[ WP ] Describe to me an alien race physically , culturally , and the state of affairs on their world .

Sthahs, /Tri'aat/HIP 83906 
 Class: G81V 
 Temperature: 4900 ( Kelvin ) 
 
 The Khass of Sand, the ringed moon of the planet Rhy'aa are a 
 primarily nomadic reptilliform race who thrive in arid environs. Although 
 there are over 300 distinct cultures on Sand, the pre-spaceflight era's 
 prevailing culture of conquest-driven expansion ensured that few of it's 
 rivals had any realistic chance to challenge them. 
 Their economy is mainly goods-driven, with an emphasis on metallurgy 
 and basic manufacturing, primarily tools, arms and simple machinery. 
 It is likely that they never would have achieved spaceflight had the 
 Rhaa-Kreet not attempted to enslave them in 2019, sparking the Sand 
 war, as they seem to have abandoned curiosity as an evolutionary 
 impetus. 
 
 
 After the Rhaa-Kreet withdrew their forces in an attempt to quell the Tsri-Ha Slave uprising, the political landscape of Sand was thrown into disarray, many of the parties and tribes which had made deals with the Rhaa-Kreet were exterminated or otherwise forcibly disbanded, and the antebellum Ssth Empire, although generally regarded as the saviors of the Khass, did not recover in time to maintain martial dominance against rival governments, now augmented with more advanced Rhaa-Kreet technology as well as Kreet/Khass hybrid tech and captured intelligence. 
 In 2025 Sand experienced yet another upheaval, when the Khass developed their first atomic weaponry, after the detonation of Ssk ( Sword, or blade ), a 17.6 kiloton nuclear device, other nations followed suit, with the situation quickly devolving into an arms-race which ended in 2032 with the Tsri-Kreet intervention and the formation of the 15th hour treaty.
