Mankita
29-01-2005, 21:47
Name: Mankita
Gravity: 10% greater than Earth's gravity.
Atmosphere: Nitrogen rich compared to Earth. Earthborn and other humans will be hard of breath.
Day/Night Cycle: 8 hours of daylight, 6 hours nights.
Seasonal Cycle: 46 days for each of the six seasons, which are based on climate.
Weather: During the first season, rainstorms and cloudy weather is frequent. Next comes cloudy, windy weather. Third comes windy, sunny weather. Then, there is the sunny, calm season which is the mating season of the nonsentient fauna. Next is a misty season in which newborns come into being. Finally, there is the foggy, cloudy season in which lightning storms arc across the sky.
Flora: The most basic form of life is a buoyant moss that can eventually grow into an island. It grows at an exceptional rate and is the common source of food for herbivores and omnivores.
The thicker, stiffer inland varient of the moss that can be easily scultped and treated to make weapons and armor with strength short of steel.
Thick bushes with evergreen flowers dot the tropical and temperate areas of land. These plants have far reaching roots and a toxic phermone, which it uses to kill those who come within falling range of its roots.
The common breed of seaweed is slightly self-animated, attempting to entangle anything that enters its reach. It makes for convenient clothing, however, and is often used over breathing orifices to protect against the musk of the flower bushes as well.
The gnarled, black-barked trees that grow across the planet feed upon the cadavers of those nearby, and thus weaves its vines and branches to make ideal homes for potential lifelong residents.
Fauna: The Slitherfish is the crude name for the most common form of aquatic Fauna, from which the local sentients are believed to descend. They appear like gray-green eels, but also possess filmy, fin-like wings from neck to midsection, and has a smaller set of wings on the tail area. They area about 50cm in length and 10cm around. Their diet consists exclusively of the local moss.
Skitterbugs appear like overgrown, wingless mosquitoes. They are about the size of a small dog, and feed on the mold and the leaves of the flower bush. Since it breathes through pores in its exoskeleton, it is immune to the phermone.
Razorfaces are like the Skitterbugs, but are about the size of an adult male wolf and possess a pair of razor mandibles and a set of mantis talons instead of a mosquito snout. They generally hunt in packs numbering in the dozens, and hunt down any form of fauna they can consume.
Mankitans are like their Slitherfish forebears, but with many critical differences. Their forms have grown to stand upright upon a coiled base, standing at about 2.4m. Their main wings have grown into their backs, allowing for a set of arms with a pair of claws on each side of each palm. Their faces are now like that of a viper, but with a pressed in face and smaller fangs. Although they possess wings, it is only enough to propel their bulk through water and need to slither to travel on land. Their heads are stooped to accomodate the wings, and they feed on the mold and Slitherfish. The females of the race are able to secrete a myriad of chemicals that can do anything from restore a deep wound to cure a toxin to paralyze a subject on contact.
Mankita in NS: Mankita is an entire planet with its own ecosystem. It can interact with either fantasy or future tech nations via planar travel magic or space travel, respectively.
Mankitan Technology: Mankitans have very simple technology, mainly due to their loyalty to the natural order. They live mainly off of farming and cultivating the local moss. They are able to use inland moss to create weapons and armor, preferably wristblades. The seaweed is usually used for clothing, and sometimes live samples are used as binding. The weaving vines of the trees usually create spherical, thin woven nests for families of about ten Mankitans. What fishing of Slitherfish does occur is performed with nets of living seaweed.
Mankitan Life Cycle: Mankitans are born from eggs in batches of three to five. The eggs are about the size of a football and take a season to hatch. Once hatched, the infant is nourished with moss and a secretion from the mother's mouth which functions as an amoral stimulant for adult males. After a Mankitan year, the infant matures to childhood and begins to learn about the basics of life on Mankita: fishing, farming, fighting, mating traditions, swimming, and various other skills. This takes place over a period of four years. After that, it is nine years of puberty in which the males and females partake in recreational sex as practice and eventually go through a season-long exile which the Mankitans use as a right of passage. Should they survive the ordeal and find their way home, they are treated as adults in Mankitan society, and are charged with finding a spouse and having children. The average Mankitan lives about fifty years.
Mankitan Society: Mankitans have long held the belief that the natural order of life must be held in place so that living things are able to have time to enjoy life. Mankitans are competitive recreationally, and are willing to compete in just about any field. They all take it in good stride, however, and it only breaks out into a fight if one of the competitors is found to be cheating, or is falsly accused of such. The political system revolves around a council of elders, which may be challenged for their position at any time, and the challenge is generally to attain an undamaged bloom from one of the local flower bushes. Males and females are treated equally in Mankitan society, as the members of the populace are judged more for individual achievements than anything else. Polygamous relationships are common, and sometimes a group of multiple spouses of both genders are found. In short, Mankitans are beings who are the ultimate thrillseekers.
Mankitan Relations: Mankitan tribes are very competitive, and are far more likely to fight for resources than to share the burden. When interacting with other species, they are more than eager to learn about them, if only to better understand the best ways to compete with them.
Gravity: 10% greater than Earth's gravity.
Atmosphere: Nitrogen rich compared to Earth. Earthborn and other humans will be hard of breath.
Day/Night Cycle: 8 hours of daylight, 6 hours nights.
Seasonal Cycle: 46 days for each of the six seasons, which are based on climate.
Weather: During the first season, rainstorms and cloudy weather is frequent. Next comes cloudy, windy weather. Third comes windy, sunny weather. Then, there is the sunny, calm season which is the mating season of the nonsentient fauna. Next is a misty season in which newborns come into being. Finally, there is the foggy, cloudy season in which lightning storms arc across the sky.
Flora: The most basic form of life is a buoyant moss that can eventually grow into an island. It grows at an exceptional rate and is the common source of food for herbivores and omnivores.
The thicker, stiffer inland varient of the moss that can be easily scultped and treated to make weapons and armor with strength short of steel.
Thick bushes with evergreen flowers dot the tropical and temperate areas of land. These plants have far reaching roots and a toxic phermone, which it uses to kill those who come within falling range of its roots.
The common breed of seaweed is slightly self-animated, attempting to entangle anything that enters its reach. It makes for convenient clothing, however, and is often used over breathing orifices to protect against the musk of the flower bushes as well.
The gnarled, black-barked trees that grow across the planet feed upon the cadavers of those nearby, and thus weaves its vines and branches to make ideal homes for potential lifelong residents.
Fauna: The Slitherfish is the crude name for the most common form of aquatic Fauna, from which the local sentients are believed to descend. They appear like gray-green eels, but also possess filmy, fin-like wings from neck to midsection, and has a smaller set of wings on the tail area. They area about 50cm in length and 10cm around. Their diet consists exclusively of the local moss.
Skitterbugs appear like overgrown, wingless mosquitoes. They are about the size of a small dog, and feed on the mold and the leaves of the flower bush. Since it breathes through pores in its exoskeleton, it is immune to the phermone.
Razorfaces are like the Skitterbugs, but are about the size of an adult male wolf and possess a pair of razor mandibles and a set of mantis talons instead of a mosquito snout. They generally hunt in packs numbering in the dozens, and hunt down any form of fauna they can consume.
Mankitans are like their Slitherfish forebears, but with many critical differences. Their forms have grown to stand upright upon a coiled base, standing at about 2.4m. Their main wings have grown into their backs, allowing for a set of arms with a pair of claws on each side of each palm. Their faces are now like that of a viper, but with a pressed in face and smaller fangs. Although they possess wings, it is only enough to propel their bulk through water and need to slither to travel on land. Their heads are stooped to accomodate the wings, and they feed on the mold and Slitherfish. The females of the race are able to secrete a myriad of chemicals that can do anything from restore a deep wound to cure a toxin to paralyze a subject on contact.
Mankita in NS: Mankita is an entire planet with its own ecosystem. It can interact with either fantasy or future tech nations via planar travel magic or space travel, respectively.
Mankitan Technology: Mankitans have very simple technology, mainly due to their loyalty to the natural order. They live mainly off of farming and cultivating the local moss. They are able to use inland moss to create weapons and armor, preferably wristblades. The seaweed is usually used for clothing, and sometimes live samples are used as binding. The weaving vines of the trees usually create spherical, thin woven nests for families of about ten Mankitans. What fishing of Slitherfish does occur is performed with nets of living seaweed.
Mankitan Life Cycle: Mankitans are born from eggs in batches of three to five. The eggs are about the size of a football and take a season to hatch. Once hatched, the infant is nourished with moss and a secretion from the mother's mouth which functions as an amoral stimulant for adult males. After a Mankitan year, the infant matures to childhood and begins to learn about the basics of life on Mankita: fishing, farming, fighting, mating traditions, swimming, and various other skills. This takes place over a period of four years. After that, it is nine years of puberty in which the males and females partake in recreational sex as practice and eventually go through a season-long exile which the Mankitans use as a right of passage. Should they survive the ordeal and find their way home, they are treated as adults in Mankitan society, and are charged with finding a spouse and having children. The average Mankitan lives about fifty years.
Mankitan Society: Mankitans have long held the belief that the natural order of life must be held in place so that living things are able to have time to enjoy life. Mankitans are competitive recreationally, and are willing to compete in just about any field. They all take it in good stride, however, and it only breaks out into a fight if one of the competitors is found to be cheating, or is falsly accused of such. The political system revolves around a council of elders, which may be challenged for their position at any time, and the challenge is generally to attain an undamaged bloom from one of the local flower bushes. Males and females are treated equally in Mankitan society, as the members of the populace are judged more for individual achievements than anything else. Polygamous relationships are common, and sometimes a group of multiple spouses of both genders are found. In short, Mankitans are beings who are the ultimate thrillseekers.
Mankitan Relations: Mankitan tribes are very competitive, and are far more likely to fight for resources than to share the burden. When interacting with other species, they are more than eager to learn about them, if only to better understand the best ways to compete with them.