Races
Written by a solar Xeno-Historian:
Pleadeans
“And Teush ordered the Seven Sisters to create a new race of noble servants to inhabit the Kingdom of Krat.” - Gomam 3:1
The Pleadeans have existed since a time no one reckons. They have existed long before writing and language was invented. You might think that would take us some thousand earth years back in time, but the Pleadeans aren't humans and have lived for at least for 53 million earth years in some star systems of the Pleiades. Although they are visually similar to the humans, the underlying biological function of their bodies is quite different. Their medium size is also greater than all the human races and their bones are stronger than steel. Their conversion rate of oxygen to energy is incredibly high. Their bodies can accumulate various types of energy and manipulate them consciously. Thus, the Pleadeans can achieve tremendous psychic power within some thousand years of life and training. Pleadeans were seen moving objects with their mind in atmospheric ambient, moving objects in outer space (independent of size and mass of the object), creating lights and bursts of explosive energy, melting any kind of material, tricking the minds of nearby humans, disappearing (truly bending light or just a psychic trick is still a matter of debate), recieving or projecting emotions in nearby living beings, paralysing them, etc.
Each one can live up to 10 million earth years and during all their life, Pleadeans don't age. Though very few deseases in the galaxy can affect them, they can get sick sometimes. Finally, at some random point, a biologic trigger happens and they start to get old, leading to death by old age within 500 years. Interestingly, compared to the human population in the galaxy, the Pleadeans are very rare. We still don't know why is that so. Given their logevity, there should be much more living Pleadeans, but there is the theory that there is a biological cap that blocks their reproduction ability.
Very few information is known about the social and political organization of the Pleadeans. We know that Maya is the capital star system and their government is headed by the so called Teush Council. There are other star systems who seem to be free from the influence of the Teush Council, like Alcyon.
The most important piece in their history is the discovery of The Art of Creation. Many thousand years ago, The Pleadeans started to evolve greatly in nanotechnology and biology, leading them to a technology that is very similar to that of our own Mother Nature. The current state-of-the-art Pleadean technology gives them the ability to engineer complex living systems. Together with their peculiar space navigation system, started to populate the galaxy with their own creations. For example, the original humans (called Lyrans or Terussalics) were engineered by Mikel of Alcyon. The terrestrial humans (called Solars) were modified from the originals by an Artist named Europa, while the reptiles and reticulars were developed by Gia and her team.
Humans
"Structurally... none(...)"
Mikel [on the differences between humans and other animals.]
The humans are a varied specie of intelligent biped mammals engineered by Mikel of Alcyon. They are smart and fast adaptative to hostile conditions. Although they are young and warlike, humans can create large agreements and work together to develop incredible wonders. Their anatomy and physiology are similar to that of the Pleadeans and are considered their Number One Imitation. The original race were the Lyrans (or Terussalic), that long ago inhabited a star system named Lyra. Mikel then relocated them to Vega, where they are until today. After that, other Pleadeans derived other sub-races: the solars (from Sol), the procionites (from Procyon), the kentauri (from Rigel Kentaurus), the altarians, sometimes called blue reticulars (from Altar), the arcturians (from Arcturus), the cygns (from 60 Cygni), the eridans (from Epsilon Eridani) and finally, the cetians (from Tau Ceti).
We already know how solars look like, and they aren't much different from the lyrans. The most outstanding difference is that in lyrans, white hair and pupils are a dominant genetic characteristics, while in solars are recessive. Many lyrans are blonde, tall and have an almost white skin, and while there are blondes in solar population, the original solars have dark hair, dark skin and denser bodies. The races more closely related to the lyrans and solars, are the kentauri and the cetians. To understand better the history of the lyrans, see the Overview article of Terussal.
The procionites are a race of humans with heavy and hard skin. Very dark skin is common and their most peculiar characteristic is the spurn. These are cutaneous spikes in the knuckles of their hands. The spurn are very hard and they use them for various tasks, like sculpting stone. They're somewhat rare within the worlds of the Confederation, but some lyrans also have an hard skin resulting from interbreeding with procionites. These hybrids have many medical issues and is generally agreed that lyran-procionite interbreeding is risky. Most procionites have no hair whatsoever, because they lost it somewhere along the evolutionary chain. The history of the procionite civilization is rich, unfortunally I have not the knowledge or space to write about it here. Please read "The Essence of the First Element" for more information.
Altarians are small humanoid creatures which were derived by Gia. They are many times considered human, but some Pleadean scientists argue that altarians can't interbreed with other human races and therefore cannot be called humans. Their skin is smooth and bluish. Their anatomy resembles much that of the reticulars, therefore called many times in popular culture by blue reticulars.
Arcturians are large, dense humans with green olive skin and laminated eyelids. There is very little information on them. Even knowing they belong to the Human Confederation, their star system rests at 32 light years from Vega, which makes their kind pretty unknown.
Cygns are interesting. Their skin is gray-blue, sometimes darker, sometimes lighter. Their canine theet are very developed and once depended on the ingestion of blood to survive. They might not need blood anymore, but their vampiric reputation is well known among the human civilization. Many cygns still consume blood of various creatures (or of themselves) for entertainment purposes or for sexual arousal. Their home planet is occupied by reptiles, but plans for overtaking it again is under works.
Eridans are similar to the lyrans too, but their hair, eyes and skin are even whiter, mainly because their home planet recieves very low visible light from the mother star. Another characteristic of Eridans is that their vocalic system is subsonic, so their language is unspeakable or audible to all other human races. So they rely on technology to comunicate. Eridans are rare in industrialized and crowded places of Terussal.
Reptiles
"For a Dragon there are few limits. Fortunally, this one does not know which are His limits."
Katomer (Pleadean Admiral)
The first thing I can say about reptiles is that they stick to their technology. They are intelligent but slow adapting. The reptiles have developed enough technology to dominate every star system they set their foot on. Their Empire extends over incountable systems and seems incapable of growing more. Their technology is thousands of years old, and while that is enough to serve their needs, their sucess is not only due to technology. The reptiles are leaded by Dragons, the most fearful creatures the universe has ever seen.
There are mainly three races of reptiles. There are the generic reptiles which are unnamed and are well spread throughout the Empire. There are the Alfins who are a special race with hardened scales and long head. The Alfins generally serve as the Dragon's guardians or representants. Finally the Dragons resemble biped giant dinosaurs. They have long tails, wings and strong muscles. In the modern Dragon, the wings are atrophied and are not suitable for flying (they walk by foot or are transported by ship). The fire making organs in their heads are also atrophied, so there is no Dragon able to produce fire breath anymore. The last important thing about Dragons is that they possess incredible psychic powers, even more than those of Pleadeans. They couldn't even stand in two feet if it wasn't for their psychic power. The eight hearts and their muscles couldn't physically be able to life all the mass of a Dragon, so they lend part of their psychic power to the fundamental functioning of their bodies.
A Dragon is the ultimate mass destruction weapon of the Reptilian Empire. They are able to change the magnetic alignment of planets, lift incredible masses of water, earth and other things, crack stones or mountains, create climatic obliterations, kill living systems with a thought, make explosive movements of air, relocate and play with large objects in space, like ships...
Reticulars
"I see and hear Time. I speak with the Eternity."
Unknown Voice
I must confess that at this moment, little is known about the reticulars. Their skin is smooth, have no fur, they are small and slim, have big heads and their big eyes are all black and have no iris. Well, they were pretty common once, but reptiles started to use them for infiltration and scientific experiments. Due to slavery and rebelion, the reptiles almost got the reticulars extinct. Now no one knows where they are. Their home planet is Arguunira in the Zeta 2 Reticuli star system.
Rumors has it that the reticulars do not have souls but a collective soul. Some say they are purely logical and very fast learners. Some Pleadeans report that there is a misterious creature that coordinates them all - the Recticle.
