Hamaroosan

The Hamaroosan are a species of cute, short beings resembling flying squirrels. They are a former Ununified race of the Unified Council of Systems and are very closely associated with the Okpara family.

Description
Hamaroosans descend from a "tree-dwelling people, mammalian, with soft fur, delicate ears, large eyes, and strong grips". Or, as a Terran put it, "Kind of like a sugar glider and a kitty and squirrel all mixed together!"

Culture
Very little is known. Sticks have some importance, and Command Sticks doubly so, used in disciplining subordinates.

At least in the case of Captain Delminta, all of the bridge crew was closely related either by blood or adoption, all of them being siblings, cousins or aunts of each other.

As far as its been observed, Hamaroosans value honor, or at least debts of honor; as observed in their supposed resignation from the United Council.

When the Lanaktallans refused to leave the planet after Sandy's sacrifice, the Hamaroosans threatened to revive a very old tradition; if they did not leave immediately, the Lanaktallans would be roasted over an open fire and eaten.

Home system
Hamaroosa is a very resource-rich system, with one inhabited planet, four barren but mineral-loaded planets, four gas giants (one supermassive) and asteroid belts. It had signs of being an important hub in Council space, until the Hamaroosan's tactful end of relations.

Notable Members
Delminta - Starship captain, female, commander of a survey ship that recorded the third encounter between the Unified Council of Systems and a member of the Terran Confederacy. Later, captain of the Harvester of Sorrow in defense of Hamaroosa.

Heemina - Delminta's baby sister, communications officer aboard Delminta's survey ship.

Beeta - One of Delminta's aunts, bridge officer aboard Delminta's survey ship.

Ementeeri - Delminta's right-hand aunt, "a Hamaroosan of advanced years but burning curiosity", a bridge officer aboard Delminta's survey ship. She later joined with Delminta to serve aboard the CNV Jesse L. Brown, flagship of Task force Argo, Admiral Kevin Kitikik'thok Yamamoto commanding.

"She didn't care that the VI was shrieking. It had shrieked that she was dying when she'd come aboard but the Captain, who understood that an old lady understood when her time had come, had silenced the VI and allowed her on board, had invited her aboard the ship, and shown her how to enter the Gestalt."

Her final act was to guide a missile pod to the destruction of the last Goliath protecting the precursor Harvester class machine The Devourer that Leaves Darkness.

Speculation

 * Being active starfarers, it's assumed that Hamaroosans are a Near-Civilized species.