Non-human vanished
civilization that flourished in the Reavers' Deep sector roughly 3,700 years
ago. Evidence of the Saie presence
is slim at best; a few artifacts (most notably the starship found at Crash Jura
on Glenshiel (Reavers' Deep 1912)) have been discovered, and a few ancient
Vilani records mention the existence of a small empire of five or six worlds
which can be tentatively identified as that of the Saie.
Most knowledge of their activities comes from the myths and legends of
the Yn-tsai and the Lhshana, both races native to
the Caledon subsector, where the empire seems to have flourished.
From
evidence collected, it is believed that the Saie were upright bipeds of
carnivore/killer stock; their homeworld is unknown, and no depictions of their
race have come down to contemporary archeologists intact.
They appear to have acquired jump-drive technology from the Vilani by way
of a renegade Vilani governor searching for allies during the upheavals prior to
the Interstellar Wars. The Saie are
thought to have been warlike, highly combative, and prone to internal strife; it
is believed that their presence on any particular world may have been limited to
only a few hundred administrators and soldiers dominating a native planetary
population. This theory has been
advanced to explain the complete breakdown of their empire and their
disappearance from history in the wake of an evidently devastating civil war.
Archeologists
are currently attempting to learn more of this mysterious race, but have met
little success in their efforts to discover who the Saie were and where they
came from.