Rigellians

A reptilian Federation member species. They come from the planet Rigel and have a long and somewhat tawdry history with fellow green-skinned folks, the Orions, having once been part of the historical Orion Empire, but sundered from it during the Hurq invasion. Many Orion institutions that trace their existence to before the Hurq, including some megacorps and the Orion Syndicate, have duplicates in Rigellian society. These groups rarely cooperate with each other, however; as Rigel was never conquered and occupied by the Hurq, and in fact identified as the Orion Empire in Exile for a century or more after it had collapsed in Orion space, the Rigellian versions tend to view themselves as truer heirs to their titles than the Orion versions are.