Al-Leyan

The Al-Leyans are a spacefaring humanoid species from the planet Al-ley IV. They are highly xenophobic, believing that even speaking to another race was unclean. In the 2460's, the Al-Leyan government decided that the arts and culture of their homeworld interfered with Military and Research, they started to seize and destroy all private assets and destroy all paintings, music and literature. However, a small group of Artists and Musicians took samples of their peoples greatest Musical and Literary accomplishments and smuggled them off planet. They were eventually taken in by the Terran Republic government.