[hider=Species/Race] [h3]Species:[/h3] [b]Xedla[/b] [hider=Appearance] [URL=https://www.directupload.net/file/d/5555/umkn5pxa_jpg.htm][IMG]https://s17.directupload.net/images/190825/temp/umkn5pxa.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/hider] The Xedla are an organism that is similar to an ant colony. They are organised in queens, higher drones, and lower drones. Queens are massive breeding machines and control center for the hive. Higher drones are commander, they may control normal drones and relay hive orders to them. Lower drones are used as soldiers and/or workers, there is not much difference as they are all controlled by the hive mind. They developed a swarm intellect where each queen controlled drones underneath her, while still being a part of the greater hive. Therefore a swarm/colony will never be able to persist without at least one queen in the vicinity to control them, smaller groups can be lead by a commander, which can operate seperately from the queens for some time. Drones without leadership will remain idle until a commander or queen takes over. Idle drones will not resist in any way to attacks and will simply die, if they remain idle for to long. Their physical ability and resistance is like that of insects. They posses a strong and fast body, that is resistant to large quantity of radiation. Their resistance toward cold and heat is strong enough for them to live in harsh environments, however they cannot survive in extreme environments, without the help of suits. Like ants their queens are constantly breeding new drones for the hive. Xedlas grow up very rapidly, while lower drones reach a size of 3 meter (9.84252 feet), higher drones up to 3.5 meter (11.4829 feet), and queens up to 20 m (65.6168 feet). As their homeplanet Ichnaea, has a gravity about 2.5 times larger than the gravity on Earth, the normal gravity the Xedla speak of would always mean 2.5 G. The Xedla can move without problems on gravity spanning from 0.5 G to 3.5 G, for other gravity values they would need either suits to maneuver, or enhance their strength through other means. If they don't do this their ability to move and work would be handicaped. As many insects the Xedla possess a very efficient reproductive cycle and fast work speed. However they need longer to implement new technologies. The average lifespan of a Xedla depends, Queen are up to 500 years, Commanders up to 300 years and drones up to 30 years. The lifespans of the drones seem insignificant to human lifespans, however through the swarm intellect drones will become effective workers and soldiers as soon as they grow up. This reduced their speed in which they learned new things, however once a large breakthrough was made the all Xedla members will benefit of it. Queens need a period of 180 days to grow to their adult sice and start reproducing, while workers and warriors only need a time of 25 days to fully grow. [hider=Stats] Traits: (Max traits: 7) Reproductive: +7 Reproduction rate. (6 RP) Tough: +4 Health stat. (2 RP) Swarm intellect (4 RP)? Biological: enables need for food, enables need for water, enables basic and advanced research and tech trees. (+0 RP) -------------------------------- RP: 12 Stats: str: 4 int: 3 dip: 2 rep: 3 (+7) = 11 hea: 2 (+4) = 6 wor: 6 mor: 0 ------------------ RP: 20 ================== RP: 32 [/hider] [hider=History] [h3]History:[/h3] Around 20,000 years ago an anomaly of space sucked in an ant Queen and a few dozen worker. They were thrown onto the surface of Ichnaea a planet several times larger than Earth and with a higher gravity. They founded the first colony on this new planet, while trying to avoid all the new and old dangers. After reproducing for several generations, mutations were formed. Every new generation would be larger in size and more intelligent than their predecessors. After only 50 years they developed into their current size and intelligence level. They had founded several colonies and conquered quite some area. However their development could not be that perfect for much longer. They soon encountered large alien lifeforms, much like Earth dinosaurs, which started to hunt the Xedla. It was only several centuries later that the Xedla developed far enough that they were no longer in danger of losing colonies against those predators. They kept on developing into a continental power and later on they conquered the other continents and made them their own, while exterminating all threats to the colonies and Queens. 1,500 years ago the Xedla controlled every landmass on Ichnaea and reached the technology level of the cold war period. They still had no way to launch any vehicle into space, this would only be possible 1,000 years later. Currently the Xedla claim their whole system and possess control over the 3rd planet, Ichnaea. [/hider] [/hider]