Eomian

When first contact with the Eomians was made by humanity, there was a lot of initial excitement. Other than the Eomians being one of the first species Humans made contact with, the media led with the story that humanity had finally discovered elves; to great disappointment, they were wrong.

Originating from Eomi, the Eomians do somewhat resemble certain depictions of the mythical elves, but in every other way they are relatively unremarkable. Following a similar evolutionary path that Humans followed, Eomians evolved from a long eared primate and they just never lost the ears. Much of Human history is mirrored, in one way or another, in the history of the Eomians, with ancient civilisations constructing colossal burial tombs in the desert, through the dark ages and their own crusades, into a renaissance and industrial evolution, the age of the atom and microchip, and finally into the modern age of  anti-matter and interstellar exploration. This has led to the formation of some cults made up from both Humans and Eomians that believe an external force intervened set both species off on the evolutionary path together. These cultists neglect to consider that many humanoid species across the galaxy followed similar evolutionary paths.

Regardless of the facts, Humans and Eomians still see each other as sister races and they have incredibly close ties, especially as both species can interbreed with a 99.9% success-rate without the aid of drugs. Many Human-Eomians were lost in the recent events that led to the extinction of the human race, as anyone with even partial human DNA was killed. A week of mourning was held on Eomi while the rest of the galaxy appeared to make no attempt to recover from the event.