Translations:Codex: Rodenians/24/en

At first, they welcomed outsiders with open arms... until more and more of their people vanished in the night, taken with a whimper and wiggle. The UGC did little to protect them from the dangers of the wider galaxy - pirates, slavers, and criminals - so the rodenians took matters into their own hands. They traded away their expertise in gene-modification for guns - big ones, and threatened to shoot down any ship who landed without their express consent. The crackling reports of their cannons made good on those threats.