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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: The Cha'ta'ri are a scattered race living in tribes that have their own customs and mutations. This is one such tribe. It also expands on the Cha’ta’ri lore.
Image Credit: Destiny.fandom
Canon: N/A
Permissions: N/A
Links: Aing-Tii, Kathol Outback, Freehold, Destiny The Fallen, Gikza, Cha'ta'ri
GENERAL INFORMATION
Organization Name: The Mithrax ( Originally Ch'tar can be translated to "The Forsaken")
Classification: Cha'ta'ri Tribe
Affiliation: N/A
Organization Symbol:
Description: The Mithrax like any Cha'ta'ri live and breathe to consume but having been enlightened of their fate they seek to rise beyond the hunger that has been bestowed upon them and build a place for all Cha'ta'ri to prosper and grow.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Headquarters:
Kathol Outback/ Providence/ Freehold / Gorgon Asteroid Field
Domain:
The Mithrax have burrowed deep into an asteroid the size of a small moon and have laid hundreds of tunnels, burrows and halls into its inners. From here they scavenge the rest of the asteroid field and beyond in small hunting parties searching for technologies or to kidnap those unfortunate enough to find themselves lost in this section of space. While they have made secrecy a pillar of their tribal life in recent years they have begun to interact more and more with outsiders and other members of the Outback. Nevertheless, they are extremely careful when engaging with other sentient life and any member of the tribe would rather take their own life than giving away that of their brothers and sisters. Lately there quest for wisdom and expansion has let them deep into and beyond the Kathol sector as they slowly but surely advance into the great galactic community.
Notable Assets:
Deep within their burrow, they hide masses of stolen technology and self-scrapped vessels, weapons, and gadgets. A thirteen-hector space is allocated to farming Gikza in masses to feed the hungering population. There is a second farm, one that is reserved for kidnapped prey. These unfortunate souls are kept alive in large hollow machine monoliths and tended too so that they can be continuously fed on.
Notable assets include:
Scow Dropships
Electro Vibro Blades
Super Heated Slugthrowers
Mobile Carbon Freezers
Landmass scanners
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Hierarchy:
The leadership of the Cha'ta'ri is almost instinctively decided for them. The oldest Cha'ta'ri leads the rest of the hive. This rule has not been broken nor challenged in all of its histories. The Mithrax specifically have developed smaller guilds that take on individual jobs within the tribe. These activities range from farming, hunting, and tunneling to keeping kidnapped prey alive but also tinkering with newfound technologies or steering their creations on newly discovered planets. Within these groups, the oldest Cha'ta'ri is in charge becoming a so-called “Eldest”. This elite circle of eldest holds ceremonies in which they discuss and share reports with each other and the tribe eldest. All the while passing on their knowledge to the younger hatches that will one day replace them.
Guilds:
Riders
Pathfinders
Hunters
Farmers
Builders
Machinists
Breeders
Membership:
The Mithrax originally struggled heavily with their population's scalability, having originated as outcasts of the great hunger they understand better than most what can occur if the population is not kept controlled. As such two initiatives have been developed and strictly adhered to ever since:
1. Out of every batch of eggs, only one may join the tribe, so as soon as the younglings hatch from their cocoons they are pitted against each other in life and death combat. Only the last one remaining and only after having consumed at least one of his siblings may join their ranks.
2. Nourishment is shared equally between all members of the tribe thus in times of low food supply the weak die and the strong must struggle to stay alive producing only the strongest offspring in return. It has also created responsibility that each member of the tribe proudly carries and streamlines their sense of purpose to the procurement of nourishment.
These two initiatives have kept the Mithrax at a steady growth rate and leveled out their population between roughly 800 to 1400 Cha'ta'ri at a time.
Any stranded Cha'ta'ri may theoretically join the Mithrax. This has happened in its short existence very sparely and in almost all cases the newcomer did not make it past one or two breeding cycles. Yet it is a much-appreciated phenomenon as Cha'ta'ri from different areas of the universe help relieve the gene pool of the colony and may be useful to breeding or sharing knowledge.
Climate:
Being a member of the tribe of Mithrax means that every moment of one's life is a battle. A battle against the hunger. This is the first lesson its younglings are taught when they are forced to kill and cannibalize their brothers and sisters at birth. To kill those with the same hunger, to feel what that hunger taste likes. It means to accept that each of them fight a shared battle and that any and all time should be focused on the effort to defeat this foe. There simply can not be space for weakness because each member relies on the other to win this battle. There aren't any wants in Mithrax there are only musts. Each member within the tribe understands lives and ultimately dies by these rules in the greater attempt to free themselves of the hunger.
Reputation:
The Providence system is not a kind place, the Gorgon asteroid field is no exception and most inhabitants fight their own battle for survival. It is well known that many lives have been forever lost in these fields but it is the path most ships chose to enter the inner worlds. While the existence of the tribe is not officially recorded the mercenaries, pirates and outlaws of the moons are aware of a sentient hunter in these parts and tend to stay clear.
Curios/Mutations:
The Mithrax have developed unique characteristics originating from the genetic manipulation of their forefathers. They lack the hairs and ability to grow a mane that normally attributes great strength within Cha'ta'ri sociology. More drastically they also completely lack the exoskeleton that normally forms around their skulls. The lack of pressure has allowed them to grow larger heads and subsequently larger brain mass. This has raised their average standard of intelligence and has more closely aligned their culture to the wonders of technology and their advancement through it.
Rules:
The rules that govern their life are not written on stone plates, nor are they recorded in history books or repeated to them by their higher-ups. They are their instinct. The moment they hatch from the cocoons and become sentient they are programmed into them by the lives that their forefathers led before them, breeding cycle by breeding cycle.
Goals:
To feed and to grow. To create a place where no one has to hunger. To use technology to bridge their weaknesses and to ascend that as what they were born.
MEMBERS
Darakses - Pathfinder Eldest
Thesiks - Eldest of the Eldest
Bovos - Well known Machinist
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Mithrax are a tribe originating from the lost Colony of Dusk, a former hive of Cha'ta'ri that inhabited a moon in deep uncharted space. The Colony of Dusk perished many breeding cycles ago having fallen to the hunger and subsequently chaos that took the lives of thousands.
Those who could, fled starting anew as individual small tribes. A group of these survivors established such a tribe in the Kathol Outback and the hunting and farming began again. Within a few breeding cycles, however, the expanding tribe faced starvation once more as their populace had outgrown their food supply. They were to move on yet their only form of transport was the small patchwork cruiser with which they had come. Many were to be left behind.
Once they were gone there was only more death, those that didn't starve formed together, and leadership fell to a male Cha'ta'ri named Thesiks. Eight years of age he had witnessed the fall of Dusk only shortly after his metamorphosis. The only thing he had ever known was the hunger. The older ones had passed a few cycles earlier as they could not survive without a constant food supply and many of those left behind had been the younglings that could not be fed in the first place.
Desperate and inexperienced he led the few remaining followers to the surface of the asteroid they had settled upon. Since their arrival, they had wiped it clean of any life that had been there before but they needed something, anything.
Maybe it was the Great Spirit, maybe it was fate or luck but their pleads were heard. A slaver ship had scanned the asteroid noticed its absence of life and made a repair stop on its surface. The starved group ravaged the ship and its inhabitants who were completely unprepared and had never before been faced by such a threat. Literally burrowing into the ship they ate them alive and were about to continue their feast with the chained and trapped slaves when they appeared from seemingly nowhere.
Legend has it that at the instant that they came all sense of hunger in the Cha'ta'ri on board disappeared, the very air became nourishment. Large, curved with white exoskeletons all around. A large appendage at their rear and many smaller ones hanging out of their toothless mouths. They were Aing-Tii.
It is passed on that Thesiks traded the life stock and in return was given knowledge. It is said that he simply vanished along with the unknown creatures and the slaves onboard. The remaining Cha’ta’ri fed on the dying crew members and afterward fell in disarray at the loss of their leader.
He simply reappeared some fives years later at the entrance of their burrow. Those that had stayed managed to raise a small family using the slaver vessel to travel of the asteroid to hunt. He had clearly aged and was an entirely different being then as what he had left as. They had shaped his mind and body.
Upon his return into the burrow, he proclaimed to his people that all of them had fought a terrible battle for survival and that the Mithrax was now born. That they might have been forsaken but that they were now found. That he had been shown a path. That there was a battle to be fought against the great hunger. Leaving the asteroid behind they used the transport vessel to find a new home which they did in the Providence system within the extensive Gorgon Fields.
Thesiks, introduced new ways of life to the tribe, forcing each batch of metamorphosed younglings into a cannibalistic death battle from which only a single one could emerge. He also changed the distribution of flesh which was now no longer given to the strongest but shared between each member of the tribe. Hunters began specializing in kidnappings and brought back prey that was artificially kept alive via technology to feed more Cha'ta'ri longer. Teaching younglings and passing on knowledge from one generation to the next was encouraged more than ever and scavenged technologies were tinkered with until understood. Thesiks also partook in many mating cycles his breed lost its mane and protection but all his offsprings were more cunning, more adept with electronics, and absolutely willing to do what it takes to keep the tribe alive.
As people, they flourished but they did so in secrecy fighting every day to keep their new way of life protected. As time passed Thesiks grew and grew well beyond the size and age any Cha'ta'ri had ever seen. He and his Mithrax would rule over their sought-after paradise. He knew so.
As the years passed they grew closer and closer to this goal. A wise council of the Eldest was able to successfully advance the individual agendas of the guilds even as more of them formed to fulfill the new needs of the clan. They began collaborating with other species on planets never before reached by a Cha'ta'ri. Their knowledge grew and grew, learning from friend and foe alike they began building space-faring vessels outfitted with stolen hyperdrives, forged lethal weapons, and made use of clever gadgets to aid their cause.
A steady ascend to a dignified existence made possible by the continued efforts of an entire people to come ever closer to the promised paradise.
Intent: The Cha'ta'ri are a scattered race living in tribes that have their own customs and mutations. This is one such tribe. It also expands on the Cha’ta’ri lore.
Image Credit: Destiny.fandom
Canon: N/A
Permissions: N/A
Links: Aing-Tii, Kathol Outback, Freehold, Destiny The Fallen, Gikza, Cha'ta'ri
GENERAL INFORMATION
Organization Name: The Mithrax ( Originally Ch'tar can be translated to "The Forsaken")
Classification: Cha'ta'ri Tribe
Affiliation: N/A
Organization Symbol:
Description: The Mithrax like any Cha'ta'ri live and breathe to consume but having been enlightened of their fate they seek to rise beyond the hunger that has been bestowed upon them and build a place for all Cha'ta'ri to prosper and grow.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Headquarters:
Kathol Outback/ Providence/ Freehold / Gorgon Asteroid Field
Domain:
The Mithrax have burrowed deep into an asteroid the size of a small moon and have laid hundreds of tunnels, burrows and halls into its inners. From here they scavenge the rest of the asteroid field and beyond in small hunting parties searching for technologies or to kidnap those unfortunate enough to find themselves lost in this section of space. While they have made secrecy a pillar of their tribal life in recent years they have begun to interact more and more with outsiders and other members of the Outback. Nevertheless, they are extremely careful when engaging with other sentient life and any member of the tribe would rather take their own life than giving away that of their brothers and sisters. Lately there quest for wisdom and expansion has let them deep into and beyond the Kathol sector as they slowly but surely advance into the great galactic community.
Notable Assets:
Deep within their burrow, they hide masses of stolen technology and self-scrapped vessels, weapons, and gadgets. A thirteen-hector space is allocated to farming Gikza in masses to feed the hungering population. There is a second farm, one that is reserved for kidnapped prey. These unfortunate souls are kept alive in large hollow machine monoliths and tended too so that they can be continuously fed on.
Notable assets include:
Scow Dropships
Electro Vibro Blades
Super Heated Slugthrowers
Mobile Carbon Freezers
Landmass scanners
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Hierarchy:
The leadership of the Cha'ta'ri is almost instinctively decided for them. The oldest Cha'ta'ri leads the rest of the hive. This rule has not been broken nor challenged in all of its histories. The Mithrax specifically have developed smaller guilds that take on individual jobs within the tribe. These activities range from farming, hunting, and tunneling to keeping kidnapped prey alive but also tinkering with newfound technologies or steering their creations on newly discovered planets. Within these groups, the oldest Cha'ta'ri is in charge becoming a so-called “Eldest”. This elite circle of eldest holds ceremonies in which they discuss and share reports with each other and the tribe eldest. All the while passing on their knowledge to the younger hatches that will one day replace them.
Guilds:
Riders
Pathfinders
Hunters
Farmers
Builders
Machinists
Breeders
Membership:
The Mithrax originally struggled heavily with their population's scalability, having originated as outcasts of the great hunger they understand better than most what can occur if the population is not kept controlled. As such two initiatives have been developed and strictly adhered to ever since:
1. Out of every batch of eggs, only one may join the tribe, so as soon as the younglings hatch from their cocoons they are pitted against each other in life and death combat. Only the last one remaining and only after having consumed at least one of his siblings may join their ranks.
2. Nourishment is shared equally between all members of the tribe thus in times of low food supply the weak die and the strong must struggle to stay alive producing only the strongest offspring in return. It has also created responsibility that each member of the tribe proudly carries and streamlines their sense of purpose to the procurement of nourishment.
These two initiatives have kept the Mithrax at a steady growth rate and leveled out their population between roughly 800 to 1400 Cha'ta'ri at a time.
Any stranded Cha'ta'ri may theoretically join the Mithrax. This has happened in its short existence very sparely and in almost all cases the newcomer did not make it past one or two breeding cycles. Yet it is a much-appreciated phenomenon as Cha'ta'ri from different areas of the universe help relieve the gene pool of the colony and may be useful to breeding or sharing knowledge.
Climate:
Being a member of the tribe of Mithrax means that every moment of one's life is a battle. A battle against the hunger. This is the first lesson its younglings are taught when they are forced to kill and cannibalize their brothers and sisters at birth. To kill those with the same hunger, to feel what that hunger taste likes. It means to accept that each of them fight a shared battle and that any and all time should be focused on the effort to defeat this foe. There simply can not be space for weakness because each member relies on the other to win this battle. There aren't any wants in Mithrax there are only musts. Each member within the tribe understands lives and ultimately dies by these rules in the greater attempt to free themselves of the hunger.
Reputation:
The Providence system is not a kind place, the Gorgon asteroid field is no exception and most inhabitants fight their own battle for survival. It is well known that many lives have been forever lost in these fields but it is the path most ships chose to enter the inner worlds. While the existence of the tribe is not officially recorded the mercenaries, pirates and outlaws of the moons are aware of a sentient hunter in these parts and tend to stay clear.
Curios/Mutations:
The Mithrax have developed unique characteristics originating from the genetic manipulation of their forefathers. They lack the hairs and ability to grow a mane that normally attributes great strength within Cha'ta'ri sociology. More drastically they also completely lack the exoskeleton that normally forms around their skulls. The lack of pressure has allowed them to grow larger heads and subsequently larger brain mass. This has raised their average standard of intelligence and has more closely aligned their culture to the wonders of technology and their advancement through it.
Rules:
The rules that govern their life are not written on stone plates, nor are they recorded in history books or repeated to them by their higher-ups. They are their instinct. The moment they hatch from the cocoons and become sentient they are programmed into them by the lives that their forefathers led before them, breeding cycle by breeding cycle.
Goals:
To feed and to grow. To create a place where no one has to hunger. To use technology to bridge their weaknesses and to ascend that as what they were born.
MEMBERS
Darakses - Pathfinder Eldest
Thesiks - Eldest of the Eldest
Bovos - Well known Machinist
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Mithrax are a tribe originating from the lost Colony of Dusk, a former hive of Cha'ta'ri that inhabited a moon in deep uncharted space. The Colony of Dusk perished many breeding cycles ago having fallen to the hunger and subsequently chaos that took the lives of thousands.
Those who could, fled starting anew as individual small tribes. A group of these survivors established such a tribe in the Kathol Outback and the hunting and farming began again. Within a few breeding cycles, however, the expanding tribe faced starvation once more as their populace had outgrown their food supply. They were to move on yet their only form of transport was the small patchwork cruiser with which they had come. Many were to be left behind.
Once they were gone there was only more death, those that didn't starve formed together, and leadership fell to a male Cha'ta'ri named Thesiks. Eight years of age he had witnessed the fall of Dusk only shortly after his metamorphosis. The only thing he had ever known was the hunger. The older ones had passed a few cycles earlier as they could not survive without a constant food supply and many of those left behind had been the younglings that could not be fed in the first place.
Desperate and inexperienced he led the few remaining followers to the surface of the asteroid they had settled upon. Since their arrival, they had wiped it clean of any life that had been there before but they needed something, anything.
Maybe it was the Great Spirit, maybe it was fate or luck but their pleads were heard. A slaver ship had scanned the asteroid noticed its absence of life and made a repair stop on its surface. The starved group ravaged the ship and its inhabitants who were completely unprepared and had never before been faced by such a threat. Literally burrowing into the ship they ate them alive and were about to continue their feast with the chained and trapped slaves when they appeared from seemingly nowhere.
Legend has it that at the instant that they came all sense of hunger in the Cha'ta'ri on board disappeared, the very air became nourishment. Large, curved with white exoskeletons all around. A large appendage at their rear and many smaller ones hanging out of their toothless mouths. They were Aing-Tii.
It is passed on that Thesiks traded the life stock and in return was given knowledge. It is said that he simply vanished along with the unknown creatures and the slaves onboard. The remaining Cha’ta’ri fed on the dying crew members and afterward fell in disarray at the loss of their leader.
He simply reappeared some fives years later at the entrance of their burrow. Those that had stayed managed to raise a small family using the slaver vessel to travel of the asteroid to hunt. He had clearly aged and was an entirely different being then as what he had left as. They had shaped his mind and body.
Upon his return into the burrow, he proclaimed to his people that all of them had fought a terrible battle for survival and that the Mithrax was now born. That they might have been forsaken but that they were now found. That he had been shown a path. That there was a battle to be fought against the great hunger. Leaving the asteroid behind they used the transport vessel to find a new home which they did in the Providence system within the extensive Gorgon Fields.
Thesiks, introduced new ways of life to the tribe, forcing each batch of metamorphosed younglings into a cannibalistic death battle from which only a single one could emerge. He also changed the distribution of flesh which was now no longer given to the strongest but shared between each member of the tribe. Hunters began specializing in kidnappings and brought back prey that was artificially kept alive via technology to feed more Cha'ta'ri longer. Teaching younglings and passing on knowledge from one generation to the next was encouraged more than ever and scavenged technologies were tinkered with until understood. Thesiks also partook in many mating cycles his breed lost its mane and protection but all his offsprings were more cunning, more adept with electronics, and absolutely willing to do what it takes to keep the tribe alive.
As people, they flourished but they did so in secrecy fighting every day to keep their new way of life protected. As time passed Thesiks grew and grew well beyond the size and age any Cha'ta'ri had ever seen. He and his Mithrax would rule over their sought-after paradise. He knew so.
As the years passed they grew closer and closer to this goal. A wise council of the Eldest was able to successfully advance the individual agendas of the guilds even as more of them formed to fulfill the new needs of the clan. They began collaborating with other species on planets never before reached by a Cha'ta'ri. Their knowledge grew and grew, learning from friend and foe alike they began building space-faring vessels outfitted with stolen hyperdrives, forged lethal weapons, and made use of clever gadgets to aid their cause.
A steady ascend to a dignified existence made possible by the continued efforts of an entire people to come ever closer to the promised paradise.
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