Centauri

Centauri
	;
Race	Unknown
Planet of Origin	Unknown
Allegiance	Star League

Centauri is a wheeler-dealer alien that creates the arcade game Starfighter and markets it on Earth in search of an individual with the gift to be a starfighter. He wears a mask that covers his blue alien face and serves as a very convincing human disguise.

History[]

The Star League paid large fees to anyone who could recruit those worthy of being a Starfighter. Centauri, whose reputation as a wheeler-dealer was well known, attempted to earn such a payout. However, Centauri had bent the rules, as recruits needed to be native to a world that had membership in Star League. Centauri had spent much time programing a disguised test as a video game, then marketed it on Earth as arcade cabinets. The game itself did not hide many secrets about the Star League, as the player would pretend to be a pilot defending the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada. While these were part of reality, they were likely to be dismissed as simply part of the game's story by those who attempted to use the arcade cabinet. Centuari hoped to find Earth's bravest men for the Star League, so he tried to get Starfighter arcade cabinets in areas such as Fort Lee, Andrews Air Force Base, and Pensacola Naval Air Station. One of his arcade cabinets reported a record breaking score, so he set about to find who achieved this. To Centuari's surprise, that cabinet had been intended to be delivered to Las Vegas, but somehow ended up at the Starlite Starbright Trailer Park. He chalked up such an error resulting in a Starfighter of great potential to be fate or blind chance.

Centauri visits Earth to find Alex and takes him to the planet Rylos in his Starcar. He leaves behind a simuloid beta unit (known simply as Beta), who takes the form of Alex Rogan and tries with limited success to act like Alex in his absence.

After first reaching Rylos, Alex refuses to stay and become a starfighter, but when Alex summons Centauri back to retreive Beta, Alex is attacked by a Zando-Zan. Centauri arrives in time to kill the Zando-Zan, but is shot and is gravely injured (revealing that he has dark blue blood). When they return to Rylos, Alex and Grig (who becomes Alex's navigator) believe Centauri to be dead.

However, after the battle to save Rylos, Enduran told Alex and Grig they would not be alone in their daunting task to rebuild the Starfighter league. A blue faced extraterrestrial approaches them, then puts on its mask revealing himself as Centauri. It is revealed his body had been dormant to heal itself. It is assumed that Centauri continued his mission of seeking out future Starfighters.

Trivia[]

While it is never discussed, it's possible Centauri is a member of the Bluudewd race.
Centauri has the ability to put his body into a death like state to heal himself.