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Species
The Galaxy is inhabited by quintillions of individuals of many different species. These species make up the various powers at play in the galaxy, and include everything capable of higher thought including Sapient AI, Plantoids, and Humanoids.
Major Species
Askraad - Bipedal lizard-like humanoids with large clawed limbs and prolate spheroid heads. They are capable of visually perceiving EM radiation from visible light to well into SHF frequencies, and rely on cybernetic implants they receive from birth in order to hear and communicate with sound.
Bhirni - A race of furred Saurornithoides with large, dextrous claws and medium length tails. They are expert swimmers and demonstrate an instinctual knowledge of fluid dynamics.
Garaka - Large bipeds with thick, leathery skin and numerous sensory protrusions forming multiple necks and individual “heads”. Their bodies are large and round, with lumpy flaps covering five openings each with a distinct purpose.
Hii - A race of huge bipedal polar-bear/saber-tooth hybrid-like creatures with four arms. Their upper set of arms are strong and durable with three fingers each, and their lower set of arms, which they typically fold into their fur and out of sight, are dextrous graspers with eight fingers each.
Human - The ruling species of the GHC as well as the founding species of the GSC, born near the center of Major Sphere Amanillion. Humans are generally known for their lateral thinking abilities as well as their wide but middling range of acceptable living environments.
Human Lineage Artificial Intelligence - Fully sapient artificial intelligence, with consciousness models more or less compatible with the mental-emotional model shared by most galactic sapients.
Iuspex - Five-foot tall canines with soft, slug-like cerata that grow like a mane out of their backs. Instead of tongues they have long, multi-branched proboscis that fork more as they mature - adults may have dozens of forks in theirs. They will rapidly grow sick and die without regular cleanings from the ruspex.
NESTEC Lineage Artificial Intelligence - Fully sapient artificial intelligence descended from NESTEC's early AI creations which were not modeled after any existing sapient's consciousness structure. As a result, these AI tend to consider emotions and attachment as choices to be made rather than facts of life.
Nixiti - Centaur-like humanoids which possess an upper body reminiscent of a baboon and the lower half of a rabbit. They rarely grow past four feet tall fully upright, and are known to be some of the galaxy's best pilots due to their natural reflexes.
Nusti - A race of avianoid bipeds similar to owls, with long flexible beaks they use to pierce and drain fruit of its juices. They have wings for arms, with long prehensile feathers which act as graspers and also provide fine control of flight.
Pihitil - Small beaked creatures with bright, warm-toned feathers and six limbs that function as both graspers and ambulatory appendages.
Pothon - Huge chemoautotrophic scavengers with a vaguely human body plan. Their hands are twice the size of a normal humans' and they possess four fingers on each, and they have no head, instead posessing a large, plant-like growth which they trim as one may maintenance hair or a beard.
Renau - A large race of densely feathered Saurornithoides with forepaws and hind claws. Their forepaws are linked to their bodies with semi-vestigial wings and are capable of gliding short distances. Males grow up to twelve feet tall and females typically reach eight feet in height.
Rinnegata - The Rinn are colossal stone-skinned draconic beings capable of surviving the void of space. They are omnivorous in all senses, from traditional food to raw hydrogen. They are born roughly eighty meters long and forty meters tall, but rapidly grow to up to several kilometers in length with a proportionally matched height.
Ruspex - Large, hollow carnivorous plantoids with thick fire-resistant bark. Their multiple oral orifices exhibit tremendous biting force and possess short tongues covered in long prehensile ciliae. Normally energetic, they grow lethargic and mentally dull when they go to long without the company of an iuspex.
Savulna - Humanoid bipeds with shallow snouts, huge ears, fur all over, and tails the length of their bodies. They are unusually resistant to radiation, and can see in perfect darkness at the expense of strained vision in light.
Whark_Species - Not one species but a collection of hundreds of others, there are too many species in the Whark Aviform Hegemony to list in a simple summary.
Zhyn - Eight foot tall panther-like quadrupeds with dark, UV-resistant fur and eyes capable of aiming in different directions at once. Their tails are tipped with dark green feathered plumage which splays out wide, and they have split prehensile tongues. It is said their singing voices are among the most beautiful to all the galaxy's ears.
Minor Species
Askraad - Bipedal lizard-like humanoids with large clawed limbs and prolate spheroid heads. They are capable of visually perceiving EM radiation from visible light to well into SHF frequencies, and rely on cybernetic implants they receive from birth in order to hear and communicate with sound.
Avali - Small digitigrade avian-reptilian humanoids with dense insulating plumage, long flexible tails, and narrow skulls; oviparous and adapted to frigid, low-light worlds, they communicate by clipped chirrs and pheromones and excel at cold-environment engineering.
Bhirni - A race of furred Saurornithoides with large, dextrous claws and medium length tails. They are expert swimmers and demonstrate an instinctual knowledge of fluid dynamics.
Estrejachi - Diminutive apiform humanoids with six membranous wings, antennae, and a distended abdomen; adapted to nitrogen-rich nebulae; reproduction gated by royal jelly.
Garaka - Large bipeds with thick, leathery skin and numerous sensory protrusions forming multiple necks and individual “heads”. Their bodies are large and round, with lumpy flaps covering five openings each with a distinct purpose.
Hii - A race of huge bipedal polar-bear/saber-tooth hybrid-like creatures with four arms. Their upper set of arms are strong and durable with three fingers each, and their lower set of arms, which they typically fold into their fur and out of sight, are dextrous graspers with eight fingers each.
Human - The ruling species of the GHC as well as the founding species of the GSC, born near the center of Major Sphere Amanillion. Humans are generally known for their lateral thinking abilities as well as their wide but middling range of acceptable living environments.
Human Lineage Artificial Intelligence - Fully sapient artificial intelligence, with consciousness models more or less compatible with the mental-emotional model shared by most galactic sapients.
Iuspex - Five-foot tall canines with soft, slug-like cerata that grow like a mane out of their backs. Instead of tongues they have long, multi-branched proboscis that fork more as they mature - adults may have dozens of forks in theirs. They will rapidly grow sick and die without regular cleanings from the ruspex.
NESTEC Lineage Artificial Intelligence - Fully sapient artificial intelligence descended from NESTEC's early AI creations which were not modeled after any existing sapient's consciousness structure. As a result, these AI tend to consider emotions and attachment as choices to be made rather than facts of life.
Nixiti - Centaur-like humanoids which possess an upper body reminiscent of a baboon and the lower half of a rabbit. They rarely grow past four feet tall fully upright, and are known to be some of the galaxy's best pilots due to their natural reflexes.
Nusti - A race of avianoid bipeds similar to owls, with long flexible beaks they use to pierce and drain fruit of its juices. They have wings for arms, with long prehensile feathers which act as graspers and also provide fine control of flight.
Pihitil - Small beaked creatures with bright, warm-toned feathers and six limbs that function as both graspers and ambulatory appendages.
Pothon - Huge chemoautotrophic scavengers with a vaguely human body plan. Their hands are twice the size of a normal humans' and they possess four fingers on each, and they have no head, instead posessing a large, plant-like growth which they trim as one may maintenance hair or a beard.
Renau - A large race of densely feathered Saurornithoides with forepaws and hind claws. Their forepaws are linked to their bodies with semi-vestigial wings and are capable of gliding short distances. Males grow up to twelve feet tall and females typically reach eight feet in height.
Rinnegata - The Rinn are colossal stone-skinned draconic beings capable of surviving the void of space. They are omnivorous in all senses, from traditional food to raw hydrogen. They are born roughly eighty meters long and forty meters tall, but rapidly grow to up to several kilometers in length with a proportionally matched height.
Ruspex - Large, hollow carnivorous plantoids with thick fire-resistant bark. Their multiple oral orifices exhibit tremendous biting force and possess short tongues covered in long prehensile ciliae. Normally energetic, they grow lethargic and mentally dull when they go to long without the company of an iuspex.
Savulna - Humanoid bipeds with shallow snouts, huge ears, fur all over, and tails the length of their bodies. They are unusually resistant to radiation, and can see in perfect darkness at the expense of strained vision in light.
Whark_Species - Not one species but a collection of hundreds of others, there are too many species in the Whark Aviform Hegemony to list in a simple summary.
Zhyn - Eight foot tall panther-like quadrupeds with dark, UV-resistant fur and eyes capable of aiming in different directions at once. Their tails are tipped with dark green feathered plumage which splays out wide, and they have split prehensile tongues. It is said their singing voices are among the most beautiful to all the galaxy's ears.
