Rigellian Compact

The Rigellian Compact is also known as the Saurian Collective, representing saurian species throughout the Confederacy. It has its own Gestalt as well as the Saurian Collective Gestalt, but the latter is considered an older Gestalt that is largely left in place in case of Long Haul ships that manage to reestablish contact with the Confederacy. While many Saurian species are part of other Gestalts, the Rigellian Compact is solely devoted to Saurian species concerns.

History
The history of the Rigellian Compact is rooted in the Saurian Collective. Rigel-7 was the first alien life that the First Terran Republic managed to contact. The life there was nicknamed "Velociraptors" by Terran Social Media. While the Rigellian Saurians were largely early Industrial Age level they were suffering from extreme pollution due to extensive coal use as well as high industrial runoff textile industries. Acid rain and 'mustard gas fog' was common. Terrans determined that without intervention that the Rigellians would go extinct in a matter of years, as runoff had seeped into their egg-laying mechanism, weakening the shells.

The Second Species contact is known to have been another saurian race, but records are spotty as to which one.

The Saurian Compact at one point consisted of nine different races. Two were wiped out in the attacks in the opening phases of the Terran/Mantid War and only brought back several decades after the war by unknown means. During the Gestalt Reformation following the founding of the Confederacy after the collapse of the Third Republic, the Saurian Collective was renamed the Rigellian Compact.

Following the Second Genome War the Draconic Empire and the Kobold Matriarchy broke away from the Biological Artificial Sentience Systems over internal disputes and joined the Saurian Collective despite being synthetic origin species.

Current Status
The Rigellian Compact consists of eleven races, the most prominent being:

Rigellian Saurians

Draconic Empireals

The Kobold Matriarchy

Varkanash

Centemarian

Gestalt
The Rigellian Compact Gestalt is known to be slow to move as well as seeks order and calm.