Grina (Green-ah)
Grina are a race of currently robotic androids propelled by a consciousness preserved on from generations of a former biological race. Once humanoid as a slender and lanky pale race, they are believed to be 'The Grays' of some set tales. However they had started tampering with travel, visits, and genetic manipulation for so long, that they eventually lost their own organic capacity in a shift into computer stored preservation. They cut back routines they thought were in the way, and halted procreation for cloning, until a virus took away their physical forms and rendered cloning a grave mistake. Since then, they've tried replicating their life, but have found corrupted data and history in their own networks, and switched onto a goal of searching for answers, and gathering more science and data. Their mortality is of great question, with swift neurological transference, and cortex backups, yet the total population count of active individuals is estimated to be about a million or less with some hypothetical concerns of further data corruption or errors.
The OA considers the Grina along the CDAM rating, a perfect Comet scale race. They are potentially as dangerous as they are awkward, and yet have not raised a threat, and seem almost unconcerned or barely amused back at the OA's presence, and yet could impose great risks if they were to have met under worse impressions. However they have had some history with altering other life to different theoretical effects. They have completely mutated and nearly killed old the original Zayme, and are believed to have interfered in early native-universe human governments, with some signs they outright carried the human DNA across to other galaxies and spliced them into other life forms for experiments across other planets, and their own older DNA and cloning. Yet because of early tampering, some species like the Vyllk actually thank and welcome the race more warmly due to them incidentally assisting in early trade issues from the carnivorous Zayme plants.
Basic Information
Anatomy
In present condition, most Grina appear as massive 2.4 meter chrome bipedal androids, with wide black screen faces that emit colors as they speak or project their presence. They have the potential to swap dull fingers with cutting claws, and legs that can grapple into their surfaces or tether on artificial gravity, and boosting micro-thrusters to control small aquatic motions or shift past raw space. They can extend their consciousness into other forms of synthetic bodies, and quickly transfer across numerous compatible terminals, meaning occasionally their current body can become a human-like android, a computerized hologram, or a larger computer network itself.
Additional Information
Average Intelligence
Incredibly advanced, and keen awareness, but poor historic memory issues persist to cause difficulties with things that weren't cataloged to certain functions. They can perfectly deconstruct a being, and forge a new life form out of spliced DNA, yet cannot recover their own old remains, nor recollect for sure what all they tampered with in their history.
Civilization and Culture
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
They tend to stir some rumors and fears around their presence, ability, and history, yet find most direct communications and cooperation to be very easy. A few notable relations have developed with them...
Humans: Humans across most knowing varieties tend to get along at a cautious distance. They find Grina a bit difficult to fully grasp, and questionable on what they may do or have done with their race, yet find a balanced attitude by mixing their services together in pursuits of science and discovery. Their native universe humans work closely with them, often having a Grina as either a lead science division personnel, or outright being a leader among larger human-majority starships.
Vyllk: Vyllk host an odd relationship with them, meeting them in a distant past not too long after early integration with the Siivakian empire. However vyllk still explored their own unknown territories, and unknowingly started a gateway into a world closer to the Grina - and even worse, closer to giant carnivorous plants across a spice-rich world they wanted to collect from. The Grina eventually stepped in, eventually wiping a lot of the planet clean, but giving vyllk the genetic code to remake the plants they wanted. The vyllk allowed them to pass onto their side to a degree, even as this bothered the serpent empire a bit, but a deal was already struck and honored for a decades that the Grina could study some small Kasar elements through the Cauven solar system. Vyllk also perhaps had some clouded bias towards the Grina's colorful facial display system, always unintendedly hypnotized by the displays they communicated with.
K'siiva: Perhaps one of the most difficult relations to tie together. Early Immortal Imperials knew the Grina only after they stepped onto 'their territory', and in the end, compromised more to not disturb their mutual vyllk allies. Division grew more when the emperor went mad, and his easily agitated pawns struck violently against a few Kasar-present people under grina alliance. Retaliations were mild, and it wasn't until a late polisher effort that established more contact than was even present in the older empire. However as the later k'siivas wished to exchange info, the two entities found each other to be a bit too cold and curious to really prove much value. To a degree the grina even seem arrogant, and believe the k'siiva are just evolutionarily confused and slowly to become a similar case of machine-engineered life forms, while the race in return resents such remarks and finds no value beyond 'inflated opinions' in the grina federation.
Lifespan
Most bodies hold for roughly 60 years
Conservation Status
Critical risk, yet paradoxically immortal
Average Height
2.4 meters
Average Weight
110kg in regular machines
Geographic Distribution
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