Post by BTP Captain Ko'Terie Itoku on Mar 17, 2008 11:10:43 GMT -5
[The following report is lost somewhere in the Necronom VI computer system, having never been completed by the two scientists who started their studies. They disappeared shortly after abducting a sample raptorada to study. They managed to do a few experiments on her, but their findings were never recorded. It is assumed they were dragged off to the reactor. The raptorada in question was red, and not likely to know anything about her species history.]
[RAPTORADA SPECIES HISTORY]
A small planet on the outskirts of a wild galaxy was once inhabited by a peaceful people called the Eydi. Publicly, not much is known about them other than stories of their vast intelligence and large blue eyes -- eyes which are said to invoke spiritual powers. This report about the species known as "raptorada" also greatly involves the Eydi, and much previously-unreleased information is contained within the following transcript.
The planet of the Eydi was once covered in lush forests, clear rivers and widespread savannahs. Several species of colonizing aliens inevitably found their way to the planet. Many of these aliens preyed upon the Eydi, eventually forcing the peaceful people to flee underground. There, in the stone depths of their home, the Eydi built enormous cities and used their self-created technologies to guard themselves from other inhabitants. The alien colonists did not care about seeking out the Eydi below ground and set to work stripping the planet of its resources. The Eydi went mad with despair as their home was destroyed, and in their madness they created the Raptorada.
Possessing no physical features of their own which could be used either offensively or defensively, the Eydi wished to create servants who would surpass their enemies yet still bend to the wills of their Eydi masters. The Eydi created a database of all species they had information about from the far reaches of space. Some information they had collected on their own before being forced underground, while other information they copied from the colony computers. They eventually found a base form which both terrified and excited them -- an extinct species from another poor planet like their own. Hoping to give the species a better life while fulfilling their needs, they created the DNA for the new creatures using some of their own genetic material.
This made the new species their children, and they gave their children that which had been denied them -- strength, endurance, cleverness, bloodlust, natural weapons and more. Over time, the Eydi developed subspecies of varying color. There were soon so many that the young ones not yet graced with masters began to have vicious fights which cost them and many Eydi their lives. The decision was made, reluctantly, to relocate breeding packs of the new species to the planet's surface. There they would populate and fend off the colonizing from their territories. And from a distance the loving Eydi could select their servants when they were ready.
The colonizing aliens lost many to the terrible new species and even gave them a name -- raptor; A.D.A. (alien DNA anomaly). They knew this was not a natural species, and each of the colonies suspected another of creating the creatures in their greed for resources. After only a few months, only the heartiest of colonizing aliens survived -- but they went wild in their pursuit of survival, forcing the Eydi to remain underground. And in truth, over the years the Eydi lost their ability to tolerate bright light, only venturing out to claim servants when the shade cycle began. Being such a wild planet, no civilized creature would dare venture anywhere during shade time, and the Eydi were forgotten altogether. Instead, a primal balance established itself between the Raptorada (as the Eydi called them) and the other remaining alien species.
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[OTHER SPECIES ON THE EYDI PLANET]
LIUSHEN: Similar to 'Mother' in the Necronom VI reactor. After taking some of the Eydi into their clutches, these sentient plant creatures leave the raptorada alone unless approached or threatened.
BARAKU HUNTERS: Large and slow tribal warrior beasts of the savannahs with feline, lupine and draconic features. They fight the raptorada for prey, but often lose, not being very fast. At one time their crude traps could catch the raptorada, but the Eydi kin learned quickly how to avoid and dismantle them, the hunters giving up on the traps altogether.
KEPTAVI: Serpentine creatures with a ridge of tentacles along their back and two clawed, handlike appendages, making them look like strange tadpoles the size of cows. Omnivores who feed on grasses, ferns and insects. Heavily hunted by the baraku, left alone by the raptorada unless there are no alternatives.
Also various rodent, reptilian and insectoid creatures abound and serve as prey.
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[RAPTORADA SUBTYPES]
BLACK: Foul-tempered and quick; used among the Eydi as thieves and originally used to tamper with the colonist technology. There are very few black raptoradas left, and those that are left have taken on horrible mutations.
WHITE: Lithe and graceful; used as companions for their elegance, sensitivity and loyalty. Some have been known to be so sensitive as to waste away if their master did not give them enough attention.
BROWN: Slow and patient; used for menial and mundane tasks. Quiet but friendly and willing to lend a helping hand in any simple task, they are viewed as the diligent workers.
VIOLET: Water subtype seldom seen, with webbed appendages; used to patrol the underground waters and seldom seen by anyone but their masters... who are so few in number that they may as well not exist.
BLUE: Clever, with dextrous hands; used to help the Eydi with tech work. They sometimes even surpass their masters' intelligence and help create new technology, and never seem slighted if they're not given as much credit as would be due them -- they're just happy to create and tinker.
GREEN: Smallest, peaceful and curious; used as messengers. Many of these run underfoot in an Eydi community, bringing messages, money, items, and news between given locations. Their training involves learning every pathway in their community, and as a result they are never lost.
YELLOW: Leggy and fast; used for transportation. These are given similar training to the green subtype as they are living taxicabs for the Eydi and other raptoradas. They are tall and strong, and fitted with a special harness that accomodates 2 Eydi or 1 raptorada when they are ready to enter their work.
ORANGE: Brutish but gentle; used as builders. Not terribly bright compared to other subtypes, but sweet and gentle all the same, being careful in their work not to endanger all of their smaller brethren being more than three times the size of the next largest subtype.
RED: Hybrid of all subtypes, youngest of all; used as warriors and treated as equals among the Eydi. They are clever, strong, fast, curious, reliable, emotional and highly adaptable.
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[RAPTORADA LIFE CYCLE]
Breeder Eydi rear their packs from a distance, usually having two or three servants in a group to maintain control, and usually the alpha female is one of them. Raptorada reproduce quickly. The alpha female of the pack is the only one who breeds. When environment conditions are best, she selects a male to mate with. If they aren't interrupted, they will mate repeatedly until eggs have formed and are ready to be laid. The raptorada breeding cycle has three phases:
(Phase 1) Cold-blooded phase. The female actively seeks and breeds with a male. This induces fertility in the subject and produces her estrus. Once she has bred, she enters the next phase.
(Phase 2) Warm-blooded phase. The female breeds with the male again... or with another male if they are separated for any reason, her estrus scent usually luring males to her without much effort. She will breed repeatedly until a clutch of eggs have formed and been fertilized in her womb. This phase usually lasts 1-3 days.
(Phase 3) Warm-blooded phase. Female's eggs gestate for 1 day. When gestation period is over, she will lay eggs and leave her breeding cycle.
Eggs take 3-5 days to hatch. A clutch is anywhere between 5 and 15 eggs, and survival rate is 33%. Chicks take 5 years to fully mature. Due to having mostly synthetic genetics, raptoradas are only fertile when breeding with other raptoradas of their subtype, though their instincts will drive the female to mate with any male if environmental conditions are stable.
Eydi go to Breeder Eydi when they need or want new servants. The Breeder will escort their kin to a vantage point and show them available individuals -- usually with the help of the servants in the pack. If an individual is satisfactory, the Breeder has a servant separate them from the pack and allows the Eydi to face down their would-be servant alone. Using their spiritual power with a mere gaze from their large blue eyes, the Eydi need never fear attack from the raptorada. The raptorada will 'see' its kinship with the Eydi and bow down, exposing the back of its neck in submission.
The only exception to this is the red subtype. There is only one Eydi Breeder of the red raptorada at a given time. They keep no servants among the red packs due to the enhanced senses the reds possess. A red raptorada also is the only danger to a potential Eydi master. In the spiritual gaze of the Eydi, a red raptorada can see the Eydi's soul, their personality, their goals, their lifestyle, and how they treat their other servants. If what is seen is unacceptable, the raptorada devours the Eydi and seemingly forgets it altogether. Otherwise, the raptorada bows low to the ground and follows its master obsessively. Red raptorada are capable of doing what most other subtypes can do individually.
After spending time with their Eydi master to strengthen the servitude bond, the raptorada mutates and gains a humanoid-like form. Eydi often introduce their servants to various conditions so as to produce desired mutations. Smart, kind Eydi only do this once or twice due to multiple mutations resulting in early deaths for the raptorada. Once the humanoid mutation occurs, the raptorada are trained for whatever service is intended of them. The training is done by the eldest raptorada of their subtype in a given Eydi community. After a few months of training, they are put to work.
In the Eydi society, raptorada are given as much respect as fellow Eydi and only a servant's master has the right to instruct or punish. It has even been known that some Eydi masters have taken raptorada servants as long-term mates. Eydi usually grow up with a raptorada companion -- typically brown or green -- which they claim as chicks (like picking out a puppy at a shelter). These companions generally run a houshold for their Eydi once the master becomes an adult. Entrepreneur Eydi rent out the services of their raptorada for a fee. The chief among these is the use of white raptorada for pleasuring. Only the Eydi are allowed such pleasures, as the raptorada may only breed on the surface in a pack or with their master's permission.
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[THE EYDI]
The little that is known about the Eydi is in regards only to their appearance which could very well be different now that they live solely beneath the ground.
Height: 2/3 average human size
Weight: 80-100 lbs
Shape: Appears to be a cross between a deer and a lynx, with white scales and tufts of downy fur. Their form allows them to walk on two legs or four.
Features: Small little mouths with very flat teeth and a rough palette in their mouth for tearing up whatever food they eat, being omnivores. Large blue eyes that almost appear to be bug-like, though not segmented in any way. They lack claws, hooves, horns or any defensive natural weapons, their teeth being too flat to bite with.
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[RAPTORADA SPECIES HISTORY]
A small planet on the outskirts of a wild galaxy was once inhabited by a peaceful people called the Eydi. Publicly, not much is known about them other than stories of their vast intelligence and large blue eyes -- eyes which are said to invoke spiritual powers. This report about the species known as "raptorada" also greatly involves the Eydi, and much previously-unreleased information is contained within the following transcript.
The planet of the Eydi was once covered in lush forests, clear rivers and widespread savannahs. Several species of colonizing aliens inevitably found their way to the planet. Many of these aliens preyed upon the Eydi, eventually forcing the peaceful people to flee underground. There, in the stone depths of their home, the Eydi built enormous cities and used their self-created technologies to guard themselves from other inhabitants. The alien colonists did not care about seeking out the Eydi below ground and set to work stripping the planet of its resources. The Eydi went mad with despair as their home was destroyed, and in their madness they created the Raptorada.
Possessing no physical features of their own which could be used either offensively or defensively, the Eydi wished to create servants who would surpass their enemies yet still bend to the wills of their Eydi masters. The Eydi created a database of all species they had information about from the far reaches of space. Some information they had collected on their own before being forced underground, while other information they copied from the colony computers. They eventually found a base form which both terrified and excited them -- an extinct species from another poor planet like their own. Hoping to give the species a better life while fulfilling their needs, they created the DNA for the new creatures using some of their own genetic material.
This made the new species their children, and they gave their children that which had been denied them -- strength, endurance, cleverness, bloodlust, natural weapons and more. Over time, the Eydi developed subspecies of varying color. There were soon so many that the young ones not yet graced with masters began to have vicious fights which cost them and many Eydi their lives. The decision was made, reluctantly, to relocate breeding packs of the new species to the planet's surface. There they would populate and fend off the colonizing from their territories. And from a distance the loving Eydi could select their servants when they were ready.
The colonizing aliens lost many to the terrible new species and even gave them a name -- raptor; A.D.A. (alien DNA anomaly). They knew this was not a natural species, and each of the colonies suspected another of creating the creatures in their greed for resources. After only a few months, only the heartiest of colonizing aliens survived -- but they went wild in their pursuit of survival, forcing the Eydi to remain underground. And in truth, over the years the Eydi lost their ability to tolerate bright light, only venturing out to claim servants when the shade cycle began. Being such a wild planet, no civilized creature would dare venture anywhere during shade time, and the Eydi were forgotten altogether. Instead, a primal balance established itself between the Raptorada (as the Eydi called them) and the other remaining alien species.
========================================
[OTHER SPECIES ON THE EYDI PLANET]
LIUSHEN: Similar to 'Mother' in the Necronom VI reactor. After taking some of the Eydi into their clutches, these sentient plant creatures leave the raptorada alone unless approached or threatened.
BARAKU HUNTERS: Large and slow tribal warrior beasts of the savannahs with feline, lupine and draconic features. They fight the raptorada for prey, but often lose, not being very fast. At one time their crude traps could catch the raptorada, but the Eydi kin learned quickly how to avoid and dismantle them, the hunters giving up on the traps altogether.
KEPTAVI: Serpentine creatures with a ridge of tentacles along their back and two clawed, handlike appendages, making them look like strange tadpoles the size of cows. Omnivores who feed on grasses, ferns and insects. Heavily hunted by the baraku, left alone by the raptorada unless there are no alternatives.
Also various rodent, reptilian and insectoid creatures abound and serve as prey.
========================================
[RAPTORADA SUBTYPES]
BLACK: Foul-tempered and quick; used among the Eydi as thieves and originally used to tamper with the colonist technology. There are very few black raptoradas left, and those that are left have taken on horrible mutations.
WHITE: Lithe and graceful; used as companions for their elegance, sensitivity and loyalty. Some have been known to be so sensitive as to waste away if their master did not give them enough attention.
BROWN: Slow and patient; used for menial and mundane tasks. Quiet but friendly and willing to lend a helping hand in any simple task, they are viewed as the diligent workers.
VIOLET: Water subtype seldom seen, with webbed appendages; used to patrol the underground waters and seldom seen by anyone but their masters... who are so few in number that they may as well not exist.
BLUE: Clever, with dextrous hands; used to help the Eydi with tech work. They sometimes even surpass their masters' intelligence and help create new technology, and never seem slighted if they're not given as much credit as would be due them -- they're just happy to create and tinker.
GREEN: Smallest, peaceful and curious; used as messengers. Many of these run underfoot in an Eydi community, bringing messages, money, items, and news between given locations. Their training involves learning every pathway in their community, and as a result they are never lost.
YELLOW: Leggy and fast; used for transportation. These are given similar training to the green subtype as they are living taxicabs for the Eydi and other raptoradas. They are tall and strong, and fitted with a special harness that accomodates 2 Eydi or 1 raptorada when they are ready to enter their work.
ORANGE: Brutish but gentle; used as builders. Not terribly bright compared to other subtypes, but sweet and gentle all the same, being careful in their work not to endanger all of their smaller brethren being more than three times the size of the next largest subtype.
RED: Hybrid of all subtypes, youngest of all; used as warriors and treated as equals among the Eydi. They are clever, strong, fast, curious, reliable, emotional and highly adaptable.
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[RAPTORADA LIFE CYCLE]
Breeder Eydi rear their packs from a distance, usually having two or three servants in a group to maintain control, and usually the alpha female is one of them. Raptorada reproduce quickly. The alpha female of the pack is the only one who breeds. When environment conditions are best, she selects a male to mate with. If they aren't interrupted, they will mate repeatedly until eggs have formed and are ready to be laid. The raptorada breeding cycle has three phases:
(Phase 1) Cold-blooded phase. The female actively seeks and breeds with a male. This induces fertility in the subject and produces her estrus. Once she has bred, she enters the next phase.
(Phase 2) Warm-blooded phase. The female breeds with the male again... or with another male if they are separated for any reason, her estrus scent usually luring males to her without much effort. She will breed repeatedly until a clutch of eggs have formed and been fertilized in her womb. This phase usually lasts 1-3 days.
(Phase 3) Warm-blooded phase. Female's eggs gestate for 1 day. When gestation period is over, she will lay eggs and leave her breeding cycle.
Eggs take 3-5 days to hatch. A clutch is anywhere between 5 and 15 eggs, and survival rate is 33%. Chicks take 5 years to fully mature. Due to having mostly synthetic genetics, raptoradas are only fertile when breeding with other raptoradas of their subtype, though their instincts will drive the female to mate with any male if environmental conditions are stable.
Eydi go to Breeder Eydi when they need or want new servants. The Breeder will escort their kin to a vantage point and show them available individuals -- usually with the help of the servants in the pack. If an individual is satisfactory, the Breeder has a servant separate them from the pack and allows the Eydi to face down their would-be servant alone. Using their spiritual power with a mere gaze from their large blue eyes, the Eydi need never fear attack from the raptorada. The raptorada will 'see' its kinship with the Eydi and bow down, exposing the back of its neck in submission.
The only exception to this is the red subtype. There is only one Eydi Breeder of the red raptorada at a given time. They keep no servants among the red packs due to the enhanced senses the reds possess. A red raptorada also is the only danger to a potential Eydi master. In the spiritual gaze of the Eydi, a red raptorada can see the Eydi's soul, their personality, their goals, their lifestyle, and how they treat their other servants. If what is seen is unacceptable, the raptorada devours the Eydi and seemingly forgets it altogether. Otherwise, the raptorada bows low to the ground and follows its master obsessively. Red raptorada are capable of doing what most other subtypes can do individually.
After spending time with their Eydi master to strengthen the servitude bond, the raptorada mutates and gains a humanoid-like form. Eydi often introduce their servants to various conditions so as to produce desired mutations. Smart, kind Eydi only do this once or twice due to multiple mutations resulting in early deaths for the raptorada. Once the humanoid mutation occurs, the raptorada are trained for whatever service is intended of them. The training is done by the eldest raptorada of their subtype in a given Eydi community. After a few months of training, they are put to work.
In the Eydi society, raptorada are given as much respect as fellow Eydi and only a servant's master has the right to instruct or punish. It has even been known that some Eydi masters have taken raptorada servants as long-term mates. Eydi usually grow up with a raptorada companion -- typically brown or green -- which they claim as chicks (like picking out a puppy at a shelter). These companions generally run a houshold for their Eydi once the master becomes an adult. Entrepreneur Eydi rent out the services of their raptorada for a fee. The chief among these is the use of white raptorada for pleasuring. Only the Eydi are allowed such pleasures, as the raptorada may only breed on the surface in a pack or with their master's permission.
========================================
[THE EYDI]
The little that is known about the Eydi is in regards only to their appearance which could very well be different now that they live solely beneath the ground.
Height: 2/3 average human size
Weight: 80-100 lbs
Shape: Appears to be a cross between a deer and a lynx, with white scales and tufts of downy fur. Their form allows them to walk on two legs or four.
Features: Small little mouths with very flat teeth and a rough palette in their mouth for tearing up whatever food they eat, being omnivores. Large blue eyes that almost appear to be bug-like, though not segmented in any way. They lack claws, hooves, horns or any defensive natural weapons, their teeth being too flat to bite with.
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