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Name: The Natvyr

Phenotype: The natvyr are mammalian hexapods, with a coat of dense and bristly hair. This hair only covers the body, with their head and limbs having only a slight fuzz. Their head had been compared to a goat skull, with hard chitin-like jaw mandibles and perfectly circular eyes with only a pinpoint pupil with a hard greyish corona. They are extremely pale when it comes to skin, yet their hair has vibrant shades of violet, cobalt and magenta. Their front and back limbs are legs while their center limbs are arms. Their limbs in general are fractal in nature, with their joints splitting into two smaller sets of forelimbs. These two smaller sets of forelimbs have bendable joints at their ends split into four "fingers". Those bend multiple times and fulfill hand-like functions. Their front and back limbs are less capable of precise manipulation than their middle limbs, which pretty much defy all the theories on centuarization (the idea that front limbs become manipulators no matter how many legs, a belief that came about from looking at mantids too long- than again the natvyr body structure has few equivalents on Earth) since the middle limbs became more specialized for manipulation instead of their front limbs.

The natvyr have three castes. Workers, Queens and Drones. Queens tend to be extremely bloated and stationary in appearance, usually growing to large sizes and lack any of the gracile features commonly associated with the Natvyr. Drones tend to look much like workers, except that they are somewhat bulkier by design with enlarged middle limbs and weaker front/back limbs, meaning they use for limbs as hands and two limbs as legs. Drones can breed with both queens and workers and are "male" biologically while the workers and queens are "female" biologically.

The natvyr can't vocalize human languages as their language is based more in a spectrum of clacks, shrills, zeeps and clicks.

The natvyr are a r-type species and tend to be extremely numerous.

Natvyr start out as limbless balls of fur which which nourished (usually with other natvyr larvae or corpses of prey animals) develop into a drone, worker or queen. The natvyr give live birth, but with such small larae giving birth is piss easy for them, which is good since the natvyr keep making more natvyr. A natvyr hive can have thousands of queens, of whom give birth to a hundred natvyr a day on average. Workers tend to give birth once every four days if impregnated by a drone.

Psychology: Natvyr psychology is a enigma. They all refer to each other by the same name, of which seems to "evolve" instead of be assigned by anymone; the names of hives tend to be the names they give whenever anyone mentions the concept of a name to them. Worker natvyr are generally simple minded, but all too frequently there is mental instabilities and oddities in their psyche where single minded obsessions take over and they just want to build the same hallway again and again. The natvyr seem to learn by intuition and collective learning, in that they have a habit of copying everything they observe. If they observe a sky scraper, they'll keep trying to make a sky scraper and are surprisingly effecient copiers, give them a blue print legible to them (this is the hard part) and enough time/resources and they can be quite pin point in their accuracy.

Drone natvyr tend to be more intelligible, but still are far all. They are pretty much have been characterized as amoral and sex obsessed by anyone who has met one, but it is these traits that allow them to ensure rapid reproduction for the hive as a hole. One drone is usually forced to be a "king" for the queen natvyr.

Queen natvyr are around as cognitive as drones and despite being called queens do not seem to have much control over anything. The queen is fairly oblivious to the hive around her and just goes with whatever is needed. Frequent reproduction is the sole cause, that is the purpose of the queen. Communicating with a queen is impossible, no natvyr wants you to speak with the queen. Only speak with a drone that knows something on your culture. No one else.

Story: The natvyr are an accident. They lived on a ancient world that was colonized by another society at the time which in time the natvyr mimicked, allowing them to build spaceships and go to space. From there, the natvyr made more hives on many worlds and have been a pestilence since. The natvyr learned to trade their babies for refined materials, which is no issue since there will be more babies. There's always more natvyr.

Extra: Just NPCs. I may make a character for this RP.

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They have bristly hair that covers their main body, but not their head and limbs.

24 digits total, yes. They can combine the sub limbs to make a manipulator.

First contact? I suppose that's one way of wording it.

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To be honest their origins are pretty much what I stated, they naturally evolved, some colonists landed on their planet, the Natvyr adapted their tech as their own and started to spread out. Not in any uniform way, more than various groups went to colonize other worlds and each other. Intaspecies history is really repetitive and the only major changes come with adopting tech, which leads to larger hives or filthy clannists. It's basically a pattern of stable regimes under long lived queens with times of troubles whenever food runs out or too many queens die at once. Often both. The ancient colonists being more a group of [insert player made species here] going way out of the way without any contact to others.