More art exploring other races and worlds in my universe from late 2019, this time featuring Silas Terzo, ready for a night on the town in one of the larger cities on his homeworld of Silouanos.
Despite their fennec-like appearance suggesting they are native to a desert climate, the Zerdan homeworld of Silouanos is heavily forested. Many of the planet's numerous small continents are covered in expansive forests, with what little isn't covered in trees mostly consisting of mountains and coastal beaches. Before the arrival of the Lightbearer Dominion some 3000+ years ago, they mostly lived in small villages consisting of stone and timber cottages, at a technological level comparable to 17th-century Earth.
However, the arrival of the Dominion Starfarers was hugely beneficial to their society as a whole, with the Zerdans quickly becoming one of the Dominion's most loyal member worlds. The influx of advanced alien technology caused their technological growth to excel rapidly, and thanks to the aid of the Dominion, they were able to avoid causing too much damage to their planet by skipping the "fossil fuels" stage entirely, and instead moving directly on to cleaner energy sources such as atomic energy, solar panels, wind turbines and hydrogen fusion reactors.
Despite the rapid growth of their population and the rise of numerous large, modern cities, most of Silouanos has remained virtually untainted by artificial development, the large cities being very clean and quiet and causing little disturbance to the forests surrounding them, and with the aid of their Starfarer allies and their technology, the Zerdans also set up colonies on their two moons to mine for resources and house their expanding population.
Zerdans themselves are generally quite small (about 125cm in height as adults), social, friendly, curious, and it's likely that they share a minor psychic bond with other members of their race and some other species of their homeworld (as well as possibly being able to form similar bonds with other races). Their curious nature makes them quite adept at scientific pursuits, and their friendly and empathic nature makes them quite good at diplomatic relations. The are regarded favorably by many other races throughout the galaxy, however, being generally regarded as "cute" means that in some cases, individuals are kidnapped and sold as servants or pets outside of Dominion space.