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*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.
*Major sources of wealth - Production of the ubiquitous [[Quantum Power Cell|quantum power cell]] as well as huge architecture and engineering firms specializing in orbital structures.
*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.
*Religion - They don't have a religion per-se, but they retain certain animist superstitions such that they're prone to feeling like objects have spirits and personalities, even when they "know" better. This leads them to occasionally treat items they are angry at like enemies to be broken...leading to said things being broken.
==Excerpt Regarding the Nusriza==
The [[Nusriza]] are a fierce, sexually-aggressive race with perhaps the most difficult language among the core Starmourn species.
*Home System : [[Frixion]]
*Homeworld :: [[Frixion VI]]
*Capital City : [[Mir]]
*Reproduction : They reproduce via eggs, with the female laying 1-2 eggs that will hatch 120 days later. They hatch as flying four-legged lizards and grow until they get to be about 4-5 feet long and 15 Galactic Years old or so. About that time, they become very sexually aggressive, and mate furiously with each other for a couple of years in a period known as the [[Quickening]]. The females can't get pregnant during this time, however. The mating is actually a complicated, evolved drive to force their bodies, both male and female, into a highly nutritionally-deprived state. In this state, their bodies intensely crave the meat of the [[Algerion|algerion]] - huge, non-sentient creatures that create gas balloons out of giant air sacs in their bodies. The algerion secrete an exotic blend of chemicals that are lighter than the air of their world, and allow them to fly - something the Nusriza have taken advantage of as a novelty method of transport.
:Certain enzymes in the meat of the algerion slowly change their body - they begin to grow larger, and more musclar. As that happens, :their hip muscle structure changes to permit upright walking, and their forelimbs gradually gain more mobility. During this process, :their wings become first very tender, and then finally shrivel up and are discarded by their bodies. There are, however, a very small :percentage of Nusriza who are genetically unreceptive to the change the alergion meat causes, and as a result, stay in the Quickening, :alternating between seeking sex anywhere they can get it, and collapsing from exhaustion. Most of these Nusriza, unless they're being :taken care of and their sexual needs provided for, starve to death or are killed after seeking seek with the unwilling.
*Lifespan : About 160 years.
*Preferred foods : Aside from algerion meat, which is largely eaten during the Quickening, they're carnivores with a strong love of grubs, worms, and small insects. They eat these in a thousand different variations, full of spices. They might be fried, baked, roasted, eaten raw, poached, boiled, or any number of methods. They also enjoy smoking a substance made from the dried skins of tiny grubs called 'leesa' that gets them very mildly high, but is mainly about social lubrication - it's nothing like the drugs the [[Nabia]] peddle.
*Romantic relationships : They are generally long-term monogamous.
*Family structure : They live in [[Throng|Throngs]], where after the egg hatches it is raised communally by others in the Throng, which consists of multiple families, unrelated by blood.
*How do they treat 'others' within their society? : Largely with disdain, though they do venerate their elders.
*Notable rituals : On the age of maturity of a Nusriza - 17 - their relatives hold a celebration that involves a 2 day event called, translated of course, called [[Seventeen Mirrors]]. In the first day, 17 people spend time with the young Nusriza in a ritualistic circle, speaking the truth about the shortcomings of the young one with the aid of an intoxicant they brew from the shells of their eggs called '[[Poivirn|poivirn]]'. On the second day, the virtues of the person coming-of-age are extolled and gifts are presented by each of the 17 to the subject of the ritual. At the end, that Nusriza is formally welcomed as a full member of the Throng.
*How do they view [[Kith|kith]] users? : They have a fairly equal mix of [[Void Kith|void]] and [[Star Kith|star kith]] users, but they're a new race to kith. The Echanine religion prohibited its use until the Schism.
*Entertainment : Their language - Nusrizan - is renowned for its musicality and the difficulty with which non-natives speak it. It's both a tonal and gesture language, with 14 different distinct tones lending shading to the meaning of words, and a wide variety of subtle hand gestures that shade the meaning of those toned words further. The result is that those who can't move both their hands sound 'flat' to Nusrizan ears - their meaning can certainly be understood, but to them it is like listening to someone speak without inflection, tone, or variation in pacing. They are similarly skilled singers, and vocal competitions are very popular with the Nusrizans.
*Government : Monarchy. Ruler is titled the "[[Tajhan]]". It's a hereditary post, though there have been times in its history where the ruling family was wiped out by accident or assassination, typically leading to war among the Throngs until a new power structure emerges that is capable of choosing a leader strong enough to hold onto the position.
*Current Tajhan : [[Abelin Artunduaga]] (m).
* When did they achieve spaceflight? : About 24,000 years ago.
*Sources of wealth  : They're experts in sensor technology.
*Religion : They have a monotheistic religion called [[Echanism]] that worships a single god they call Echanine, but it is by no means believed in by all Nusriza. It is a warrior, protector God, and much of their race lost faith in it during the [[Bushraki War]], when it became clear that Echanine either wouldn't protect them, couldn't protect them, or didn't exist, and they joined into the [[Song Dominion]] with several other races. Echanism prohibited fraternization with other races until then, as well as the use of kith, both of which were restrictions large swathes of Nusrizan society were sick of and, under threat during the wars, rejected completely. This led to the [[Echanine Schism]], which took place from 31 A.E. to 35 A.E. This internal religious war split their society, and over time those who reject Echanine have come to dominate Nusrizan culture and leadership.
*Architecture : Their buildings have large open portals to the outside for young Nusriza to fly in and out of, and they also build large living environments above the clouds, supported on huge, rigid supports.
==Excerpt Regarding the Tukkav==
The mighty [[Tukkav]] are a large, exceptionally hairy race that hail from a fairly cold home planet and prefer cool temperatures. Their home planet - [[Uycheon III]] - has a climate ranging from the merely temperate at the equator to uninhabitably cold, even for the Tukkav, towards the poles.
*Home System : [[Uycheon]]
*Homeworld : Uycheon III
*Capital City : None
*Reproduction : They undergo live birth after an approximately 11 month gestation.
*Lifespan : About 110 years.
*Preferred foods : They're omnivores with a wide variety in their diet, and they really enjoy drinking [[|Lapteth Beer|lapteth beer]], which is a beer made from a grain - [[Lapteth|lapteth]] - native to their world. It's quite bitter, and considered an acquired taste by non-Tukkav.
*Family life : They largely mate for life, and often decline to seek a new mate if their first dies.
*Social structure : Historically, the Tukkav were a nomadic race, traveling in tribes of interrelated families across the plains and snowy forests of their homeworld, and they retain some of that tribal structure today.
*When was spaceflight achieved? : Approximately 16,000 years ago.
*Historical enemies : They and the [[Loroi]] have a strong dislike for each other, nearly universally, and have been at war with each other on and off for the past 1700 years.
*Notable rituals : Their oldest ritual - a gathering of the tribes - is called the [[Ouran]]. Every ten years, going back to time immemorial, each tribe has done their best to send some number of representatives from that tribe, of which there are thousands, to the Ouran. Tribes that roamed or later permanently dwelt close to where that decade's Ouran would be - the location chosen varied each time - sent many, and tribes from far away may send only a handful, or even just one. At the Ouran, matters of cultural importance are discussed, and major feuds between tribes are adjudicated. And, of course, there are celebrations, with a great deal of drinking and playing of the [[Toof|toof]], their most historically significant musical instrument. The toof originates from the pre-spaceflight age of their species, and is a horn instrument, powered by breath, that has a tonal range varying from deep bass to mid-tone.
*Entertainment : Toof circles, where everybody brings a toof and plays together while consuming enormous quantities of lapteth beer are popular. Hunting is another popular activity, and the Tukkav have had to resort to releasing animals bred in captivity into the wild to later hunt, as they've done such an unfortunately effective job of depopulating the wildlife of their home planet. Because this isn't really considered particularly sporting, hunting safaris to alien planets teeming with wildlife - especially dangerous wildlife - are an especially popular vacation to take.
*Government : Their race doesn't have an overall government, except in the form of the once-every-decade Ouran, or in case of war, in which case the tribes select a single [[Warleader]]. Each tribe maintains its own military, and their shipyards are run by private conglomerations.
*Key historical events : About 2500 years ago, there was a great war between alliances of tribes, who marshaled their starship fleets to go to war over a dispute about access to the homeworld. The Tukkav race had grown far too populated to fit on Uchyeon III comfortably, and an alliance of tribes on the planet declared the world closed to those tribes living on colonized planets or on space stations. The [[Home War]], as it was known, was eventually won by those tribes living on Uchyeon, and in the aftermath, many of the resources of the defeated were seized. Today, a small remnant of these defeated Tukkav live on as bitter outsiders with an intense hatred of most of their own race. They call themselves the [[Exiles]], and are scattered about Starmourn, often found working as manual laborers, slaves, or, occasionally functioning as pirate gangs on the starways. The other Tukkav call them names much less polite, including the Rejected or, more colloquially, 'crinkers.'
*Sources of wealth : The Tukkav build excellent starship superstructures and also own many mining corporations that strip the resources from planets too cold to be comfortable for most other races.
*Religion : Many of them have a kind of residual animism that leads them to revere that which they hunt, both for sport and meat.
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