Jak Sandrow
"Nobody cares for the woods anymore."
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- Name: Vinithi
- Designation: Sentient, Semi-sentient(some lab-created variants)
- Homeworld: (Lab-created: Thule and Serpena)
- Language: Basic
- Average height of adults: Typically around 2 meters
- Skin color: Varies from a pale, sickly green to a dark green. When shifted to appear human, skin can vary from a pale off-white to a rich, deep tan. [Bark]
- Hair color: Typically either dark green or black, can be dyed to a variety of other colors [Bark]
- Breathes: Type I or II atmosphere, can survive in some type III atmospheres assuming only contaminants classify it as that, not a lack of nitrogen, oxygen, or sufficient pressure [CO2 only]
- Strengths:
Can regrow lost limbs with sufficient time and resources
Can survive critical physical damage so long as most of the biomass is still attached to the head(eg, being stabbed all the way through with a sword or lightsaber)
Can survive in space for a couple hours while in a hibernatory state
Cannot be intoxicated via standard drugs or alcohol
[Extremely strong
Superhuman strength (benchpress 1 ton)
Thick coating of vines and bark]
- Weaknesses:
Requires regular doses of sunlight in order to remain at peak condition
Exceptionally vulnerable to fire, decapitation, and radiation(lightsabers can cause significant scarring only removable via surgery)
Requires significant amounts of water and food or new biomass to regrow limbs or repair serious physical damage
Exceptionally vulnerable in hibernatory form
Cannot naturally reproduce with animals or half-plants, only full-plants
Children not born by the union of two full Vinithi are sterile, significantly reducing the naturally grown population
Can become intoxicated through oral ingestion of liquid sugar(eg. soft drinks), though a tolerance to it can be built
[Less able to make rational decisions
Limited time in form
Slower reflexes]
- Distinctions: Similar to Sylphe and other humanoid plants, the skin and hair of a Vinithi is comprised entirely of plant biomatter. The skin has a distinct smoothness to it that feel just a tad off from that of typical human beings. Being a carnivorous plant, there are several differences between them and animal-based sentients, namely a breathing system based through the skin, typically absorbing carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen, as well as a simple proto-stomach which dissolves all meat put into it through acids of modest power, absorbing the resulting nutrients. Vinithi have no distinct bone structure either, relying on distinctly denser and thicker sections of their near-uniform internal biomass to act as a sort of cartilagious skeletal substitute, similar to that of a shark. Similar to Sylphe as well, female Vinithi can exude powerful pheromones, considered superior in their entrancement properties to those of Zeltrons and Falleen. A rare feature is the ability to extend and retract their arms, though this burns through a significant amount of their nutrients and is very rarely done as a result. [The 'bulky' form of the Vinithi is fairly intimidating; the sheer animalistic quality of the creature can make weak-livered troops light for the hills. Currently, only Jak is capable of activating this portion of himself, but with training, any Vinithi could. Thicker skin and a vine coating means that, in close-quarters combat, the effects are devastating. The vines are prehensile, and can be used to attack nearby troops to great effectiveness, while the thick skin is all but lightsaber- and sword-proof. The transformation takes roughly 10 seconds or so to fully transform. As it does, the outer skin begins to harden and plate, growing out to add 1/3 of height to the person. Almost all facial features disappear, with the exception of the mouth and the eyes. The whole body gains 40% more muscle mass and greater resistance to pesticides, herbicides, the like.]
- Average Lifespan: 500-700 years [1 hr - 4 hrs, 24 hr cool-off]
- Races: Early lab-created Vinithi were blobular, with vine-like tentacles to grab things and locomote with(see above picture). Less than twenty of these were created before the original human-like Vinithi body was reproduced, and those non-humanoid Vinithi were either feral or born comatose. They are currently stored in stasis chambers on Serpena and Thule.
- Diet: Predominantly, Vinithi subsist off a diet of meat and water. Plants, while still edible to them, are slowly absorbed into their biomass once ingested orally, unlike meat, which is broken down into nutrients naturally.
- Communication: Verbal, audible speech. [Understands Basic, cannot communicate other than roars]
- Culture: Same as the rest of the galaxy.
- Technology level: The same as the rest of the galaxy.
- General behavior: Same as the rest of the galaxy. [Beast-like]
- History: The first experiments that would lead to the Vinithi were performed upon Jak Sandrow by Sith scientist Circe Savan. Seeking to create a "plantimal," she injected Jak with a series of retrovirals that slowly altered his physiology to become partially plant. In retaliation, he did the same to her, leaving both half-Vinithi, though neither of them knew it as such. The original body of Circe, half-converted into a plant, was acquired by the scientist Velok after her death, and its DNA was used(as well as significantly merged with Zelosian, Sylphe, and Oasis Mother DNA) to create the Sith's new body - and Circe was reborn as a full Vinithi, the first, and for the longest time, only member of her kind.
But who wants to be alone in the universe? Having been told by Velok of her kind's reproductive difficulties, Circe began to rigorously experiment in the lab with altering the genetic properties of her biomass, allowing individual chlorine tablet-sized discs to be used to spawn new members of her species. The program had started with captured Mandalorian Yvorre Morcade as the experiments' incubator, and limited results were had, full gestation not successful for the first nine experiments. From the tenth onward to the nineteenth, work was done to make the now full-term-living experiments humanoid in shape, like Circe herself. Experiments twenty through twenty-three did so, but no life was within them. Experiment twenty-three is notable, however, for being the body of Sith Lady Karin Dorn, incubated within Sith Knight Paega Anginous.
A breakthrough was finally reached with experiment twenty-four(Darren Savan/Renn'Dar Sekairo), the first to truly live. The "son" of Ven'Rain Sekairo, he is the first lab-grown Vinithi to have any sort of active cognitive thought. Whether his mind will remain fully functional as he grows to adulthood is still unknown.
[Jak experimented extensively with his new-found abilities after regaining his memories, and he found that his plant form was capable of becoming far more deadly than thought possible. He also theorized that only the males of the species were capable of this transformation. It is yet to be proven as to his astuteness.]
- Notable Player-Characters: Circe Savan, Jak Sandrow, Karin Dorn [Jak Sandrow only]
- Intent: This sub is necessary to fill a void left by the site crash. Velok had already created and submitted a currently-approved submission for Circe's new body, but it was deleted in the crash. In the event said writer couldn't replace the empty void of the current submission's state with its original info, a substitute/replacement was needed, that being this submission. [This is to create an alternate form for Jak to willingly transform into.]
