01-21-2020, 08:42 PM
BYOND Username: Lerigan
Discord ID: Leri #6469
Race or Language whitelisting for: Xenochimera
What do you know of their mechanics?: What is probably the biggest difference between Xenochimera and other species is their Feral State, which manifests when a Xenochimera is put under intense pain and or stress, extreme hunger or come under the influance of stimulants like Caffine. When in this Feral state a Chimera runs solely on intinct, like a wild animal until the cause of their Feral state disapears. Another difference is how one would revive a Chimera, rather than cloning, which is impossible due to their DNA being unreadable by cloners, of note however is that their minds are still capable of being scaned. They instead can regenerate from injury in a short period of time. For more serious injuries Chimera enter a hibernating state, in which they regenerate their body from the inside out before bursting out in a shower of blood and gore. Even if "gibbed" they are still able to regenerate from what little remains, provided they are given ample proteins to feed the still living cells.
What do you know of their lore?: Xenochimera in essence are, unlike your typical crewmember, a colony organism, microoganisms working together to survive as one. Their origin is unknown, being found on many life bearing planets where meteorites containing their cells landed. At first, they are a simple organism, growing and consuming small forms of life before they grow large enough to hunt smaller creatures, and soon larger ones as well. As they grow and consume, the DNA of their meals is proccessed and coppied by the Chimera's proto cells, adapted to the creature to better suit their enviroment by taking the traits and features of those it has consumed. Through this proccess intellegance and sapiance may be addapted to the creature, provided it consumes some poor unfortunate person.
What idea did you have for your character?: Parsec is a Xenochimera born in the wild, living a simple life of hunting and surviving, a life that would soon be shattered on meeting a group of hunters, who intended to capture and sell the creature. Despite the chimera's ability to take down creatures their size and larger, the hunter's experiance and greater intelligence compared to those it had taken on before proved too much to handle, leading to their capture. While in transport the hunters decided to celebrate, with much alcohol to be drank. One hunter, far too drunk for their own good decided to pay their quary, left caged in the cargo bay, a visit, despite their heavy inibreation. This proved to be their downfall as the Chimera made short work of the hunter, landing itself quite the nice meal. It took until the next morning for the hunter's disapearance to be noticed and by then it was far too late, as they could only find torn clothing along with few remains of the hunter's body, and close by, a quite full chimera. With no cloning equipment available and no mind backup, their comrad was gone for good, turning what had just been some creature to be sold into an object of hatred. Rather than just spacing the thing and loosing out on a paycheck they instead decided to chain and beat it. It did not take long for the crew to relize that their beatings, which left the poor thing bloodied, broken and bruised, would have been healed by the chimera's regenrative factor. This only led to worse beatings, as they relized how much farther they could go without killing the thing. This broke the Chimera mentaly, even as he healed physically every time as every time he even so much as saw one of the weapons used on it, it would break out into a violent bout of hissing and growling. Soon the beatings proved less and less satisfying to the crew and they soon took notice to a change in the creatures behavior, where once was just some basic animal they now could see more....inteligence, in its eyes, and soon enough basic comunication skills were being used, to show its hunger. Having up until this point been unsure as to WHO they would sell a Chimera to an idea spread through them all, A research group. They were quick to find a willing buyer and even quicker to make the deal, happy to be rid of the monster that had killed one of their own. The scientists proved much more benevolent then the hunters, even so however it proved quite a task to gain its trust, but they were diligant in their task, and eventually the Chimera learned to trust them. Having proven its ability to complete simple tasks they began the hard task of teaching to differentiate sapient beings from simple food. It was.....difficult to say the least, and quite a few misteps and accidents were to be had, but, given the sites cloning systems, these proved less disasterous than they could have been. There was however a silver lining to these incidents as, when some unlucky scientist pushed too far and was made a meal of the chimera's intelligence grew imensely. Soon the incidents grew fewer and farther in between and within the 3 years the research group, one funded by Nanotrasen, pushed for the Chimera to be accepted as an employee to further its development as a valuable member of society. Before they would be shipped off however the group decided to give them a name, a symbol of their entrance to society. For a while they were unsure of just what to call them, until one scientist, an astronomer, chimed in with their suggestion, Parsec, in reference to the fact that their station lied almost exactly one Parsec away from the Chimera's home planet.
Discord ID: Leri #6469
Race or Language whitelisting for: Xenochimera
What do you know of their mechanics?: What is probably the biggest difference between Xenochimera and other species is their Feral State, which manifests when a Xenochimera is put under intense pain and or stress, extreme hunger or come under the influance of stimulants like Caffine. When in this Feral state a Chimera runs solely on intinct, like a wild animal until the cause of their Feral state disapears. Another difference is how one would revive a Chimera, rather than cloning, which is impossible due to their DNA being unreadable by cloners, of note however is that their minds are still capable of being scaned. They instead can regenerate from injury in a short period of time. For more serious injuries Chimera enter a hibernating state, in which they regenerate their body from the inside out before bursting out in a shower of blood and gore. Even if "gibbed" they are still able to regenerate from what little remains, provided they are given ample proteins to feed the still living cells.
What do you know of their lore?: Xenochimera in essence are, unlike your typical crewmember, a colony organism, microoganisms working together to survive as one. Their origin is unknown, being found on many life bearing planets where meteorites containing their cells landed. At first, they are a simple organism, growing and consuming small forms of life before they grow large enough to hunt smaller creatures, and soon larger ones as well. As they grow and consume, the DNA of their meals is proccessed and coppied by the Chimera's proto cells, adapted to the creature to better suit their enviroment by taking the traits and features of those it has consumed. Through this proccess intellegance and sapiance may be addapted to the creature, provided it consumes some poor unfortunate person.
What idea did you have for your character?: Parsec is a Xenochimera born in the wild, living a simple life of hunting and surviving, a life that would soon be shattered on meeting a group of hunters, who intended to capture and sell the creature. Despite the chimera's ability to take down creatures their size and larger, the hunter's experiance and greater intelligence compared to those it had taken on before proved too much to handle, leading to their capture. While in transport the hunters decided to celebrate, with much alcohol to be drank. One hunter, far too drunk for their own good decided to pay their quary, left caged in the cargo bay, a visit, despite their heavy inibreation. This proved to be their downfall as the Chimera made short work of the hunter, landing itself quite the nice meal. It took until the next morning for the hunter's disapearance to be noticed and by then it was far too late, as they could only find torn clothing along with few remains of the hunter's body, and close by, a quite full chimera. With no cloning equipment available and no mind backup, their comrad was gone for good, turning what had just been some creature to be sold into an object of hatred. Rather than just spacing the thing and loosing out on a paycheck they instead decided to chain and beat it. It did not take long for the crew to relize that their beatings, which left the poor thing bloodied, broken and bruised, would have been healed by the chimera's regenrative factor. This only led to worse beatings, as they relized how much farther they could go without killing the thing. This broke the Chimera mentaly, even as he healed physically every time as every time he even so much as saw one of the weapons used on it, it would break out into a violent bout of hissing and growling. Soon the beatings proved less and less satisfying to the crew and they soon took notice to a change in the creatures behavior, where once was just some basic animal they now could see more....inteligence, in its eyes, and soon enough basic comunication skills were being used, to show its hunger. Having up until this point been unsure as to WHO they would sell a Chimera to an idea spread through them all, A research group. They were quick to find a willing buyer and even quicker to make the deal, happy to be rid of the monster that had killed one of their own. The scientists proved much more benevolent then the hunters, even so however it proved quite a task to gain its trust, but they were diligant in their task, and eventually the Chimera learned to trust them. Having proven its ability to complete simple tasks they began the hard task of teaching to differentiate sapient beings from simple food. It was.....difficult to say the least, and quite a few misteps and accidents were to be had, but, given the sites cloning systems, these proved less disasterous than they could have been. There was however a silver lining to these incidents as, when some unlucky scientist pushed too far and was made a meal of the chimera's intelligence grew imensely. Soon the incidents grew fewer and farther in between and within the 3 years the research group, one funded by Nanotrasen, pushed for the Chimera to be accepted as an employee to further its development as a valuable member of society. Before they would be shipped off however the group decided to give them a name, a symbol of their entrance to society. For a while they were unsure of just what to call them, until one scientist, an astronomer, chimed in with their suggestion, Parsec, in reference to the fact that their station lied almost exactly one Parsec away from the Chimera's home planet.
