They were genetically engineered by an older civilization that had originally sent them to live amongst the multispecies cultures that existed at Center One, though the reasons for doing so were unknown. This early group of Antarans were less heterogenous than the others and occupied a terraformed moon. Despite their existence at Center One, they rarely interacted with the fellow inhabitants of that region of space. Whilst this was the case, this group were highly intelligent and just as militant. Their part in the Center One society was providing a local defense fleet as well as participating in several large scale research projects such as the study of the Wormhole nexus.