Un'oit

The Un'oit are a sapient species native to somewhere within Un'oit Space a region within Martial Space. While their exact home-world is unknown, they most likely originated on the planet Oratorio. As carbon-based organisms, their biochemistry is not particularly out of the ordinary. They are likely the most ancient still-living species within the galaxy, evolving sometime around 1.1 million BCE.

Physical Description

The Un'oit are centipedal organisms with the 8 front legs capable of grasping objects. The Un’oit are mostly carnivorous but can sustain themselves on plants if the need ever arises. They eat through a large circular mouth located underneath their head. This mouth is covered with around three rows of sharp incisor-like teeth with which the Un’oit can tear through some of the tougher prey on their planet. Atop their head are 8 eyes with two principal eyes in front. The two principal eyes have no irises and instead rely on a telescope-like approach in which two lenses are in the eye. They can alter the angle of this internal "telescope" to focus on objects. The other eyes have much poorer vision, but more or less grant omni-directional vision.

They speak through the use of four muscles located inside their mouths. These muscles vibrate rapidly to produce a wide array of sounds ranging from near-ultrasonic to well into the common frequencies used in sound-based communication.

The Un'oit have two sexes, male and female. Males, however, do not qualify as sapient and are, instead, more akin to pets taken care of by the females. They are biologically expendable. Males are essentially just smaller versions of their larger female counterparts, except they have much less intelligence, are fairly shiny (with the intent of drawing away predators), do not live for as long, and mature much quicker.

The baseline Un’oit are capable of surviving underwater for an entire local day before needing to resurface for air. Many subspecies of Un'oit spend the majority of their time underwater and have become far more amphibious, the same has happened in reverse, with similar numbers opting to survive in more terrestrial environments.

History

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Culture

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