Space Traveling! Who doesn't love to travel the universe in a top of the line spacecraft funded by the Alliance of Peace as an incentive to making you occasionally do various jobs around the various galaxies in our universe?
As time passed, humans had always known that they weren't alone in the universe, but when they actually made contact they did the thing that no one could have expected. They offered peace and an alliance between themselves and the being who came from another planet. As time moved onward, the alliance grew just as much as the universe did, and in time the Intergalactic Alliance of Peace was founded. Humans traveled though the stars with the help of the other alliance races, since in comparison to the other races, the Humans were mere children around wise old men and women.
Now is the year 3025, and much to the surprise of everyone, not much has changed when it came to humans, the look and act the same just as they have a thousand years ago, and live is much like it is now, with the exception of more than several races inhabiting earth as well. One man has been contacted by the Alliance to form a crew and travel the stars. He expected to stay on earth and live out the rest of his days there, but would have to be mentally insane not to take an offer like that. There was only one thing that was in the way between him and the other planets, and that was a lack of a ship to travel in. With funding by the Alliance, he was able to get an Extensive Travel Unit (E.T.U.) and named it the Phoenix. He now needs a crew to help him out and searches for them on his home planet and through the stars.
Of course there will be more aliens listed on here over time, but just to you know now, these three aren't the only three we'll be seeing.
Here are a list of the races that have been approved, and will be existing in this universe. If you want to make a race, just PM me about it and we'll talk!
For the past one thousand years, the Humans have been just about the same as they have been. When it comes to evolution, nothing has changed about them, but their technology has gotten better at it's own rate, with the help of other species. The Colonists humans are another story, however. Humans born in the stars are far different from one another, and each one is unique. The different planetary or space colonies are all different, from different set regulations of gravity, to different types of exposure to technology. Some of them could be drastically smarter than others, while others being stronger or just in the general sense, different.
A nomadic race of red-skinned creatures. They have a powerful, muscular body-type with a long, prehensile tail and in-human legs, like a dogs, with the heel raised and all weight on just the toes. They have an odd method of reproduction, somewhat similar to sharks. A mother will have multiple embryo's developing inside of her but as they grow the quickly gain independent thought as well as teeth and will fight inside the womb, the stronger ones eating the weaker ones. Eventually there will only be one child let inside, or none if the battles were too brutal. This makes every child born a precious and worthy member of the society, battle-hardened and proven. The children even remember the fights and how many of their siblings they killed. Far from feeling aggression towards these deaths or guilt, they consider their siblings a part of them, naming each of them and thinking of them as guardian spirits. When introducing themselves a Seheras will say their name and then continue with 'Who is also-' and then list the siblings that died for them.
Their culture is very structured, with layers upon layers of almost uninterrupted racial history. They are solitary as a species and very loyal to their people. Each person has a very clearly defined roll in the community and no one questions their place. No one is judged for their role since every individual is needed for the society as a whole to work, though of course there are exceptions to the rule. Females are relatively rare, the ratio of Men to Women being around four men to every one woman, and so they have a very protective nature towards females. It isnt truly sexism, though it is often percieved as such. If you were to ask a Female Seheras about it they would most likely be angered at the insinuation that their men-folk were discriminatory or bigotted. In this society where women are few, homosexuality is an accepted part of life. Often a pregnant mother will die before the children can be born because of the violence of the gestation period but her unborn children can still be saved. Once they are it is the duty of homosexual couples to raise them.
The Seheras are a very religious people with a Pantheistic religion of many gods for different aspects of life. Their most commonly worshipped one is Tharax, the God of the Hunt. Hunters are held high in the estimations of the Seheras, they train for years in tracking and understanding the ways of their worlds before leaving the planet. Once they do they roam far afield, ranging through many star systems and across galaxies finding work and adventure wherever they can. It is possible for a Hunter to become a ranger, on their travels they find an understanding and an accord with the empty space that enters a spiritual nature. At first just their already impressive senses become even more heightened, hearing in particular. Then it becomes more complex, their eyes can tell if a person is lying, they begin to sense presences and auras of people. Later still they gain a unique connection to their spirituality and hear the voice of Tharax in the echoes of space when outside the influence of a planet's gravity. It tells them of all it passes, so as long as they are on the trail of their target they will find it, no matter its hiding place nor the part of space it scurried too. They also gain a deeper connection with the spirits of their siblings, often getting sudden bursts of insight and inspiration, as though they have a connection to the beyond. Rangers rarely return to their planets, their purpose to learn more of the world and understand the greater purposes of the gods.
The Krilly (Krillitian is the possessive spelling) are a race of large, bipedal saurians hailing from their homeworld, Xira. Though they appear reptilian (scales, tail, claws, etc.) they are warm-blooded and do not used their tongue for smelling. Color, size, scale texture and horns vary from race to race. Though color used to be a good indication of where a Krillitian hailed from, many have migrated from their homelands over the centuries. They also poses a binary cardiovascular system (two hearts), giving them increased strength and endurance disproportionate to their size. They are born from eggs lain one at a time, usually five years apart. They reach adulthood after 36 earth years and live for about 230 earth years. Elder sibling are responsible for raising their siblings once they reach the age of 10.
Their economy is fairly ship based. Multiple low-gravity moons and a nearby asteroid belt make ship production easy. There is a political divide between some of the population. A small continent in the northern hemisphere is the only remaining area on the planet with anti-alien laws. As such most of the xenophobic population exists there, though they would venture out for the purpose protest which some of the more extremist population would try to turn into full on riots. Lately it has calmed somewhat with the implementation of stricter travel legislation from said continent which has caused some unrest. Though there hasn't been a xenophobic riot since it was introduced, leaders within that continent have started making heated statements in regards to their being oppressed. About %10 of the planets population live on the continent.
Due to large amount of ship production, Krillitian ship builders are some of the best in the galaxy. The large number of shipyards also has led to a large number of Krillitian venturing off-world. Some becoming travelers of the galaxy.
The Xotl are a race of bipedal amphibian humanoids from the world of Caudela, a planet comprised mainly of huge murky swamps and soaring forests. All Xotl have smooth, slippery skin coated in a layer of slime or mucus that keeps their skin moist and helps regulate their temperature as well as serving as a part of their natural defenses,. For the most part a Xotl's skin is colored to match the grays, blacks, browns and greens of their natural environments although a few groups are much more bright in coloration. They have three fingers and a thumb on each hand and five toes on each foot. Both hands and feet are webbed and capable of suction to better enable the Xotl to climb and adhere to surfaces. The Xotl's tail is used to help brace and support it while walking or climbing as well as helping to propel them as they swim. They possess both lungs and gills and can function underwater as easily as on land. All Xotl are exclusively carnivorous, with their many sharp teeth each replaced in rows over their lifetime.
The Xotl are highly flexible, having hypermobile, extremely elastic joints that make them natural contortionists capable of bending at seemingly unnatural angles or squeezing into impossibly small spaces with minimal discomfort or loss of function,a trick made easier by their coating of slippery slime. The Xotl are perhaps most notable for their regenerative abilities. They are able to re-grow lost limbs and repair damaged organs with almost alarming rapidity so long as the brain remains intact. In addition to all of these traits a large group of Xotl tribes collectively called the Loa have extremely poisonous slime.
Despite their predatory nature and fast-healing capabilities, Xotl were actually fairly low on their world's food chain for much of their history with a host of incredibly deadly and voracious megafauna and megaflora hunting them near-constantly. Worse yet, their swampy environment was an excellent breeding ground for hosts of virulent diseases. The state of constant mortal peril this engendered in the species is highly influential on Xotl culture, reflected in the most common of Xotl blessing which translates simply to: "Survive". As a result, Doctors are highly respected and prized amongst the Xotl and Xotl medical science is quite advanced. The Xotl also usually have a love for technology in general, as it was what allowed them to rise above their ever-hunted state and become prosperous. The Loa worship the planet Caudela itself as a goddess and insist that she kills so many Xotl in order to make them stronger as a people.
The Xotl live as members of loosely organized tribes with the responsibility of raising each generation of children belonging to the entirety of the tribe.Which tribe an individual Xotl belongs to is determined as much by the waters in which one's eggs are laid as it is by parentage, with certain territorial spawning waters belonging to certain tribes. Thus in order to avoid being without a tribe in the traditional sense a Xotl's parents must return to their homeworld before having children. Each tribe is in governed by a council of elders headed by an eldest member. Likewise The Xotl homeworld is currently governed by the Council of the Eldest, a representative voting body made up of each tribe's most experienced council member. The Loa tribes are not represented, as cultural differences drive many of them to declare a permanent state of war on the other tribes and the Alliance as a whole, with xenophobic and religious acts of terrorism becoming increasingly common.
Many Xotl leave Caudela looking for adventure or new knowledge and experiences or simply to go anywhere that isn't Caudela, though in order to do so legally they must be extensively disinfected and cleared beforehand to prevent exposing other races to their planets many pathogens. Though there are exceptions, few Loa abandon their goddess to travel the stars.
And the character sheet!
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