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Approved Species Mancharunk Species

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
  • Name: The Mancharunk
  • Designation: Sentient
  • Origins: Mancharakorkon
  • Average Lifespan: 70 to 150 Standard Years
  • Estimated Population: Planetary
  • Description: The Mancharunk are a fish like species that have a large broad build; they have a large tail that goes out of their body that can be used as a weapon if needed. On the top of their head is a red and green fin; that they also have on the side their cheeks and is also located at the end of their tail and on the tail itself. The species also has two large tentacle that come out of their lip and over their mouths to form a mustache like effect. They have short but strong arms and legs; that come out of their body
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
  • Breathes: Type I Atmosphere
  • Average Height of Adults: 1.8 Meters (6 Feet)
  • Average Length of Adults: N/A
  • Skin color: Green & Tan Underbelly (Northern Tribe). Red & Tan Underbelly (Southern Tribe) Blue & Tan Underbelly (Eastern Tribe) Purple & Tan Underbelly (Western Tribe)
  • Hair color: N/A
  • Distinctions: The Mancharunk Species are fish like and have a heavy build. The Males of the Species generally have more bulk to them than the females of the species and have longer tentacles that come out of their cheeks above their lips. The Young of the Species lack the fin on the top of the head; as they grow in at a later time depending on the tribe. The Tribes all have the same body build and difference between male and females; except for they are different coloration than the main northern tribe. A maturing male or female will develop a more bright colored fins on their body that denote their age. The Older of the Species have noticeable wrinkles on their underbelly that the younger males and females lack and their fin will have a darker shade of the two fin colorations; red and green.
  • Races:
    • Northern Tribe Mancharunk
      • The Northern Tribe Mancharunk are the worker species of the Mancharunk Species as a whole. They have the normal large body type and have medium sized tails that extend from their body. They are mostly recognized by having the standard green skin coloration with the same tan underbelly; most noticable is that their green and red fins are slightly bigger than the other races of the species and are the most numerous of the entire species in terms of population.
    • Southern Tribe Mancharunk
      • The Southern Tribe Mancharunk are the warrior species of the Mancharunk Species as a whole. They have thicker muscles and stronger tails in order to fight against their enemies. They are mostly recognized by having red skin coloration with the same tan underbelly but they still have the red and green fins like the normal variation. But the green coloration are more on them than red.
    • Eastern Tribe Mancharunk
      • The Eastern Tribe Mancharunk are the merchant species of the Mancharunk Species as a whole. They have a less thicker body type and a thinner tail on their bodies; They are mostly recognized by having blue skin coloration with the same tan underbelly as the rest of the species. Like the Southern Tribe; they also have the red and green fins like the normal variation with a balance of the two colors on their fins.
    • Western Tribe Mancharunk
      • The Western Tribe Mancharunk are the sage species of the Mancharaunk Species as a whole. They have a more broad lip with 4 tentacles on their cheeks above their lips than the other variations of the species. They are mostly recognized as having the presence of the force in them at varying levels of mastery; and having purple skin coloration with the same tan underbelly. They still have the same red and green fins like the normal variation but the they have more red than green on them.
  • Force Sensitivity: Low
Strengths:
  • Strong Swimmers: The Mancharunk are powerful swimmers because of their evolution; swimming much faster than a normal human being and even at times surpassing a force user in terms of speed underwater. They are also able to keep up with water vehicles; as their massive tail is a like a paddle that propels them forward at top speed.
  • Huge Strength: The Mancharunk have very strong muscles that can lift things up to 5 tons of weight; making them strong enough to go toe toe with many stronger species in the galaxy; such as wookiees. They can also use this strength for construction work and other projects that might require someone with strength to accomplish. Their strength also allows them to aid in their swimming abilities as they can use their strong muscles to propel them through the water and deep currents; aided by their powerful tail. The tail itself is strong enough to flip over light vehicles and other things that don't weight that much.
  • Skin Benefits: The Mancharunk's Skin is its greatest weapon as its thick skin can hold up to blaster weaponry and physical projectiles like slugs. It also provides resistance to chemicals up to a point with only the most corrosive of materials being able to penetrate their resistance. Due to being in the water and their naturally slippery skin; they are difficult to grab a hold of and if a person did manage such; heavy layers of fat and skin tissue protect their vital organs from any harm; this furthers includes allowing them to survive chemical burns or extreme heat. They can also grow their body parts back when injured; but this process often takes years to accomplish.
Weaknesses:
  • Slow on Land: While the Mancharunk may be strong swimmers and have an advantage on the water. Their short arms and legs make them extremely slow and aren't able to catch up to anything faster than itself. This presents a vulnerability in that an opponent can run away or dispose of them by range with a heavy ranged weapon with them being unable to do anything about it.
  • Sensitive to Sound: The Mancharunk are able to take small noises and normal sound waves; but large amounts of sound can leave them disoriented and unable to defend themselves. Leaving the opponent can opportunity to kill them in large numbers while they attempt to recover. Even unexpected noises can leave them disoriented due to it coming from an unsuspected area that they can't see nor were aware of.
CULTURE
  • Diet: Omnivore; The Mancharunk Species are mainly a meat eater but can devour plants if there natural food is in short supply. They prefer to eat small fish and local insects as they find those to be the most tasty and better for their body's digestive system to handle. They are repelled by extremely odorous food as that upsets their stomach and can drive them away from that area if that kind of food is around. Nothing is typically poisonous; but the local mushrooms can cause deaths among the population if it isn't well prepared for consumption. as the raw mushrooms can cause their body to shutdown to an intense chemical reaction.
  • Communication: The Mancharunk Species communicate two different languages; to outsiders they speak a crude version of Galactic Standard Basic. Among themselves they speak using the Manchrai Language; a collection of vibrations and spoken words that communicate with each member of the species. The Different Tribes have their own variants of the collection that mean the same thing but use a different set of spoken words than the normal Marchrai Language.
  • Technology level: The Mancharunk Species are mostly in an advanced form of primitive technology. They have no access to ships or high level weaponry such as blasters and their variants due in part to the Order of the Swamp Grove wanting to preserve traditions. Although they do have slugthrowers and wood tools to make things go smoothly. Common among them is that they will have possession of metal weaponry and armor such as swords and spears & plate armor; but these are generally used by the Southern Tribe Mancharunk as they are the warrior class of the species as a whole and form the bulk of the Mancharunk Armies. Extremely rare is the possession of a lightsaber; as these are generally for master sages from the Ancestor Tribe & Western Tribe Mancharunk who have uncovered lost text from past exploration by outsiders that have crashed on their planet.
  • Religion/Beliefs: The Mancharunk Species believe in spirits as their version of the force; they believe in two direct spirits "Mar Nuna" which represents the light side of the force and the "Mar Kulo" which presents the dark side of the force. These two spirits are governed by the Order of the Swamp Grove; to which is under the command of the Western Tribe Mancharunk Sages; who possess the force and control ceremony and rites for the rest of the populace. The Sages use the power of the dark side of the force to conjure; natural elements such as water; fire; earth; and air. Although they possess a strong connection to water and earth due to their dense swamp homeworld. A master sage can conjure all 4 of the natural elements; but these master sages are extremely rare among the Western Tribe Mancharunk as their as only been 4 ever documented among their numbers.
  • General behavior: The Mancharunk Species usually live in cities carved out of the trees of their homeworld. They forged communities of about 100 and live with those same individuals for all their lives and rarely except outsiders into their cities from the other communities into their ranks. The typically family life for the Mancharunk is that the males do all the work; while the females are incharge of raising young and helping out their communities before the betterment of the people inside. Since the mancharunk are a primitive society; they hunt the local animals and insects and build things out of the natural resources; such as rocks and bark that is all around them; the Eastern Tribe Mancharunk are particularly merchants and inventors that they use the swamp water to power their cities; although their inventions aren't given to the rest of the species due to traditionalism still being heavily present among a majority of the species members. Typically the males will be paired with a female; at a young age and stick with that partner for life regardless if they like each other or not, Although it is known for males to challenge other males for desirable females through ritual swamp combat and the winner gets the female they desire. The Grand Chieftain is the overall head of the species and rules from the Great Bog of Manchar; the Capital City of Mancharakorkon deep in the swamp; he is the symbol of the species and the main military commander incharge of affairs. Typically; they will not interact with outsiders away from the outsider settlement on the planet; as they have designed that area for the rare outsiders that visit their world. They will not allow travel to other parts of the swamp without heavy resistance. The young are raised in groups of 5; and are taught things in groups by the community females; while the males have raised to hunt and build things depending on their tribe; and typically go with their fathers to do various task.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Mancharunk Species evolved on the Planet of Mancharakorkon during the Pre-Republic Era. Evolving from the bottom of the food chain as a small fish; they would eventually go on land to escape the dangerous predators in the swamp. Growing human style organs to help them better adapt to their new environment; originally they were all of the what is now called the 'Northern Tribe Mancharunk' green with a tan underbelly; they in time built small settlement in the swamp filled with mud huts as they tried to establish themselves in this foreign land. Many of them perished at the start; due to being unaccustomed to the danger of their homeworld; as they lived in the water for most of their lives. The First Grand Chieftain and the First Spirit Sage of the Mancharunk; split the small settlement into 5 groups; having them go and explore the surface to better survive the environment. These 4 groups eventually evolved into 4 separate races due to the places that they settled down; with the majority of the populace being from the Northern Tribe Mancharunk and developed distinctions to better have them stand out among their peers. Having no access to technology at this point; they developed only natural tools made of bark and rocks in the swamps and begin to build small settlements across the planet as any major settlement was quashed due to the dense swamp biome and large trees that surrounded it. Eventually the first chieftain would die; and the tribes would begin to construct an underground tomb for him and laid him to rest as it became a sacred place for all the tribes to settle their differences. Moving forward a few years; the first explorers of the planet would be the Ancient Hutt Empire as they looked for resources to feed their growing war with the Tionese Empire of Xim the Despot; making peace with the natives through a small series of contracts. Would allow the Ancient Hutts to construct a underground refinery on the world to increase the warmachine; but the dominance of the Ancient Hutts over the Species would begin to fade; as they eventually closed the refinery and sealed the entrance to prevent the natives from obtaining weaponry or machinery to operate the refinery again. The Native Species would begin to lay tools and rock totems at the entrance to the sky slugs as they called them; and it became another point of interest for them; holy enough to prevent all access to outsiders to that area of the swamp without heavy resistance. Eventually the planet was left alone for a few decades and the species saw little contact with the galaxy because overall their world was unattractive to anyone and had little in the way of natural resources. The Force was eventually discovered by a few sages of the Western Tribe Mancharunk; who established an Order of the Swamp Grove and named the two spirits that gave them this power "Mar Nuna and Mar Kulo" each representing the dark side and light respectfully; during an experiment by one of the sages; they found that they could naturally connect with the 4 main elements; fire; water; ice and earth with a strong connection to water and earth as they lived in a swamp biome; the one sage who had accomplished this experiment was unnatural in the way that he possess all 4 colorations of skin; Blue;Green;Red; and Purple with the natural tan underbelly. This Sage Eventually became the Second Grand Chieftain and the Spirit Sage of his species; ruling over them for many decades using the force to increase his lifespan unknowingly. During this rule the Ancient Jed'aii Order sent a vessel to scout worlds to establish their presence on; while doing a check around the system. they vessel crashed into the swamp planet that was the home of the species and the crew was killed; the Mancharunk eventually discovered the wrecked vessel during a hunting party and believe it came from the sky slugs; so they buried the bodies in a local grove and unknowingly kept the lightsabers as sacred relics. In the Old Republic Era; the planet was in the sphere of influence of the Hutt Cartel; and particularly the Mancheron Kajidic who built into the mucky terrain a palace for them to reside in away from Kor Mancheron in the Garden of the Hutts. When the Hutt Warlord and Sith Alchemist; Monkrave the Despoiler otherwise known as Monkrave Mancheron Boggurobb fled the sith empire after kaggathing his sith master and established his regional capital on the planet in an underground cave system; using the power of the Ornament of Monkrave to convince the natives to assist him in defending it from the Cartel; Republic and Sith Empire who had grown tired of Monkrave's Invasions into their territories. Although the army of Mancharunks were brave against the onslaught of advanced weaponry brought by the enemy; they ultimately lost and their population was heavily reduced. With the Body of Monkrave being taken back to Kor Mancheron for burial along with his now depowered artifact; the world was soon forgotten again as the galactic powers saw no use to build anything on the planet and waste resources on defending it. Onto the clone wars; the planet was shifted out of hutt space due to galactic lines being redrawn to better fit the conflict between clones and droids. Few outsiders would go to the planet unless they wanted to hide in the dense swamps; the Mancharunk Species were less thrilled about them invading their territory; so they build a small settlement for the outsiders to trade in and rest their bones before leaving for their next destination in the galaxy out of the remnants of an Ancient Hutt Empire Settlement. This settlement is where the only spaceport is located;and all outsiders will be required to remain there as the species don't like foreigners on their grounds and regard them with suspicion. During the remaining years; the world was rarely visited and even the Galactic Empire and Rebellion didn't establish a presence on the world. To the current events; the planet was absorbed into the sphere of Influence of the Mancheron Kajidic; with Paranoda Mancheron Boggurobb moving there to establish a palace in the old refinery; so that he could live in seclusion in the dense swamp; while still being able to leave the planet if he wished to attend events in hutt space and manage his company in the galaxy. The Mancharunk Species permit his exit from the outsider settlement due to him being a sky slug; a ancient legend passed down from generation to generation of the species and they venerate him as a member of that ancient race that conquered them long ago. Although Paranoda is the overall ruler of the planet and its assets; the government rule of the planet is maintained by the 8th Grand Chieftain and Spirit Sage who possess the same unnatural coloration of the Second Grand Chieftain; who despite having access to more recent technology through Paranoda. Keeps his people in the primitive age as per their traditionalism policy but is looking forward to trying technology if it becomes available through trade; unknown to all is that he has managed to construct a lightsaber from the ancient exploration vessel that crashed here from the Ancient Jed'aii Order and using the Lightsabers that were kept by the species as scared relics as his starting point; but the chieftain has kept it hidden in his fortress; only to be used for emergencies or to lead his people to war if necessary. As the Spirit Sage; he is unnaturally gifted with the 4 elements and is the 4th individual of the species to be recorded on wooden tablets using them all; making him an important figure as a Master Sage on his homeworld and earning respect from the other sages who can only use one.
 
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Credit Wizard Credit Wizard This checks out and I absolutely love the detail of the lore and the inclusion of the Shapers. However, something I'd like to caution you about is having walls of text like that in the Historical Information section. You have a ton of great info in there and I'd hate for someone to possibly miss something important because of the readability. To help reduce this, I'd suggest breaking things up into paragraphs so that your readers can have things sectioned and have visible breaks in the info.

But, overall, very solid and interesting submission. Can't wait to see what they're like!

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