Whether working together or playing together, sophonts naturally tend to form groups based on common goals or interests. This section is where you can find out about those groups.
- The Ziranii, a Vilani Psionics Society (Jason Kemp) Although repeatedly persecuted, this psionic society keeps coming back.
- The Order of Zar-Tis: A Daryen Society of Psionic Knights (Jason Kemp) A clandestine organization pre-dating the Maghiz
- The Church of the Creator (Richard Honeycutt) A Vargr faith that encourages its followers to strive to ever better themselves and their surroundings.
- The Church of the Machine God (Tuukka Tenhunen) Information as the path to Transcendance
- Gitans des Ceintures (Michael Hughes and Glenn M. Goffin) A closed nomadic society that can pick a planetoid belt clean in record time.
- Iper'mar Nomads (Alvin Plummer) A closer look at a nomadic culture that has made themselves at home in space.
- The Forlorn (Bruce Johnson) From a homeworld lost in a calamity to space-dwellers with highly desirable skills.
- Ilurians (Michael Brown) Frigid furries?
- Maave (Andrew Morris) Avian-derived, but definitely not birdbrains
- The Nightstalkers (Michael Brown) Unacknowledged, even unknown, and they like it that way.
- The Wayward, A Terraforming Company (Peter Brenton) A nomadic group who have made a specialty of terraforming
- Sintoshareeta (Michael Brown) This arboreally-adapted human minor race knows from experience that it's not easy being green...
- Surgisilena (Michael Brown) A society of professional companions, with a philosophy and ideology to spread
- The Veloth (George M. Sibley) An insular race with an empire of their own
- The Plann in Hyperlite (Tim Bancroft) An overview of one of the major aliens in Hyperlite
- The Blades Mercenary Unit (Richard Perks) A potentially good team, with some bad history
- The Hospitallers (Sam Swindell) A modern Monastic Knightly Order, rigidly helpful, rigidly apolitical.
- Domina Kokeshi and Domidi Ilundoji (Cian Witheren) One origin, two antagonistic religions
- The Brotherhood of the Edge (Jeffrey Schwartz) Sword Masters, since before the First Imperium
- The Aesirist Cult: Religion in the Sacnoth Dominate (David Johnson) Modern animism with an Old Norse veneer.
- Eroctopi (Timothy Collinson) They may look sorta like Terran octopi, but they're definitely not.
- El Alba (Gaizka Márquez, translated by Google and Jeff Zeitlin) A (not so) secret world government arm
- Ratmen in Space: The Rattati (Joe Adams) Are uplifted vermin still vermin?
- Koszrans (Paul Drye) Ecology is a way of life
- The Lacerto (Gaizka Márquez, translated by Google and Jeff Zeitlin) Pests, but tolerated because they keep the vermin down
- The
Ularu (Robert Pearce) Insectoids with a routine that
includes keeping humans as ritual hostages