Orcubor

The Orcubor (Ignik sophos) are a sapient race of aluminum-based life forms native to the planet Gohbrin. They represent the last vestiges of the Norlin people, the founders of Cosmoria's first civilization. Four-meter goliaths weighing over four thousand kilograms on average, the Orcubor are notoriously difficult to accommodate for shared spaces across species. An internal body temperature of 1,400 degrees Celsius prevents cohabitation with almost any other species. The solvent, Silicon Dioxide, is a rare one, isolated to a handful of ecosystems scattered across only three star systems.

The Orcubor have been space-faring since time immemorial. The oldest records about their origin have been lost, but archeologists estimate that they first achieved space flight sometime before 4700 CE, just before the rise of the Triumvirate Civilization. The Orcubor civilization was peacefully subsumed into the Triumvirate. After the nation's collapse, only a few billion remained spread out across several star systems. They would form the Orcubor Coalition, a transnational organization devoted to the protection of the dwindling population. Today, the Orcubor are an integral part of the Entente of Ventemir, a union of three species native to the nebula of Ventemir.

Biology

The Orcubor are unique in their usage of silicon dioxide as a solvent. By mass, they are about 60% silicon dioxide and most of the "dry mass" is aluminum and oxygen. With a diet composed primarily of fungus, the Orcubor evolved from a eusocial colonial species to become more independent. Incapable of surviving for more than a few weeks alone, the Orcubor remain highly sociable.

Within the head is a large brain protected in a case of aluminum oxide over 5 centimeters thick. The Orcubor have six legs, but the strongest are in the front and double as arms. The Orcubor have four main eyes upon their heads and dozens of more primitive eyes across the underside of their torso.

History