Post by ogzaru on Mar 26, 2015 3:47:31 GMT
Species Name: Nakku
Home Planet: Nakku
Starting Planet: Anywhere
Starting Power: Alien B 500-1200
Appearance: Above is a naked, fully mature Nakku. Young Nakku resemble humans with particularly sleek and sharp facial and bodily features, and they become more insectoid as they grow older. The fully mature adults look like the above picture but with compound eyes and insectoid wings.There are differences in appearance and color based on age and role. Younger Nakku are paler in color, Nakku Soldiers have a thicker, bulkier exoskeletons, etc.
Species Background: The Nakku are a part humanoid, part insectoid race from the planet of the same name. They exhibit social characteristics resembling those of hive insects, including matriarchy. A Nakku hive is a highly integrated society headed by a queen with absolute authority and the sole capability of reproduction. Each Nakku is assigned a role at birth based on their genetic characteristics. These roles include, but are not limited to, workers, soldiers, scouts (all female), and drones (males who exist only to impregnate the queen). The queen is traditionally the most powerful of all the female Nakku that have a genetic predisposition toward queenship and, though her queen status grants her immortality, she is not invincible. Potential queens are called Apothioids, and they train, spar, and serve in the military from very early on in hopes that they can become powerful enough to defeat the queen in a duel to the death, becoming the queen themselves.
Nakku names are not arbitrary. The part of the first name before the apostrophe is the Nakku's pod name (each egg pod contains one scout, one soldier, one worker, one drone and is given a unique name. One of the three females might also be an Apothioid), the part after the apostrophe is their role (non = scout, vaht = soldier, let = worker, cor = drone). The last name is the name the queen has given to the Egg Sac that particular Nakku was from.
Despite their insectoid characteristics, the Nakku are quite technologically advanced. Their gadgets and machines tend to resemble and behave as extensions of their own biology, granting them capabilities such as physical augmentation, data storage/computing, and advanced space travel.
Nakku prefer to fight with melee weapons or hand-to-hand, as they requires a specific genetic enhancement to be capable or any projectile beyond poison barbs.
The warlike queen of Veish'ren's hive (Ssakkeri the Conqueror) destroyed and consumed the queens of every other hive on Nakku, establishing a global dominion without challengers. Because conquest and combat were fundamental in the nature of Mokkitha and her children, they began seeking other planets to establish hives on. The queen and her scientists engineered a special new breed of Nakku called Omnioids, sending them across the galaxy in egg pods with one task: to prepare each planet they landed on for a new Nakku hive, to be populated by a suppressed egg pod containing an Apothioid.
Unique Characteristics:
Insect Senses - To supplement their insect-like speed, Nakku posses incredible, fly-like reflexes and the ability to sense anyone close behind them within the time it would take for them to react.
Adaptive Biology - Partly due to their natural adaptability, Nakku scientist have mastered the field of genetic modification and adaptation. Nakku Cocoons allow Nakku with sufficient power level to give themselves additional biological characteristics and abilities (usually resembling the abilities of other insects). [From a practical standpoint, this means Nakku can exchange a technique slot with a single use of the cocoon. Not sure if this is actually necessary, i just wanted to emphasize with certain techniques that actual physical aspects of the character would be changing].
Omnioids - These are a special class of Nakku created by Ssakkeri to spread her influence across the galaxy. They potentially exhibit the characteristic of all classes of female Nakku and can temporarily transform into states of greater maturity based on their power level instead of having to wait to age properly.
Flight - All Nakku develop wings eventually. Omnioids are born with them. Because the flight is physical, it doesn't work if they are physically crippled.
Transformations:
Pheromone High (x4): Musculature slightly increased. No other visible changes. A Nakku body only produces these pheromones once per day, and too much exertion beyond a pre-stage 2 Nakku's limits causes overheating and subsequent exhaustion.
Stage 2 (x8) - unlocked at 20,000: Skin thickens changes color. Mouth widens and teeth sharpen.
Stage 3 (x10) - unlocked at 110,000: Skin darkens and becomes exoskeleton, slightly stronger than before. Wings and other insectoid features become much more pronounced. Eyes become compound.
Adulthood (x15) - unlocked at 160,000: Exoskeleton hardens, becoming armor-like. Wings enlarge and double (like a cross between the wings of a fly, a dragonfly, and a butterfly). The Nakku resembles the picture above.
Synthesis (x30) - unlocked at 300,000: An Apothioid undergoes extensive and thorough cybergenetic reconstruction therapy, increasing size by 1 foot and enhancing all abilities with technologies that extend natural Nakku abilities to entirely new heights. Appearance resembles adult Nakku with odd symmetrical metallic modules here and there that still appear insectoid. Though she is not yet a formal queen, she now possesses the biological ability to have children on her own, assuming there is no rival Apothioid to divide authority.
Apotheosis (x39) - unlocked at 450,000, requires consumption of a queen or Apothioid egg: Height increases by 2 feet, the rest of the body grows proportionally. Nakku features become more pronounced and exaggerated. A horn (like on a rhino beetle) grows on the forehead and hairs sprout from its base. The Nakku now has 3 pairs of wings which, when relaxed, resemble a large, gossamer cape. She also becomes immortal, gains a more robust ability to have children, and gains the mental capability to command them at once as her own hive-mind. These children will have her unique genetic mark and will show her absolute devotion.
Character
Full Name: Veish'ren Imeda
Gender: Female
Age: Newborn
Appearance:
Stage 1 (base form and first transformation): I couldn't find the perfect picture, so here's just a detailed description with some visual aids:
She is tall and thin, quite humanoid. Her face is powder white with permanent red markings, including two tear-streamish lines coming from her eyes. Her eyes are pitch black. Her hair is black with red streaks in a samurai-style topknot. There are thick, three-inch, pointed hairs running down her spine from her neck in a straight line. Despite her strength even in this base form, she appears emaciated. Very thin lips, sharp teeth, small, pointy ears.
After releasing pheromones her muscles fill out. Her shoulders raise slightly and she has a much more athletic-looking frame and build.
Her wings are small, gossamer wings that emerge from flaps in the skin on her back.
Stage 2: She keeps her hair, looks more like this: except with a still white, face and a more grayish body. Sharp contrast between the body and face. Facial markings stay the same, Wings become somewhat larger, begin to resemble those of a red luna moth.
Stage 3: Imagine the above the luna-moth image crossed with the first picture of an adult Nakku, now a dark gray and red (still white face) and with compound eyes the same size as before, still black. Hair turns red. wings become much larger.
Adulthood: dark gray and red adult Nakku, spikey, short red hair. If you reflect that luna moth so that it looks like one organism with double the wings, that's what her wings look like now.
combine these appearance changes with the ones that are implied by the description of transformations above, and you've got yourself Veish'ren Imeda, the Nakku Omnioid.
History:
Veish'ren Imeda was one of an undisclosed number of Nakku Omnioids created by Queen Ssakkeri that she might spread the influence of the hive across the cosmos. Veish'ren and her genetically modified sisters were charged with the task of finding and preparing a new planet for the Apothioid fetuses they carry.
The Omnioids were sent in random directions across the galaxy in hopes that they would land on a planet with conditions fit for a new Nakku hive. Veish'ren happened to land on Earth and hatched from her egg pod shortly after landing, knowing only her strict orders from the queen and total devotion to her hive.
Starting Planet: Earth.
Techniques:
Poisonous Sting: Veish'ren has retractable stingers protruding from her wrists that damage opponents and release a nerve toxin that impedes motion and reflexes, totally paralyzing opponents who are drastically weakened or below half of her power level for a few minutes. The toxin is contained in internal glands which take a day to refill after enough stings, especially against particularly large opponents.
Queen's Shadow: Veish'ren can teleport short distances. It requires as much energy as flying at full speed, so it must be used wisely lest she overheat.
Mosquito Link: Veish'ren can gradually drain the life energy of unmoving opponents, replenishing her own. The effect is more significant the longer Veish'ren sustains the link, but the link is automatically broken by sharp movement. The effect can be fatal if the link lasts for several minutes.
Items: 500 Zenni
One-Use Pod