Creature:Aristoleian

Aristoleians are a carbon-based race of humanoids present on the planet Aristoleia. Their most defining quality is their indefinite lifespan, which extends largely due to the disconnection between their conscious and their biological forms. It is unclear, in fact, if their humanoid selves are their true selves or if their form is merely a reflection of a viewer's subconscious perception.

Social behavior
Aristoleians are inherently stoic and have internalized a repression of emotional stimuli. Inherently individualistic, Aristoleians are socially introverted and exercise much of their potential in independent reason rather than collective sensation, and as such are much more prone to philosophical rationalism rather than empiricism.

Despite their unemotional nature, the Aristoleian species does produce a variety of hormones, most of them dedicated to intellectual stimulation. While not technically telepathic, Aristoleians have the ability to sense and detect neural impulses, and when trained, Aristoleians have the ability to actively control, guide or direct them. Thus, while other species may, in attempt to circumvent their emotions, use meditative or 'mind meld' techniques, Aristoleians use these developed techniques to effect such discipline in their biologically reduced sense of pathos and heightened sense of logos and ethos.

Genetics and heredity
Members of the Aristoleian race have 29 chromosome pairs, which contain genetic material packaged into nucleosomes bound by Hu proteins instead of the conventional histones found in human chromosome, exhibiting higher repair and binding affinity for the cold environment of Aristoleia.

Unlike other species,"Aristoleia sophus" does not have sex-segregated zygotes, meaning that both male and female Aristoleians are divided zygotically, in a ratio of approximately 2:3 for males and 3:4 in females. Hereditary information is passed via a sense of touch.

Communication
The Aristoleian race uses multiple phonetic alphabets with various assigned characters assigned rhetorically rather than in mere subject-verb agreement as in other linguistic forms. As such, the combination in how characters are used can modify how ideas are combined with actions, all dependent upon a 'cornerstone' sentence that defines the rhetorical context. As such, the syntax structure of a sentence is not quite as important as the structure of a paragraph.

Nonverbally, the Aristoleian race has a few confined mannerisms to dictate situation-based circumstance that can be used in collusion with verbal linguistics to establish context. However, the confinement of pathos within the Aristoleian race understandably limits the mannerisms that are used.

Socially, Aristoleians are very objective, even if abstract. Purposive socialization is the norm and the expectation of all inquiries, and otherwise is avoided or at least limited in scale in comparison to other species.