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Races of the Trans-Space Coalition
*Note: This has been hyperlinked into the first post*
Well, you already know that humanity and the spherids are major parts of it, but what about the other races?
Remember, the following are not all that there is. You're allowed to add your own, kinda like what Okami did in this hyperlinked post. PM your ideas to me and I'll add them to this post.
Scielto : Their name derrives from the Italian words "Cielo" and "Scelto", meaning "Sky" and "Chosen". The name originates from an old creation myth where they were chosen by the heavens to bring their people to a "shining destiny", although like most races, they are no longer religious. They are a race of tall bird-like creatures, having two pairs of wings and strong taloned feet. One of these wing-pairs functions more for flight and while the other can help, it's used more for manipulating the world around them. They are mostly covered in feathers and have great eyesight. Their faces, while they still have beaks, aren't quite as long or large than if you took a real bird and made it the size of one of them. While they are usually seen as a race, they have taken in various other bird-races into their society as well.
The culture of these creatures is on one hand very expressive, free-spirited, and quite prideful, yet on the other very rigid. They have often very rigidly defined pecking orders that determine your place in society, a large part of which involves climbing up said order. This grows increasingly complex when you take into account public opinion, job opportunities, established families and houses, their honor system and so on. They have two differnet language types; a sort of bestial one comprised of sounds such as squawks and chirps, and a written/spoken one, which in literary form compromises of various curvy shapes with a slight hieroglyphic appearence, and in spoken form, flows very well and has very vivid sounding vowels. You could say it's like Italian mixed in with bits of cantonese and arabian.
Tierrodan: These creatures seem to be made of purely of rock, although in reality, they are a race of moss-like plant creatures that develop a strong shell to protect themselves in. They are able to survive dismemberment and getting their heads blown off quite easily due to their ability to shift their internal organs around, but their mossy insides are easily damaged if you get them exposed and they tend to have various important vital organs that are sometimes signified by noticeable physical growths on the shell. They can assume a variety of shapes, including some versions where limbs can float around disconnectedly, and change their apeparence over their lifetime. When they speak, their voices tend to seemingly reverbrate within themselves, and they generally sound powerful and capable of great authority. They are normally quite strong but have poor regeneration. Their faces tend to be oddly organic like in their appearence. Their eyes often looking like slot-holes with sometimes fleshy organic organs or crystal-like shapes (or even visor-like eye-organ-equivalents), and their mouths often are more plant-based than the rest of their organs, although they may sometimes have crushing stone mouth-parts. Sometimes they do not have noses, uses other ways to sense smell, such as simply breathing it in, analyzing it with special hairs on various parts of their body, or absorbing it into special parts of their stony bodies for inspection.
Tierrodan culture is made up of tribes and ruled by a council made of the heads of the 15 most powerful of them. Many of them have a lot of tribal government run businesses and militaries and actively compete with one another, although any violence is kept discrete and non-lethal. They tend to be highly nomadic and while they do settle on a few worlds, they only really see their core originating home worlds as permanent bases. Quite a few often split off and form tribes of their own or simply don't bother with the tribal politics and just go solo. They are renowned for being strong, if somewhat forceful, businessmen, leaders, politcians, and sometimes mercenaries, although that occupation is looked upon unfavourably by most of the older generation and leaders of their kind. Their spoken language is very sharp sounding; and often sounds like a bunch of jagged noises of varying sonic qualities (tone, pitch, etc.), with a words sometimes gaining double meanings based on particular pronounciation using specialized organs. Their written language features characters that all have double-meanings and each word is composed of two interlocking symbols. It is very hard to understand, yet once learned, can be read absurdly fast.
Krydeonin: Derrived off two Greek words that mean "frost" and "guardian". They are a race of four armed mammals with four arms and sharp, austere faces. All of their arms are of equal length and tend to end in five-fingered hands with retractable claws. Their body-covering fur looks almost like quills, although they cannot sting. They have a some organ redundancies and stand quite tall, often being the taller species in a room. Their great strength, natural adaptations (powerful claws and jaws, high strength, great endurance, good sense of smell and so on) and natural survival instincts come from living on a cold world of scarce resources and fearsome predators and raiders.
Their society is very tight knit and puts and despite their savage appearence, they are good technicians and mechanics. While their tech is rather simply made, it can be built upon and modified to be rather advanced. They tend to put an emphasis on great craftsmanship and reliablility with their creations. Their culture puts a huge deal on cooperation and mutual gain, although often within the boundaries of the ethnicities of their race. Some may call them discriminatory, but often it's simply a sort of custom to let others tend to their own, while they tend to the ones most immediately important to them. Their language is oddly similar in terms of pronounciation to human ones such as German and English, and tends to have a very large vocabulary of single word bases that are modified to create variations on a meaning usually. The written format uses many angled and often sectioned off words, causing it to look like a bunch of roughly made rune-inscriptions put into a line with large spaces inbetween them.
Osvetlovan: Based off a Czech word which means "illuminant", this race ressembles a mixture between the turians from the Mass Effect series and the Protoss from the Starcraft games. Their general bodies are shaped like protoss ones, yet the paticular details of it have that armoured turian feel to them. They tend to be moderately tall, not quite as tall as a Krydeonian, but moreso than a human. They also have very long lifespans. While they are not necessarily casters, their bodies are more easy to modify or adapt to channeling energy and there are cases where vital fluids and certain parts of their bodies had become energy based.
Their society is run by a various rulers in a pseudo-autocracy/oligarchy, with a strong notion of higher and lower classes. This is seen by backwardist by quite a few, but many also see their society as a surprisingly successful one, with highly organized government/royalty-run workforces and a strong sense of racial unity. Being in a commanding position is said to be the highest honor in their society, along with finding enlightenment in expanding or working for the betterment of the ruling powers. Their spoken language is similar to french and russian, often sounding very smooth or exotic. The written one tends to ressemble russian letters given a sense of arabic wavy-ness.
*Note: This has been hyperlinked into the first post*
Well, you already know that humanity and the spherids are major parts of it, but what about the other races?
Remember, the following are not all that there is. You're allowed to add your own, kinda like what Okami did in this hyperlinked post. PM your ideas to me and I'll add them to this post.
Scielto : Their name derrives from the Italian words "Cielo" and "Scelto", meaning "Sky" and "Chosen". The name originates from an old creation myth where they were chosen by the heavens to bring their people to a "shining destiny", although like most races, they are no longer religious. They are a race of tall bird-like creatures, having two pairs of wings and strong taloned feet. One of these wing-pairs functions more for flight and while the other can help, it's used more for manipulating the world around them. They are mostly covered in feathers and have great eyesight. Their faces, while they still have beaks, aren't quite as long or large than if you took a real bird and made it the size of one of them. While they are usually seen as a race, they have taken in various other bird-races into their society as well.
The culture of these creatures is on one hand very expressive, free-spirited, and quite prideful, yet on the other very rigid. They have often very rigidly defined pecking orders that determine your place in society, a large part of which involves climbing up said order. This grows increasingly complex when you take into account public opinion, job opportunities, established families and houses, their honor system and so on. They have two differnet language types; a sort of bestial one comprised of sounds such as squawks and chirps, and a written/spoken one, which in literary form compromises of various curvy shapes with a slight hieroglyphic appearence, and in spoken form, flows very well and has very vivid sounding vowels. You could say it's like Italian mixed in with bits of cantonese and arabian.
Tierrodan: These creatures seem to be made of purely of rock, although in reality, they are a race of moss-like plant creatures that develop a strong shell to protect themselves in. They are able to survive dismemberment and getting their heads blown off quite easily due to their ability to shift their internal organs around, but their mossy insides are easily damaged if you get them exposed and they tend to have various important vital organs that are sometimes signified by noticeable physical growths on the shell. They can assume a variety of shapes, including some versions where limbs can float around disconnectedly, and change their apeparence over their lifetime. When they speak, their voices tend to seemingly reverbrate within themselves, and they generally sound powerful and capable of great authority. They are normally quite strong but have poor regeneration. Their faces tend to be oddly organic like in their appearence. Their eyes often looking like slot-holes with sometimes fleshy organic organs or crystal-like shapes (or even visor-like eye-organ-equivalents), and their mouths often are more plant-based than the rest of their organs, although they may sometimes have crushing stone mouth-parts. Sometimes they do not have noses, uses other ways to sense smell, such as simply breathing it in, analyzing it with special hairs on various parts of their body, or absorbing it into special parts of their stony bodies for inspection.
Tierrodan culture is made up of tribes and ruled by a council made of the heads of the 15 most powerful of them. Many of them have a lot of tribal government run businesses and militaries and actively compete with one another, although any violence is kept discrete and non-lethal. They tend to be highly nomadic and while they do settle on a few worlds, they only really see their core originating home worlds as permanent bases. Quite a few often split off and form tribes of their own or simply don't bother with the tribal politics and just go solo. They are renowned for being strong, if somewhat forceful, businessmen, leaders, politcians, and sometimes mercenaries, although that occupation is looked upon unfavourably by most of the older generation and leaders of their kind. Their spoken language is very sharp sounding; and often sounds like a bunch of jagged noises of varying sonic qualities (tone, pitch, etc.), with a words sometimes gaining double meanings based on particular pronounciation using specialized organs. Their written language features characters that all have double-meanings and each word is composed of two interlocking symbols. It is very hard to understand, yet once learned, can be read absurdly fast.
Krydeonin: Derrived off two Greek words that mean "frost" and "guardian". They are a race of four armed mammals with four arms and sharp, austere faces. All of their arms are of equal length and tend to end in five-fingered hands with retractable claws. Their body-covering fur looks almost like quills, although they cannot sting. They have a some organ redundancies and stand quite tall, often being the taller species in a room. Their great strength, natural adaptations (powerful claws and jaws, high strength, great endurance, good sense of smell and so on) and natural survival instincts come from living on a cold world of scarce resources and fearsome predators and raiders.
Their society is very tight knit and puts and despite their savage appearence, they are good technicians and mechanics. While their tech is rather simply made, it can be built upon and modified to be rather advanced. They tend to put an emphasis on great craftsmanship and reliablility with their creations. Their culture puts a huge deal on cooperation and mutual gain, although often within the boundaries of the ethnicities of their race. Some may call them discriminatory, but often it's simply a sort of custom to let others tend to their own, while they tend to the ones most immediately important to them. Their language is oddly similar in terms of pronounciation to human ones such as German and English, and tends to have a very large vocabulary of single word bases that are modified to create variations on a meaning usually. The written format uses many angled and often sectioned off words, causing it to look like a bunch of roughly made rune-inscriptions put into a line with large spaces inbetween them.
Osvetlovan: Based off a Czech word which means "illuminant", this race ressembles a mixture between the turians from the Mass Effect series and the Protoss from the Starcraft games. Their general bodies are shaped like protoss ones, yet the paticular details of it have that armoured turian feel to them. They tend to be moderately tall, not quite as tall as a Krydeonian, but moreso than a human. They also have very long lifespans. While they are not necessarily casters, their bodies are more easy to modify or adapt to channeling energy and there are cases where vital fluids and certain parts of their bodies had become energy based.
Their society is run by a various rulers in a pseudo-autocracy/oligarchy, with a strong notion of higher and lower classes. This is seen by backwardist by quite a few, but many also see their society as a surprisingly successful one, with highly organized government/royalty-run workforces and a strong sense of racial unity. Being in a commanding position is said to be the highest honor in their society, along with finding enlightenment in expanding or working for the betterment of the ruling powers. Their spoken language is similar to french and russian, often sounding very smooth or exotic. The written one tends to ressemble russian letters given a sense of arabic wavy-ness.
