The Shofixti are a marsupial-like species that were uplifted by the Yehat. Their culture has a code of honor similar to the Bushidō customs of the Japanese and their spacecraft are equipped with a powerful self-destruct bomb called a "Glory Device" that makes their otherwise weak Scout a dangerous kamikaze weapon similar to the Japanese in World War II. With their friends the Yehat, at the beginning of the Ur-Quan Slave War they joined the Alliance of Free Stars against the Hierarchy of Battle Thralls. At the end of the war (between Star Control I and II) (2090 -2134 CE), and 2134 -2165), after the conquest of the Humans and the withdrawal of the Yehat, the Shofixti caused their own sun to go nova with a Precursor device to destroy the Ur-Quan invasion fleet. This destroyed their entire sp