Kerisen

The Kerisen are a species from the Hercules Cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Biology
A low-gravity arboreal-evolved omnivores. They resemble giant flying squirrels from Earth, though with six limbs, sixteen fingers, giant flaring ears, yellow fur, a bullet head and six eyes that encircled the forward-protruding head and jaw. They possess purple cats-eyes from where a human’s ears, under chin and top of the head would be. This gives the Kerisen the ability to not only looked in all directions at once, but while in horizontal flight look both up and down simultaneously.

Culture
They’ve been in space for 600,000 cycles, and they’re spread across both the Orion Spur and the Perseus Arm. To the Kerisen, the meaning of existence is to have fun—life is a big joke played upon some poor, unsuspecting, self-aware chemicals. They come to a logical conclusion that it’s better than believing there is no purpose to life, or that everything is predetermined, or that some crazy deity created them and then went off leaving us orphaned. In their view it's best to have some purpose in life so the Kerisen have—over the millennia—seen so much absurdity in the cultures of two spiral arms that they concluded long ago everything is a joke. But secretly among their kind they pretend to take things seriously so other species won’t feel bad about not knowing the meaning of life.

Another quirk of the species is that they prefer to be in near constant mating and have no qualms of doing it in public most of the time.