Jairus Starvald
Eidoloclast
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create worker drones Cerbera made for her own ends.
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- Canon: /
- Links: Verpine & Killik.
- Name: The Kilva Collective.
- Designation: Sentient.
- Homeworld: Bio-engineered on Corbos.
- Language:
A strange blend of Killik and Verpine. - Binary.
- Galactic Basic.
[*]Average Lifespan: Around 200 years on average.
[*]Estimated Population: Rare.
[*]Description: The Kilva are a genetically-engineered breed of worker drones created through crossing genetic material from captured Killik and Verpine subjects. They retain some of their more insectoid origins, but much of their bodily exterior is dominated by rough metal grafts, extensive cybernetics and its breathing harness. They can be found toiling away and maintaining facilities, starships and the sort.
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
- Breathes: I-IV with the assistance of its grafted breathing apparatus. If this becomes damaged IV.
- Average height of adults: 1.4m
- Average length of adults: N/A
- Skin color: Shades of green.
- Hair color: N/A
- Distinctions: Their kind is a unique blend from two separate insectoid species. They are stronger than an average human by several factors, capable of surviving in extreme environments and are linked together by an overarching Hive Mind.
- Races: N/A
- Strengths:
Accomplished (bio)-engineers. They retain the mental affinity of the Verpines when it comes to engineering and machinery. They have an easy time taking things apart and putting them back together, maintaining increasingly more complicated technology with practiced ease. Additionally they have been imparted with the knowledge of bio-engineering and preservation. - Hive Mind. What one knows, they all know. Connected through a primary over-mind their kind absorbs knowledge with ease. If one of them designs the schematics of a new warship? By the end of the day all of them will be able to draw it by heart.
- Hardy. These beings were engineered to be highly resistant against toxins, environmental hazards, the vacuum of space. Compared to the regular organic creatures they can survive in the most extreme of locale and even thrive.
- Strong. Reinforced muscle groups, grafted strength enhancement cybernetics makes them roughly as powerful as an adult Wookiee.
[*]Weaknesses:
- Ion/EMP. While resistant against static outbursts from starship systems and the galactic phenomena they have little defense against combat-ready ion weaponry or EMP explosions. Direct contact can either disable them or even cause immediate death depending on the intensity.
- Cyborg. Much of its exterior are grafted metal, cybernetics and even an enlarged breathing apparatus on its muzzle. All of them effective targets to cause it any sort of harm. The breathing apparatus specifically is crucial for its survival outside of Type IV atmospheres and damaging that can disable and/or kill them effectively.
- Pacifist. Deep in their DNA this creature has been grafted with pacifism in its make-up. They have no fight response. They will either flee or... well, hopefully they will be able to flee, because even the most erratic of their kind has been programmed not to kill or do harm.
- Hive Mind. What one feels, they all feel. Substantial pain on one drone can incapacitate the drones around it as well. This effect is lessened the more distance exists between the various drones. Halfway across the Galaxy it might simply be discomfort or even just the general knowledge of: "This one feels high levels of distress coming from the seventh Quadrant."
CULTURE
- Diet: Omnivores in the truest sense. They can break down and eat virtually anything. More often than not they focus on eating the waste and exhaust of the facilities/locations they operate at. Yes, this literally makes them trash eaters. They do seem to have some strange allergic to lemons though, take that as you will.
- Communication: Telepathy. They can communicate through a far more extensive blend of Killik aura-sense and Verpine radio-transfer. This allows their particular hive-mind to remain connected to every single drone in their collective no matter their location. (Within reason, they aren't going to have a in-depth conversation on the merits of hyper-fuel exhaust while being on opposite sides of the Galaxy, but they might feel the distance, direction and even the feelings their siblings have at that distance)
- Technology level: Through their work they have access to most galactic standard technology. They have a deep understanding of advanced engineering both in an organic and synthetic sense.
- Religion/Beliefs: Throughout their first year of service their kind has developed a highly elaborate belief system that centers around two primary deities. The Echo in the Machine (a voice that supposedly offers wisdom and relief in times of need, but only through static-garbled communion) and the Mother, the first Drone that shaped them all in her image before disappearing. For some reason rather than worship the alchemist, Cerbera as the Mother, Cerbera is simply seen as the Architect. The hand that was guided by a more primal force of nature that links all of them together and makes up the Hive. They consider Cerbera as the primary architect and Joined in their hive, but her voice is only the voice of the Mother. She is not the Mother herself.
- General behavior: On the surface, the activity and behaviors of the Kilva appear sedate, mechanical and, frankly, deeply dull. They do not speak, they do not fight, they do not engage in witty banter- all they do, apparently, is work. And work. And work. Internally however?
There is no family in the way most organisms view it. That would require a more clearly defined sense of the individual than the members of the Kilva collective have. Instead, every member is a part of a large whole, reacting and interacting not unlike the way the parts of a body do with itself. One member has an itch? Another may reach over to scratch it with an extra digit. Hunger? Food is offered. It is not mechanical however, but with intent, much like your hands soothing an itch on your knee or making food to feed your growling stomach.
There is choice and deliberateness, rather than instinct. Deliberate acts for the good of the whole because not doing them hurts them all. This is a bond tighter than family, closer than blood. It is the bond of self.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
After the events of Selvaris, the Soulsaber and Yuuzhan Vong Cerbera suddenly found herself with an increased understanding and access to the knowledge of organic transmutation. This was immediately focused in new efforts within the field, pushing it forward, while also adding efforts that would make things easier for her and hers. The Kilva Collective was one of the results of it. A Hive Mind species that was created through splicing genetic material from both Verpine as well as Killik captures the Kilva were the perfect worker drones that would assist with maintaining, creating and upholding Cerbera's holdings across the Galaxy.
The creation process was both complicated as well as simple:
It started with analyzing the exact traits and shapes that were potentially useful for Cerbera's goals, while eliminating those traits that were undesirable. From this the process shifted towards ensuring a smooth transition where all the necessary traits would be assimilated by the potential host. Traits that were wanted would be strengthened, while the potential negatives would be minimized as best as they could.
Furthermore Cerbera immediately shaped this species to be inherently compatible with the cybernetics she was planning to outfit them with.
After all, cybernetics as a whole could be very invasive and generally speaking not every organic could host them. The result were the Kilva Collective, a species that was perfectly suited towards the pursuits of engineering (both in a biological as well as mechanical sense), while avoiding the pitfalls of its base creatures. Namely their free will and leanings towards self-determination.
As a result the Kilva Collective were a well-received addition to Cerbera's holdings in the Galaxy.
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