Sharp buildings, sharper bodies. The ships, architecture, and people are sharpened to an extreme degree. Massive knife-like blades, built like a plane without any sense of aerodynamics, only natural flow of matter and minimization of surface area in the direction of travel. Covering asteroids like bugs on a decaying fruit, this species scavenge the metal from the asteroids they live upon, consuming it and using it, giving them a deep understanding of tool use.
History
A longer history of the species.
Society & Culture
A society built on community assistance. The years it takes to raise an egg to a child would have rendered the species extinct had they not developed a culture around protecting each other, especially the youth. A common way to show affection is to craft a beautiful shape out of metal and give it to the target for them to eat. This culture has an admiration for sharpness. To hone ones clinging-limbs to a sharp point is an attractive trait, and having sharp architecture is a projection of this attraction(Similar to phallic buildings on Earth today).
Appearance
A nest of metal spikes on one central body, hyper-sharp limbs to cling to asteroids. Metal colored with a white/silver focus as the typical coloring.
Biological Notes
Living for multiple centuries before any modern advancements in medicine, the species takes years to spawn and develop. Almost l of their cells can induce a sublimation effect, converting a solid to a liquid and a liquid to a gas and, with great care and effort, a gas to a plasma. Their bodies use plasma as an energy for their nervous system and to
Their environment consists of themselves, Metallophages, Titanium Titans, and Steel-Buds. Metallophages are micro-organisms; some have been annexed by the Karths(Similar to mitochondria or chloroplasts) and now function like worker cells, moving the absorbed metal around their body. The Metallophages are the equivalent of diseases, pathogens that infect them and are repelled by the slight magnetic field that their bodies generate. They are much of what converts the waste of other organisms into material usable by the Steel-buds. The Titanium Titans are predators to the Karths, dozens of feet long and remarkably similar to whales, these beasts consume massive amounts of gas and metal, using the metal to construct their bodies and the gas for propulsion. They are the only creature in the ecosystem capable of zero-gravity self propulsion. They have a venom that prevents Karths from sublimating, causing any sublimation-based bodily processes to stop, which includes the formation of new limbs and even the maintenance of the plasma that gives energy to their body. If an antivenoms is not administered within minutes,
Traits & Abilities
- Composed of metal, with enhanced sight and complete deafness.
- Communicate via body language and emission of light.
-Able to soder metal at room temp with physical contact, reshaping the metal via sublimation from solid to liquid.