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Examples of the species
Name: Nakfet
Designation: Sentient
Homeworld: Rakata Prime
Language: None spoken, telepathic communication.
Average height of adults: Size is variable depending on age and growth rate.
Skin color: Variable depending on location and minerals available.
Hair color: N/A
Breathes: N/A
Strengths:
- When used as a lightsaber crystal, it creates a thinner, hotter burning blade (slight increase in cutting ability)
- Whether used in a lightsaber or left alone, Nakfet crystals never truly die. They simply become larger and assimilate other crystals around them. At a certain size (varies depending on mineral availability, though usually somewhere between speeder and large boulder sized) they stop growing and act as a sort of anchor point for future crystals.
- Though sentient, the crystals cannot speak physically, only telepathically. They often require a large amount of time to discover how to speak telepathically in private as compared to speaking openly and loudly, as if alongside their species.
- While Nakfet crystals can speak directly to another sentient's speech centers in the brain, the crystals' native 'language' is actually derived of telepathic vibrations or 'hums' sent on a broad spectrum. This hum resonates primarily in the Force, but is easily picked up by non-force users, though they tend to perceive it as an audible tone rather than a spiritual or telepathic one. Because of this, Nakfet crystals often misconceive audible vibrations such as music as attempts to speak and, therefore, they teach themselves to speak in kind, often meaning that the crystals have stored up a vast knowledge of new, old, and current music types and styles to replicate.
- While intelligent and capable of independent thought, the crystals are socially immature with outside races until they learn otherwise. This can take upwards of years of exposure. In the meantime, crystals often miss social cues, become easily distracted by random things, misinterpret things such as music and normal sounds as communication attempts, and various other instances of similar style behavior.
- Nakfet crystals are also completely immobile and unable to move themselves without outside aid.
Average Lifespan: Unknown
Races: None, though crystals "born" and "raised" on outside planets often communicate with different frequencies and occasionally possess different views on the world with various levels of social immaturity.
Estimated Population: As the species must be found first, rather than being able to roam free, numbers are unknown at best.
Diet: Various radiation types. Minerals are used for growth, not sustenance.
Communication: Telepathy
Culture: Nekfat crystal culture is very unique for two reasons. First, they seem to have no real culture of their own other than that of a psuedo hive-mind. Second, they seem to easily absorb cultural ques of the influences around them. The means that Nekfat crystal cultures tend to vary based on their locations, numbers, and exposure to the outside world.
Technology level: N/A
General behavior: Crystal behavior is generally oriented towards growth and basic community communication. Once external influences are applied, however, crystals generally see a shift in behavior to what is considered the cultural "norm" as perceived by each crystal. Growth is still considered a goal, but behavior is inconsistent, often focusing on which cultural aspect an individual crystal finds interesting at a given time.
History:
Not much is known about the crystals except for their sentience and uses. They were discovered relatively recently on Rakata Prime by a group of independent miners and salvagers looking for a way to make money. Once their uses were fully realized, the crystals were studied more closely until their sentience was discovered.
They occasionally do volunteer to become lightsaber crystals or to be transplanted into new colonies on other planets, but for the most part are content to be left where they are to grow. For the most part, extra-planetary colonies are rare to find, as are original colonies, but if a Nakfet crystal wishes to be found, it shall be so.
Notable Player-Characters: None at this time.
Intent: To create a new, unique, interesting, and entertaining sentient species for player character use.
