Sakae

The Sakae are a bipedal race of lizards.

Biology
The Sakae are bipedal lizards who appear rather humanoid. In addition they are vegetarians. They are very strong creatures able to restrain a Human with ease.

Culture and society
They've been described as a fairly intelligent and law-abiding species.

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

Appearances

 * The Stars, My Brothers, by Edmond Hamilton (1962)