Sakae

The Sakae are a bipedal race of lizards from the science fiction novel The Stars, My Brother by Edmond Hamilton.

Physiology
The Sakae are biped lizards who appear rather than humanoid. In addition they are vegetarians. They are very strong creatures able to restrain a human with ease.

History
After humanity finally achieved space-travel among the stars, the colonized many planets discovering many human populations inhabiting them. Though many of these branches of humanity were rather low on the technological side, the humans from Earth taught them creating a political body of 2900 planets.

However they when humanity discovered Sako, inhabited by another non-human space-faring race, they also were shocked to learn that the planet was also inhabited by a race of primitive humans. Many in the human government felt it was unjust for humans to be ruled by aliens, however the aliens argued that their had evolved on their world, and had the no concept of social development and despite their similarities with the humans from Earth, were little more than animals.

The issue created a controversy within the human government, uncertain how to take action. Some want to leave the Sakae alone, while others the Humanity Party insisted it was their duty to liberate their human brothers from alien tyranny. The party went far as to awake a century old spaceman to covet him in a political war. Later they illegally entered Sako, to show him the situation.

However the spaceman saw was that this race of humanity only resembled them in physical form and none of humanity's spirit and ultimately agreed with the Sakae who came to apprehend the party.

Culture
They are described as a fairly intelligent and law-abiding species.