Race Name: Pincertails

Home Planet: Salaxxus VI

Breathable Atmosphere's: Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide

Hospitable Environments: Hot climates. General temperatures above 121 degrees F. Very little humidity in the air except around lakes. Increased gravity due to heavy mass and density of the planet itself, putting its natural state at close to thirty-seven times Earth's gravity.

Government Type: Dictatorship and wealthy families

Body Type: Biological, Reptilian and Insectoid

Technology Level: Interstellar travel as a recent advancement among Pincertails leading to planetary expansion and colonization.

Race Description: Pincertails stand at roughly six feet tall on average when compared to average humans on Earth. They are bipedal with organic plating along their shins and forearms signifying natural armor for hunting and protection against others of the same species. Their body figure is comparable to athletic built humans with toned and lean muscle across their entire bodies. Their skin is similar to a mixture of an insect's carapace and alligator hide. Impenetrable along certain scale plating and soft as leather around others such as upper arms, thighs, chest and stomach. Scale and skin color is based on geography to where they are born as a natural camoflague along with influence of airborne particulates around time of hatching. Upon birth they have no color and take a few weeks to develop their color. Their faces look noseless with slaced plating from where their noses would be up until around their foreheads. Their eyebrows are replaced by varying sizes of antennae and nubs due to their ancestry of insects for a special sense of location. Throughout evolution and the ages, that sense has been weakened by those apendages and replaced by more efficient meaty antennae on their collarbones that are used to tell certain emotions as well as an advanced sense of their surroundings. The biggest part of this particular races is their long, insectoid tail that ends in a durable and power pincer. The tail itself is an extension of the Pincertail's spine and looks as if the thick plating from the tail runs up the species' back. The jewel on the head of the pincer is highly sought after by alien races due to its indestructable nature and beautiful hues.

Race History and Bio: Pincertails, a race of insectoid reptilian hybrids from a planet multiple parsecs from Earth, the distance is hard to tell exactly. The planet being called Salaxxus VI by early colonists who settled there long before the Pincertails gained their upper intelligence through evolution. Their true name for their race cannot be pronounced without use of their collarbone antennae, so they stick with the closest translation being Pincertail. Salaxxus VI is a mostly desert planet that is in a triple star system. Just barely in the goldielocks zone, leaving a portion of the planet in a constant state of dehydration, while the other half has scattered oases throughout its landscape. One sun stays over the main population of the Pincertails, while the other two have opposite rotations around it, one from East to West, the other from North to South on varying time schedules. They don't have a sense of time like humans do, due to the number of suns. Pincertails are easily the top of their food chain due to their speed, strength and dexterity. Many of them stick to fighting with their bare hands and tails to display dominance, while others craft metal weapons for their leaders. The dictator of the species is dictated by their strength. The strongest warrior becomes the leader, and is stripped of said title if he or she displays traits that would be called dishonorable.

Honor and fighting skill are some of the most sought after abilities in a Pincertail warrior and are given high ranks based on such. While others that show great knowledge of their surroundings and such are given positions as scientists. The scientists are what the warriors call weak and useless, while they are the ones that came up with space travel to further the warriors' reach upon the stars. Gaining them more and more planets to call their own while leaving inhabited planets that have an intelligent population. They didn't want what happened to their ancestors to happen again by their own hands. Was a very dishonorable thing to do. With this newfound grasp of star travel, they set out to colonize and expand their species throughout the stars, sending one or two small single pilot ships to inhabitable planets to make sure they can be visited in greater numbers.

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