Unique Game play Mechanic 

The Ko are link telepathically with any sentient life that is near by them. This gives them the ability to know what other species are planning and even influence the way other factions think about one another.

Biography

To kill another is to experience death itself for the Ko. Since to dawn of time the Ko have linked with one another, and used their unique sense to avoid the more vicious species on their home planet. Ko society grew until one fateful day the Ko discovered that they were not the only intelligent species on their planet. They encountered a hive mind know as the Racorr, while the idea of coexistence delighted many Ko, but great differences and  great misunderstandings eventually led to an all out way between the Ko and Racorr. Towards the end of the war many Ko were exhausted, and looking for a way to find peace. A desire for a future that came too late, the Racorr queen had been killed by a rogue Ko faction. Racorr was dead, but it did not die immediately. They did not take days, they did not take weeks, they took months to slowly die away one by one. All the while the Ko had no choice but to feel the Racorr's pain, its fear, it's endless grief and agony. The Ko felt every emotion, and they realized the great sin their species had committed. Haunted by their past the Ko go to the stars in search of redemption, and hope to prevent other sentient life from committing the sin they are guilty off.