Character
- Intent: For use as a future story device as well as potential for future conflicts through open or closed roleplay.
- Image Credit: ArtStation
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Arkanian, Gen'Dai and Codru-Ji
- Name: The Qunesh
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Created on Arkania; Indirectly native to the Unknown Regions
- Average Lifespan: 30 to 150 Standard Years
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: At first glance the Qunesh are horrific abominations of flesh and machine. Engineered to be bipedal, quad armed cyborgs the Qunesh are mostly comprised of muscle and metal with little to be seen to suggest they are more than monsters. They have little skin, no hair and are often without all of their original organic limbs as at least two are usually replaced with mechanical replacements for efficiency. Upon closer inspection their flesh and metallic parts are neatly bound together and most either have eyes or mechanical optic replacements. The only detail that is difficult to see but is immediately noticeable through inspection is that they have exceptionally large mouths.
- Breathes: Primarily Type 4 but can breathe any atmosphere due to mechanical and organic adaptation.
- Average Height of Adults: 2.59 meters or 8'6"
- Average Length of Adults: 3 meters or 10" (While moving on all six limbs)
- Skin color: A sickly carbon brown.
- Hair color: N/A
- Distinctions: Each and every adult is fitted with leg, arm, chest and head modification and augmentations that have been continually added to or recreated. The young that are developed often lack these until they are implanted or grafted with their first piece of 'perfecting' cybernetics. One major distinction between each individual of the Qunesh is the color and size of the cybernetics implanted or augmenting their body.
- Races: No distinguishable sub-species.
- Force Sensitivity: Most of the Qunesh are Force Dead, though it is possible for there to be the Rare occurrence of Force Sensitivity in a member of the Qunesh due in great part to the mangled nature of their genetic structure.
- Immense intelligence: Despite their outward appearance the Qunesh are, in fact, a highly intelligent and resourceful species. Due in part to the element of Arkanian dna in their genetics they possess high IQs throughout their species that very rarely display flaw outside of their culture. They are capable of understanding a great deal of concepts that many species would observe as highly complex and confusing.
- Electromagnetic Resistance: Due in part to their means of arriving in the Unknown Regions, as well as their origins as a species, the Qunesh have developed a natural resilience against the effects of electromagnetics. While this does not protect them from the most advanced of such weapons or elements, they can survive being hit by even the strongest of blasts from weapons designed to shut down machines of their size.
- Biomechanical Lungs: In tandem with their nature as a mostly cyborg species, the Qunesh possess the ability to breath almost any atmosphere. This is due in part to the nature in which they have left their home world and their prolonged exposure to the elements that have become common on that world; as well as those that had preexisted there. While they have not, as of yet, been exposed to off world atmospheres they possess the ability to adapt quickly.
- Biomechanical Bodies: Another aspect of their physical make up is the nature of their mechanical limitations. Due to the infusion and modification of their bodies with a variety of cybernetic implants the adult Qunesh possess immense physical prowess and speed. Capable of lifting more than twice their weight and move from up to fifty (bipedal) to one hundred (hexiped) miles per hour, the Qunesh boast prime condition for their cultural practice of hunting and assimilating.
- Constant Evolution: Unlike many other species, the Qunesh possess the drive to achieve perfection through assimilation of outside material. Whether this be metallic or organic the Qunesh will not stop until they have adapted the flesh or technology of a species they encounter; even to the point of being considered relentless. This trait also provides them the unique ability to repair minor damage done to their bodies no matter where they go by removing the damaged part and replacing it with newly acquired flesh or machinery.
- Force Dead: Due to their genetic material being spliced repeatedly most but the rare one in one thousand of the Qunesh are incapable of using the Force and have related resistances to various applications of the Force.
- Frail Organics: While the Qunesh are a cyborg species it is that very same trait that makes their base organic bodies particularly frail. As such the youth and elderly of the species are often the most frail and dangerously weak of their kind. This also comes into play when the Qunesh are effected by electromagnetic or other potentially dangerous incapacitation as their muscles and bodily organics cannot support them on their own.
- Extremely Xenophobic: Due to their long lived memory of their treatment by their creators, the Arkanians, the Qunesh have taken an alarmingly high xenophobic outlook towards any and all beings that are not Qunesh. This makes them volatile and extremely violent towards anything that is non-Qunesh. They cannot be reasoned with.
- Fungal Allergy: Due to their exposure to metals through out the entirety of their existence the Qunesh have developed a lethal allergy to fungus. While this allergy isn't as potent in the form of fungal spores it can still pose a threat if the spores are allowed to mass for too long in areas not supported by a mechanical means of processing and dispersal of the spores. If a Qunesh ingests a fungus not even it's mechanical stomach augmentations can protect it from how the fungus will react with the insides of it's body.
- Electromagnetics: Though the Qunesh have a natural born resilience to electromagnetics they are still susceptible if the wave or blast is immense enough to bypass this resistance. If such an instance occurs they may suffer damage to their internal organics or potentially be left incapacitated or stranded until their bodies and mechanical parts reboot or accommodate to the malfunctions brought on by the occurrence.
- Lethal Corrosion: As cyborgs the Qunesh are highly averted to corrosives. Whether these be acids or another form, they will avoid them with a great prejudice in order to protect themselves from the dangerous and lethal effects. While they have developed means of preventing and avoiding corrosion via rust and decay they have not rooted out every possibility of it in those that have not adapted metals to their body that are resistant. (For example there are some members of the Qunesh who have incorporated phrik or impervium components into their bodies that are resistant to such things though this is extremely rare)
- Infertile: The Qunesh as a species do not possess the natural ability to reproduce young through traditional biological means. They cannot have children without the assistance of science. As such each new Qunesh that is born is born from the splicing of dna from an adult Qunesh that is placed into a pod to grow into infancy and be gifted with it's first cybernetic augmentations. This process can also be lethal if the infant is too young to acclimate (This being another very rare occurrence)
- Force Dead: Due in part to their genetic material being spliced over and over again most but the one in one thousand of the Qunesh are Force Dead and thus incapable of harnessing the Force or benefiting from a variety of it's effects.
- Diet: Omnivore; The Qunesh are capable of eating most anything except for fungal matter which they are highly allergic to.
- Communication: While the Qunesh are capable of speaking basic they have come to develop their own form of language that is a animalistic dialect of basic.
- Technology level: The Qunesh are highly advanced and yet their technology takes form in way of both organic and mechanical, an almost harmonious hybridization of the two.
- Religion/Beliefs: While the Qunesh have no actual religion, their kind being so isolated from the rest of the galaxy, they instead worship the carcasses and corpses of those that were their precursors that left them behind as their legacy.
- General behavior: As a species the Qunesh are highly isolated from the cultures and lifestyle of species off their present home world. However, their general behavior towards those of their kind is that of an intellectual acceptance of their constant drive to further improve themselves. The young are created through a process similar to cloning to become the newest generation of the Qunesh while the elderly are recycled through genetic and mechanical splicing to support the new generation. Each Qunesh ages and adapts with the idea and understanding that each of them is simply another cog in the wheel of evolution. If one is wounded or dies, expiring their living usefulness to the whole, they are assimilated by the other Qunesh to further their evolutionary progress. The dead are not mourned.
In regards to outside species, due to their experiences with their Arkanian creators centuries past, the Qunesh are extremely hostile; going so far as to be considered xenophobic. A Qunesh that meets another species will be incapable of being reasoned with and, as such, attempt to kill and assimilate the other organic into their own biomechanical make up to further improve themselves. This same treatment is given to foreign technology as well. If it is new it will be assimilated at any cost.
Roughly two hundred years after the collapse of the Galactic Empire, on the planet of Arkania, a group of scientists developed a design for the creation of a highly advanced biomechanical lifeform. Through the toiling work of dozens of Arkanian scientists, extensive hours splicing and modifying dna, a combination comprised of Arkanian, Gen'Dai and Codru-Ji would come to be used as the base for the first of the Qunesh. For over a decade, however, the Arkanians struggled with a means to support the oddly combined variety of genetics and prevent what they had come to see as a fragile organism.
Despite it's inclusion of Gen'Dai dna, the Qunesh were unable to amass the proper muscle structure to support a naturally immense size of nearly seven to eight feet in height; not including their sizeable mass of tissue.
Utilizing cybernetic implants and mechanical augmentations, by the suggestion of additional scientists, the Arkanians were able to properly support their creation. Almost fifty years after the species first conception they were finally capable of surviving on their own. A creature, a species, different from anything they knew to exist in the galaxy at large that they themselves had created through science alone. For another five years the Arkanians tirelessly and rigorously continued to produce more and more Qunesh, enacting what they considered to be a perfection of biomechanical engineering.
Science, however, had a mind of it's own. Naturally the Qunesh began to develop a mind of their own with the assistance of their integrated Arkanian intelligence. It started with machinery disappearing across various parts of the Arkanian labs and Arkanian facilities and eventually progressed to the disappearance of individuals in those very same facilities. It seemed that what had begun as a simple curiosity regarding evolution had slowly become a violent obsession with advancement towards perfection.
The events that ensued would come to be considered one of the most horrific incidents prior to the Gulaag Plague.
As the Qunesh continued to display their violent desire to adapt and evolve the Arkanians exercised measures in an attempt to eradicate their creations. An attempt that, at first, appeared to be effective and for a time the Qunesh were reigned in. However, as the Qunesh continued to display their intelligence and ingenuity, the Qunesh found new and creative ways to survive and elude their creators; ultimately escaping from Arkania aboard a refurbished imperial era destroyer.
It was due to their lack of knowledge with space craft, however, that would lead the Qunesh to becoming stranded deep within the Unknown Regions.
Crash landing on an unidentified planet in the Unknown Regions, the Qunesh became introduced harshly to a new world. They found themselves face to face with a completely new environment and a slew of new challenges that tested their Arkanian intelligence. But, as their nature dictated, they endured and survived their harsh new world in ways that the galaxy would not see for hundreds of years.
In the first two hundred years following their stranding on the world, a world plagued by storms and littered with mineral deposits, the Qunesh took to mining their world and surviving the planets hostility. They built spires from the metals, acclimated their bodies to the elements and built makeshift facilities within which they could splice and create new young for their survival. It was the native species of the planet that would come to pose the greatest risk; but one even more profitable.
For centuries the Qunesh hunted their neighbors, slaughtering them and assimilating their dna and technology into their own. One by one, hundreds by thousands, the natives began to disappear as the Qunesh spread themselves across the surface of the new world; until eventually the world was only home to the Qunesh and nothing else but the fauna that could survive in the wastes that were becoming of the planets wildlife.
The environment became more hostile, small storms turning into a atmospheric events and slowly the atmosphere became toxic in a way that, were it not for their cybernetic modifications, would have killed the Qunesh. They knew nothing of the outside galaxy, of the plague that would ravage the known galaxy and the wars that would kill many of those that survived. Instead they would continue to live their lives free of the concerns of those that lived off world; only becoming familiar with the occasional few that crashed upon their world venturing too close.
Within the last century prior to the present, the Qunesh had come to completely transform the surface of their home world. It was no longer habitable by average species, riddled with metallic spires and organic mass to satiate the young of the Qunesh, and became a testament to the undying drive of the Qunesh to adapt and evolve. And it was within that hundred years that their eyes and minds finally returned attention to the stars above. To the idea of venturing off world and consuming the life and technology that riddled those stars.
Where they had become content with their home and their way of life, they developed a curiosity for what they could become if they were no longer locked upon the planet on which they lived. And so, dedicating their minds to the refurbishing and construction of ships similar to the ones they had seen crash upon their world, the Qunesh once again advanced their technology at a pace only attested to those similar to the Arkanians.
They would soon be free from their world. Free to leave their prison and consume anything they desired to further their own evolution.
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