Hripirt

Hripirt was both the name of a planet and the sentient beings who lived there. The Hripirt were an advanced spacefaring race, who made contact with other life forms. One such occasion had a tragic result: a sentient race who resembled peapods had made decomposition into a religious cult. The planet smelled terrible, and one of the natives killed a Hripirt solely to see her rot. The Hripirt left the peapod planet and never returned.

The Hripirt had a better reception on Earth, where they opened up diplomatic relations with several local governments. A large number of humans expressed a desire to visit the Hripirt homeworld, necessitating the founding of an immigration bureau to establish strict criteria for permission to visit.