Glakh Conglomerate

The Glakh Conglomerate were an alien extinct species from the 46th Florescence.

Background
The Glakh were a culture that predated the Kokseen who begot the 47th Florescence. Whilst escaping from the cycle of Winnowers periodic purge of the end of each Florescence, a lone Glakh Repository ship fled to the world of Hamiden where they encountered the primitive Kokseen who were beginning the first throes space exploration to their moons.

The Glakh then selected a single Kokseen to accept their repository of knowledge to propel them to create the 47th Florescence to spurn new civilizations to greater heights.

Culture
The Glakh possessed technology that incorporated as mind gestalt, transferring their mental consciousness into ships to preserve their knowledge. Surviving relics such as their memoryships preserved through the ages giving the surviving forerunners species knowledge of their predecessors. Not so much as a race but variety of minds composed of nearly seven hundred other minds of seventy-three different races and forty-two civilizations from the 46th Florescence.

Source

 * Retread Shop by T. Jackson King (1988)