The pre-sentient Tarka were an amazingly effective race, and spread swiftly over several continents.
During the course of their evolution, the Tarka have become a social animal which bands together for mutual protection and defense of the young. The environment of the Tarkasian homeworld is one of extreme brutality and fierce competitiveness and the early Tarka faced many predators, both massive and small. Tarkas can live in a variety of gravities and temperature zones, but they seem to prefer warmer worlds for their large colonies. The Tarkasian culture is very ancient and has been remarkably stable in the long term, allowing for hundreds of thousands of years of recorded history and over five hundred years as a space-faring race.
The Tarkas are a reptilian species, sharing many outward physical characteristics with terrestrial lizards although their internal structures and highly evolved brains are very different from anything seen in the reptile species of Earth.
