Species Name: Varsit
Language: Ekt Iet (High Tongue), Lahkt Iet (Low Tongue), Common
Appearance: Large, semi-bipedal reptilians with grey scales and colorful spiral horns. Walk on digitigrade legs with or without the assistance of their broad-knuckled hands.
Home World: Bequver (now deemed uninhabitable)
Adaptable?: To a degree. They have colonized many hot desert worlds across the galaxy. Temperate and cooler climates are dangerous to them without serious body modifications, however.
Detailed Information:
Varsit are hermaphroditic, and have no native concept of gender. They reproduce sexually, in a very inefficient manner which has contributed to their decline as a species. They are obligate carnivores, and have been known to practice xenophagy, though the prevalence of this is decreasing as their attitudes towards alien life improve. Their cannibalistic tendencies remain.
They live in a stratified society consisting of eight castes, which are passed down by the egg parent. These castes determine an individual's role and standing in society. Much of their culture revolves around survival, a tendency borne of evolving under a dying star. They are also very militaristic. Every citizen has a required period of military service upon reaching adulthood. The varsit practice a mythologized and propaganda-filled version of ancestral reverence that they staunchly refuse to call a religion, despite it obviously being one.
Once, before the galaxies merged, they ruled an Imperium that spanned a large swath of the Milky Way, but their civilization has been in decline for millennia. As the Neo Kosmos becomes more cosmopolitan, the xenophobic ways of the varsit are beginning to wane as well, and the practice of alien slavery was abolished a few hundred years ago. Today, the varsit contribute many soldiers, mercenaries, and genetic engineers to galactic society.
Logged by: Cchaaneh
Language: Ekt Iet (High Tongue), Lahkt Iet (Low Tongue), Common
Appearance: Large, semi-bipedal reptilians with grey scales and colorful spiral horns. Walk on digitigrade legs with or without the assistance of their broad-knuckled hands.
Home World: Bequver (now deemed uninhabitable)
Adaptable?: To a degree. They have colonized many hot desert worlds across the galaxy. Temperate and cooler climates are dangerous to them without serious body modifications, however.
Detailed Information:
Varsit are hermaphroditic, and have no native concept of gender. They reproduce sexually, in a very inefficient manner which has contributed to their decline as a species. They are obligate carnivores, and have been known to practice xenophagy, though the prevalence of this is decreasing as their attitudes towards alien life improve. Their cannibalistic tendencies remain.
They live in a stratified society consisting of eight castes, which are passed down by the egg parent. These castes determine an individual's role and standing in society. Much of their culture revolves around survival, a tendency borne of evolving under a dying star. They are also very militaristic. Every citizen has a required period of military service upon reaching adulthood. The varsit practice a mythologized and propaganda-filled version of ancestral reverence that they staunchly refuse to call a religion, despite it obviously being one.
Once, before the galaxies merged, they ruled an Imperium that spanned a large swath of the Milky Way, but their civilization has been in decline for millennia. As the Neo Kosmos becomes more cosmopolitan, the xenophobic ways of the varsit are beginning to wane as well, and the practice of alien slavery was abolished a few hundred years ago. Today, the varsit contribute many soldiers, mercenaries, and genetic engineers to galactic society.
Logged by: Cchaaneh
