| Species | Nilean |
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The first friendly alien that humanity ever saw. Kendl is the Emissary of the Nilean Community among the Contact Fleet and the overall leader of the fleet's diplomats. Hundreds of years old, Kendl has seen races rise and fall against the Shiplord tests, and known that there was nothing her species could do about it. Officially a diplomat, her reactions in key situations speak to a level of personal skill and combat proficiency that no diplomat would ever have. For as long as she doesn't use those skills, the Diplomatic Corps will not allow anyone to push, but what she can do has been burning a hole in the Ministry of Security's team of Concordia ever since Second Contact. That event saw her changed by a Spoken Word, something she was only able to come to grips with with the help of the woman who inflicted it. Tasked as humanity's envoy to the Contact Fleet, Amanda did more to help along the process of reaching a proper negotiating table than any could. She counts Kendl as a friend, and this feeling is thought to be reciprocated with a high degree of certainty. Exactly where friendship with a member of another species might lead, no one's quite sure.