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28-06-2007, 01:16
Race Title: Lithijir
Home Planet: Lithij
Physical Appearance: The Outsider caste stands about 1.5 yards at their highest point(On average), and are very durable. They are about 2 meters long and have 3 sets of legs. Each leg has a set of 6 claws, which are similar to a cats. As can be imagined, they have a hard time with stairs used by most bipedal species, and elevators and ramps are in abundance. Eye colors are always black, green, or blue, depending on caste. Fur is always a shade of brown, from almost white to almost black.
Basic Population size: They have around five billion Lithijir on each of the thirty planets in the four solar systems they control. Each planet is Lithiformed.
Communications: They have the Ansible, or something very similar, which is instant communication over infinite distances. Each planet controls four giant Ansibles, which can take over three million different lines at once. Each Jellyfish ship has one smaller Ansible, which can only take one line of communication at once. For short distance communication, they use radio, which is always in their language. They have not expanded into the universe as yet, and so are just learning languages other than their own.
Culture basing: Extremely isolationist, only the Warrior/Diplomats(They are the same thing among the Lithijir) are ever are seen by outsiders, although they make up for it by trying to learn as much as they can about others, and seem to pick up languages and other things very quickly. There are four different groupings of the Lithijir. The first is the Outsider caste, and is the Warriors, Diplomats, Traders, and any other thing that must be done, but relates to non Lithijir and are truly outsiders, not permitted to interact with the main society. The next are the, so far as anyone can tell, Politician caste, although it is disputed what exactly they do, and deal mostly legal issues, are next to mindless, with no imagination, and so can do their jobs perfectly, being immune to bribes and other things, to benefit the race as a whole and mete out justice. They are given a set of laws and rules that would fill a city block, and memorize them all. The third caste is the Farmer caste, which in fact "Farm" herd beasts, as the entire race is carnivorous, and is fairly high on the social class scale. The final class is what can only be called the Priest class, and make decisions of a moral score, and can overrule the Politicians at any point if they feel it is appropriate. They are highest on the social scale, and seem to make the majority of decisions regarding internal affairs. These are also general groupings, as there are many Priest class ones that are less intelligent, some Politicians that are, some Farmer/Workers that are low caste, etc. Note that while the castes besides Outsider are not permitted to have contact with aliens, they are still on board the Outsider ships. Priests might also serve as Diplomats.
Physiology: The Outsider Class is largest, then the Farmers, then the Priests and Politicians are about the same size, but the Priests reflect a very large amount of high ultraviolet and low infrared light, and as the Lithijir can see some of both ends of the spectrum, this probably contributed to the notion that the Priest class is best, as having the priests glow cannot hurt anything. They also seem to have a semi-Hive Mind type thing, where the race as a whole is put far above the singular Lithijir(Suspected, not confirmed by the Lithijir). The species appears to be mostly a plains species, which probably fulfilled much the same niche cheetahs do on Earth.
Notes: All information below is confidential. All above is given to anyone who asks.
Warfare: The ships appear to be without laser weaponry of any kind themselves, although they do employ AI drone ships which fire clusters of some sort of missile. The main ships also have larger missiles, which means only those that could destroy a good sized city, and are launched at various pockets on the outside of the ship. The main ships and the drones are lightly armored, and carry smaller, plain tracker missiles, which are only large enough to destroy other missiles, to lock onto other missiles and hit them to set them off too early. Each ship also carries one missile launcher, although it is not known what kind of missile, near the front of the ship. Minimal shielding is also used, although instead of on all sides, the shielding is in lots of small square patches, and breaks at one spot at a time. The shields also seem to recharge once gone at a fast rate, but not while there, as about 2 standard minutes after a tear appears in the shield it is renewed. Multiple layers of shielding are also evident. Lasers seem to be a weapon the Lithijir are not familiar with, as they their laser defenses are crude at best. However, when first contact was established with the Lithijir they had no shielding, so it is believed that they did not realize that lasers could be used for attacking, or even had lasers as we know them. The one time conflict has arisen with this species the attackers were completely destroyed as they seemed to collapse into themselves, then explode.
The following is not known by non Lithijir
History: The Lithijir evolved on a world with little actual fuel such as sunlight, most combustible gases, and other such things. As such, they never got past the stone age until another race ran into them. This race, which we shall call species X, noticed how well structured the Lithijir society was, and decided to raise them up from their primitive homes. At first they were very successful, getting the entire population to stop fighting, and learn about the "god items". It was not long however until one of the tribes managed to use the "god items" to destroy in one go every single other tribe, without suffering any casualties. The unknown alien race that had brought them out of the stone age was shocked and appalled, and it was decided to blockade them into their planet. The majority population did not wish to kill them however, as it was their fault that the Lithijir did this. After trying to take away the technology, and meeting fierce resistance, they simply created stationary drones around the planet, and continued to colonize and make habitable the other planets. Somehow the Lithijir managed to get a large group of them into each of the drones, the details are slim on how they managed this, without alerting the drone guards. Very quickly, the entire set of drones were turned against their makers, resulting in a quick massacre and the taking of the entire system. The entire system was then barred from transportation. Building and making use of the other planets in the solar system, they quickly began to build colonies on the other 16 worlds near them. There was also numerous moons. They were all already Lithiformed, with all of the equipment of the species to reverse engineer from. It took them another 150 years before they were able to even reverse engineer the Hyperspace drives, and then they thought they were weapons pointing behind the ships, as they were on the "wings" of the ships. During this entire time, species X was being driven out by a more powerful race, which we will call species Y. Species Y was told that species X has enslaved them, and species Y believed them. As such, the Lithijir began to spread out into species X, eventually destroying all of them with the help of species Y. Species Y however quickly(In about 200 years) were taken over by a xenophobic government, and began to eradicate the Lithijir along with several other species. Fleeing, they managed to get to another galaxy with over 1,000,000,000 people on board over 1,000,000 ships, of which about 500 were military. They quickly began to take a group of systems from their stone age natives, killing them off, and sent out the warrior class, isolating themselves from the rest of the world as they created Deison spheres in order to make themselves invisible to the rest of the universe.
Military: They lack any large attack ships off any kind, as a single missile from a Lithijir ship can take down a large ship as well as a smaller one. As such, the only large ships they have are carriers for the smaller ones. The large majority of the population being xenophobic, only the warriors who are prepared to kill aliens at a moments notice are let outside of their systems. Any ship that is not a warrior ship instantly self destructs if it leaves a designated zone. All the hardships that have happened to the Lithijir people have culminated in the rise of the warrior class to almost 10% of the total population. (Can be used by others: As such, Lithijir traders and mediators abound, although no one knows much about them. They also only take payment in metals and other hard materials to make ships out of.) They have Hyperspace missiles, although they stop moving after around 400 feet from the first hit so it doesn't hit anything on accident, which usually makes it so it punches right through or into whatever it happens to be shot at. The major defense the Lithijir have found against their weaponry is clouds of shrapnel put in front of any ships, although this impedes the ship's attacks as well. Smaller missiles that are programmed to intercept other missiles before they get too close are on every ship. Drones are heavily used as well, and as such only about one in five of the smaller Lithijir ships is actually crewed. They do however look exactly the same in space combat, the only difference being that the drones are mostly hollow. Instead of initiating costly ground battles as well, the Lithijir simply destroy everything on the surface of the planet, then begin to Lithiform it. This makes it increasingly hard for enemies to fight the Lithijir unless they perform like tactics, as their very planets are made lifeless. It is only with better space combat that most races could defend against the Lithijir.
Family Life and More on Castes: The majority of the Lithijir race is female, although pretty much exactly 40% of them are male. About 1/100 of those are from the Priest class, 3/5 from the farmer class, and 2/5 from the Politician class. Females are around the same percentages, except that there are less of all of the other classes except Priests, and about 1/6 of them are Warriors. What caste a child will come from is unknown unless medical procedures are undergone, which is frowned upon. Around the age that they begin to mature, which is about 5 years old, the Caste they belong to becomes self-evident, and they are sent to learn with those of their Caste. The Politicians begin to become either duller and gain photographic memory, or become smarter, becoming the subsect of the Politician class who are the leaders, inventors, and other such professions that require smarter than normal intelligence. Priests on the whole become very focused, very individualistic people, who range from being as smart as the Leader subsect of the Politician class, to the dull wittedness and intensity of the largest and dimmest of the menial laborer subsects. These are just examples, with many more subsects existing.
Basic Spaceship Designs: The standard combat ship, whose name is roughly translated into a Eagle class ship, is equipped with three Hyperspace Missiles, around twenty interceptor missiles, enough shielding to survive under basic laser fire for about 4 seconds, as it takes a new shot to rip through each layer of shielding, and a relay center for four drones, which are equipped the same as the combat ship. There is the carrier ships, which are translated as Jellyfish class ships, are armed with practically nothing, but can carry around 30 Eagle Class ships and 150 Eagle Class drones. Also houses a relay center for as many as 120 drones. Shark Class ships are also used, which are similar to Jellyfish Class ships except that instead of housing other ships it carries with it many tens of missiles which are more than equivalent to nuclear bombs in strength, although without the radiation. It also carries a different kind of Hyperdrive, which only drops out of Hyperspace when it reaches the atmosphere, where the ship launches the missiles at evenly spaced out points around the planet, which the computer automatically computes. Shark Class ships are a special type of Drone ship, which requires no crewman and allows itself to fall directly into the planet below it, and if it fails to be destroyed then detonates another of said missiles which is placed at the direct center of the ship. Obviously such suicide ships are expensive to create and use, and so very few are active at any time not in the middle of a war, but cause devastation against an unprepared planet.
Other types of military vessels are around, but these are the most prominent.
Home Planet: Lithij
Physical Appearance: The Outsider caste stands about 1.5 yards at their highest point(On average), and are very durable. They are about 2 meters long and have 3 sets of legs. Each leg has a set of 6 claws, which are similar to a cats. As can be imagined, they have a hard time with stairs used by most bipedal species, and elevators and ramps are in abundance. Eye colors are always black, green, or blue, depending on caste. Fur is always a shade of brown, from almost white to almost black.
Basic Population size: They have around five billion Lithijir on each of the thirty planets in the four solar systems they control. Each planet is Lithiformed.
Communications: They have the Ansible, or something very similar, which is instant communication over infinite distances. Each planet controls four giant Ansibles, which can take over three million different lines at once. Each Jellyfish ship has one smaller Ansible, which can only take one line of communication at once. For short distance communication, they use radio, which is always in their language. They have not expanded into the universe as yet, and so are just learning languages other than their own.
Culture basing: Extremely isolationist, only the Warrior/Diplomats(They are the same thing among the Lithijir) are ever are seen by outsiders, although they make up for it by trying to learn as much as they can about others, and seem to pick up languages and other things very quickly. There are four different groupings of the Lithijir. The first is the Outsider caste, and is the Warriors, Diplomats, Traders, and any other thing that must be done, but relates to non Lithijir and are truly outsiders, not permitted to interact with the main society. The next are the, so far as anyone can tell, Politician caste, although it is disputed what exactly they do, and deal mostly legal issues, are next to mindless, with no imagination, and so can do their jobs perfectly, being immune to bribes and other things, to benefit the race as a whole and mete out justice. They are given a set of laws and rules that would fill a city block, and memorize them all. The third caste is the Farmer caste, which in fact "Farm" herd beasts, as the entire race is carnivorous, and is fairly high on the social class scale. The final class is what can only be called the Priest class, and make decisions of a moral score, and can overrule the Politicians at any point if they feel it is appropriate. They are highest on the social scale, and seem to make the majority of decisions regarding internal affairs. These are also general groupings, as there are many Priest class ones that are less intelligent, some Politicians that are, some Farmer/Workers that are low caste, etc. Note that while the castes besides Outsider are not permitted to have contact with aliens, they are still on board the Outsider ships. Priests might also serve as Diplomats.
Physiology: The Outsider Class is largest, then the Farmers, then the Priests and Politicians are about the same size, but the Priests reflect a very large amount of high ultraviolet and low infrared light, and as the Lithijir can see some of both ends of the spectrum, this probably contributed to the notion that the Priest class is best, as having the priests glow cannot hurt anything. They also seem to have a semi-Hive Mind type thing, where the race as a whole is put far above the singular Lithijir(Suspected, not confirmed by the Lithijir). The species appears to be mostly a plains species, which probably fulfilled much the same niche cheetahs do on Earth.
Notes: All information below is confidential. All above is given to anyone who asks.
Warfare: The ships appear to be without laser weaponry of any kind themselves, although they do employ AI drone ships which fire clusters of some sort of missile. The main ships also have larger missiles, which means only those that could destroy a good sized city, and are launched at various pockets on the outside of the ship. The main ships and the drones are lightly armored, and carry smaller, plain tracker missiles, which are only large enough to destroy other missiles, to lock onto other missiles and hit them to set them off too early. Each ship also carries one missile launcher, although it is not known what kind of missile, near the front of the ship. Minimal shielding is also used, although instead of on all sides, the shielding is in lots of small square patches, and breaks at one spot at a time. The shields also seem to recharge once gone at a fast rate, but not while there, as about 2 standard minutes after a tear appears in the shield it is renewed. Multiple layers of shielding are also evident. Lasers seem to be a weapon the Lithijir are not familiar with, as they their laser defenses are crude at best. However, when first contact was established with the Lithijir they had no shielding, so it is believed that they did not realize that lasers could be used for attacking, or even had lasers as we know them. The one time conflict has arisen with this species the attackers were completely destroyed as they seemed to collapse into themselves, then explode.
The following is not known by non Lithijir
History: The Lithijir evolved on a world with little actual fuel such as sunlight, most combustible gases, and other such things. As such, they never got past the stone age until another race ran into them. This race, which we shall call species X, noticed how well structured the Lithijir society was, and decided to raise them up from their primitive homes. At first they were very successful, getting the entire population to stop fighting, and learn about the "god items". It was not long however until one of the tribes managed to use the "god items" to destroy in one go every single other tribe, without suffering any casualties. The unknown alien race that had brought them out of the stone age was shocked and appalled, and it was decided to blockade them into their planet. The majority population did not wish to kill them however, as it was their fault that the Lithijir did this. After trying to take away the technology, and meeting fierce resistance, they simply created stationary drones around the planet, and continued to colonize and make habitable the other planets. Somehow the Lithijir managed to get a large group of them into each of the drones, the details are slim on how they managed this, without alerting the drone guards. Very quickly, the entire set of drones were turned against their makers, resulting in a quick massacre and the taking of the entire system. The entire system was then barred from transportation. Building and making use of the other planets in the solar system, they quickly began to build colonies on the other 16 worlds near them. There was also numerous moons. They were all already Lithiformed, with all of the equipment of the species to reverse engineer from. It took them another 150 years before they were able to even reverse engineer the Hyperspace drives, and then they thought they were weapons pointing behind the ships, as they were on the "wings" of the ships. During this entire time, species X was being driven out by a more powerful race, which we will call species Y. Species Y was told that species X has enslaved them, and species Y believed them. As such, the Lithijir began to spread out into species X, eventually destroying all of them with the help of species Y. Species Y however quickly(In about 200 years) were taken over by a xenophobic government, and began to eradicate the Lithijir along with several other species. Fleeing, they managed to get to another galaxy with over 1,000,000,000 people on board over 1,000,000 ships, of which about 500 were military. They quickly began to take a group of systems from their stone age natives, killing them off, and sent out the warrior class, isolating themselves from the rest of the world as they created Deison spheres in order to make themselves invisible to the rest of the universe.
Military: They lack any large attack ships off any kind, as a single missile from a Lithijir ship can take down a large ship as well as a smaller one. As such, the only large ships they have are carriers for the smaller ones. The large majority of the population being xenophobic, only the warriors who are prepared to kill aliens at a moments notice are let outside of their systems. Any ship that is not a warrior ship instantly self destructs if it leaves a designated zone. All the hardships that have happened to the Lithijir people have culminated in the rise of the warrior class to almost 10% of the total population. (Can be used by others: As such, Lithijir traders and mediators abound, although no one knows much about them. They also only take payment in metals and other hard materials to make ships out of.) They have Hyperspace missiles, although they stop moving after around 400 feet from the first hit so it doesn't hit anything on accident, which usually makes it so it punches right through or into whatever it happens to be shot at. The major defense the Lithijir have found against their weaponry is clouds of shrapnel put in front of any ships, although this impedes the ship's attacks as well. Smaller missiles that are programmed to intercept other missiles before they get too close are on every ship. Drones are heavily used as well, and as such only about one in five of the smaller Lithijir ships is actually crewed. They do however look exactly the same in space combat, the only difference being that the drones are mostly hollow. Instead of initiating costly ground battles as well, the Lithijir simply destroy everything on the surface of the planet, then begin to Lithiform it. This makes it increasingly hard for enemies to fight the Lithijir unless they perform like tactics, as their very planets are made lifeless. It is only with better space combat that most races could defend against the Lithijir.
Family Life and More on Castes: The majority of the Lithijir race is female, although pretty much exactly 40% of them are male. About 1/100 of those are from the Priest class, 3/5 from the farmer class, and 2/5 from the Politician class. Females are around the same percentages, except that there are less of all of the other classes except Priests, and about 1/6 of them are Warriors. What caste a child will come from is unknown unless medical procedures are undergone, which is frowned upon. Around the age that they begin to mature, which is about 5 years old, the Caste they belong to becomes self-evident, and they are sent to learn with those of their Caste. The Politicians begin to become either duller and gain photographic memory, or become smarter, becoming the subsect of the Politician class who are the leaders, inventors, and other such professions that require smarter than normal intelligence. Priests on the whole become very focused, very individualistic people, who range from being as smart as the Leader subsect of the Politician class, to the dull wittedness and intensity of the largest and dimmest of the menial laborer subsects. These are just examples, with many more subsects existing.
Basic Spaceship Designs: The standard combat ship, whose name is roughly translated into a Eagle class ship, is equipped with three Hyperspace Missiles, around twenty interceptor missiles, enough shielding to survive under basic laser fire for about 4 seconds, as it takes a new shot to rip through each layer of shielding, and a relay center for four drones, which are equipped the same as the combat ship. There is the carrier ships, which are translated as Jellyfish class ships, are armed with practically nothing, but can carry around 30 Eagle Class ships and 150 Eagle Class drones. Also houses a relay center for as many as 120 drones. Shark Class ships are also used, which are similar to Jellyfish Class ships except that instead of housing other ships it carries with it many tens of missiles which are more than equivalent to nuclear bombs in strength, although without the radiation. It also carries a different kind of Hyperdrive, which only drops out of Hyperspace when it reaches the atmosphere, where the ship launches the missiles at evenly spaced out points around the planet, which the computer automatically computes. Shark Class ships are a special type of Drone ship, which requires no crewman and allows itself to fall directly into the planet below it, and if it fails to be destroyed then detonates another of said missiles which is placed at the direct center of the ship. Obviously such suicide ships are expensive to create and use, and so very few are active at any time not in the middle of a war, but cause devastation against an unprepared planet.
Other types of military vessels are around, but these are the most prominent.