Creature:Shellious

The shellious (Shellious Plural - Shellian Possessive) are the main race of the. they are known to be the only non-mecholife wentals in existence.

Biology and Appearance
The Shellious look like huminoid turtles wih large eyes. They can be the colors green, blue, turquoise, uncommonly brown, or rarely red. Each of the shellious' hands have 4 thin fingers, and 2 didactyly feet. Each shellious has a external gill that also acts as portection for a extra spinal cord. The external gill has the thinnest exoskeleton on the body of a shellious. The shell on it's back has a few crystal like bony plates that act as protection and for energy saving. It is also known to channel psionic energy. If the crystal shatters, the shellious will die. The shellious have one large lung and may hold their breaths for about 2 hours before needing methane or oxygen. That and their immunity to high pressure, they may very well survive in the vacuum of space. They have many extra brainal lobes that just to their incredible SQ. The inside of the shell holds the digestive system and both of the shellious's 2 hearts. The end of the Digestive system contains a small body furnace that burns waste to control heat, however they are still cold blooded. They don't eat much variety, so their digestive system is relitively simple. The top part of the shell contains a nerve area that stores psionic energy. They are immune to the effects of ageing and can regenerate lost limbs and small injuries at a fast rate. Many Shellious are vulnerable to various mental diseases however. The shellious do not sleep like other creatures. When it falls asleep it goes into a state of mind that allows it to gain energy while it is still completely aware of its surroundings. Shellious have Psionic-P~15 with the Krassio teachings and medium gyronic compatibility. Shellious have fair compatibility to some energies, but chaotic energies such as Demonic, Dark, Chaos, or Decension energy can kill them if even attempted to the smallest degree. They are resistant however to other races attacks that are using it and so long as they are not the users they are resistant. However some shellious have a 3% chance of using dark energy without any serious injury, however this is never attempted despite the small chance. (Idea from liquid ink) Type: Pseudoreptilian Lifestyle: dedication to life and intelligence Armour: natural body exoskeleton Defenses: ultraviolet sight and psionic energy Method of Eating: internal beak Number of Offspring:1 to 2

Diet
Shellious have a large apatite for eating many types of plants. Their main diets include kelp, plankton, and small bits of tiny meat left by the extremely large creatures that live in the shellian oceans. Due to this type of diet and their extreme biology, they can survive over 4 months without food if required. However most shellious find this unsettling.

Reproduction
Female shellious lay 1 to 2 eggs in a breeding season that happens once in it's life. Shellious normally mate for life.

Subraces
Though the main species is well known, there are also a few subraces.

Chelo
The Chelu are a subrace of shellious that have evolved to a larger extent after the 2 million years of evolution after space. The Chelu have adapted to water much more and have a dorsal fin that acts as navigation and movement as well as outer protection for the gill and weak neck area. This subrace also has a larger palate and can consume more meat than the first evolution. Created by Dyga19

Lifespan
In a Shellious's life it goes through 3 stages. In the first few years of it's life it does not have much armor plating and it's abilities have yet to develop. At a certain point at the end of the larval stage they will cocoon themselves with a bony structure that will act as a future exoskeleton. In the middle stage it is the average shellious. It spends several generations of it's life after a certain age ceasing motion and going into a meditative state known as the Ios stage until it joins a weak hivemind of old shellious that eternally think within crystal deposits that store their life. In the final stage it appears to get shorter and has more parts of it's exoskeleton covered with aether crystals. The shellious in this stage normally do nothing but wander the streets or stay within areas such as the senate building. Though they are less active at this stage they master their abilities and have power over psionic that is immense. Currently no shellious in the Ios stage has figured out how to extent their minds beyond the current stage. Many shellious however do not get to the third stage. About half of the population dies in the second stage due to the immense requirements of mind building and the time required to do so. Some shellious have tried to force their way into the final stage just to have family members find them dead. Among the subraces and main race, Chelo are much more likely to get to the final stage, but will not get as far on the psionic scale. Currently, only several thousand shellious have reached this stage. That is a small number compared to the trillions of people in the.

Outfits
The Shellious have a large stock of outfits throughout the empire.

Evolution
The shellious evolved to their current forms at this time as outside their home other civilizations evolve to one day meet.

The shellious started off different. Unlike most creatures, they evolved from psionic energy. Not unlike creatures such as the or. They started of as a water salamander with bony covering on it's back to protect it from predators. They later grew stronger shells and the external gill on the back of their heads shortend. The next fase of shellious evolution gave them lungs due to the shortage of life supporting water.

On other worlds the separate races of the imperium evolved. The have not changed much in body shape for millions of years during the time. The never bothered to care what their past was like and it remains a mystery. They like to look to the future. The and  both evolved from a common lampray like ancestor.

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Government
The shellious have a constitutional monarchy were senators vote under the emperor.

Beliefs
In shellious culture they are known to symbolize some creatures in life. Though beliefs like this are very rare in shellious culture some things have stayed in the list of what they believe to be true. To them creatures such as Shriekers are a sign of the family while one of the giant serpents in the oceans could be considered a sign of destruction.

Competition and Sports
Among shellious many people pass the time with games of intelligence and athletics. One game is known as Pengooball. Pengooball is a game were in a cylindrical arena, Players each try to get a spiky ball around while on stilts to the goals on each side. If the ball touches the ground the time limit resets. Two other balls are added at the time ending at it goes on again and again till 12 balls are on the field. If one touches the ground it is removed and the game then ends once all pengooballs are on the ground. Whoever get the most goals wins. Shellious find this as popular as earth soccer.

Architecture
The outer layers of their buildings are grey-blue and dull. They are normally shaped to look like the shell of a mollusk. The insides are white and have no color, however the shellious can see outside the visible light spectrum and see the white as vibrant color and art. The buildings normally have imbeded lamps and other forms of tiny light. Like some of the shellian technology, buildings will sometimes play music when small parts of the walls are interacted with. Some of them have flat roofs and are decorated with many plants. In the sky cities, Houses are normally disc shaped to avoid loss of balance stopping it from falling. They are held up by large fan like machines at the bottom that keep it in the air while they gain energy from the fast winds in the upper atmosphere. Mortis has run down brown buildings.

Multimedia
Shellian technology and buildings commonly play music. Shellian music is different in the fact that it remains soft and slow underwater. Because it is in shellious tongue it is not very pleasant without liquid surrounding. Shellian music is considered very odd among some empires as it has low and quiet sounds and sudden bursts of high pitched sounds that can sometimes not be heard by common ears. Edoshai describes it as something only large minds can really understand the concept of.

Shellious Language
Shellious Tongue is the primary language of the imperium. It's origins date back to the great war. It comes from the fusion of the 5 shellious languages when the planet was covered by city. Unless water is present over the speaker it will sound like very unpleasent spitting. The language is extremely hard to learn and will often come out wrong when spoken in the wrong way.

Grammar
Shellious translates odd into most other languages. All sentances are inverted and fused into one word with no pauses making people who are using a universal translator would soon find shellious laughing at them for the way they speak. It is considered very embarrassing.

Plural ans Singular
At the end of every word. Anything that is plural will always have "Ku" at the end. Example
 * Shellious (Singular) --> Shelliousku (Plural)

Add Ons
For the shellious language, words are constructed from different meanings that each add meaning to it. Exampe
 * Ghõ means destruction or end. Khêt means life. Ghõkhêt could means end life, or death.