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| Creator | Lualmoba – More content by Lualmoba |
| Locomotion | Mostly walking. Can also fly for very short periods of time. |
| Environment | Mostly on land. Very few live underwater. |
| Diet | Omnivore |
| Size | 3 to 3.5 meters (male), 2.5 to 3 meters (female) 2.7 to 3.2 (hermaphrodites) |
| Lifespan | 475 to 495 Earth years (male), 490 to 520 years (female) 510 to 545 years (hermaphrodites) |
| Personality | N/A |
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[edit] General Information
[edit] Stats
Space Stage (Currently)
Name: Aleunen.
Scientific name: Amphibiet Aladius Sapiens.
Type: Cold-blooded Winged Amphibian Vertebrate.
Size: 3 to 3.5 meters avg. (male), 2.5 to 3 meters avg. (female) 2.7 to 3.2 avg. (hermaphrodites).
Weight: 50 to 60 Kg. avg. (male), 45 to 50 Kg. avg. (female) 47 to 54 avg. (hermaphrodites).
Lifespan: 475 to 495 Earth years avg. (male), 490 to 520 years avg. (female) 510 to 545 years avg. (hermaphrodites).
Diet: Omnivores.
Male/Female/Hermaphrodite ratio: 4-2-1.
Gestation: 8 days and lays an egg.
Incubation: 7 months before egg hatches.
Number of offspring: 1 to 3.
Beginning of Adolescence (gains ability to breed): 50 years.
Adulthood: 120 years.
Mid-Age: 240.
Elderhood: 400.
[edit] Note
Singular: Aleunen
Plural: Aleuni
Adjective: Aleunen
Planet: Gabbleon
[edit] Overview
The Aleuni live in the planet Gabbleon. They live in small groups on little villages scattered around the world. Even though they aren't very social, they all work together and help each other. Because of that, all the villages have developed at a similar rate. Aleuni learned early in their evolution that they got better and faster results through team work. They recently reached the Space Stage.
They can usually live for about 500 Earth years. The longest an Aleuni has lived is 593 years. They live for such a relatively long time because they are such a calm, unworried, and happy race.
[edit] Physical Description
They posses a pair of wings. Because of their weight and the wings size, the wings are useless for flying long distances, but they can be used for short distances. Flying requires a lot of energy and that's why Aleuni don't use them as a main form of locomotion.
They also have a horn. The horn has an organ, used for respiration and smelling, inside that is surrounded by the bone shown in the outside. Just below this horn, a hole is located.
They developed strong retractable nails during their evolution. They used these nails to dig in the hard soil. They weren't able to develop tools for digging during their tribal stage because the rocks were too hard for them. The only useful tools for digging were developed during their City stage.
All Aleuni is born with a slightly muscular physique. This is because mining was very important earlier in their evolution and most of the rocks and minerals found on the planet are pretty hard. They kept this feature the same way as they kept the retractable nails.
When an Aleunen wants to swim, his or her feet become webbed. This allows them to swim easily.
Aleuni have 6 arms and 2 legs. 2 of the 6 arms are attached to the wings and are used for wing movement for flight. These arms are scrawny compared to the rest of the body. This is because they are seldom needed. The other 4 arms are located in a lower position. The joints in this, much more muscular, arms allow the Aleunen to bend his or her arms backward. While they are backwards, though, they are much weaker and it becomes extremely hard to manipulate objects.
Aleuni have many sharp teeth that are specially useful to chew on rocks.
Their heads are pulled back and ends in a long crest with an ovaled end.
[edit] Skin
Their skin changes color depending on what they are feeling. Feelings that they consider positive will have a lighter tint, while negative ones will have a darker tint. All feelings have a different color that is the same in all healthy Aleuni. The stronger the feeling, the stronger the color is. When they feel more than one thing at once, the colors mix. When an Aleunen is serious, he or she turns a color between gray and white. This leads scientists to think that the Aleunen's natural color is that.
This is an incomplete list of the feelings and the colors the skin turns:
Happiness: golden
Pride: silver
Sadness: yellow
Anger: green
Jealousy: red
Embarrassment: purple
Fear: brown
Love: blue
Sickness: orange
Worry: pink
Confusion: black
Pain: purple
Pensive: lavender
Lust: violet
Not many people from other races know what feeling each color represents since most books don't list the feelings with their respective colors, but just mention that the Aleuni's skin changes color with feelings, and because the colors they turn are hard to associate with the feeling.
Aleuni dislike this because it makes lying difficult and it can cause them embarrassment that others know what they are feeling.
[edit] Male/Female physical differences
The physical differences between a male and a female Aleunen are: male Aleuni have longer horns. Females are usually less muscular than males.
[edit] History
Since they only reached the Space Stage recently, the only major event during this stage has been the creation of a mother ship capable of reaching other galaxies and large-scale travel. Smaller, less powerful spaceships had already been invented and are for private use, but they weren't considered important enough for the Aleuni to think that their creation meant an advance to a new era.
[edit] Clothing
The typical Aleunen clothing is neutral colors, neither too light nor too dark. Capes are the most popular type of clothing since they can be worn by anyone.
[edit] Reproduction
Two or three creatures are needed for reproduction depending on whether one of them is hermaphrodite. The female creature forms and lays the eggs, one male creature provides the sperm needed for the formation of the egg, which requires a great quantity, and a second male keeps on adding sperm and protects the egg until it hatches. Hermaphrodites can do the job of one of the male and female creatures. At about 40 years of age, all Aleuni begin to develop a pouch just behind the hole in their stomach. On males, this pouch is filled with sperm, and in females, the pouch contains the ovary. Hermaphrodites have two pouches. A hermaphrodite can inseminate itself, but because sperm from two creatures is necessary for the development of the egg, they need another creature of their same species for reproduction.
After the sperm reaches the egg, the ovary begins hardening and growing. After 8 days, it will have a diameter of approximately 2 cms. . A second male will then add his own sperm and, every once in a while, either male will add more sperm for about 7 months until the egg hatches. If the eggs are taken care of correctly, they will grow slowly and they will eventually hatch.
Because constantly adding sperm to the egg was such a bother, a machine that does it automatically was created.
Every Aleunen is born with a small hole just below the middle section of the stomach. A tubular organ comes out through the hole of a male Aleunen during reproduction and is inserted into the female's hole.
[edit] Digestion
The Aleunen have a great digestive system. Most of all the solid food consumed is decomposed, so the wastes are usually in a fairly liquid state. One of the reasons they have such a great digestion is because having a slightly toxic atmosphere has caused a bit of acid to form on their stomach. This acid is not harmful for the Aleuni, but it's strong enough to decompose most foods.
[edit] Respiration
The horn on an Aleunen head absorbs the gases or substances, including liquids, surrounding it. The minerals and nutrients are then extracted from these gases or substances and directed to their circulatory system. When an Aleunen's body finds the gas or substance unhealthy, the hole below the horn is opened. This hole absorbs some of the gas or substance and it is sent to a cavity inside the Aleunen's body. The body then tries to adapt to this gas or substance. During this time, the horn is still absorbing the gas or substance. If the gas or substance is too poisonous or if the body respires it for too long without adapting, the Aleunen could die of intoxication or suffocation. Aleuni are able to breathe underwater.
[edit] Vision
Aleuni have three eyes which they use to see things. One eye is just below the hole used as an alternative method of respiration. And the two other eyes are below the single eye. Each eye has transparent eyelids covering it. These eyelids sharpen the creature's vision and protect the eyes. Aleuni are not only able to perceive light, they can also perceive other kinds of radiation, but testings of Aleunen vision are not finished so it is not known yet to what extent these radiations can be perceived and all the kinds of radiation that can be perceived.
[edit] Society
In Aleunen society, Science and Technology are praised, while Magic and Philosophy are considered useless. Chemistry and Physics are the most studied subjects.
Most parents teach morals to their children at an early age. And gossip is not tolerated in Aleunen society.
Aleuni are usually neutral in their opinions and exercise their power with fairness. Aleunen judges are considered one of the best because of these traits. These traits can not only be seen in their religion, but they are also reflected in the way they govern and in the society. It is rare to find an extremist Aleunen.
[edit] Government
The Aleuni are governed by a group formed by one Aleunen from each of the 10 major colonies and 2 from the major cities in Gabbleon. Their headquarters are in Noku. Every elected politician serves for a term of 12 years.
When the Aleunen communicate with other species, the group meets and make a decision. Then, the Chief Senator is the one that informs the target species of the decision.
[edit] Crime
There is an extremely low crime rate in Gabbleon due to the efficiency of the authorities and because the Aleunen have achieved a level in which most of time it is completely unnecessary to resort to crime. Punishment for crimes is slightly harsh.
It has been discussed many times whether the Kine-Gun makes crime easier. But it has been proved that most criminals don't use Kine-Guns because they think that it is too inefficient in the amount of weight that can be carried and that they are too hard to control when the user is hurried. Many criminals that have tried to use the Kine-Gun for thievery have not been successful because they have been discovered before they could accomplish their goal.
[edit] Religion
They believe in an all-mighty power that controls everything.
[edit] Industry
In Gabbleon, there is only one big company for every kind of thing. The government builds huge malls in every city filled with small shops that sell something that is needed. Then a person is chosen to take care of each shop and to do other jobs. The city then buys the things to fill each shop when it's needed from the same factories as the other cities. This keeps a balance in the quality of things there are in each city and makes them develop at the same rate.
[edit] Art
[edit] Paint and sculpture
The Aleuni like abstract art. They also like miniaturization.
[edit] Music
Most Aleuni like a type of music similar to Earth's classical style.
[edit] Literature
Mystery and Humor are very popular among Aleuni.
[edit] Gabbleon (Home planet)
About 365,000 million years ago, Gabbleon was a very small planet full of volcanoes and lava. The planet is made of extremely resistant types of rock. Because of this, it's volcanoes are unlike Earth ones. The magma doesn't push the rock upward. There are hotspots where the magma pushes upward with greater force than anywhere else. Almost all eruptions occur at these hotspots. Because of this, the magma flowed from holes on the ground. There is an average of 56 eruptions from these spots every year. Because of these factors, the area around this spots elevated rather quickly and most of the spots were covered by the rock that fell in because of natural events. The covered spots still erupt, but the lava flows in tunnels deep underground. The pits that weren't covered by rock filled with rain water. The magma can be seen flowing at the bottom. There are very few lakes, but they are extremely deep. Gabbleon's surface is 93% land and 7% water, but because of the deepness of its lakes, there has never been a shortage of water. Gabbleon is on the Atherean system, a system conformed by seven planets and a star. It takes about 238 Earth days for Gabbleon to revolve around the sun. One rotation takes 37 Earth hours.
Gabbleon has one circular range of very tall mountains called Orcus Range to the West. Most of the Aleuni that have decide to separate from the rest of society make their home in the area surrounded by the mountains. The soil is too hard and the fertile areas are mostly near lakes, therefore, the denser forests are around lakes and agriculture has never played an important role on Aleunen economy.
The only aboveground volcano in Gabbleon is located in the Southwest part of the planet. This volcano's lava is not as hot as the one produced by the other volcanoes and it cools much quicker. The volcano also emits noxious gases often. Because of this gases, Gabbleon's atmosphere is slightly toxic for other creatures.
Even though magma flows at the bottom of most bodies of water, the water is not toxic for the Aleuni because they have strong immune systems and they have already developed a resistance to it.
[edit] Moons
Three moons orbit around Gabbleon. Their names are Chax, Noku, and Aidan. Chax is the smallest one. It is the farthest away from the planet. It is rocky and icy. Aidan is the nearest one. It is completely covered in water. Noku is in the middle. It is rocky and is about 60% covered in water.
[edit] Aidan
Aidan is inhabited by the Picoids and Rusmots. It is completely covered in water. Hundred of thousands of years ago, a race of evil creatures called Rothan explored the planet and left a robot capable of creating itself, which, after hundreds of years, became a race called the Rusmots. Aidan is really small compared to the other moons.
[edit] Noku
Noku has a rocky surface with fertile soil. The government headquarters are located here.
[edit] Chax
Warm and has a gentle life-sustaining climate.
[edit] Weather
Even though many natural events still occur, the Aleuni are beginning to discover ways to control climate and weather.
[edit] Living Underwater
Few Aleuni choose to live underwater. The space is very limited and many objects float around most of the time. To make underwater houses, a cave has to be dug first. This is because of the lava that flows at the bottom of most bodies of water.
[edit] Other creatures
[edit] Pets
The Aleunen made a treaty with the Picoids. This treaty made the Picoids the official pet of the Aleuni. The Aleuni also agreed to protect and help the Picoids. Most Aleuni families have aquariums with several families of Picoids.
The Aleunen assigned a group of people to interact with the Picoids. These people had to do an investigation of the Picoids beginning by learning their language. Very few people besides the Picoids know Picuns, the Picoid language. It is likely that the Aleunen will have to help the Picoids whenever they try to communicate.
[edit] Picoid/Aleunen relations
[edit] Discovery of the Picoids
The Aleuni discovered the Picoids early during their Civilization Stage when they made their first rocket ship and decided to explore Aidan. When the Aleuni found the Picoids, they were in their Creature Stage. The Aleuni took a few samples to investigate them and when they saw how interesting they were, they decided to do a deeper research. The Aleuni compared them to the other creatures in the planet and found that the Picoids were the most likely species to survive. They began helping the Picoids from that point on. They taught the Picoids their language and helped them become more cultural. Since the Aleuni didn't want to interfere on the Picoid's evolution, they let the Picoids learn what kind of building style they liked and they pushed the Picoids to be more social. After a few hundred years, the Picoids and the Aleuni developed a strong friendship and the Picoids advanced to their Tribal Stage.
[edit] Food
The typical food of the Aleuni is rocks. They eat rocks because the rocks in their planet are really nutritive. Eating rocks made them develop sharp teeth strong enough to chew on them.
[edit] Fruits
Fruits are really scarce and are the most wanted type of food. They are considered a delicattese in Gabbleon. People pay lots of money to have fruits. Fortunately for the Aleuni, substitutes are beginning to be developed at an affordable price. Also, they have discovered that Noku, one of Gabbleon's moons has a soil that is perfect to grow fruits. This will bring their price down and make fruit a more common type of food.
[edit] Drugs
Aleunen drugs are made from rocks. The rocks used as drugs are made from different materials than the rocks they usually eat. They are ingested either by crushing and sniffing the dust, or by eating it. They all have different effects. The most widely used is the Rask rock. The Rask rock makes people feel happy and calm. It is used for medical purposes, but there are many people who abuse it. Another drug that a lot of criminals like is Consuf. Consuf only has an effect when it is inhaled. It dazes the user, but the person keeps the ability to control most of his actions easily. Because of the feeling of confusion it gives, the skin of most users turns black while it is in effect.
[edit] Technology
The Aleunen have learned that everything has energy in it. They are beginning to use this knowledge to create things that use that energy as their main source of power.
[edit] Kine-Gun
It is connected to the brain. It is activated when the user mentally tells it to. It ejects lots of energy. The user decides what the energy is directed at. That energy is used to push the object in the direction the user wants. It can be used to move small to medium sized objects with less energy it would usually require. The drawbacks are that it can only make the object levitate a few feet from the ground. There is a great limit in the weight that the object to be moved can be. A great amount of concentration is required to get the desired results. And it can also cause brain damage if used incorrectly. It was made to be used as a weapon, but due to the extensive amount of limitations, the project was canceled. The idea was later bought by AleuYot, the biggest toy company in Gabbleon. It was made into a toy, and because of it's fairly simple design and the cheapness of the materials it is made off, almost every Aleunen can afford it. It has been in the first place of the top ten best sold toys chart for the last 7 years. It is a favorite among parents because it keeps children still and quiet, due to the amount of concentration required to make it work. Its name during the creation process was Project GBL-TK431, and then the toy company renamed it Kine-Gun. It is tubular, has wires that go connected to the brain, there is a round opening at the front, where the energy comes out from. It is a shiny, metallic color. It doesn't have a trigger since it is mentally operated. And it is fairly compact, since it usually fits completely on the hand of the user. There has been some controversy on whether this toy could be used for crime.
This brain-machine interface is still at it's beginning stage, but is quickly becoming widespread and the norm for many of the newest inventions.
[edit] Identification Device (ID)
When an Aleunen gets to 100 years of age, he or she is given by the government an small, really portable device that is used for identification. It includes a lot of personal stats about the Aleunen. It is also used during political elections to make sure that everyone votes, even if they choose neither side, but their votes are registered anonymously. This device has many features, including a few secret features, only known to politicians on high positions, that will only be used when they are absolutely needed, usually in the case of an emergency. They are really high tech devices that have an almost impenetrable security system. So far nobody has been able to break the security system. When it detects that someone is trying to break the system, it sends a signal to the authorities and the person could be put in jail because of it.
[edit] Teletransportation System
This systems are in their beta phase. The method this systems use to teletransport objects is that first, the object is scanned in a base (where the object is placed to be teletransported), then, the molecules that make up the object are separated, after that, the molecules are sent through a system of minuscule tubes to another base, finally, once the object gets there, the system will try to put the object back together by using the information that was gathered by the other base during scanning. There have been just a few successes so far, but the results are getting better. The systems are being improved to read and gather the information better.
[edit] Incubator
This is a machine used to incubate eggs. It sprays sperm over the eggs every few hours. It's common to find this machine on a household. They are very cheap and can be found on many stores. The machine has a rounded shape. A soft pillow where the eggs are placed is located at the bottom, and it's covered by a plastic dome. Above the dome, there is a bag that has to be filled with sperm once every day. The sperm is taken from the bag through the use of tubes that go from the bag to the top part of the dome.
[edit] Rocket ships
Relatively few people own a private rocket ship. Mostly people with high amounts of money own them. Most rocket ships are shaped like a drop of water, an oval with a pointy end. This is the most efficient design according to a group of scientists. This rocket ships are usually only used to go to colonies.
[edit] Weapons
Aleuni haven't created too many weapons because they are pacifists, but they know they need to have some way to defend themselves.
[edit] Colonies
All colonies are small and built in nearby asteroids. The Aleuni created a device which causes asteroids that pass nearby the planet to stop and orbit around it. Then, the government sends a group of people to build a colony in the asteroid. There is a secret project for creating a mother ship capable of creating a colony with little involvement from people. The colonies built in the asteroids use the same design as land buildings, only in a smaller scale. The weather and climate in each asteroid is controlled by machines housed in a building near the top of the pyramids. A city will be chosen and if a certain number of people, it depends on the asteroid's size, want to move to the newly made colony, they will be transported there using a rocket ship. If too many people want to move, the people that signed up first will be the ones chosen to go. It is free to move to a colony.
[edit] Vehicles
The newest models are beginning to use a method of powering up similar to the one used for the Kine-Gun. They gather energy from the surroundings, then that energy is used to power up the vehicle. The older models have a system that uses solar and electromagnetic energy.
Roads have magnets under them. These magnets are used during the night so that older vehicles can still move without solar energy. The drawback of using magnets to power up vehicles is that it is much less powerful and they often cause a lot of traffic.
The newest models are still not affordable by everyone, but they are becoming very popular. These models are controlled with the brain and body movement. They can only levitate a few meters off the ground, but there are newer models being developed that will be able to fly at a much higher height. The brain commanded controls are much better to avoid accidents since they require a higher level of concentration to function. If there is too much thought interference, the vehicle will not work at all. These can also function as a safety measure against criminals because they will usually will not be able to drive the vehicle due to the worry of being caught. To turn on the vehicle for the first time, an special card is needed. This card will only be needed once and then it will stop having any use. This card activates the board and the owner needs to register his or her fingerprints, which will register him as the owner. This board has two functions. One of the functions is that it registers fingerprints and only allows the people with fingerprints registered to drive the vehicle. After the first time the fingerprints are taken, to allow more people to drive the vehicle, or when the vehicle is sold, a person with registered fingerprints will first need to turn on the vehicle and then press a series of buttons to begin the registration for another person, and if the ownership is transferred, to erase the fingerprints from the past owner. The internal system of the vehicle will always need a set of fingerprints registered and it will not allow all the fingerprints to be erased. All processes are ended after 20 seconds if no input is received. The second function the board has is that, if the driver chooses to do so, he or she can put their hands on the board and choose to drive manually. The board will note important differences in the pressure put on it. If the driver puts more pressure on the right side, the vehicle will turn to the right, same thing with the left side. Breaking is done by applying pressure with both hands. This is to make driving easier, but an amount of concentration is still needed because the user still controls the main functions of the vehicle with the brain. These vehicles can still be driven completely manually through the use of buttons and levers, but they don't levitate while in that mode.
[edit] Design
Vehicles usually have a capsular shape. They are pretty roomy and comfortable.
[edit] Buildings
Aleuni discovered a mineral called tricarzum hypoclorum molecus, or tricarzum for short. It is a very common mineral. The mineral's molecules are formed by three atoms in a triangular formation. The objects made from it are very resistant and durable. All objects made up from it are composed by microscopic microtube bonds. If it gets damaged, it will slowly return to it's original form, as long as the molecules are not destroyed . There is a high demand for this product as a construction material.
[edit] Design
All land cities are formed by a giant pyramid filled with lots of tall buildings inside. This cities have streets with a made of a long moving platform which people just need to step on to be transported from place to place. This platforms are metallic and move through the use of electromagnets. This enormous pyramids are formed by triangular formations of beams. The pyramids have areas with all the things needed, including parks. The Aleunen government decided to make it a law, at about the beginning of the Civilization Stage, for all cities to be designed this way because of the efficiency this design had. Underwater cities follow this same type of design, but instead of being pyramidal, they are domes.
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