Post by Creator on Dec 24, 2007 11:33:42 GMT -5
Name of Species: Virdanican
Home: Virdan (Destroyed)
Preferred weapon: Fists
Unique Power: They have highly advanced regeneration abilities, and can control their regenerative cycle. Some of the most powerful ones can learn to bend gravity, increasing or decreasing it, though it often leaves them without enough energy to regenerate.
Likes: Fighting, other Virdanicans, peace and quiet, music.
Dislikes: Loud noises (that aren't associated with killing,) excessive not-so-loud noises, weaklings.
Family Members: None.
Description: Virdanicans can vary in many aspects, but the main features always stay the same. They're visibly very similar to humans, except that their skin is a light gray, and their hair is a random shade of gray, anywhere between pure black and pure white. In their basic state, they have no irises, simply two black pupils. Their ears are pointed, leading some people to believe they are some sort of elf, though this is not the case.
All Virdanicans have a marking etched into their faces at birth, each marking unique to their clan. It is unclear if this mark is present at birth or if it is given to the child afterwards. Virdanicans do not need to breathe, nor do they have lungs, or any other internal organs for that matter. They're just solid gray, all the way through. They themselves do not even know how they stay alive, nor do they care. In truth, they are sustained by a powerful and ancient magic, but that requires looking at their history.
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History: Virdanicans were named after Virdan, the planet on which they were born. They were created by a long-dead race, the name of which is no longer known. This race was highly technologically advanced, though through their heavy reliance on technology, had grown extremely physical weak. Paranoid of an attack, they began trying to create a perfect fighter. They used a chemical that had been kept under careful control, which multiplied at a ridiculous rate. They had kept it frozen, for fear that it would continue growing out of control. But now it was put to good use, and after a few decades of work, they created the first Virdanican. Highly impressed with its capabilities, they overlooked the flaws that kept it from being their "perfect fighter" and began to make more.
The Virdanicans were a slave race for nearly a century, gradually developing spoken language amongst themselves. Being so filled with violence and anger, they began starting riots, running amok through cities in large groups to lash out against their masters. It didn't take long for all of the Virdanicans to join in, and within a few weeks they had entirely wiped out the race that created them.
Free from their oppressors, the Virdanicans multiplied rapidly and spread across the planet, and different sub-breeds began to emerge from different parts of the planet in a relatively short time. There is a gap in the known history of the Virdanican race, but at one point, they went to war with a distant planet. After utterly destroying the enemy's hopes of victory, a small group was sent to negotiate their surrender on their home world. For unknown reasons, Virdan collapsed into a black hole shortly thereafter, the sudden shift in nearby gravity altering the negotiator's course just slightly. Rather than remaining in a dormant state for a few weeks to make the trip to the enemy's planet, they continued hibernating for an unknown period of time, missing the planet entirely and eventually arriving on a strange planet - Earth.
Virdanicans age quite differently than humans, and most of the original crash landers are still around today. For their first twelve years, they age at a similar rate to humans, but afterwards they slow down drastically, aging one year every forty-five Earth years. When they reach the age of 30, (822 in Earth years,) they die, as that was considered the end of their maximum usefulness in battle.
Home: Virdan (Destroyed)
Preferred weapon: Fists
Unique Power: They have highly advanced regeneration abilities, and can control their regenerative cycle. Some of the most powerful ones can learn to bend gravity, increasing or decreasing it, though it often leaves them without enough energy to regenerate.
Likes: Fighting, other Virdanicans, peace and quiet, music.
Dislikes: Loud noises (that aren't associated with killing,) excessive not-so-loud noises, weaklings.
Family Members: None.
Description: Virdanicans can vary in many aspects, but the main features always stay the same. They're visibly very similar to humans, except that their skin is a light gray, and their hair is a random shade of gray, anywhere between pure black and pure white. In their basic state, they have no irises, simply two black pupils. Their ears are pointed, leading some people to believe they are some sort of elf, though this is not the case.
All Virdanicans have a marking etched into their faces at birth, each marking unique to their clan. It is unclear if this mark is present at birth or if it is given to the child afterwards. Virdanicans do not need to breathe, nor do they have lungs, or any other internal organs for that matter. They're just solid gray, all the way through. They themselves do not even know how they stay alive, nor do they care. In truth, they are sustained by a powerful and ancient magic, but that requires looking at their history.
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History: Virdanicans were named after Virdan, the planet on which they were born. They were created by a long-dead race, the name of which is no longer known. This race was highly technologically advanced, though through their heavy reliance on technology, had grown extremely physical weak. Paranoid of an attack, they began trying to create a perfect fighter. They used a chemical that had been kept under careful control, which multiplied at a ridiculous rate. They had kept it frozen, for fear that it would continue growing out of control. But now it was put to good use, and after a few decades of work, they created the first Virdanican. Highly impressed with its capabilities, they overlooked the flaws that kept it from being their "perfect fighter" and began to make more.
The Virdanicans were a slave race for nearly a century, gradually developing spoken language amongst themselves. Being so filled with violence and anger, they began starting riots, running amok through cities in large groups to lash out against their masters. It didn't take long for all of the Virdanicans to join in, and within a few weeks they had entirely wiped out the race that created them.
Free from their oppressors, the Virdanicans multiplied rapidly and spread across the planet, and different sub-breeds began to emerge from different parts of the planet in a relatively short time. There is a gap in the known history of the Virdanican race, but at one point, they went to war with a distant planet. After utterly destroying the enemy's hopes of victory, a small group was sent to negotiate their surrender on their home world. For unknown reasons, Virdan collapsed into a black hole shortly thereafter, the sudden shift in nearby gravity altering the negotiator's course just slightly. Rather than remaining in a dormant state for a few weeks to make the trip to the enemy's planet, they continued hibernating for an unknown period of time, missing the planet entirely and eventually arriving on a strange planet - Earth.
Virdanicans age quite differently than humans, and most of the original crash landers are still around today. For their first twelve years, they age at a similar rate to humans, but afterwards they slow down drastically, aging one year every forty-five Earth years. When they reach the age of 30, (822 in Earth years,) they die, as that was considered the end of their maximum usefulness in battle.
