The Kry'aike homeworld of origin is a dark one. Rotating slowly on its axis, half the Kry'aike Homeworld is dark for most of the year, resulting in an very cold and an almost unchartable landscape which was even futher endangered by the presence of giant animals that roamed the planet's surface. The Kry'aike were once similar to the hive-insects of Earth but eventually evolved into what they are today. Breeder drones were introduced to help balance the constant death toll; bioluminescent eyes to help navigate the darkness; incredibly-durable carapaces to survive potential falls; an organic "solar-panel" to absorb sunlight or moonlight for heat; creative thinking in order to think of new wayst to avoid death; and unimaginable strength to fend off predators.
Eventually, the predators began declining on the Kry'aike Homeworld and the Kry'aike took their place as the dominant species. In some unknown time, an event dubbed the Swarm Wars began; a massive, planet-wide war between all of the Kry'aike Hives. It is unknown how long it lasted but it is suggested it ended before they began looking at the universe outside their world. The Swarm Wars eventually ended when the single strongest hive on the planet conquered most of the other hives and established a new order in its territories. The Queen of that hive became the first Kry'aike Empress and the remaining queens became her cohorts. Eventually, the Kry'aike invented space travel and expanded to other worlds. Some time later, they joined the then-young Alignment (a loose alliance between different alien species); unfortunately, the Kry'aike are considered the sleeping giant of the Alignment, being a rather secluded but still important member of it. The Kry'aike are advanced compared to the other species, being almost 20% further than anyone else under the Alignment.
Virtually every form of Kry'aike has five pairs of bioluminescent eyes that differentiate in color depending on the indiduvual's caste, a pitch-black exoskeleton, two mandibles that act as a mouth guard, a domed-shaped cranium and some sort of organic solar panel in the form of a horizontally-lined, fan-like plate located near the neck. But rather interestingly, all Kry'aike seem to possess brains very similar to that of fully-sapient species but evolution has somehow locked "unnecessary" parts of the brain according to the caste of the Kry'aike. Workers, for example, are creative in the art of construction but are completely devoid of any knowledge outside of that.
Easily the most common member of the hive, the Kry'aike Workers are the builders and laborers of the species. Physically, Workers are supported by several pairs of sure-footed legs which only put them at 2 meters tall, and possess blue-colored eyes. Workers are densely packed compared to Warriors but are very hard to knock down. Workers also possess multiple pairs of arms, each one designed to fulfill a certain task (longer, stronger arms for reaching and heavy lifting and smaller arms for more precise tasks like computing or design).
Kry'aike Workers are considered the most peaceful of the species, seeing how they've evolved for a non-combat role and are almost completely single-minded in their tasks. Workers are considered creative and masterful engineers but perhaps the greatest advancement of the worker caste was the evolution of the Breeder Drone. Female Workers dedicated for the creation of new Kry'aike, Breeders are considered a superior improvement over reproducing queen insects from Earth since the death of a single Breeder wouldn't doom a colony.
Kry'aike Warriors are physically intimidating creatures; adolescent warriors (1 Alignment Year*) usual stand 2½ meters tall but can grow up to an impressive height of 3 meters tall when older. Warriors, unlike workers, stand up erect on a pair of legs and have two arms that end with . They, like all Kry'aike, possess pitch-black exoskeletons, five pairs of eyes, and bioluminescent eyes which in their case, glow green. Warrior exoskeletons, on the other hand, are unique -the armor of their carapaces are incredibly dense and are shaped in a way almost akin to actual battle armor. Warriors are also mountains of strength with hands easily the size of an adult human male torso. Rumors circulate that the largest warriors can stop and lift up a 20,000 lbs. vehicle that was moving at sixty miles per hour; however, these claims are likely fictional since no one has ever reported a Kry'aike preforming such a task.
Kry'aike Warriors are exclusively male and act as the hands, eyes, feet and ears for the Kry'aike outside the hive. Naturally adept in the ways on combat and skilled in the art of warfare, Kry'aike Warriors are the first and last line of defense for the Kry'aike. Most of the time when dealing with alien species, Warriors act as a loose-form of ambassador but are nowhere near the minds of Queens.
Both similar and different to the hive-mind insects of Earth, Kry'aike Queens act as the leaders of the Kry'aike. Physically, queens are similar to warriors in appearance but smaller (being closer to human height) and with purple eyes instead of green. Queens, being the effective leaders of the species, are the least mentally-restricted breed of Kry'aike in the entire species. But unlike the queen insects of Earth, Kry'aike Queens do not populate their hives and rarely exert control over them, rather influence them in their actions thus allowing more creative thinking. Queens are born from other queens who mated.
The closest human equivalent to a Kry'aike Queen is a hereditary title of "mayor". Every hive possess a queen and major decisions that affect the whole race are debated over by the entirety of the queens but the most influential member of this "council" is the Kry'aike Empress. The mantle of Empress is given to whatever Queen is chosen by the Council; and in a sheer test of worthiness, the Empress must rule from the Kry'aike Homeworld, perhaps the most dangerous and inhospitable planet in the whole Kry'aike Empire.
*All Aligned Species consider Alignment Time as the galactic standard for keeping time. The human understanding of it, is so.
- Year = 10 months
- Month = 10 weeks
- Week = 10 days
- Day = 10 hours
- Hour = 100 minutes
- Minute = 100 seconds
Modifié par Lokiwithrope, 16 septembre 2012 - 08:28 .
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