is bland and indistinct, nothing is uniquely Galji in flavour. This, combined with their complete embodiment of Tabula rasa philosophy, is what makes them particularly agreeable with other species of the galaxy, notably, humanity. 

Humans and the Galji are extremely close allies, being one another’s first contact. It sounds naive to say when talking about entire space-faring civilisations, but they are what could be called “best-friends”. Their two species are so closely linked now that wherever you see a human in the galaxy, you can bet that a Galji can also be found not too far away. 

Another thing of note is that the Galji are carnivorous liquivores, which might come as a surprise to some upon first glance. They feed by injecting their food with enzymes that come out of the tip of their trunk-like proboscis. They then slurp up their meal with the two orifices, which are located on the tip of the very same trunk.