Kimmigani

The kimmigani are a species of hooved mammals, having long abandoned their planet due to repeated global nuclear wars rendering it completely unlivable. They initially fled as a group of intelligentsia as part of a religious exodus to preserve their people, exiting into space on light-hugging generation ships. Arriving into the directorate centuries prior after a thousand years of void-living. They still reside on their ancestral ships, now refitted with modern technologies, using them as great space-colonies as a wandering and nomadic void-clan of the Directorate.

Physical Description

While initially a bovid-like gazelle or antelope species, long exposure to the void has transformed them into slender, long limbed beings with minimal horn remnants. Most of them find the low-gravity environment and cramped corridors of their generation ships in their fleet more comfortable than the wide-open space and crippling gravity of a planet's surface as both physically painful and emotionally upsetting. Similarly, their diets have evolved to prefer densely packed nutritional bars, pastes and high-energy cereals. Though they enjoy more natural foods as somewhat unhealthy treats, due to atrophied herbivorous digestive systems they only indulge in moderate amounts of fresh food.

Heritages

Kimmigani do not have true heritages, but their population evolved differently based on the colony ships they resided within and the specific divergences born of populations that spent vast quantities of time apart from each other in the void of space.

• Bazeni Born of the colony ship Bazeninelatoren Et Shevrerniktla, or Forward Unto the Undying Dark, Left Hand of her Chosen People, the bazeni were the most
• Tavai Born of the colony ship Tavavazek Nal Uhrenifel or The Mouth That Sang the World, the Tavai are
• Solani Born of the colony ship Solanikadren Tilar Nezkah or Those Who Wait in the Hollow Light, the Solani are

History

Once, they were the same species as the kimovihni and the surviving native kimmigan. When the generation ships left, they tried to take a diverse set of species, desperately filled their ships with as much population as possible, and were in sorrow over those left behind. Certain it would result in their annihilation. All in the goal of saving their species a slow death. When their ships set off, they were guided by the star associated with Seta, their scientists believing it would lead them to freedom. While the star was lost during travel, and none know what became of it, a thousand years of travel later they would reach the border of the Directorate, rescue, and were soon eager to join the nation. Now with faster than light travel and new technologies, they have expanded their fleet, built stations, and exist as a semi-nomadic void-clan. Travelling from planet to planet within the directorate and their members often volunteer in the navies of other clans.

Society

Almost all aspects of kimmigani society is based around austere survival. This is so engrained after centuries of living in cramped corridors and maintaining failing systems, stories of having to sorrowfully decide who was to live and die when a generation ship failed and their resources could not save the population. Choosing instead to sacrifice their elderly, infirm and youngest offspring to take on the vibrant youth who could better create a new generation. Despite survival being such a prominent theme in their lives, they are not considered cold or callous, choosing to remember those lost in the vast halls of names scratched aboard the walls of ships. Their bones and bodies turned into more tools to repair and expand systems. Ashed hardened into carbon plating to replace damaged panels. The kimmigani are their great vessels. Kimmigani naming schemes are short and tend to be highly personalized. They traditionally alter their names as they reach adulthood, based on career and personal wants. Example Names:

Beliefs

The kimmigani say they were guided by Seta, a divinity in their culture to their new home, and are eager members of the broader Directorate and have remained such for the centuries since their initial joining. They historically believe that there is a special purpose and a guiding force in the cosmos, but are not universal in the form that they take. A special note is some kimmigani have developed a spiritual connection to their ships, owing to their history of repurposing the bodies of the dead into tools for ship repairs during their hard journey. To the kimmigani, a starship is not just a machine, they are family and homeland wrapped up into one.