Homeworld:

Delphic Expanse

Goverment:

Meritocracy, with aptitude testing used to select its officials

Society:

- Practitioners of genetic engineering
- Believed in adapting their bodies to the new planets they settled

Highlights:

- 2154: Helped the Enterprise NX-01, refused to trade their warp coil;
- Humans stole it, they required it to save Earth from the Xindi, leaving the Illyrians stranded
- 23rd Century: considered outcasts in Federation societies due to the ban on Augments