The Outfitters Universe:
Ships: The Star Digger
Affiliation: United Earth (Stranger) Fleet
Designation: Deep Space Mining of United Earth Fleet Support Squadron
Class: X Ray Class
Personnel: 450
Support Ship: None
Tender: Deep Space Survey Vessels
Commanding Officer: Sr. Captian Jim Clark
Positrontic Brain: Unknown
First Appearance: Scouts Out
2nd Appearance: Unknown
Ships: Black Cat
Affiliation: United Earth (Stranger) Fleet
Designation: Long Range Reconnaissance and Attack Ship, 13 of 15 of the 2nd Squadron
Class: Bravo
Personnel: 13
Support Ship: The Endurance
Tender: Two Shark type fighters
Commanding Officer: C.J. Mallory
Positrontic Brain: Unknown
First Appearance: Scouts Out
2nd Appearance: None at this time.
Ship: Iron Te
Affiliation: United Earth (Stranger) Fleet
Designation: Long Range Reconnaissance and Attack Ship, 1 of 15 of the 2nd Squadron
Class: Bravo
Personnel: 13
Support Ship: The Endurance
Tender: Two Shark type fighters.
Commanding Officer: Unknown
Positrontic Brain: Unknown
First Appearance: Scouts Out
2nd Appearance: None at this time.
Aliens: Fantan
Race: Fantan
First Appearance: Disconnect
Description: A race that acts as administrators, clerks, and functionaries for the Alarian empire. Trusted by the Alarians to handle weapons in a limited fashion. Physically similar to humans.
Aliens: Bieste
Race: Bieste
First Appearance: Disconnect
Description: A race that have an innate ability to understand any language once they hear it, and are also a race with great empathetic abilities. Discovered by the Alarains and enslaved by them due to their pacifist nature, sold into slavery for their abilities and used primarily by rich Alarian traders and politican. Golden skinned, very much like humans, typically blonde hair. Thinner and less muscular then humans.
Aliens: Alarians
Race: Alarian
First Appearance: Scouts Out
Second Appearance: Disconnect
Description: The Alarians originators of the collaboration the Horde; brought the other two races together. The Alarians are directed by a guiding philosophy of good old fashion greed and lust for power achieved by conquest, dictatorships, and raping a planet of its resources whether they were animal, vegetable or mineral. Black, dark blue or green hair. Black teeth. Black blood. Blue spit.
Writing Origin: Based on the blue aliens, the Gamilas, in the starship Yamato series that I watched as s kid.
Added the tattoos based on the Maori tribal tattoos, but more angular, like the Alarian bone structure. 
Aliens: Kalukan
Race: Kalukans
First Mention: Scouts Out
First Appearance: In the short story Recover and Discovered by a team lead by Faith Westlock (mentioned as doing an economic study in Disconnect)
Description: A race of pure scientists, insect like aliens, emotionless at least to humanoids, society cloaked in secrecy to outsiders, even the Alarians do not know where their home world is.
Writing Origin: The other end of the spectrum from the Stetonians, hyper dependent on tech.
Item: Auto-Doc
First Mention: Scouts Out
First Appearance: Scouts Out
Description: The Auto-Doc is an medical evaluation and treatment device. A cabinet like device used able to fit humans and treat them for all major and minor injuries and conditions. The more serious the injury or condition the longer a person must remain in the device. Built on the B.E.D. device. Auto-Docs are found on most Charlie Class ships and above.