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The Nayabaru are a species descended from Earth's iguanodonts. As a culture, they fear death, criminalising suicide, and are more accepting of someone torturing another than they would be of a mercy killing. (Though, don't misunderstand, torture is still not cool, it's just much better than murder.)
They are the dominant sapient species on Nekenalos. As a culture, they are terrified of the Kavkema and fairly dedicated to capturing the last of them and locking them away somewhere safe.
Their governmental structure is tribal-monarchic, which is to say that while they have a unified leader - Teranyina - most decisions are regionally made, with the monarch just the mediating force in case two adjacent 'tribes' drift too far apart, culturally, to get along.
They are a very peaceful, scientifically-oriented culture at large and wholly secular. They're quite advanced and can - and do! - explore other stellar systems. They're just too far away from Earth to have said hello there.