Melnorme
The Melnorme appeared as orange one-eyed starfish-like creatures in Star Control II.
Ship	Trader
Homeworld	Unknown
Contacts	Humans, Keel-Verezy, Slylandro
Quotes	"It has been a pleasure dealing with you, Captain."

The Melnorme are a fictional race of beings featured in the second installment of the sci-fi Star Control computer game series. Screenshot, taken by me, from the open-source game, The Ur-Quan Masters This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ... The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 620-585 nanometres. ... NON TECHNICAL AND OF LOW INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER USER CALLING TECH SUPPORT. SEE S.E.C.S. ALSO This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Binomial name Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct) Homo sapiens sapiens Human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. ... Categories: Stub | Star Control races ... Sci-fi is an abbreviation for science fiction. ... The Star Control series is a trilogy of computer games with a cult following. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...

The Melnorme are a race of merchants, primarily selling and buying information. They will provide history, current events, fuel, and technology in return for biological data and the locations of certain colorful worlds known as Rainbow Worlds. They use large Trader vessels to seek out, contact and strike deals with potential customers. Though in possession of a great deal of powerful artifacts and better grasping the events than any other race, the Melnorme come across as mostly benign and harmless. Trading with them is not required to complete Star Control II, but makes the game vastly easier to finish.

The Melnorme are highly secretive of themselves and their origins, and while they are technically ready to divulge such information, the prices are ludicrous. The race's psychology, homeworld, and goals are all a mystery. They are known to have based their culture entirely on equivalent trade and reject the concept of charity, and place a great emphasis on colour, to the point of basing their own names on different shades (the one pictured is Trade Master Greenish).

The race itself is not talking, but their similarities have led many to believe that the Melnorme are the descendants of the Mael-Num. This link was later confirmed outside of the game by the game designers. In the computer game Star Control, the Mael-Num are a extinct alien race. ...

The Melnorme are found around every huge star in this part of the galaxy, and will only leave those stars when they detect a ship is out of fuel so it can sell it some.