Hishta

The Hishta are organisms that range in size from small astroids to large stars. The Hishta were the first extraterrestrials that we discovered.

Sceintific Study
All Hishta which have been brought into labs for analysias have died within weeks of being recovered. Upon disection it was discovered that the hard outer layer is a calcium secretion which is not unlike a shell. They display no signs of sentience other then the fact that they appear to be laid out across the galaxy in the golden spiral. Disection revealed no discernable brain. The lack of brain combined with the seemingly high level of mathmatical knowledge has lead some to theorize that they are an attempt by an acient civilaziotn to communicate with species outside of this galaxy.

Biology
The Hishta consist of a thick outer shell made of calcium, and a large in body which is almost entirely devoted to energy production. The internal mass produces energy from cosmic radiation. This system allows for them to travel almost endless distances while still having energy to grow to the massize sizes thjat are common among their species. The Hishta have small holes bored in their shells; these holes are connected to large sacks that are filled with gasses. The Hishta do not use wormgates; instead the ride on gravity waves and make course corrections using their internal gass pouches. because of the lack of active propultion they move very slowly and in the 5,000 years that we have known about them they have only gone about 0.08125 light years.

Origin
The origin of the hishta sits right in the middle of the glaxay. Given their average speed of 0.08125 light years every 5,000 thousand terran years that means that they have been traveling for roughly 972,009,202 years and they are only 39 128ths of the way to the edge of the galaxy, which is where we suspect they are going.