Jin
| Jin | |
| Leader | The Godking |
| System | Ijzala |
| Homeworld | Unknown |
| Capital | Unknown |
| Allies | Scatterhome |
| Enemies | Unknown |
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Morphology and Physiology
The Jin have purple skin, clawed fingers, and lack the protruding ears that define many humanoid races. In the center of their foreheads, they possess a third eye which they call the "deatheye". This eye allows them to "see" some kind of "shadow" (for lack of a better word) of recent deaths in the area.
History
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The Jin are one of the few races in the Starmourn sector that we are sure originated outside of it, for they arrived here only a few hundred years ago, though they are, it is believed, about 20,000 years older than even the Shen.
The Jin that we know in Starmourn are a large alliance that fled a mad Godking ruling a far-off home system called Ijzala. He had allied with the Ishvana to seize ultimate power, then created a death religion around himself, perverting the traditional Jin relationship with death. The Godking, directed by the Ishvana, began to slaughter hundreds of millions of Jin. The Jin adhere to the belief that death is merely the self piercing the veil between this plane of existence and another. Though other races scoff at this idea (arguing that it is a cultural remnant of old superstitions and religions), the Ishvana considered that perhaps the Jin were correct, and that their genocide might inform its search into transcendence.
Was the Ishvana right? We don't know, for every Jin we have ever encountered are among the Departed - a huge alliance that fled their insane Godking and the even more powerful Ishvana.
The Departed seized the Blood Ark - one of the three huge worldships constructed by the Jin at enormous expense to someday carry the over-populated Jin to new systems en masse. Together with the fleet of warships this alliance had cobbled together, they fled the Ijzala system, forever. For nearly 150 years they wandered, seeking a new home, where they might plot the eventual return of the Departed to Ijzala, or at least revenge on the Ishvana and their Godking, if he yet lives.