[b]The Aveterriat[/b] [b]TRAITS[/b] Tough: A hostile life has turned our people into exceptional physical specimens. [Decreased Military Casualties] Industrious: Long have our people toiled, understanding that work is freedom. [+1 Labor Per Population] [b]GOVERNMENT NAME[/b] The Protectorate [b]10 RANDOM CITIZEN NAMES (First & Last if Plausible)[/b] (Individual name, group name and title. Machinist/Nudist castes aren't name based) VANADIUMS Tvek Irvatras Asi Addas Overru Vos SILVERS Tonna Alatrat Sto Wezok Ponnit Yur Aster Storrik Zho COBALTS Muso Arggodl Qamae Qasu Lobbodo Saman Wasa Sunnill Sadae CARBONS Immur Verlit Waddfo Qupus Zvtekk Aaalaa Akkas Lvupo Asspzo [b]HOMEWORLD[/b]: Invyuss Invyuss is a desert world larger than earth. Its gravity is punishing by comparison, but it is this gravity that have given the Aveterriat their resilience and strength. For millennia the Aveterriat have warred on this world, over salty seas and mineral rich mountains. Invyuss may have come about naturally, but it is the Aveterriat who forged entire mountain ranges on this world. The Aveterriat have made sprawling canal networks on their world and the sheer amount of structures built over the ages have created quarries that dwarf the grand canyon. Life on Invyuss, the Aveterriat being no exception, are able to drink quite salty water and in fact, have trouble with water that lacks salt. Just a random fun fact. [b]CIVILIZATION DESCRIPTION[/b]: The Aveterriat as a species are basically like dry, salty seals with shovel claws. Their head has a hand-like mandible that complements their shovel claws, which is why they are able to make a civilization. The Aveterriat have strands of hair that run down their backs and have a treading foot that sifts through sand. They have small back limbs, that are more like flippers that help them push through sandy landscapes more effectively than you may imagine. Of course, their large frontal limbs are what do most of the work. Aveterriat use their shovel claws for a wide verity of things, such as breaking bones, digging up food from the sand, flattening wires, fixing dents, making dents, holding plates, molding clay sculptures and countless other things. They use very different toolsets than humanoids do to say the least. The Aveterriat have no actual leaders per say. This is something to understand of them. The Aveterriat, especially in modern times value work above all else. Lazy Aveterriat tend to be euthanized for their own good for the Aveterriat do not really believe in a after life or a material, permanent death. Instead the Aveterriat believe in reincarnation. When a Aveterriat dies, they are born once again to continue their endless war against entropy. The Aveterriat are excellent metallurgists and are extremely effective engineers. Their technology is based around sheer robustness and one of the most notable aspects of technological Aveterriat civilization is that there is a split between two castes- the Nudists and the Machinists. These two castes perform complex sets of roles in society and are picked based on a machine known as the Determiner (if you have to state a leader, use this). Machinists are basically like cyborgs and live inside large spherical cores which modular components are attached to. The Nudists have no clothing, live in massive numbers and spend all their time working endlessly since moral righteousness and work ethic are deeply intertwined with the Aveterriat. Laziness is pretty much a death sentence with them. Amazingly enough, the Aveterriat aren't a completely unitary species- however their art is rather repetitive in nature and hasn't really developed beyond geometric engravings that they use on pretty much everything. The Aveterriat have recently united under a entity known as the protectorate with the purpose of taking their war against entropy to the stars. And now the Protectorate seeks to answer the most important question- who has a soul and who can reincarnate?