1906: the year that humans learned that they are not alone(Collaborative project).

[ArKhan]

In the year 1906, Earth had entered a period of optimism, in spite of growing tensions between its nation states; everyone was content to believe that peace was now the ultimate destiny of humanity. Meanwhile, in the space around the Sol system, peace was a memory. The Thaxez Empire, made up thousands of races had fallen into civil war. For the past 25 earth years various faction had fought a brutal, evil war against its rivals. No less than 200 billion (some say as high as 700 billion) lives had been claimed. Desperate to get out, 9 billion refugees had flooded the Sol system over the month of May, which earth's astronomers had watched with great interest, believing them to be hence forth undiscovered asteroids. But Earth's illusions would be shattered on June 3rd of that year. At 1:07 PM Greenwich time (13:07 modern clock), the first of the envoys landed in London. Over the month, more would follow, until every nation on Earth had been solicited. Here the people of Earth where faced with a dilemma: 9 billion strange creatures with strange powerful weapons had come from nowhere, and demanded to settle on earth, and they wouldn't take know for an answer. Over the course of the 20th century, humanity would have to come to terms with strange new ideas, and strange new technology. Earth would never be the same again.

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Here's the plan, everyone create you're own race of aliens. List their Appearance, Biological classification, History and Society, and how they interacted with earth powers. For example:

Name: Thaxez
Classification: amphibian/mammal
Appearance: Bipedal, with two pairs of arms, 7 feet tall as adults.
History: the founding race of the Thaxez Empire, these creatures once had every other race under its brutal control, but since the war began, they are just another race seeking safety.
Society: Rigidly matriarchal, males are bought and sold at will. Only females who have given birth twice or more are allowed to vote. The Thaxez have a religion of sorts, but have no god because they believe that the idea of a deity is blasphemous. All homes contain a "Holy pond" where the female laid their eggs. After hatching into tadpoles the eggs are feed milk by their mother every hour for one year, during this time the mother never leaves the pond. At one year of age the tadpole are ready to live on land, but are not fully adult until the age of 7. The life expectancy of a Thaxez is 45 years.
Earth relations: The ten thousand Thaxez who came to earth where able to live inside Germany in exchange for technological gifts.

[Glen]

Since this is a collaborative project, may I suggest you consider placing it in our Collaborative Projects Subforum in Shared Worlds?

I'd be happy to move this thread over there, maybe after it is here for a few days to recruit participants.

[ArKhan]

Since this is a collaborative project, may I suggest you consider placing it in our Collaborative Projects Subforum in Shared Worlds?

I'd be happy to move this thread over there, maybe after it is here for a few days to recruit participants.
Okay. Are you going to be one?

[Glen]

Okay. Are you going to be one?

Honestly, I'd like to, but 1493 is taking up more time than I had hoped, so will have to stay out for now. I might throw a few comments in, and certainly would be available for your moderator needs.

[ArKhan]

Honestly, I'd like to, but 1493 is taking up more time than I had hoped, so will have to stay out for now. I might throw a few comments in, and certainly would be available for your moderator needs.

Okay, thank you.

[euio]

Do the aliens have FTL or do they use sleeper ships?

[Sertak]

This is a very nice thread and I would be glad to participate in collaboration of this project after it is moved to Shared Worlds sub-forum. In evening, I may prepare some proposals already.

[Sertak]

Droomi are warm-blooded, brachiating quadrupeds with two operating upper limbs. They evolved as omnivores, but now derive some of their sustenance from photosynthetic symbiotes living in their fur.
Droomi have two sexes. About 60% of individuals are sterile -- effectively neuter -- from birth. They live a long time but breed infrequently.
Droomi senses are comparable to humanity's.




History


Like most other subject races, the Droomi received the jump drive from others. Tzedoch influence was still far away when this happened, but traders from the powerful Elonna state to coreward passed the secret on about 50 B.C. A conservative race, the Droomi built up a small state about 10 parsecs in diameter around their homeworld Tel Roshah, then settled down to assimilate what they had taken. Unfortunately for them, the Droomi were the last known spacefaring race as one headed to the Rim – in other words, they were the obvious anchor on one border of the Tzedoch sphere of influencewhen they started to create their empire. For a while they were protected by having the Elonna between them and the Tzedoch, but after that race was conquered the days of Droomi independence were numbered. The Tzedoch conquered the original Droomi Polity by about 1200 A.D.
Since then the Droomi were carefully trying to find a way out of their predicament. While not aggressive, they would have rather been their own masters. With lives spanning several centuries from birth to death, the Droomi are cautious by Human standards, and had never brought a plan all the way to the point of open rebellion.
With the beginning of the War of the Empire End, though, they participated eagerly, having sided with Tzedoch Loyalists for the latter ones pledged to grant them the autonomy. However, the Loyalists and their allies were decisively defeated in 1899 A. D by Xur’Shkall armada, and their worlds were terribly destroyed. Only about 1,6 million Droomi survived – only to find all their habited worlds utterly destroyed. Together with the remnants of their initial allies, and now – brethren in trouble – they headed out away from the Rim, seeking for new shelter…


Physiology

The body plan is generally centauroid, but much more leonine than equine in appearance. The arms tend to be fairly well muscled. The hands have four digits each; with the last digit on each hand opposite the thumb appearing much more like elongated thumbs than human pinky fingers. The head is large and round, with a vaguely leonine appearance with whiskers and catlike ears, but with a humanlike chin. The nose is actually a flattened single nostril flared at the ends. The feet end in three toes each, with the forefeet having somewhat more prehensile toes. Eyes are catlike, with males having blue eyes and females, golden eyes.
A male Droomi is about two metres (6 ft) in height from head to forefeet - about the same as a tall human and the lower torso is about the size of a small horse's. Females are generally shorter in height by about 15 cm (6"), with a slighter build. There is a hump resembling that found on a bull in both sexes, but the female's hump tends to be smoother than and not as blocky as a male's. The female has two udders near the genitals on the lower torso to suckle their young. The Droomi has a tail, but only males have long tails resembling vaguely that of a lion's; the female has only a short stub for a tail, resembling a cropped dog's tail, but longer. The odor also differs by sex - females have a sweet odor, while males' are acrid. Females have better hearing than males and can also produce a wider range of frequencies in speech.
A striking feature of Droomi is that they have a "mane" of red vinelike leaves covering their heads, and the back of the neck and most of the upper torso. They even have "eyebrows" made of a smaller version of these leaves. This is due to the fact that they are highly symbiotic with plant and microbial life in their bodies. The leaf-mane serves to remove carbon dioxide and other wastes from the body and giving oxygen and certain nutrients in return. This makes for a more efficient metabolism, and the leaves in the leaf-mane can also act as a last-resort food supply.
The skin of Droomi is generally smooth and completely hairless. The skin colour of Droomi can vary widely from light brown to nearly black. The skin is covered with a tawny-green mosslike growth which aids in nourishing the blood and skin.
Like humans, Droomi are omnivores and thus can eat a wide variety of meats and plant matter. Their biochemistry is similar enough to humans that they and humans can each most kinds of either race's native foods. But a Droomi would suffer nutritional deficiency disorders if they tried to eat an exclusively human diet. The same goes for a human if he or she tried to eat only Droomi foods (fortunately, the Droomi on Earth are able to raise their own crops and livestock brought with them apparently with little problem). Droomi are able to ingest ethanol, and thus brew alcoholic drinks such as beers and ciders of their own.
Droomi have much longer lifespans than humans, generally about 300-500 years. They also have a very long period of adolescence, not reaching adulthood until about 64 years of age.


Psychology

Terrans often characterize Droomi as stoic, but this is not true. Droomi actually have a range of emotions quite similar to ours, surprisingly for such an alien race. The difference is that their emotions are much weaker than those of Humans, to the point that they are rarely swept away by
what they feel.
As a result, Droomi are much less ambitious and driven than Humans, and will think about things rather than act.
Droomi societies before the Empire Unification differ from each other in the same manner as English culture on Earth differs from Zulu, for instance. Still, they used to have the unified government for all planet and the similar provincial governments for each colony. Their dominant political paradigma before the Conquest was the idea of meritocracy and enlightened rule of Philosophes-Rulers, and they find Terran political systems (both monarchies and representative republics) “strange”.






Droomi on Earth



After initial panic had been swept away by interest and true amusement, the Droomi, who mostly landed on Kazakh lands belonging to Russian Empire, struch a deal with Russian representative and were given the rights of settlement by the Tsar’s decree, while their relatives in Mexico (namely Yukatan) found those lands terribly inhospitable and rejoined their old allies – the Elonna settlement – in Southern Canada. They prefer not to interfere in Earth politics but their cultural influence is prominent – especially in arts and philosophy – as well as political sciences.

[Fellatio Nelson]

Albidum Atrorubens

A race of albinos from the planet Coccineus.

Whereas they mostly breed among their own kind - using sex tentacles - they are not averse to inseminating subject races, so as to propogate a dominant overseer race. For this reason they have clip-on human sexual organs stowed aboard the mothership at all times. They are afraid of sunlight and sustained proximity to any light bulbs over 60w can prove lethal.


The first settlers arrived in pre-historic times and established themselves in the north of Scotland. They have bred with humans ever since then, with the recessive, alien Albidum Atrorubens gene sometimes making itself visible among their offspring.

[ArKhan]

Do the aliens have FTL or do they use sleeper ships?

Niether. All the alien ships are slower than light, and came to the Sol system through a one-way wormhole station. One of these stations takes at least 25 years to build, so for that time, no travel out side our system.

[ArKhan]

Okay, now it's in the Collaborative forum. Feel free to join.

[ArKhan]

Okay, here's the rules. Everyone who's playing make you're Races and post info about them. I will then post a historic event, and you post how they react to it. Afterwards we'll make a consensus on what happens next. First we need to get at least five players to sign up. So recomend this to anyone you think will be interested.

[Keenir]

Okay, here's the rules. Everyone who's playing make you're Races and post info about them. I will then post a historic event, and you post how they react to it. Afterwards we'll make a consensus on what happens next. First we need to get at least five players to sign up. So recomend this to anyone you think will be interested.

I'll sign up.

*digs up an alien species*

[ArKhan]

Thanks. We need a few more though.

[ArKhan]

If more people don't sign up, I'm going to abondon this project...

[Keenir]

If more people don't sign up, I'm going to abondon this project...

why can't we start off with this? its a big empire, right? maybe not all the aliens arrived yet.

[ArKhan]

why can't we start off with this? its a big empire, right? maybe not all the aliens arrived yet.
Okay. True enough. The wormhole stations can come to earth from ANYWHERE. Go ahead and post your alien race then.

[Snowfire]

Hi, New to the boards but I am going to post 2 races. One an aquatic off the coast of Chile and another in Argentina/Uraguay

[ArKhan]

Hi, New to the boards but I am going to post 2 races. One an aquatic off the coast of Chile and another in Argentina/Uraguay

Okay. Post them :)

[Snowfire]

Heres the land species. The aquatic species will be posted later toady or earlytommorrow.

Name: Nath’rori
Classification: Mammal like Reptile
History:
The world Nath’ro orbits the star Antares in the Cygnus Arm. The world is made up of 3 large continents and shallows seas. The Nath’rori evolved from groups of hunters located in the shallow flood plains of the many rivers on the planet. As civilization arose there were several splinter groups driven onto the high plains. These became the Nath’rora. The lowland groups became the Nath’rorthi. The Nath’rorthi developed cities and spread along the coastal plains and river systems. They built with clay and wood. There was little metal in lowlands. They also sailed across the seas and settled the other continents.
The highland tribes became nomadic. They did however discover mountains and metals. Some copper was traded to the lowland communities. They also raided the lowland cities but the larger populations tended to keep the carnage to a minimum. About 5000 years ago a group of Nath’rori discovered the Hutlki Valley (Sacred Land). There was an exposed iron vein. The group learned how to forge iron and subjugated the surrounding highland tribes. This new confederation proceeded to conquer the lowland cities and create a global Confederacy. This was a 2000 year process.
The now warrior like nomads looked down upon the lowland Nath’rori and created a caste system. The Nath’rorthi became farmers and producers serving the ruling Nath’rora. The culture stabilized and the many Nath’rorthi revolts became a thing of the past by 100 AD (Earth Calendar). In another 500 years the Nath’rori had developed inter-system space travel. They began to terra-form a planet and 2 small moons within there system.
In 753 AD they discovered a Nath’ro like planet approximately 10 light years from Nath’ro. A sublight probe was built and launched. The probe sent back information 40 years later showing the planet to be populated with a pre-industry species. It also showed the world to be more mountainous and cooler. A great debate ranged in the clan halls and the Confederacy capital. The warriors desired to conquer the new world. The only combat they had seen in 750 years had been ritualized duels. The Matriarchs argued about the existence of other sentient species. Ultimately the decision was made in 810 AD to build an attack fleet consisting of 2 million troops and 4 million support personnel. This group of sleeper ships was sent to conquer the new world and wipe out the natives. The fleet was launched in 823 AD and arrived at New Nath’ro in 843 AD. Every sentient was wiped out by 851 AD and the fleet was sent back to collect colonists.
This act of genocide started a civil war amongst the warrior caste. They desired combat and if new species were wiped out it would deprive them of combat. “Do we not conserve resources to build cities, transport and weapons? Should we not also reserve new species as resources?” Some of the matriarchs demanded the deaths of all those not created by the Horlki (Sacred spirits) Others argued, and had since the discovery of New Nath’ro, that all beings were from the Horlki but the Nath’rori we to rule over them all. Now with the support of the warrior caste they overthrew the traditionalist matriarchs and created the Rule of Hor’rthi (rule over lesser beings).
In the next 400 years the Nath’rori Confederacy spread to 6 systems (13 worlds) and controlled 3 subject races (the Jithrai, Fegran, and Regaran). In 1351 a Nath’rori probe scanned a Thaxez world. A 200 year war began between the Thaxez and the Nath’rori began. In 1553 Nath’ro itself was under siege and only one colony system was free. The Confederacy Council signed a treaty with the Empire and joined as an associated race. The colony worlds were returned and the Nath’rori became warriors for the Empire.
In 1885 AD a Thaxez Overseer on Jithrai III tried to impress more Nath’rori into imperial service to fight in the Civil War. The Nath’rori resisted due to the fact that 60% of males had been sent off world. The Overseer then used biological weapons on the populace. The Nath’rori revolted across the Empire. Overseers on all Nath’rori worlds responded by also employing Bio-weapons. Nath’rori fleets attacked Imperial stations and planets throughout the Empire. Finally the Confederacy Counsel decided on a two course option. A select group would flee to a neutral world. This group would consist of 100,000 Nath’rora and 900,000 Nath’rorthi.
The remaining fleets would seize control of a jump gate and then allow the exile group access through. Then the fleet would attack the Thaxez homeworld and wreck as much destruction as possible and then scatter through the galaxy to continue the fight. The plan proceeded as planed and the exile fleet appeared above Earth on June 27, 1906 AD. After a quick scan the area of Argentina and Uruguay seemed most like Nath’rori. The Nath’rori Matriarchs and Warrior Council entered into negotiations with the governments to settle in the pampas and Patagonia. The two governments agreed and the Nath’rori have created five cities . The first is their new capital of Hutlko near Lake Buenos Aires. Second is on the Colorado Delta south of Bahia Blanca and is being made into a major sea port. This is the main Nath’rorthi settlement. Two small cities are in the north Pampas areas of Argentina and one settlement is on the Rio Negro in Uraguay.

Physiology:
Appearance:
The Nath’rori are bipedal humanoids. There are two sub races of Nath’rori. The first are called the Nath’rora and they are the dominate sub group. Males are 1.4-1.6m in heigh and weight between 70-85kg. Females are between 1.5-1.75m in height and weigh between 75-95kg. They have a mix of scaly skin colored tan and brown and smooth skin colored light brown. Males have fur that grows along their faces’ (cheeks) and on their forearms. This fur ranges in color from red, yellow or blue. Females have ridges that grow along their heads and legs. These ridges are colored red, green or olive.
The Nath’rorthi are also bipedal humanoids. Males are 1.5-1.7m in height and weigh between 60-72 kg. Females are between 1.6-1.9m in height and weigh between 65-85 kg. They have a mix of scaly skin colored grey and black and smooth skin colored tan. Males have fur that grows along their faces’ (cheeks) and on their forearms. This fur ranges in color from brown, grey and black. Females have ridges that grow along their heads and legs. These ridges are colored yellow, green or olive. Both species see more into the red spectrum and have excellent nightvision. There eyes are round with yellow, brown or hazel pupils. They have round irises.
Diet:
The Nath’rori are omnivores but prefer fish and grasses in their diets. Their biochemistry is similar enough to humans that they and humans can eat most kinds of either race's native foods. There has been some microbial issues but so far there have been no major issues.
Biology:
As a Mammal like Reptile the Nath’rori lay eggs but suckle their young. Females go into heat 3 times a year. They will lay a single egg 2 weeks after mating. The egg will be kept in a burrow or incubator for 6 weeks. Temperature determines gender and Nath’rori clans will regulate how many of each gender are born. There tends to be more male Nath’rora and more Nath’rorthi females. The young will remain with his mother for 2 years at which time they are physically mature. Nath’rori live for 55 years. The two sub-species can inter breed but never do due to the ingrained caste system.

Psychology:
Nath’rori society is very similar to Native American societies. Male and females are separate but equal. Females rule the clans and all internal decisions. Females are also the spiritual leader of the Nath’rori. Female Matriarchs also choose the Male War Chiefs (in Nath’rora Clans) or Clan Chiefs (in Nath’rorthi Clans).
Females in Nath’rora clans raise all young until age 2. They teach all young about Nath’rori society and their place in society. At that time the males are sent to the War Chief and are trained in combat and begin ritualized duels to earn rank. Male chiefs make all external decisions for the clan, however keeping in mind that an un-wanted war will quickly end when the Matriarchs stop producing male young.
Nath’rora females are induced into the priesthood at age 2 and begin breeding at age 4. Raising the young and providing the spiritual needs take second place to regulating Nath’rorthi clans. The Nath’rora Matriarchs send females into Nath’rorthi groups to maintain the caste structure and make sure there is no revolt.
Nath’rorthi societies are the producers of Nath’rori society. From farmers to industrialists are the product needs are created by Nath’rorthi. Nath’rorthi are also the merchants but all merchant relations with other species is accompanied by a Nath’rora female and war-band. Researchers are also Nath’rorthi but are always supervised by male Nath’rora. Male Nath’rorthi tend to do menial and physical jobs and females tend to enter the “white collar” jobs. All occupations are determined after age 4.
In terms of warfare Nath’rori prefer quick destructive strikes. Fast hovertanks, fighters, and mobile power-armor are preferred. This comes from the natural running abilities of Nath’rora. They also have a fondness for close combat. The Space forces tended to small, quick, lightly armored craft (frigate size) heavily armed. They also prefer heavy particle and ion weapons (short range) over long range lasers or rail guns.
Nath’rori on Earth:
The biggest problems for Nath’rori on earth is the conflicts between the Cuadillos and the new species introduced by the Nath’rori. The Gromi and Ferthe are similar to cattle and sheep and and are in conflict with the native ranchers. They have also taken an intense like for Wheat. Wheat farmers are having problems with Ferthe herds eating all their crop.
Earth relations:
The Nath’rori are primarily concerned with creating infrastructure now. Getting The Colorado Delta city up and creating factories is very important. They have loaned 3 war bands to Argentina for training purposes and have agreed to upgrade the Argentinean army within 5 years. The local Generals want hi-tech NOW and are pressuring the Nath’rori to give up some weapons so that they can launch a war against either Chile or Brazil.
The Nath’rora High Warchief is also trying to get Argentina and Uruguay to untie as one nation so that there is a greater human base to help secure the Nath’rori Confederacy-in-Exile.

[Snowfire]

The population figures for this exodus seem a little large. 9 billion aliens are alot. Why don't they just conquer earth? What are the excess ships doing parked in orbit? That would blockout the sun.

Perhaps we should change the total aliens comming to 900 milion. With a Human popualtion of 2 billion this is still alot. I would even perfer 90 million. 90 million would allow an impact but allow humanity to survive intact and not just become a servant race.

Sorry to focus on the 9 billion but I ope alot of the alien species are smurf size....cuz I thought Mexico city was crowded in 1997....

[ArKhan]

The population figures for this exodus seem a little large. 9 billion aliens are alot. Why don't they just conquer earth? What are the excess ships doing parked in orbit? That would blockout the sun.

Perhaps we should change the total aliens comming to 900 milion. With a Human popualtion of 2 billion this is still alot. I would even perfer 90 million. 90 million would allow an impact but allow humanity to survive intact and not just become a servant race.

Sorry to focus on the 9 billion but I ope alot of the alien species are smurf size....cuz I thought Mexico city was crowded in 1997....
Okay true enough. 900 million it is.

[seleucusVII]

The Akareth
Physiology: Mammals (marsupials, kangaroo-like) Usually 2.2 m tall, omnivores, lifespan of +-250 years. They are completely homogenuous and it is hard to differ an Akareth from each other only by physical appearance. The babies are carried in a bag, like normal earth marsupials.

History:
Thkatra, home of the Akareth, is a planet with the size of Mars, with very different climates in its small space, from the arid plains where the Akareth were born to the freshwater lacustrian area inhabited by a race between a pulmoned fish and an amphibious, the Sakrã.
The Akareth evolved from omnivore animals similar to kangaroos, that developed weapons to hunt the giant boarlike creatures that used to live in the plains. Agriculture was developed very early, because in the akareth homelands, a giant river with a kind of alive humus that was eaten by the proto-akreths and, later, cultivated, by the intelligent ones.
Naturally they doesn't had any religion except nature worshipping (a kind of monotheism), and they don't understand any other concepts.
Initially, no contacts were made between both races, until the first akareth kingdoms, Lyzena and Smaras, reached the extreme point of the "eternal plains", in the place where the giant river (Akhri) ended, Lujepa, the lake of the cities.
In less than 200 years, the vulnerable Sakrã were hunted to extinction by the Akareth, who just waited for the sakrãs to come to the surface for breeding, the only place where they could do it. The very few sapient sakrãs of the other corner of the world kept their tradictions and strong religion until the days of the Thaxez, when they were moved to the planet Hakar (OOC: similar to Star Wars' Kamino).
After it, the Akareth unified their kingdoms into a single empire, and became relactively peaceful. In the year 31.890 of the Creation of Akareth, the entire planet would be under the rule of the Akareth Emperor (this time, they still had technology similar to the early modern age).
In the year 32.403, the emperor peacefully resigned his power to let a council to rule the empire, now lead by the Chancellor.
By the year 33.000, the Akareth started expanding to space, colonizing the worlds nearby (two small worlds, one a planet and another its moon, both inhabitable and known to the Akareth as Föw and Akaka).
In the year 33.909, the Akareth colonized the star nearby, Falvaã, and encountered another sapient race, the insectoid Kra, stuck in the age before industrial revolution for more than 100.000 years, in their legends. The chancellor of Akareth, Vili, ordered the Kra to be enslaved, and so they were for more than 300 years.
In the year 34.288, all Kra were freed from their old masters, after a popular coup took the chancellor down and instored a new empire, that was to follow a new idea known as "Feerth", or "Democracy", but soon forgotten by many, and kept in secret by few.
By the year 40.000, the Akareth Empire was made of a dozen planets, and, since the terrible slavery of the Kra, the contact with the other sapient species of their small empire, the reptilian Sva and the marsupial Fattrn, was peaceful and profitable to everybody.
In the year 41.117, the Akareth knew of a bigger empire that reached the nearby small independent states (the Fib Tyranny and the Yhahwiw Republic), a truly big state, the Empire of the Thaxez.
After 400 years of trade, the Akareth entered peacefully the Thaxez empire. and the Akareth became an important race of their empire, being one of the only races to enter the empire freely.
After the fall of the Thaxez, the 30.000 survivors were allowed to live in the almost empty western Australia, similar to Akareth homelands. in exhange of their biotechnology, and the idea of Feerth seems to be appearing again among them.

[ArKhan]

First historic event: the year was 1914. The neither the aliens, nor the humans had yet had time to come to terms with the events that had occured just 8 years earlier. Then came an event that was to change everything. The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was murdered in Sarijavo, and at first the aliens where blamed. It was soon learned however that the murders where Serbian terrorists. Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, and this triggered the vast net of alliances through out Europe. The Great War had begun. The aliens had come to earth to excape war, but now where forced into a new one, and with the Sol system's wormhole station nowhere near finished they had nowhere to go to excape this one. Thaxez reaction: The Thaxez joined the germans in combat, believing that the war would benifit them.

[Snowfire]

Space reserved for Aquatic race

[Snowfire]

Name: Ssorai
Classification: Marine Mammal
History:
The world Gecnor orbits a main sequence star roughly 2000 light years away from earth in the Orion Arm. The planet is 95% water with scattered volcanic islands. The surface is swept by mega hurricanes and is very inhospitable to terrestrial species. However under the oceans a sentient species arose 50,000 years ago. These mammals had developed group hunting tactics and a primitive form of sonar communication. They had also developed a way to manipulate a certain species of coral. This coral was infested with a bacterium that could be manipulated with sound waves. The ancestors of the Ssorai found that they could make tools out of this coral to better help them hunt and protect themselves.
Over the next 40,000 years the Ssorai extended their control over the planet. They also learned how to manipulate the bacteria so that it would work with other coral species. Bacteria caused some corals to be as hard as steel and others to be silk like. They developed corals that bonded to their bodies as clothing, armor or weapons. Travel was speed up by the creation of underwater craft that used water jetting coral to reduce the need to swim. At this time the Ssorai also started to develop aquaculture.
Underwater cities began to grow and a few attempts were made to transplant onto the islands. Frequent hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions prevented any permanent settlements. There began t be a cultural shift to avoid the surface and build cities between 30m-300m under the sea. Air pockets were created allow Ssorai to never have to go to the surface. Only the crazy or the “storm touched” would go to the surface. Even travelers would carry coral tanks filled with air so that they didn’t have to go to the surface.
In 123 BC one of the storm touched named Corial’fri witnessed a shuttle from the Nezem land on one of the islands and later leave. Stunned by the appearance of a ship that could fly and beings with legs he rushed to his home and started to tell everyone he knew of the event. No one believed him especially about the ship that could fly or the fire coming out of the end of it. Corial’fri knew what he saw and was determined to prove it.
He spent years working with bacteria to produce energy. The Ssorai knew of fire but ignored it (being hard to maintain underwater). Coriel’fri knew that it was fire that allowed the strange ship to fly. He also began a pilgrimage to the island every year. He never saw another ship for 80 years. He continued to work on energy releasing bacteria for all that time. He did have some small success however nothing that could move a ship. Eventually he became old and three members of his pod were sent with him every year to watch over him. In 43 BC these three also witnessed a shuttle landing. Too stunned to contact the aliens they stayed in the shallows. Coriel’fri however slithered onto the beach and approached the Nezem.
Surprised that this planet had any large life forms the Nezem scanned and tried to communicate with Coriel’fri. This gave him a heart attack and he died. Seeing their pod mate die the 3 guardians surged out of the sea and attacked the Nezem. The Nezem ran back to their ship and barricaded themselves inside (they were only scientists and had no weapons). The three took Coriel’fri’s body back into the sea. Thinking they had only witnessed a smart animal they noted it in their logs and left the planet.
Back in the city the three swam to the Elders and told them what they had seen. They also showed them the body of Coriel’fri. The elders, now confronted by the truth of Corial’fri’s story panicked and demanded that the three not tell anyone what they had seen. However the three began to tell everyone. Terror spread among the cities and a new movement arose. The new Movement named itself the Outsiders but was more commonly know as Corial’thr. Members of the movement continued to work on energy producing bacteria.
For 120 years the Outsiders were persecuted by the Elders. Final the Elders decided to eliminate the Outsider Heresy. By this time the Outsiders had developed energy weapons in place of the traditional melee style of the elders. As the armies of the elders approached the Outsider cities they were wiped out by energy cannons and weapons of the Outsiders.
The Corial’thr War unified the planet. The Outsiders continued to work on energy and bio technologies. Soon they had developed craft that could fly in the skies and into space. Their home system was bare and all interstellar exploration stopped. The Outsiders continued to look to the skies for the return of the aliens that Corial’fri had discovered.
This return occurred in 1121 AD as the Nezem, now a subject species in the Thaxez Empire, came resource harvesting. Excited that the aliens had returned the Ssorai quickly made contact. Seeing that their initial probes were wrong they sent word to the local sector governor. The governor set troops but the Ssorai was so excited they joined the Thaxez Empire willingly.
They became a scientist species within the empire as they discovered that water was rare in the galaxy. They traveled little. They continue to perfect living ships and bio-enhancement for the Empire.
During the Civil war the Ssorai did not take part. They continued to provide supplies to all sides. Their world was not attacked until 1750 AD when a Nezem fleet battled a Thaxez Fleet over their world. There was much collateral damage. 80% of the Ssorai cities were destroyed. Radiation and contamination spread throughout the oceans. The Ssorai appealed for help from the Thaxez but received no reply. The death count continued to grow. Finally they decided to build an ark ship to carry 20000 Ssorai away. This was a dramatic decision as the Ssorai rarely left their homeworld. The Ark was started in 1830 AD and finished in 1863 AD. Members of all pods were gathered and selected. A new pod was created out of those selected. The Ark ship was launched in 1865 AD. After many warp jumps the Ssorai found Earth and landed in the Chilean Trench in 1907AD. They signed an alliance treaty with Chile in 1908 and fought one war with Peru in 1909. Since then they have started building cities under the south pacific.

Physiology:
Appearance:
The Ssorai are a Seal like race. The males are 2.5 m long and weight 350-420 kg. The females are 1.8m long and weight 100-120 kg. The males have enlarged necks and fish like fins along their backs, heads and forearms. They are a dark mottled blue with a white or light blue belly. Ssorai can travel on land but it is much like seals. Their forearms end in webbed hands with 2 fingers and a small thumb.
Diet:
The Ssorai are omnivores but prefer fish. They can and do eat a kelp like substance but do not like earth kelp.
Biology:
Like mammals throughout the galaxy Ssorai give birth to live young. Females go into heat once a year. They give birth after a 6 month gestation to a single young. The young will remain with his mother for 10 years at which time they are physically mature. Ssorai live for 85 years.

Psychology:
Ssorai are dominated by males. The Ssorai society is patriarchial and polygamist. Males will select a mate at age 20. After their first offspring is born the male will continue to gain females as long as the male continues to produce for society. Males will gather 2 times a year to make decisions for the clan. Clan leaders will gather once every two years to make decisions for society as a whole.
Females in Ssorai clans raise all young until age 10. At that time the males are separated from the females. The males are tested and sent into a field that the testing shows they will excel. They apprentice to older males until age 19 when all males test for the right to select a mate. If they succeed at this trial (3 attempts are allowed) they are given a title and allowed to run there own area of expertise. They may also then select their first mate. Males who do not succeed after 3 attempts are killed. On Ssorai Prime there were rumors of outlaw males existing in the wilds that were not killed but their existence could never be proven. No known dark males exist on Earth.
Females raise the young and are the primary producers of Ssorai society. Females start in pod groups with male young but are tasked with maintaining kelp beds from age 5-8 and then the fisheries from 8-13. At 13 they are sent to become a mate of a male. After mating the females become the producers in society. The shape the coral that is a part of all Ssorai’s lives. While the males are the scientists the females shape these prototypes into what society wears, lives in and uses.
Ssorai do not like to fight other species but will and have the technology to do so. They prefer not to fight on land at all but process excellent sub and air forces. They’re weapons are primary laser and missile weapons. Guns do not work underwater. Underwater they also use sonic weapons.
Ssorai on Earth:
Working primary with the Chileans the Ssorai have colonized the Chilean Trench. There has been one colony set up by Fiji causing tension with the French but sent they have negligible undersea forces there has been no conflict yet.
Chile is pushing for technology to make undersea fleets and mining ships. They are also pushing for technology to increase fishing yields. The Ssorai have also begun trading with Mexico and America with huge undersea freighters.

[Snowfire]

First historic event: the year was 1914. The neither the aliens, nor the humans had yet had time to come to terms with the events that had occured just 8 years earlier. Then came an event that was to change everything. The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was murdered in Sarijavo, and at first the aliens where blamed. It was soon learned however that the murders where Serbian terrorists. Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, and this triggered the vast net of alliances through out Europe. The Great War had begun. The aliens had come to earth to excape war, but now where forced into a new one, and with the Sol system's wormhole station nowhere near finished they had nowhere to go to excape this one. Thaxez reaction: The Thaxez joined the germans in combat, believing that the war would benifit them.

In 1914 the Archduke was killed in Serbia. The South American Republics quickly declared neutrality but where ahppy to supply both sides. The Nath'rori knowing that the Thaxez where suppling Germany began a debate wither they should side with the Allies. 2 war bands sent "mercenary troops" to France as "military advisors".
However the biggest result was the Brazilian/Argentine war of 1915. Brazil and Uraguay had large German population esp in southern Brazil. These german colonists were advocating succession and joining Germany. Both President Iriogoyen and the Clans felt that this was unaccedptable. President Iriogoyen did not want Brazil to be the leading power on the continent and the Clans did not want to see any Thaxez influence so close to their new home.
The governments of Parguay, Uraguay and Argentine signed an alliance in Feb of 1915 and sent their german populations into concentration camps (think cuba 1896, not germany 1942) and seized all germany assests. German Forigen Minister Zimmerman sent 20 Thaxezian adisors to the colonies in Brazil to strengthen their resolve. The Clans saw this encroachment and launched an attack into Southern Brazil. The upgraded Argentine and Urguagy armies also crossed the border in May of 1915. The Brazilian forces crumbled and southern Brazil was annexed by Nov 1915. This lead to unifacation talks between Uruagy and Argentinia. Chile and Peru sent strongly worded warnings to Argentina but did nothing.
Question: What was America's response? Or the Ententes?

[Aussey]

Name: Leopallatians, now known as the JIRAFFA

Classification: Humano-Giraffidoid

History: The Leopallatians hail from the Mu Arae system, where they have ruled over their inner planet within their system as isolationists. Three successful civilizations flourished on their planet, which they call Sumana. The northern civilization, known as the Biratrizes, where known to be a very strong peoples, and their culture was very militaristic in sorts. They conquered and absorbed the peoples of northern Sumana by the year 4000 BC (Earth years,) and are the oldest civilization on their planet. Their expansion into the other hemisphere was alted when the last land brige across the Methane river collapsed shortly before the Thaxez invasion. Like the rest of the Sumanan civilizations, the birth-giving gender is physically more adpat to rule, and thus are matriarchal. The Biratrizes beliefs are centered on a supreme life-giving deity named "Salaama," who is also a main focus of faith in the other two regions, displaying that the entire planet, at one point in history, was one culture. The Biratrizes completely enslaved the life-fertilizing gender, a reason why the quickly rose to the status of "Most Favored Subjects," after the Invasion.

The Southeastern civilization, the Tryphaeins developed a distinctly different culture than either two other civilzations. The main focus of the Tryphaeinan culture is visual expression. A very artistic people, the Tryphaeinans came up with the systems of government that ruled the southern federation of the planet before the Invasion. Being separated from the north by the Methane river, and from the west by a gigantic gorge, there is no proof of a military of sorts evcer existing, and the life-giving gender and life-fertilizing gender are equal- the only time this is found on the planet. The Tryphaeins worship biety of deities- Salaama the Life Giver, and the Meerfortitz the Fertilizer (subsequently, the only "male" deity in all civilizations.) These Leopallatians were very detested by the Invaders.

The Southwestern civilization, the Cleeopuhtrines, developed a very natural culture, mainly due to the lush forests and rivers flowing through the region. Unlike the Biratrizes and Tryphaeins, the Cleeopuhtrines are herbivorous beings, mainly due to the fact that they are the only non-plant(like) substances found in this section of the planet. The Cleeopuhtrines believed that a great spirit, not deity, Salaama, flowed through all Leopallatians, and that by living off of nature, they would be great. Their defense forces were some of the toughest found by the Invaders in the entire universe, though they were still conquered. Shortly before the Invasion, however, the Cleeopuhtrine leader entered into union ("marriage,") with the Tryphaein leader (who was a "male," a very rare occasion,) and thus a new civilization temporarily existed, which humans call the southern federation. It was the Cleeopuhtrines who first developed space travel for the Leopallations, later than most, about only a hundred years before the Invasion. The Leopallations are very intelligent creatures, and very humanoid in nature. This is evident, based on their history.

Physiology: The Leopallatians are a humano-giraffidoid creature, humanoid from the waist up, and giraffidoid from the waist down. Due to the intense heat a desert like nature of their planet, aside from the southwest, they are a very dark skinned peoples, and have very litte body hair above their waist. Shocking to earth scientists, was the exact replication of giraffe patterns of hair that completely covers their body from the waist down.

[[They are giraffes from the waist down, :)]]

It has been suggested their their humanoid genes can match with human genes, and that by a scientific process, a human could be artifically insemenated by a "male" Leopallatian and female human.

Appearance: The Leopallatians appear to be an African human from the waist up, and a giraffe from the waist down. They are generally 16 feet tall, though some have been found to be dwarfed at 7 feet, or gigantified at 24 feet! The "human," portion of their body, however, is proportioned with the giraffe portion, so as they seem like "giant humans." A very interesting, an unexplained pheonomene, is that the eye-colour of each civilization is different. Northerners have gold-coloured eyes, Southeasterners have blue eyes, and Southeasterners have very leaf-green coloured eyes. However, whenever a Leopallatian is born to one of these three eye colours, a very light brown eye, like the colour of stripped lumber, is formed.

Diet: The Biratrizes and Tryphaeins diet is mainly omnivorous. Both are centered around the consumption of cattle-like creatures found in the eastern hemisphere of their home planet. After the invasion, they were introduced to other forms of meat, which they were able to eat. However, after coming to earth, it was discovered that when they consumed cold-blooded animals they died within hours. The Cleeopuhtrines are herbivorous, and upon entering earth, they were able to eat any and all forms of plant life on earth- even poisonous kinds.

Psychology/Society: Very little remains of the different societies of the Three Civilizations since the Invasion. After years of enslavement and use by the Invaders, a single culture has existed amongst the Leopallatians. However, due to eye-color identification, there still exists few multi-civilizational Leopallatians. Three distinct dialects of their language still exist, though the Tryphaein has emerged as the "educated," and "formal," form. Aside from the Tryphaeins, both the Biratrizes and Cleeopuhtrines are matriarchal in character. "Male," children still tend to be left uneducated, and to work for the "family," business, while "female" children take greater roles in society. However, the Tryphaeins still stress equality between the genders, and both genders have been equal in their culture since the split of the Sole-Planetary Empire that broke up in thousands of years before the Invasion. They are very human like in their emotions, though, through culture, the Biratrizes are trained to be emotionless. Since coming to Earth, there has been a divide in the Leopallations, which humans call the "Returnists," and the "Originists." The Returnists wish their cultures to stay distinct based off of the Three Civilization way of life. However, the "Originists," wish to again re-united the Leopallatians as a single civilization. Leopallatians are equally split, and regardless of their status-sympathies, there is strong "nationalism," between the memebers of all three civilizations. The mating/"marriage" process is very unique. Biratrizes are polygamist, while the Tryphaeins are strictly monygamist. The Cleeopuhtrines have evolved a society without marriage or familal relations, where young Jiraffa are simply raised by their mothers, with siblings with different fathers.

Jiraffa on Earth: When they first entered Earth, the Leopallatians landed in the Congo- a land similar to the old for the Cleeopuhtrines, and acceptable for the Tryphaeins. The Biratrizes traveled northward towards the Sahel, and settled there. Unheardof cooperation between the three civilization led to the settlement of Leopallatians throughout Subsaharan Africa. There are calls between Leopallatians, (now known as "Jiraffa," (pronounced "yeer-AH-fuh,") amongst themselves and humans) for the formation of a single subsaharan state. Due to their resemblance to the local humans, on a larger scale, there has never been the idea of enslaving or consuming the African natives. Since coming to earth, they have adopted French as a language to speak with the humans. Many Tryphaeins are accepting Catholicism as a faith, believing their Biety had never existed, and was the reason their homeplanet was destroyed by the Invasion.

Earth relations: Peaceful. The Jiraffa maintain a society, known in French as the "Association Commeafrique," the "Like-African Association," to manage their affairs. All three civilizations maintain their own system of leaders, a military-life-presiding-"officer"-for-life for the Biratrizes, an elected-official for the Tryphaeins, and an absolute monarch for the Cleeopuhtrines. Each year the leaders of the respective civilizations rotate as "President d'Association," though she retains a ceremonial role until the Returnist/Orginist issue is dealt with.

[Aussey]

First historic event: the year was 1914. The neither the aliens, nor the humans had yet had time to come to terms with the events that had occured just 8 years earlier. Then came an event that was to change everything. The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was murdered in Sarijavo, and at first the aliens where blamed. It was soon learned however that the murders where Serbian terrorists. Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, and this triggered the vast net of alliances through out Europe. The Great War had begun. The aliens had come to earth to excape war, but now where forced into a new one, and with the Sol system's wormhole station nowhere near finished they had nowhere to go to excape this one. Thaxez reaction: The Thaxez joined the germans in combat, believing that the war would benifit them.

An emergency meeting of the Association Commafrique was called in Elizabethville, Belgian Congo- their headquarters. The current President, Miereysha Klinganpuur of the Biratrize called upon the voters of the Association to support the French and Belgian governments of their respective territories. However, the Jiraffas from Deutsch-Ostafrika, opposed supporting the Allies, and left the association. The Jiraffa from Deutsch-Ostafrika formed the Afrikawie Gemeinschaft der Erde, the African-Like Community of Earth, with their headquarters in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spitze, Deutsch-Ostafrika. With no opposition due to the new German-league, the francophone and francophile Association declared it's support for the government of the Belgian Congo, French West Africa, France, and Belgium. Days laters, the germanophone and germaniphile Community, the GED, declared it's support for the Austro-Hungarian cause, and for the government of Germany and German East Africa. Many Jiraffa in Ostafrika, mostly Originist, opposed the GED's division of the "Jiraffa people," based on Earth situations, and defected into the Belgian Congo, and supported the Association.

[seleucusVII]

First historic event: the year was 1914. The neither the aliens, nor the humans had yet had time to come to terms with the events that had occured just 8 years earlier. Then came an event that was to change everything. The heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was murdered in Sarijavo, and at first the aliens where blamed. It was soon learned however that the murders where Serbian terrorists. Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia, and this triggered the vast net of alliances through out Europe. The Great War had begun. The aliens had come to earth to excape war, but now where forced into a new one, and with the Sol system's wormhole station nowhere near finished they had nowhere to go to excape this one. Thaxez reaction: The Thaxez joined the germans in combat, believing that the war would benifit them.
The Akareth stand neutral, believing that being aligned with the Central Powers would make the british to expel them from Australia, and aligning to the Entente would make the Thaxez to do the same.
Anyway, they kept developing biotech in Australia, and the british vastly used it in the war. Before 1915, the Akareth government became a Feerth (Democracy).