Sad story bro. Species in CHG/Central Human Gov't. "Where we at and how we at here?" | World Anvil
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Sad story bro.

Real sad. The lads were gone millions of years before humans even existed.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Beside the point: snakes but if someone gave them 6 arms and legs and they stood on their back 4 legs and used their hands for handy stuff.

Genetics and Reproduction

30 eggs every year, a year is 263 days for them.

Growth Rate & Stages

Eggs take 58 days to hatch. Hatch with arms and legs just being tiny stumps out of them but these grow with time. Males get themselves sexy horns on their noses.

Ecology and Habitats

Jungles and other climbing-friendly environments.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Meaty bois but they can eat some fungi, including one that they extensively farm.

Biological Cycle

9-13 months = puberty. After that is a slow growth in size where they die at 60 because their stomachs collapse under the weight of other organs above them, assuming they don't die of something else before then.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Heat vision.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Your name is a number from among your hatch-siblings (ie: the first to hatch in a batch of eggs get No1, the next gets 2), followed by a name given to the batch of eggs by the parents.

Major Organizations

Eh, some religious ones. They

Beauty Ideals

Thicc horn on the lads, being large, strong limbs.

Gender Ideals

There isn't much difference between the sexes in this species so they never really apply different rules.

Courtship Ideals

"Hey you look kinda hot", "Yeah and you're horn's pretty big": children almost always produced buuut parents do not raise their own children and those eggs come out pretty easily for the females so they don't care. This is bad when a species is overpopulating.

Relationship Ideals

What relationships? I only see friends with benefits. That said, they haven't got much of an instinct for love and so most friendships are more things of mutual benefit and ways to avoid boredom.

Average Technological Level

Mining other planets for goodies level.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

One unified language because the government enforces it and kills any who refuse to speak it or utters a word of another language, although this is more "hey we can use this as an excuse to kill people and combat overpopulation" than "let's pointlessly kill people cos we don't like them".

Common Etiquette Rules

Not eating your fellow snekk, unless said fellow snekk is not an adult yet (yup: it's 100% okay to eat kids because there are just so many of them and who're gonna stop you, their parents who abandon them as soon as the eggs are laid - or the government that wants to prevent overpopulation?)

Common Dress Code

Dressing? What dressing? I see only armour in combat and space suits in space.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

There are lots of blood sports. Violent, gruesome blood sports. Most of them have it as the children that do the bleeding.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

BLOOD SPORTS! PURGE THE WEAK AMONG THE CHILDREN!

Common Taboos

They're naturally an extremely selfish and non-empathic species so any individuals taboos boils down to anything that could negatively effect them. The government pushes a "eat your eggs when you lay them" ideology to combat overpopulation.

History

Before the following: these creatures always engaged in a lot of warfare because, for them, their own populations are very expendable because of how quickly they can grow in number and so any government was fine with flinging away a lot of lives for what we would consider very small gains. Eventually, however, a singular government was able to rise above and conquer (coughs in massacring all the ones that had hatched yet and only allowing those that hadn't hatched before the conquest to join their society and even then as second class citizens whose only hope of getting their children out of being 2nd class was to have those kids with someone who wasn't 2nd class) the others. This government was then very active in trying to get resources from nearby planets, as well as acting with a fair bit of desperation in keeping the population of the species down with various worrying means from introducing Purge Night But Only Murder Is Allowed to sterilizing large portions of populations.

They're able to colonize the planets of their solar system but almost all food production is done on their planet of origin, while the other planets are sources of useful materials to send back to their home planet. They find out that a solar flare is coming for their home planet and try to evacuate as many of their folks as possible to the other planets and make the bases on these planets capable of producing enough food but this doesn't work and ultimately only a few bases continue to exist in the solar system for hundreds of years afterwards because they either didn't receive many refugees or culled most of their populations to be recycled (or used directly) as food with the new agriculture-related upgrades they got. However, these bases slowly fell over time and the species died out due to genetic disorders from inbreeding (each base gets a population of ~200 or so and is culling the children of lower-class families while those in charge keep all their kids alive, reducing genetic variety over the generations and letting genetic disorders stack up), lack of food (as in "oh no a virus just killed the fungi in our farms now we're screwed"), diseases, natural disasters ("oh no that giant tornado outside the base is going to rip it apart and there's nothing we can do about it") and even instances of infighting (imagine a bunk-made explosive going off in such a delicate environment and how badly that can go). Them being able to reproduce so quickly doesn't help with the limited food.

Historical Figures

General Wizzlepop, who had a diet consisting entirely of the children of his enemies.

Common Myths and Legends

The legendary hero who saved a town from destructive children that were too fast to be eaten by being faster than those kids...

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

None they never really got jazzy with any other sapient species. As for animals everything was either livestock or a threat.
EXTINCT
Scientific Name
Deadus double-deadus
Origin/Ancestry
snekk
Conservation Status
Type "F" in the comments to pay respects.

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