Saridian

Predators Without Prey
Saridians are a humanoid species hailing from the puzzle like world of Saridia, a planet that does not rotate like the vast majority in the galaxy. Instead this planet evolved uniquely to have a natural day and night halves. The other was near freezing to temperate, the other sunny and warm. It is from the darker half that the current day Saridians hail, long ago known as the "People of the moon" by locals. This species like many before it has flooded into the galaxy and provided many unique perspectives to it. Saridians have had a very long conflict with the human species from the days of the High Tekno due in part resembling 'devils and demons' of old, archaic human religions.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Physical Design: Saridians are a humanoid species of varying skin and hair colour, mostly ranging from different spectrums of gray on the skin and from white to black in hair. Eye colour of the species is often yellow though they also have red and other colored eyes, however the white of the eye is always black instead, heralding the people's past of always living in perpetual darkness.
The species has a tail with a spade end and horns as well though not all individuals possess the horns, everyone has a tail. The species has sharp teeth made to chew and cut flesh as well as sharp talons as claw like finger nails, capable of shredding flesh and cutting bone, used since long ago as weapons. The species has a very good inborn muscle development, needing little training to stay in shape.

Genetics and Reproduction

Due to largely being a mammal like species, Saridians achieve numbers by the act of breeding, much like other humanoids such as humans, using their genitalia to mate and produce offspring. The general gestation period of a Saridian is six months where the mother is burdened by a hunger and must feed much more than before to provide nutrients to the offspring/s.
A single Saridian usually gives birth to a single or up to four infants.

Growth Rate & Stages

Saridians grow and age much like humans, they are considered to be sexually mature at sixteen years old and full grown adults at twenty three. Before this they are considered teens and children when they are below ten years old.
Saridians have a longer life than humans however and their adulthood retains for their first six hundred years. Their remaining lifespan, called the veneracy takes up the remainder of their life until they either succumb to injury or disease.

Ecology and Habitats

Saridians have evolved past their initial environment and are capable of enjoying life in most environments, much like the durable humans, yet the species enjoys slightly cold, dark environments the best.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Saridians were designed by nature to be carnivores, and for much of their early history this is exactly what they were. However, as their sentience gave them freedom of choice, many of them turned to omnivores due to the resources and pleasure.
Saridians tended to hunt with the spear in the far past, though now employ modern hunting solutions and food gathering skills, such as supermarkets and stores.

Biological Cycle

Much like humans, Saridians change in much the same way, growing from child to adult and then to elderly. However unlike humans these changes are much more drastic than humans. A good explanation is that when they are first born, they resemble sweet little cherubs, who then as adult resemble a man posessed by a devil, and finally as elders they look like proper demons, far removed from a simple man. To them however this is a natural evolution. They do not gain wings, but their tails, nails and horns will keep growing longer, their age able to be determined by the lenght of these.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Although owning to good senses of hearing, smell and taste, Saridians are at their best at seeing things with their eyes, able to operate in complete darkness fairly normally as well as in daylight.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Female names: Nidara, Deva, Noradi Male names: Raishu, Devo, Nora

Major Organizations

Saridia Esoteric Council (Seat of government) The Human Opposition Party ( The HOP)
Court of the Silent Sun (Main religion) Irsk-katato (Literally 'Law enforcement', the police) The High Wreckto (Extremist criminal organization)

Beauty Ideals

Much like humans, the Saridianian beauty ideals change with the times and fads of the times. Though the species has a fetish about the tips of their tails and many individuals pay close attention to them, harkening to the time the spades were used in mating rituals.

Gender Ideals

The Saridians have never had gender roles in the first place in their society, both men and women fight, cook, look after children and so forth.

Courtship Ideals

While the courtship ideals of the Saridians once more, mirror much like the ones of humans, there are some expectations when courting someone. There is often a primal sense of 'predator and prey' identity thrown to relationships where opposites attract, dominants with submissives. It is not enforced and same type couplings exist, yet generally their people are generally drawn to this sort of deals. Furthermore, the species has incorporated mating dances of old and are still practiced by many, who dance with each other during dates or in privacy.

Relationship Ideals

The Saridians mostly single couple with one another, however it is not uncommong to come across double pairs or more.

Average Technological Level

Saridians have a very unique sense of technology to the rest of the galaxy, however have for the most part integrated with the Galaxy's modern technological level, using their own brand of technology only on their planet, which is based on a sentient Gel.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Saridians speak two languages among their own The Sun and the Moon, the latter being their original one, the one former belonging to an old rival species. They also speak common basic and often other faction languages where necessary.

Common Etiquette Rules

It is common for Saridians outside of Saridia to announce which half they were born on, Sun or Moon when introducing each other and the two don't know each other. This establishes if one was brought up traditionally or are offspring of newer schools of thought, although this isn't of course ensurement or total explanation, it is considered a sign that both sides are willing to share their origins and can thus be trusted.

Common Dress Code

Non-existant, the Saridians wear what they wish though due to their past of barely dressing at all, clothing is treated more like a tease to what one's body holds rather than a way to conceal themselves.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

It is perhaps obvious due to the nature of their planet, but the Saridian culture is very much based on the sun and moon and their interminglement in the rare Eclipse event. Dances, stories and even gods of the culture are always two sided, one active and one passive. This follows to their beliefs and day to day lives as well. It is not rare for a Saridian to make up in their minds if aliens they meet belong to either path, or a bit of both.

Common Taboos

Saridians consider it a taboo to predate on sentient species, though this may seem obvious to most. It was a large part of their ancient culture, where they would ritually eat the sick and feeble members of the Sun people. Historians consider this one obvious reasons as to why the Sun people left and caused the ancient war, which is why Saridians are repulsed by cannibalism through the bitter memory of the mistakes that led them there, despite their biological need to feed on flesh as carnivores.

History

A few hundred thousand years ago, the Saridian race rouse due to evolution reaching their point, where true sapience took hold of the species. It did not take long for them to take control of their side of the planet, becoming the top of the food chain as hunter gatherers. It was when their people reached the worlds lighter side that they met another sentient species, 'the people of the sun' as they would come to be known by the Saridian civilization.
Hundreds of years took place where Saridians and the people of the sun would establish tribes, empires, kingdoms and other countries. The two people initially kept a distance to each other but eventually the two intermingled on an intimate level and became one society instead of two. For a long time these two people were enamored with each other, the Saridians becoming the predator to the sun people's prey.
For a thousand years this pact and relationship persisted as the two races became joined even if they still mostly kept to their own cities. The planet theirs, they lived comfortable if not hard to understand lives for the rest of the galaxy. The people of the sun were always the more technological advanced while the Saridians had the better soldiers and minds for war.
Eventually a speaker came forth, a woman of incredible wit and charisma of the sun people who rouse the flames of fear in her people. That the Saridians would eventually prey upon them all and eat them. Due to this woman's machinations the two races were embroiled in a huge conflict of arms, this war almost rending the planet apart as well as making the Saridians near lose their minds to the betrayal, as the two races had become so inseperatable that such an offense was unthinkable by most, yet still it happened. However as known, the Saridians were winning despite their lower level of technology, the difference fought by sheer numbers, better physical conditioning and more aggressive and decisive tactics.
Falling back to their capital and last few cities, the people of Sun engaged their space program, something the people had already tested and toyed with for a few hundred years- and fled to the stars, leaving the space incapable Saridians behind. The great exodus as it became known to the Saridians scarred the species forever as their prey had finally left to pasture they could not follow. Saridia initially fell into a great depression and despair as the inhabitants came to grasps with the madness of the war and how their inability to communicate themselves properly, as well as not paying enough attention to the bad sides of their society, had cost them their sibling species.
Saridians would eventually come out of this depression, giving themselves to science and by using many years to reverse engineer the sun people's technology to make spaceships of their own. Saridians were content to remain on their world but their desire to see the people of the sun return motivated them to go search for them in the vast expanse of space. However this quest would be prove futile as the people of the sun were nowhere to be seen. The people of Saridia would come across many alien species and would establish contact with them, even trade and prosper understanding, to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
However nothing lasts forever, and as Saridians were establishing several colonies, initially only scouting bases in their long search, they were discovered by the High Tekno. The organization was in the bloody manifestation of their purges and to them, not only were Saridians alien, they were the very face of devils that their ancient civilizations had forever feared. Now double the reason to purge them, the two sides clashed in intense and bloody warfare as the Saridians set to protect themselves from these aggressors who to them, had no reason to attack.
No matter how good Saridians were at waging war, the High Tekno had outstripped them in technology and unlike the people of the sun, were good at waging war as well. Every victory the Saridians did gain, were eventually made null by the High Tekno's number of machinery that kept coming even after invasion after invasion would be initially repelled. Eventually the High Tekno claimed victory, vanquishing four colonies of Saridians. The reason as to why they never found Saridia itself was because the Saridians rarely called themselves 'Saridians' to outsiders, calling themselves as people of the moon instead and only ever described their colonies to outsiders, as well as not having any or destroying all records to Saridia on their colonies before overtaken.
And so... Saridia could only watch from the darkness as High tekno laid claim to billions of their people, leaving only seven and a half billion Saridians to watch as over two thirds of their people were wiped out of existence, setting them back hundreds of years of expansion and development by this point. After this, Saridians began anew and sent out their people into the galaxy after the High Tekno was defeated and began a more honest contact with the universe, this time trying to dispell anyone's and everyone's false beliefs of their people and expand their search for the people of the sun.
This new effort to claim space for themselves and find their lost sibling species continues to present day, even if some extremist elements of their own people have become self proclaimed human hunters in response to High Tekno, intent on becoming the very devils the humans had assumed them to be.. And so history repeats...

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Saridians tend to categorise other aliens and further more individuals as prey or predator and thus they tend to interact rather passively with other predators, trying to stay aloof and competitively with them, while they become much more excited and active around prey, it isn't that they wish to eat everyone they came across, it is simple way of nature that prey species symbolise life and carry great importance to Saridians, such as rising up feelings of protectiveness or even lust, as the predators hunting instinct lies burried. This can also cause hostile behavior, though the Saridian culture tries to curb it, yet nature is a hard thing to resist...

Scientific Name

Sardo-Carno

Lifespan

2000 years (Considered max)

Average Height

1.8 meters.

Average Weight

70 kg

Geographic Distribution

• Saridia

Related Organizations

• The Court of Claws - Rada Intelligence

Species Traits

Ability Score Increases Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and Charisma by 1
Speed Your movement speed is 30ft.
Dark Vision You have a keen eyesight, especially in the dark. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Resist the Sun You have resistance to fire damage
Fiercesome appearance You gain proficiency in the intimidation skill, furthermore, humans in particular have a disadvantage when dealing with your intimidation.
Languages You can read and write Sard, you also know galactic common and one additional language.