Uddonahni

Uddonahni, or 'the breath-takers' hail from the Achinohah B System.

Uddonahni Biology
The Uddonahni are an ABSURDLY short-lived species from obliterated world of Uonohn. In terms of organs, they are actually fairly hardy, and possess a backup of each organ safely stored shortly behind the others. Their agility isn't matched by any other race, as they were naturally short and light-weight. Their average height is 4'3 regardless of gender, and their history is a very blood one at the hands of predators. They're metabolism is hyper-intensified, allowing for fast growth rates among their young. By 3 months, they're already completely mature as an adult member of their society.

They've always formed larger close-knit communities, usually with some sort of council in charge of it's affairs. They're very communally minded, having little idea of trivial things such as 'personal space' or larger individual rooms to rest in. They live on average free of zero-gravity chambers for on average 15 years, due to the constant strain put on them by their gravitational distortion technology. The constant un-even strain of gravity from the asteroid, as well as their gravity bridges puts a considerable amount of strain on their organ and bone health. Within 15-17 years the strain becomes to much, and they're put into zero gravity chambers with a few others in a similar situation to accompany them for the rest of their 30 years they'll live. Alone, with just their thoughts in their head and their few accompanying Uddonahni.

Uddonahni History
The Uddonanhi's history begins on the long dead planet of Uonohn, which means 'heaven'. The planet was described as an absolute paradise, Uddonahni were born and died for hundreds of thousands of years, content. Empires formed, empires fell. Republics formed, Republics fell. World government formed, when all seemed well. They achieved spaceflight just as a neighboring planet's moon was slung in Uonohn's direction. Billions were evacuated into space, into distant orbit around Uonohn as the moon shattered the planet to pieces, resulting in the death of 2 billion Uddonhani who'd been abandoned.

The 3 billion Uddonahni that remained in space began to build cities along the asteroid belt formed from it's planet's destruction, and so their civilization began to form once again. The 'greatest gravitational discovery in history' was made by the Uddonahni, who figured out a method to manipulate the effect of gravity using lamp-like objects. This is how people moved in-between asteroids, they didn't need fancy shuttles anymore. They just needed a space-suit and a pathway, so these gravity bridges began to be constructed that linked the previously division-struck belt together.

The Uddonahni as a kind, united once again. They began to further explore their solar system as their space travel technology improved, and eventually made their breakthrough on FTL travel. They mined and built up their fleets, as they began to 'harvest' organic worlds. They'd strip it bare, kill all life on it and search desperately for oil which was used in their food, a black, tar-like substance. They eat paste, rather than solid foods. They saw other life as lesser than them, and thus didn't feel they were doing much wrong as they slaughtered animal life in the trillions.

Until they met the other races, in an event dubbed First Contact, by The Neraavians.

Uddonahni Rank System
The Uddonahni have an extensive, sometimes overbearing rank system throughout their society. It is considered improper to address a person without also stating their name, example; "Reiomii The Callegard".

Uniquely, all of their ranks are equal to one another, they rely on reputation for treatment rather than rank. In the rank system, even the Elementizer ( Most intelligent among their kind ).

Hiearhks; They are essentially the scientists of the Uddonahni, most notable for their aiding in the creation of the majority, if not all of the Uddonahni weaponry. There are two tiers to the Hiearhks, the lower tier will never work with or even know the identify of the Elementizer while the higher tier will be his seconds, the only few who will ever know who he is.

Callegards; The Callegards are the pioneers of their kind, the explorers. They are sent out in their very own pod-like ships to explore and identify new potential harvesting points throughout the nearby systems. The Callegards often work alone, or in very small crews. The idea of this is that the less people, the littler resources needed to maintain it and thus there are less resources diverted from other, more resource-burning aspects of Uddonahni society, such as the Ehinzimari. The Callegards absolutely despise the Ehinzimari, they run smear campaigns against them and often insult the stupidity of the Ehinzimari for working themselves to death. They see the Ehinzimari as lesser beings, since they don't suffer like the rest during work and are drugged up with paste. Some 'Rebel' groups have resorted to sabotaging key Ehinzimari infrastructure, which even includes cutting off protection to citizens.

Ehinzimari; The engineers of Uddonahni society, often seen on construction projects in large mech-like suits that they likely built themselves. The Ehinzimari are hard-workers, and rarely take days off. Uniquely, instead of going into the zero-g pods they often live in zero-g chambers within their mechs, and continue to work for the majority of their lives rather than going into the hibernation-like state of meditation. The Ehinzimari often feud with the Callegard, since a lot of the resource/food rations given to the Callegards was transferred to the Ehinzimari after the executive order was made to stop Ehinzimari retirement.

Zhegellagard; The warriors of their society, the only ones who have access to weaponry. The Hiearhks make it, but have little clue where it is sent off post-construction. Nobody is aware of what all happens when the Zhegellagard are sent to a planet before the workers arrive to mine, but given that the Zhegellagard come back bloody, tired and drained of power cells for their mechs....It can't be pretty. They train for an absurdly long time, the first 5 years of their lives. Some have reported seeing six feet tall Zhegellagard's before, though it isn't entirely certain if it's true. They are incredibly secretive about their mechs, even touching it is a life-in-prison crime. They primarily focus in environmental weapons, such as acids, gasses or chemicals. It is utterly terrifying, the thought of the crazy chemicals they possess and what they might plan to do with them.

Civistimoni; Essentially the non-working classes of their society, like those who live in pods or are in the first few months of their lives when they are too young to work. They receive no pay, and are housed in orphanages of sorts until they're old enough to select a new rank.

Elementizer; The most intelligent Uddonahni to live, they're awarded the title of Elementizer. They've mastered every aspect of Uddonahni rankings, from Callegard all the way to Zhegellagard. They're a master of just about everything they try to accomplish, many theorize that the Elementizer's are actually genetically modified to be as incredibly intelligent as they are, rather than it being a natural occurrence. Few people ever get to see the Uddonahni, all that due are either high ranking council members or the Elite Hiearhks. The identity of the Elementizer is rarely revealed to the public, and the current one is completely unknown.

First Contact
First Contact occurred between The Neraavians and the Uddonahni 27 Cluster Standard years ago, though it varies depending on if your planet counts it's years as actual years. First contact occurred when a Callegard ship that roamed the In-Lara system, scrounged through the barren planet of Siviss. They came across a lost Neraavian distress beacon, as well as a Neraavian cargo derelict that had been half-buried by the mass amounts of dust on Siviss. When they landed to investigate, they accidentally set off the previously de-activated beacon. It used emergency power from the vessel to send out the distress call, a nearby Neraavian patrol was immediately dis-patched to investigate, and rescue any survivors.

When the Neraavians showed up, the Callegard alerted the main Uddonahni forces who swept the In-Lara system and where greeted by a strange alien vessel. The Neraavians blasted two of their own fleets in, which massively out-numbered the Uddonahni Forces. After little negotiation between the two, the Uddonahni fled In-Lara back to their home system. The Neraavians and the Uddonahni maintain contact over Vidcon communications, as the Uddonahni contemplate whether to take their offered embassy as well as send a representative to Atlas.

The realization that they weren't alone in their intelligence made them wonder if all the killing they'd done was really justified, if life was truly lesser than them just because it was not them.