Zzcrtherain

Name: Zzcrtherain
Homeworld: Fgearius
Type: Warm-blooded Marine Invertebrate
Gravity Preferences: 0.5 Earths to 7.0 Earths
Chemical Makeup: Germanium-based
Temperature Preferences: 60°F-130°F
Lifestyle: Social Filer Feeder
Preferred Method of Communication: Chemical
Preferred Habitat: Tropical/temperate Coastline
Height: 0'4''
Length: 1'9''
Average Weight: 80-100 pounds
Diet: Microscopic Organisms, Gammavore
Natural Armor: Tungsten alloy H, E, double hockey sticks
Defenses: Tungsten alloy H, E, double hockey sticks
Vision: X-ray to Gamma Ray
Graspers: Filter Net
Methods of Locomotion: Swimming
Lifespan: 567 Earth years
Reproductive Rate: Sexual mature at age 2
Gestation: None
Offspring Incubation: 9 Earth Years
Number of Offspring: 600 to 900 spores
Offspring Survival Rate(before maturity): 46%
Genders #: 4
Gender Differences: No external differences
Civilization: Galactic Exploration Age
Archetype: Direct Democracy

Fgearius
Atmosphere:
•Oxygen-35.36%
•Carbon dioxide-30%
•Chlorine-23.64%
•Nitrogen- 11%
•Hydrogen-4%
•Water vapor- 2.2%
•Carbon Monoxide-.7%
•other elements-.1%

Rotation:
•day- 42.66666 hours
•year-469 earth days
•axis-32.4 degrees

Terrain:
•highest temp= 140 F
•lowest= -15 F
•65.19% water
•44.81% land

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Fgearius orbits a star named Rhrewnud, a Class A star. A mineral rich world, where the soils is made up for various metals, such as iron, nickel, and strontium. The landmasses are divided among 3 major land mases, known in verbal languages as; Fortiverv, Gervaldi, and the Quradeain Archipeligo, surrounded by a single ocean known as Percivearus.

Fortiverv is the larest continent, taking up approcimently 43% of all land. Along the coastlines, it is lush and tropical, but after 30 miles inward it becomes the Rthernain Desert. An expansive, unforgiving land, where temperatures soar to well over 100 degrees farinheit. But it is not dead, for it is filled with creatures of all sorts, like crawling iron eating fauna or swift, winged flora.

Gervaldi iis a much more forgiving land. It is much more temperate in climate, thanks to a expansive network of river running down from the Hovelerus mountain range. The Hovelerus mountain range streches along the northern coast of the continent. It's highest peak, Mt Ferwnin, is actually an exinct volcano home to the planets larest fresh water body, Lake Safety. So called because the species living there have remaind untouched for over 50 million years.

Lastly is the Quradeain Archipeligo. a series of over 4000 islands that once made up a continent by the same name. But about 20 million years ago a comet the size of manhatten struck in the ocean, forcing sea levels upwards. This isolated many cratures from each other, changing them over time into new and unique forms. The islands themselves are as unique as the creatures living on them. Due to the currents flowing in between them, this has caused many islands to have differt biomes, such as the marshy Wenarn island, the dry Gurhsern Island, Or the frozen Tyernd Island, the sounthern most island.

The Zzcrtherain psychology is the product of their tramatic evoultion. Their ancestors were lowly creatures, living their at the bottom of the food chain. A close relative of the Zzcrtherain still living on Fgearius gives some incite into the history of their role in the ecosystem. It commonly known as the Percivearus Barnifan . A rather insignifigant creature, It sticks to the sides of rocks or larger creatures, filter feeding microscopic organisms out of the water. It wasn't until a Gamma Ray burst 40 million years ago that this line had a chance.

On this planet, Gamma Ray bursts aren't nessicarily devastating. Microscopic organisms known to science as Geigermites feed off of radiation, so when the burst hit, these organisms, and in turn any organisms that feed on them, flurished. Most of their predators were extinguished in the blast, so no natural threat impeeded their rise. They soon gave rise to free swimming forms, which adapted from there.

But, sadly, this was short lived. Soon new creatures emerged that would keep them in check. Such creatures as the Democleus Snetrapper, A baleen creature that looks like a cross between a frog and a whale, or the Clavemenw Fang Worm, a creature of emence horror. Pressures from these and other predators caused them to be uplifted.

Zzcrtherain society as a whole is rather peaceful. They tend to be sedentary, only living in small "towns" on the ocean floor. Most tend to spend their time buried in sand or mud, feeding on microscopic organisms, contemplating the nature of life. They're houses are simple structures, usually only about one story and made out of sand. These always have a glass-like roof, which they use to collect radiaton from the sun. They communicate through chemicals, produced in the bladders on their underbelly. It is hard for two indiviuals from different communities to communicate, because their chemical languages tend to make non-fluent people sick. In recent times though, they have created technologies that allow them to communicate without incident.

Zzcrtherain are a incuisitive species, the result of their ancestors oppernutisic ways of dieting. They have vast libraries, documenting every experiance with new species. Whenever they come across a new sentient being, they will imediatly try to engage it in a conversation, asking it about anything it could possibly think of. This usually tends to make the other spiecies thing they are a hyperactive and child-like species. This has lead to a derogitory term among the vocal speaking species for them know as "Gqurtet" which, when roughly translated into English, means "spaz".

Although they do tend to be very child-like, they are masters of genetics and biological tools. Lacking strong appendages to manipulate they're environments, they have breed various creatures through out they're history to do tasks for them. At first, these were simple creature bred to do tasks like moving heavy objects like rocks or detecting microb plumes, but as time moved on they became more complex, some living simbiotically on the bodies of the Zzcrtherain acting like tentacles to biological translators.