Civago
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| Civago | ||
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| Biological classifications | ||
| Designation | Arthropoids | |
| Subspecies | Many | |
| Physical characteristics | ||
| Height | 0.9m-2.5m | |
| Mass | 14kg-170kg | |
| Distinctive traits | Extremely diverse, usually including:
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| Lifespan | Extremely variable; 2-200 cycles | |
| Socio‑cultural characteristics | ||
| Homeworld | Civa | |
| Habitat | Extreme cold | |
| Diet | Omnivorous | |
| Language | Primarily clicks and hissing; many subspecies are capable of approximating mammalian speech | |
The Civago (Common: [sɪˈvɛɡo̞]) are a widely differentiated species of arthropods. They were introduced to interstellar civilization nearly a thousand years ago by the Kimmigan during the Foremarch, and by the time the Alganna Eternity formed, they were already civilizational partners of said Kimmigan. Today, most of them live in the various Great Houses of the Eternity, but over the centuries many have also left it for various reasons.
Physical Description
Civago are extremely physically diverse, having long ago purposefully bred many different heritages for many different purposes across many different hives. The unifying biological and aesthetic traits are that Civago are all insectoid in appearance with compound eyes, antennae, redundant organs (usually inside an insectoid abdomen, but not always.) They come from a cold planet and naturally have fur along various parts of their exoskeleton, though many choose to remove it for aesthetic reasons, or style it similar to hair that other species in the galaxy have. If they have any wings they are vestigial from prior stages of evolution and cannot achieve flight on their own power. They come in various shapes, sizes, and may have any number of limbs. Civago with a more specialized hive ancestry may not even be bipedal.
Heritages
History
Hailing from what was once an arid and tropical homeworld, their early history is rife with war amongst themselves. At this time warring states fought each other for control, different Civago staying in strict roles in their hive structures fighting to the point of absolute world ruin, eventually causing their homeworld to become cold and dark, covered with snow and little sunlight. It was at this most dire point, when the Civago may have expended its last generation in those tunnels that something inexplicable happened. A mass psionic event, wherein two collective realizations rippled through the entire species at once: if there wasn't immediate and lasting change in the direction of peace and cooperation, their species would die; and that in a particular hive near the equator, alien life had made contact.
Another species that had suffered similarly devastating ecological catastrophe, the Kimmigani,
Society
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