Reticulan
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Basic Information
Anatomy
Reticulans are bipedal, taller and thinner than humans. Their bodies are diffuse, with undersized organs connected by large tubes to carry nutrients and oxygen. The exception to this is their large and complex brains, which sport five lobes arranged in a bundle.
Genetics and Reproduction
Reticulans cannot reproduce, the ability has been written out of their genome entirely.
Ecology and Habitats
Reticulan bodies are best served on the sterile and controlled environment of their starships and space stations.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Reticulan mouths are a shallow cavity that doesn't connect directly with any sort of digestive system. Instead, food is held in it and nutrients extracted and transferred to the body with capillary action.
Behaviour
Reticulans are scientifically curious and intellectually rigorous. Their growing obsession with staving off their own extinction is more about not losing the collected knowledge of their race than it is about any sort of biological pride.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Reticulan society has suffered a near total breakdown by the Age of Convergence, with an individual Reticulan being attached to a particular space station. These stations are run by councils of the highest-intelligent individuals and communicate with other stations only when new data has to be shared in their pursuit of their common goals.
Facial characteristics
Reticulans have large black eyes, ears that are flat to their head (in some cases with no visible structures on the outside, and bulbous or elongated heads housing a large brain. They have rudimentary noses for breathing and a slit for a mouth which is only used for eating.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Reticulans have become diffuse, and there is no longer a location or polity known as "Reticulan Space." They live on artifical stations embedded in the territories of other races, now, including one in human space.
Average Intelligence
Reticulans are always highly intelligent, averaging a 12 on the Derber Intelligence Test but with individuals reaching up to unheard-of-levels at 22.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Reticulans see into the Ultraviolet spectrum and are able to "scan" with their minds to detect radiation projected by intelligent thoughts.
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Reticulans have come to rely on a variety of Bioroids that resembles their own form but shurter and stockier to do the riskier work required such as manual labor and, when it can't be avoided, combat.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Reticulans are a telepathic species, and therefore their names are essentially just psychic fingerprints and impressions. However, when living in the space of another species they tend to adopt names that 'blend in' to their host species' language.
Average Technological Level
TL 10+
Common Dress Code
Reticulans wear lightweight robes or jumpsuits made of psychoactive cloth, which they can manipulate with telepathy.
Common Taboos
Reticulans despise violence, and will pointedly refuse to fight each other. Regarding other species, their aversion to violence manifests in stratagems that achieve fast victory with as little cost to themselves as possible if violence can't be avoided.
History
Reticulans attained clinical immortality more than 100,000 years ago through the use of transferring their consciousness into 'blank' clone bodies with their natural Psionic ability. They improved this technology further by altering the clones themselves to be immune to aging, though they still practice the clone-transfers when their bodies are injured beyond repair. To stave off the resulting population boom, they wrote the ability to reproduce out of their genetic code. This proved to be a costly mistake. When they did this, their population was around 150 quadrillion across all of their colonies.
A species known as the Wezhi invaded Reticulan space in an attempted genocide with an eye to taking over their technological marvels. The Reticulans used biological warfare in the end and the Wezhi were rendered extinct, but barely a billion Reticulans remained at the end of the war. The Reticulan homeworld was gone, shattered by Wezhi weapons and this destruction took with it all data regarding the original Reticulan bodies. In the following millenia, the Reticulans have been attempting to collect reproductive data on all other sentients with the hope that they can 'rewrite' the ability to reproduce original Reticulans back into their genomes. The obsession grows every year, as a few more Reticulans fall to violence, accident and disease every single year.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Reticulans view species that haven't achieved space flight as little more than animals. For this reason, they've conducted their experiments freely on those species, only to find a certain aversion once those species have joined interstellar space. Humans are on this list, and Reticulans have a reputation for being 'probe happy' and sexually violating with only a dubious nod to consent. Reticulans as a species wouldn't conduct their experiments on an 'enlightened' species with access to starships without consent, but the stigma remains.
Template 224 pts
Attribute Modifiers 0 pts
ST (-2) -20 pts; HT (-2) 20 pts, IQ (+2) 40 ptsAdvantages 260 pts
Acute Vision (2) 4 pts, Affliction 1 (Based on Will, +20%; Extended Duration, 100%, +80%; Male diction 1, +100%; Telepathic, -10%; Unconsciousness, +200%) 49 pts, Detect (Psionics; ESP,-10%) 9 pts, High TL (1) 5 pts, Unaging 15 pts, Memory Wipe 38 pts, Mind Reading (Telecommunication,-20%; Telepathic,-10%; Universal, +50%) 38 pts, Peripheral Vision 15 pts, Photographic Memory 10 pts, Telepathy Talent (2) 10 pts, Telesend (Broadcast, +50%; Telepathic,-10%; Uni versal, +50%) 57 pts, Ultravision 10 ptsDisadvantages -45 pts
Decisive Violence -5 pts, Curious -5 pts, No Sense of Smell/Taste -5 pts, Supersensitive -15 pts, Social Stigma (Probe-happy Aliens) -15 points.Quirks
Neutered -1 pt
Scientific Name
Cinereum Sapiens Retiuclensis
Average Height
2 meters - 2.5 meters
Average Weight
40 kilograms - 49 kilograms
Average Physique
Reticulans are thin to the point of frailty, and are most comfortable in 0.8 Gs
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
The most common colloquial name for Reticulans in human space is "the grays," referencing their unfirm gray skin.
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