Post by Sihn Vecker on Feb 3, 2008 20:08:07 GMT -5
Race Name: Ni'Iev
Race Form: Bipedal / Quadrupedal
Race Life Span: 180 to 200 Galactic Standard Years
Description: The Ni'Iev, when standing fully, usually come to about five and a half feet tall with very thin bodies, allowing them to squeeze into the tight spaces of their underground hives. All over, they are colored pitch black like the planet they reside upon, with pupil-less, glowing yellow eyes that are perfectly round. They've no eyebrows, mouthes, noses or ears to speak of, giving them extremely basically features upon their perfectly round heads. For sensory perception, a pair of jagged antennae extend from their foreheads, curling back over their heads. As they progress in age, these become longer, like hair, and often come to touch the ground by adulthood. Their fingers are long, thin, and have extremely sharp claws in place of fingernails, giving them natural weapons that appear to stem from their skin seamlessly, seeing as there is no visible area where the claw actually connects to the fingers. Their feet, like most dogs and cats, have raised heels with three added tendons and two extra muscles in their heels, ankles, calves and thighs, giving them an unnaturally high running speed. With training, this speed can top thirty miles per hour when running over flat terrain, twenty miles per hour on hilly terrain, and fifteen miles per hour on jagged terrain where it is difficult to keep one's footing. This evolutionary gift also grants them an unnaturally high jumping cap, allowing them to jump well over fifteen feet without exerting one's self.
Their waste lines are incredibly thin, a particularly well-size man being able to wrap his hands around their midsection with relative ease, the tips of his index fingers and thumbs touching without much resistance. Despite this, they retain relatively well-sculpted features all over their bodies, a result of constant exercise brought on by the need to run from th more dangerous predators of their planet.
Racial Benefits: Centered around their eyes, the Ni'Iev have four extra cones instead of the standard amount, being able to see four wavelengths of light most species can't, even with technological help. Also, the pupils of their eyes cover the entire eye, including the sclera, allowing them near 360 degree vision, with a blind spot at their backs, where the upper tibia of the lower neck meets the back of their head, and downwards, extending to the ground. With this natural ability, they can see in the darkness of their world, being able to pick up heat signatures as well as electromagnetic signatures.
Racial Weaknesses: Such a hyper-active sense of sight means that any amount of light has the potential to blind them, and thus without any sort of aid, journey to planets with any sort of sun or artificial light source is impossible. This means that most attempts to meet with these creatures has resulted in their Ambassadors writhing in pain upon the ground, the poor Ni'Iev gouging out their own eyes.
In being thin, their metabolisms are hyper-active, and thus means that they need food much more often. While they can survive a day or two without food, it will leave them in an extremely weak state, and the fat built up in their bodies will deteriorate quickly. Also in being thin, their muscle mass isn't achieved quickly, and so it may take years to achieve the level of muscles the common solider has when it would take the human only half the time.
Language: The Ni'Iev speak a language that is a combination of twitches in their antennae and soft, soothing purrs and whines from their throats. It is not entirely impossible to learn this language, though it would take a particularly well-gifted philosopher many a year to fully understand it, and sadly, there just isn't the time for any of the Republic or Sith to learn it. The Ni'Iev call this language Ni'Iev'Liosa.
Life Style: The Ni'Iev live in underground 'hives', so to speak, which consist of your standard town-style layout, save for once difference; everything is tightly packed, making it hard for normal-sized beings to move about. The thin Ni'Iev laugh at most outsiders' attempts to move about, and often restrict them to what few colonies they have on the surface.
Culture: The Ni'Iev are a people of diversity, having many religious beliefs amongst themselves, though the majority is a belief in a tribunal of Gods known as 'Surr'all Mo'Kulla', or 'Those who Create' in Ni'Iev'Liosa. Any further documentation of these Gods have yet to be revealed to the outsider.
Every year, the Ni'Iev hold a planet-wide festival to honor their own creation, known as the 'Surr'all Mo'Kulla io Mo'kullie', or 'Those who Create have Created'. It is a time of joy amongst the Ni'Iev, though outsiders are encouraged not to attend. The eventual mating ceremony afterwards may give those of other species more than they originally bargained for.
Force Sensitivity: The Ni'Iev are naturally force sensitive due to their spiritual connection with the Surr'all Mo'Kulla, of which the Jedi who have studied this race of beings believe to be the Force. The priests of the Ni'Iev base-religion can do wondrous things, such as lift objects with no visible help, or persuade stubborn minds to their way of thinking, or even shoot lightning from their fingertips. Despite this, no attempts to train them in the way of the Jedi have been made so far, due to lack of communication between the two races.
Technology: The Ni'Iev are medieval at best, having no electricity or power to speak of, using weapons made of crude metals that would be sliced through by even your most basic of Republic long swords. Some technology has been introduced to their culture, though they rarely ever use it unless traveling to other worlds via the ships that have been given to them.
I'll add more when I can think of or if I am told of what there needs to be. If changes will be needed, I'd like to know.
Race Form: Bipedal / Quadrupedal
Race Life Span: 180 to 200 Galactic Standard Years
Description: The Ni'Iev, when standing fully, usually come to about five and a half feet tall with very thin bodies, allowing them to squeeze into the tight spaces of their underground hives. All over, they are colored pitch black like the planet they reside upon, with pupil-less, glowing yellow eyes that are perfectly round. They've no eyebrows, mouthes, noses or ears to speak of, giving them extremely basically features upon their perfectly round heads. For sensory perception, a pair of jagged antennae extend from their foreheads, curling back over their heads. As they progress in age, these become longer, like hair, and often come to touch the ground by adulthood. Their fingers are long, thin, and have extremely sharp claws in place of fingernails, giving them natural weapons that appear to stem from their skin seamlessly, seeing as there is no visible area where the claw actually connects to the fingers. Their feet, like most dogs and cats, have raised heels with three added tendons and two extra muscles in their heels, ankles, calves and thighs, giving them an unnaturally high running speed. With training, this speed can top thirty miles per hour when running over flat terrain, twenty miles per hour on hilly terrain, and fifteen miles per hour on jagged terrain where it is difficult to keep one's footing. This evolutionary gift also grants them an unnaturally high jumping cap, allowing them to jump well over fifteen feet without exerting one's self.
Their waste lines are incredibly thin, a particularly well-size man being able to wrap his hands around their midsection with relative ease, the tips of his index fingers and thumbs touching without much resistance. Despite this, they retain relatively well-sculpted features all over their bodies, a result of constant exercise brought on by the need to run from th more dangerous predators of their planet.
Racial Benefits: Centered around their eyes, the Ni'Iev have four extra cones instead of the standard amount, being able to see four wavelengths of light most species can't, even with technological help. Also, the pupils of their eyes cover the entire eye, including the sclera, allowing them near 360 degree vision, with a blind spot at their backs, where the upper tibia of the lower neck meets the back of their head, and downwards, extending to the ground. With this natural ability, they can see in the darkness of their world, being able to pick up heat signatures as well as electromagnetic signatures.
Racial Weaknesses: Such a hyper-active sense of sight means that any amount of light has the potential to blind them, and thus without any sort of aid, journey to planets with any sort of sun or artificial light source is impossible. This means that most attempts to meet with these creatures has resulted in their Ambassadors writhing in pain upon the ground, the poor Ni'Iev gouging out their own eyes.
In being thin, their metabolisms are hyper-active, and thus means that they need food much more often. While they can survive a day or two without food, it will leave them in an extremely weak state, and the fat built up in their bodies will deteriorate quickly. Also in being thin, their muscle mass isn't achieved quickly, and so it may take years to achieve the level of muscles the common solider has when it would take the human only half the time.
Language: The Ni'Iev speak a language that is a combination of twitches in their antennae and soft, soothing purrs and whines from their throats. It is not entirely impossible to learn this language, though it would take a particularly well-gifted philosopher many a year to fully understand it, and sadly, there just isn't the time for any of the Republic or Sith to learn it. The Ni'Iev call this language Ni'Iev'Liosa.
Life Style: The Ni'Iev live in underground 'hives', so to speak, which consist of your standard town-style layout, save for once difference; everything is tightly packed, making it hard for normal-sized beings to move about. The thin Ni'Iev laugh at most outsiders' attempts to move about, and often restrict them to what few colonies they have on the surface.
Culture: The Ni'Iev are a people of diversity, having many religious beliefs amongst themselves, though the majority is a belief in a tribunal of Gods known as 'Surr'all Mo'Kulla', or 'Those who Create' in Ni'Iev'Liosa. Any further documentation of these Gods have yet to be revealed to the outsider.
Every year, the Ni'Iev hold a planet-wide festival to honor their own creation, known as the 'Surr'all Mo'Kulla io Mo'kullie', or 'Those who Create have Created'. It is a time of joy amongst the Ni'Iev, though outsiders are encouraged not to attend. The eventual mating ceremony afterwards may give those of other species more than they originally bargained for.
Force Sensitivity: The Ni'Iev are naturally force sensitive due to their spiritual connection with the Surr'all Mo'Kulla, of which the Jedi who have studied this race of beings believe to be the Force. The priests of the Ni'Iev base-religion can do wondrous things, such as lift objects with no visible help, or persuade stubborn minds to their way of thinking, or even shoot lightning from their fingertips. Despite this, no attempts to train them in the way of the Jedi have been made so far, due to lack of communication between the two races.
Technology: The Ni'Iev are medieval at best, having no electricity or power to speak of, using weapons made of crude metals that would be sliced through by even your most basic of Republic long swords. Some technology has been introduced to their culture, though they rarely ever use it unless traveling to other worlds via the ships that have been given to them.
I'll add more when I can think of or if I am told of what there needs to be. If changes will be needed, I'd like to know.