User:Hydromancerx/Naucean


 * Naucean Basic
 * Naucean Geography
 * Naucean Creature Stage
 * Naucean Tribal Stage
 * Naucean City Stage
 * Naucean UFO Stage

=Basic=

Statistics


Name: Naucean

Type: Warm-blooded Bipedal Marine Vertebrate

Lifestyle: Social Omnivore

Habitat: Mangrove-like Wetlands

Size: 10 to 12ft long (females), 8 to 10 ft long (males)

Weight: 300 to 400 lbs (females), 200 to 300 lbs (males)

Diet: Small aquatic creatures, small terrestrial creatures, fruits, seeds, leaves, roots, eggs

Hunt/Forage Success Rate: 50% hunt, 75% forage

Armor: Skin is weak so they make padded armor out of fibers for protection.

Defenses: Strong tail with fluke as well as strong kicking legs. oral tentacles do not hurt but can pull a target into its very sharp beak. Weapons: No real natural weapons but Bronze Age in technology.

Tools: 2 hand on 2 of the 6 tentacles. Each with 2 fingers and 2 thumbs (one on either side of the hand).

Method of Eating: Grab with tentacles and bring to beak to slice. Then into the gizzard to be ground up then digested and finally out the anus on the opposite end.

Lifespan: About 60 years

Reproductive Rate: Reaches sexual maturity at 12 years. Can reproduce at any time of the year.

Gestation: 6 months then lays egg.

Offspring incubation: 6 months until egg hatches after being laid.

Number of Offspring: 1 to 4

Offspring Survival Rate (before age of maturity): 90% they are raised in a family group and everyone helps raise the babies.

3D Diagrams

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Skeleton


As you can see it walks on its knuckles. It had orginally 2 middle fingers and then a thumb on either side. The thumb and finger fused and the closest segment to the knuckle. then the thumb shrunk and the last 2 joints support the weight of the backwards foot. When swimming it can extent out and between the 2 fused finger/thumbs is webbed skin. Normally that webbed part is either walked on or folded up in the knuckle-walking pose.

As for the skull you can snow see the true mouth which is the beak. Out of that are the 2 pseudo-mandibles. The bottom is like a shallow cup in which the tentacles (soft tissue like an elephants trunk) can sit in. The upper pseudo-mandible hold a "melon" like a dolphin has in which it can send out echolocation while in the water. Also like a whale it can produce strange sounds both in its nasal cavity but in the pseudo-mandibles when closed or to amplify its call when open like a mega phone. It has no teeth but digests using a gizzard like birds do.

Since its back limbs are gone now all it has it a hip and the pubic bone. Thus it walks on its front legs and not its back like an ostrich. However with its counterbalance shape like a raptor it can run fast but is still limited by its front heavy head like t-rex had to deal with. When swimming it used both its powerful dolphin-like tail as well as using both flipper-feet in a frog-like swimming pattern. It also close its pseudo-mandibles for best hydrodynamic motion.

Despite its ability to walk on land it still stays by a water source. Its skin dries out easily and is very much like dolphin skin. It must also carry some water in the lower pseudo-mandible to keep it's oral tentacles wet and useable.

The Naucean lays eggs. Even in its whale stage it still came to land like sea turtles and would sit on nests. Unlike sea turtles the males of the colony take turns sitting on the eggs because not all are pregnant at once. They must take turns or the parent will dry out. Nauceans also live in pods of 10 to 20 individuals. Adolescents are raised by the older embers of the pods. Those who are too old to help hunt, fish or gather food.

When a Naucean hits puberty they join the other hunters and gatherers. The females are larger and more aggressive. They hunt small game and fish in the ocean. They also are a blander blue-gray color. The males are smaller but do tent to be more colorful. They tend to gather plants, nuts, berries, roots and other non meat items. Males are very intelligent and are constantly curious about how things work. This is one of the key features of the species. The combination of the strength and cunning of the females with the curiosity and creative nature of the males.

Mating involves an impressive mating dance by the male. They paint their bodies and open their pseudo-mandible wide showing off their oral tentacles. The tentacles can change colors like a squid. Waving these around while dancing around and making deep whale-like calls is quite impressive. Once impressed the female sits and the male mounts. The gestation takes 6 months and then the egg is layed and is incubated for another 6 months. When the babies are born they are more capable than a human baby they can swim immediately but it take them about a year to learn how to walk. Babies are fed by regurgitating food from the mother's gizzard after her hunting or the fathers after pre-chewing gathered food.

Walking


(Too big to post on here as an animated picture)

Here is a simple animation of my Naucean walking. He kinda slides but i thought it was good for a first try.

This was done in 3DStudio Max (but could be done in g-max) and then converted from AVI to Animated GIF using Adobe Premier.

=Geography=

Solar System


(Image not to Scale)

Solar System

Here is the Nautiloid Solar System. Its sun Au, is a red dwarf star 1/3 the size of Earth's sun. Not shown (but shown in the Planet Spore Galaxy chart) is a blue giant which is 8,000 Light Years away. To put ti in perspective Since it is so huge it will appear to be 3 times the size of out sun in the Nauceanica sky while the home star Au will appear as only about 1/4 due to its size and distance. Thus most of the solar radiation actually comes from the Blue Giant rather than the Red Dwarf.

This solar system contains 8 planets, 4 terrestial, 3 gas giants and one out rim planet/moon. There are also 21 moon on 5 of the planets. These planets include;

Planets
Vari the closest to Au and the fastest orbit. It is the smallest planet.

Oro is the 2nd planet from Au and is a scorched planet with no atmosphere either. Its is slightly smaller than Nauceanica and has one scorched moon, Fati. However it is very volcanic due to the pull of its moon shifting the molten plates around.

Whrio is the 3rd planet from Au and is a greenhouse planet much like Venus. It has no moons.

Nauceanica is a tropical ocean planet where the Nauceans live. It has two moons, Serina and Sina. The moons make for great tides and the planet its self is moderately volcanic. The moons however are not volcanic.

Quat is the largest planet in the solar system. This takes most of the hits from asteroids and commets that would hit the inner solar system. It has 8 moons but only the largest Hana, Hina and Mahina have been seen by the Nauceans thus they are the only ones named.

Laka is alot like Saturn in that it has huge rings. It also has 6 moons but only 2 have been seen/named, Roua and Tanonoul.

Longo is the smallest of the gas giants. It has one small ring and 4 moons but only 3, Uri, Areop and Keha have been seen/named.

Lastly the planet/moon Po is a small cold iceball which actually melts when it gets closer to the Blue Giant near by. Durring this time it blooms with single cell life. Then in the colder times it is solid ice and the cells go dormant. Sadly nothing beyond single cells can survive here.

Seasons
Due to its weak home sun and huge neighboring sun this creates quite an interesting situation. The season work like this...

1st Quarter of the Year - Hottest Day with 2 suns in the sky, Darkest Nights.

2nd Quarter of the Year - Hot Day Blue Giant, Long Twilight Night, Warm Red Dwarf Day, Short Twilight Night

3rd Quarter of the Year - Hot Day Blue Giant, Medium Twilight Night, Warm Red Dwarf Day, Medium Twilight Night

4th Quarter of the Year - Hot Day Blue Giant, Short Twilight Night, Warm Red Dwarf Day, Long Twilight Night

(Or something like that)

Planet Nauceanica


Planet: Nauceanica

Large Moon: Sirenia

Small Moon: Sina

Naucean is a tropical planet with large oceans. There is one main continent, 3 smaller ones and countless small islands and shallows. The River Tribe is located on the largest continent.

Old World


Here is a map of the Naucean known world (may add more in the Eastern Hemesphere).

Ea Ocean The Global Ocean which is unpopulated by the Nauceans because of such deep water.

Apsu Sea The Naucean "Cradle of Civilization". They are the original tribe of the nauceans and all tribe trace their roots to them. Its a shallow sea full of undersea vents. This is perfect for underwater metallurgy. It also has alot of coral reefs due to its shallowness. These too are keep for toolmaking.

Adad Bay Currently an uninhabited bay that has yet to be populated by the Nauceans. Though the water is a bit deeper than the Apsu Sea. However this bay is rich in natural gas.

Shutu Coast This coast is full of hurricanes and is very windy due to the mixture of the West and East Winds colliding. So much so that the Jungle tribe has moved more inland to the jungle rather than being a coastal tribe.

Beletseri Desert The dryest part of the planet. This region gets very little rain despite it touching the Apsu Sea. This is however the home of the desert tribe. They live only along the river that comes down from the North.

Ninsun Plains This is the home of the Grassland tribe. They are always at war with the River tribe, Desert Tribe and Mountain Tribe over this precious farmland. It is not to hot like the jungles or desert but are not to cold like the Mountains.

Ennugi Forest This is the home of the popular River tribe. It is full of temprate palms and tall bamboo-like grasses. However it is to luch for large scale farming like the grasslands. Despite other tribes living by rivers this tribe is the only tribe to actually have home in the river. Which is why they are not called the Forest tribe, though they could be.

Tammzu Jungle This very lush and wet jungle are so extensive that the jungle tribe has only populated only a faction of it. The deeper you go the smaller the Jungle tribe gets in height.

Dumuzi Swamp This is home to the swamp tribe. Due to no solid land or completely clear water they constantly build mud homes. Despite their love of the earth they are still very much aquatic like the river and ocean tribes.

Amurru Mountains This is home to both the Mountain and the Cave tribes. The Mountain tribe lives above on the icy land while the Cave tribe live deep within the caves full of water and glowing lichen. The cave tribe originally came from the Mountain tribe but went underground after the Grassland Tribes worst battle. Those who stayed are the current Mountain tribe.

Tribal Lineage
I. Ocean Tribe

IA. Desert Tribe IB. Swamp Tribe IC. Jungle Tribe ID. River Tribe

ID1. Grassland Tribe ID2. Mountain Tribe

ID2a. Cave tribe

New World


Naucean is a tropical planet with large oceans. There is one main continent, Upelluri and 3 smaller ones Adapa, Island of the Swamp Tribe, Ninkasi a small volcanic island in the middle of the Ea Ocean, and Utu a large island in which is colonized in the Imperial Age. Utu has jungles, plains, swamps, mountains and even a desert like Upelluri but is about half the size. However unlike Upelluri it is full of untapped resources. This abundance is the driving force for the Nauceans to travel here, especially by the industrial revolution when the Old world becomes polluted from dirty industry.

Population


(Too big to post on here as an animated picture)

Dark Blue = Ocean Tribe Yellow = Desert Tribe Green = Jungle Tribe Brown = Swamp Tribe Light Blue = River Tribe Orange = Grassland Tribe White = Mountian Tribe Magenta = Cave Tribe Red = Plantation Tribe Black = Slavery Tribe Gray = Robot Tribe

=Creature Stage=

Evolution Tree
Naucean EVOLUTION http://spore-planet.rpgs.sytes.net/naucean_evo.htm

It has the Naucean linage as well a split off to a very tall tree browsing biped. I have yet to name all the creatures. I will fill in more now and then so i can have a balanced ecosystem with common ansestors. This works because i can split off at any stage. It goes from the first single cell creature on the Nauceanica on up.

Evolution Video
Areku has a speacial treat for all of you. He has used my evolution drawings and morphed them into a video with music. So prepare yourself for "Naucean Evolution"!

Naucean Evolution Video By Areku http://spore-planet.rpgs.sytes.net/nauceanmorph.avi

Thank you so much much Areku. This is really sooo cool! Grin You rock!

Timeline
Picture (to long to post) 

Here is a timeline. I left Shadow images of the ages not filled in yet. But its not set in stone yet. I might adjust it. But it gives you a good idea of what happened up to the final UFO stage which i call "Galactic Age".

=Tribal Stage=

Prehistoric


As you can see Prehistoric still has the Ocean tribe since all tribes started from the ocean tribe.

Hunting


Here is a Prehistoric River Tribe Naucean chasing after a leptikdillo, a small hopping insectivore who are abundant in the river basin. As you can see this is before they used clothing or ornamental items. But unlike the Ocean tribe who is also naked these guys walk on land as well as swim in the river. It turns out they can run quite fast of their "fleet" and can grab prey such as the leptikdillo with its oral tentacles quite easily since it had so much of a reach as well as their necks.

Stone Age
Then in Stone Age the tribes split off thus the first River Tribe. This shows a Shaman with a staff but the warriors pretty much just had wooden clubs and threw rocks at each other.

Shaman


Here is a tribal phase of a new creature i made. I think this will be my first creature unless i can think of a better one.

Note: The patterns on him are painted on. They are not his natural skin coloring. They are suppose to add the sense of culture and mysticism to him.

Religion


This is Naucean the Creator Goddess. She is like Gaia or Mother Earth on the planet. She is all things and balances nature and the ecosystem. As you can see she is holding Au (the small dwarf star) and the Blue Super Giant in the other hand, which both warm the planet. In the other 2 tentacles she is holding the orbiting moons Sina and Sirenia. And the last 2 tentacles are out like a balance showing the balance as well as open for a hugging embrace.

Nesting


Here is a Naucean nest with 2 babies. The babies are a lighter blue than the adults and can swim after birth. But since they live on land mostly it takes them many months to learn to walk and do not leave the nest until they can walk properly. However adults do carry them around in their lower pseudo-mandible at time. They have 1 to 4 offspring at a time. The parent take care of them until they are old enough to walk. At that stage the older grandparents of the tribe take care of the young one not old enough to hunt or gather. Play is an important part of a young Naucean's life. Durring this stage the young ones play hunting games wrestle and swim. They also learn how to use their 6 tentacles. Like a baby elephant's trunk the Naucen must learn how to manipulate these strange limbs. Once mastered they can do very complex actions where each arm can do a separate task. This is important during the hunt when you need to focus on tracking prey and not worrying about your limbs.

As you can see the parent is wearing Floots (flipper boots) which protect the flippers from being cut on sharp rocks. The tail and oral tentacles have bronze rings which have tribal, religious and family symbols. Lastly they have the neck poncho with their tribes colors on it. This is important to show tribe spirit and unity within the tribe. You may also notice that the body has no clothing. This is because unlike humans they need to water down their body frequently and only wear clothing either as decorative like the rings or poncho or protection as in armor during war or the floot to walk around in. Nauceans also do not have external genitalia thus they do not feel ashamed of being naked. However they do feel modest when such organs are open for urination, defication and copulation.

Swimming


Here is a drawing showing how they swim with their "floots". As you can compare with the skeleton drawing. When they walk on land they are actually walking on their knuckles. When extended all the way out i makes a flipper. The floots work in that they have padding from the knuckle down the front. While walking its usually up like a fist. This curing the toes backward (up and back). You can see how this works by using you own hand. When in a fist its like hand cured up and then when you extent your and that is like them in flipper mode. Now imagine the floot as like a glove. Except the sole of the show is from you knuckles to the tip of your fingers on the out side of your hand.

If the floot was not on it would worth the same with both bones on either side of the foot (you pointer and pinky without any of the other fingers) and a webbing of skin in bettween thats normal curled up. The bottom side also has a hard class just like the bottom of your foot. They cannot bend it forward past that point without breaking their feet fromthe weight.

Diet


Here are diffrent animals and plants that the Nauceans eat. The large animal is like our pigs and the bird-like creature is like our chickens. the rest are wild creatures from the river whle those two are domesticated. The plants are various fruit, roots, veggies, grains, eggs, berrys and nuts. I have no names yet but i tried to keep them all look exotic while still from the same planet in the river region.

Copper Age


By the Copper age things like weaving and copper tools and weapons started. This shows a spear. They also have slings and harpoons. This is when the first domestication of animals and plants happend

Bronze Age
By the Bronze age they have bronze tools and weapons as well as all the other stuff i have been posting from this age.

Tribes


Here are just 4 of the many tribes that live on Nauceanica. The river tribe is the one i have shown before with their basket homes on stilts in the rivers. The ocean tribe live underwater in coral homes but must come to the surface to breathe or breathe in small bubbles trapped under the dome shaped coral homes. The mountain tribe live high on the tops of the mountains where it snows. Their bodies blend into to the snow well and they live in igloos which are also round. They love the ice and snow and tend to live near melting ice and fish in freezing cold rivers. Luckily their thick blubber protects them in the same way the ocean tribe's blubber. The cave tribe live in the deep water table caverns. They rarely come to the surface and live on the cave fish and mushrooms.

Each tribe have diffrent features. The ocean tribe are the largest and are too big to walk on land. The Mountain Tribe are the smallest and have compact features for working on the icy slopes. Even their 4 eye have become slanted to reduce the glare. However the cave tribe's eye have grown huge to see in the darkness of the caverns. There are some glowing lichen that live within the caves so its is not always dark. They also have some of the beast hearing of all the tribes and the brightest tentacles that not only can change colors but glow.

All tribe originally came from the ocean tribe then all land tribe came from the river tribe. Besides these tribes there are the desert tribe, jungle tribe, forest tribe, swamp tribe and grassland tribe. All tribes are just separate races like human races. Each although separated still can reproduce with each other. It has been known to happen now and then but is not common during the bronze age. It is only until the later more modern eras that mixed races become more common.



Here are 4 more Naucean tribes, grasslands, jungle, swamp and desert. The Grassland Tribe lives on a tall Savannah and have long legs and long necks to look over the grasses. They have very elongated features due to this environment. Also because of being exposed to the sun so much they have darker skin. They must live around the rivers and lakes of the grassland to survive otherwise the heat would dry out their skin.

The Jungle Tribe live in the dense jungles. They are small like Earth's human Pygmies. They are about half the size of a river tribe. They also make their homes in spherical homes high in the canopy of the trees away from any land predators. They also catch rain water in pools high above to stay moist.

The Swamp Tribe are closely related to the river tribe except for their shovel-like snout. Thy use this to dig and shape mud dwellings. These to are spherical upon 4 stilts like the basket homes. Except rather than reeds they use clay and mud. They also have been known to make dams.

The Desert Tribe are the most extreme of all the tribes. Not only are they an indigo color to fight the harmful UV rays of the desert but they have a shortend snout and scaly skin for water conservation, a tall nostril crest with a thin membrane for easy heatloss. And a smaller body for burrowing in the sand. They make dune homes and tend to come out at night more than the day. This is why they have larger eyes. Although not officially nocturnal they do tend to spend a lot of time at night rather than the midday hot sun. They also live next to rivers, oasises and underground springs. In which they will dig down to to get to the water. These have main similar traits to the other tribes. Fir instance they dig like the Cave Tribe but save water like the grassland tribe but at a more extreme. They also have leathery tentacles that are bland and made for desert use. Their body can use water more efficiently than any other Naucean.

River Tribe Basket House


The Naucean River Tribe live in basket dwellings on the shallows of the rivers. They stand on 4 stilts and a wooden step ladder. On the top is a huge spherical basket supported in the middle by the cental stilts. It has one door an can have windows (none shown here) out of the top is a chimey hole for the cooking fire. The cicular floor is made of wooden planks with fire resistant wood. This structure can also be taken down and floated to a new location. All parts of the structure itself can float. Each house can support 4 to 6 Nauceans.

River Tribe Village


Here is a typical river tribe village. It has a cental meeting hall type building in the middle. Then family dwellings around it and then on the sides are water wheel mills for griding up rice-like grains which grow in the waters under the city. In later developments they gain walls and so on.

Dwellings


Here are 3 examples of the homes of he Naucean tribes. I have shown the basket home before which is the river tribes style of home. I have also changed the mountain tribe's home from an igloo to a yurt style home. Except it is also a sphere like all the others. The bottom half is made of stone while the top half is made of animal skins and wood like an earth yurt. Except this is more spherical. The Ocean tribes bobble home is kelp afloat under the water with the swim bladders of sea creatures that live on their planet. It is also tethered to the floor with very strong kelp fibers. The skin of the bubble is made of the skin of the same sea creature that the swim bladder is from and sewn together with bone toothed needs and kelp fibers.Or thew top it allows fresh air in. However they rarely use fire because it uses up the air and makes it unbreatheable it inside. Thus they must come to the surface to use fire on floating rafts.

As you can see no matter what style all have a thme of a sphere as their house. This is because of the tradtion of the first bubble kelp homes. Sicne the ocean tribe is the first tribe.



Here are 3 Naucean dwellings, swamp, jungle and desert tribe.

The swamp tribe is made from mud and reed bricks and stones. Then dried in the sun and put together. Also branch frame keeps the shape due to such a wet environment. Due to the mud structure they have to be constantly repaired. Luckily the bricks are dipped in tree sap and it drys into a resin. This meas it will be more waterproof this the mud can stay together longer and not just wash way when it rains.

The jungle tribe live mostly in the trees of the jungle they make their homes from branches, leaves and vines. They build them high in the canopy of the trees above most deadly predators. They also collect water in the leaves as it rained for drinking and keeping their skin wet.Thus they do not need to go to the ground hardly at all.

The desert tribe also make mud bricks but they stay together much easier due to the arid environment of the desert. They must also stay by the rivers for the water and typically stay indoors or in the water during the day and then come out at night to work. Thy put it on the cliffs both for dense but for quick access to the water all the time. But due to flooding they do not build on the banks. The cliffs are high enough not to get washed away.

Quillswordsman


Here is a Naucean Bronze Age warrior from the River Tribe. All warriors are females since they are larger and stronger than the males. Their blue wave pattern represent the waves of the river and the green stripe represent the land on either side.

The armor is padded armor from the wool of their domesticated animals (yet to be created). And the leather from hunted creatures (also yet to be created). The plumes on the helm are actually leave from the tree that grow on the banks of the river in which they live.

The Quill Blade is a unique blade in which it can be thrust like a spear or slashed like a sword. It can also be turned over and used like a club since the end is very hard. It also has inbeded at the end a blue Sapphire which is their tribe's sacred gemstone.

Weapons


Quill Blade - Light blade that works like a scimitar or a Katana. It can also be trust like a saber or a spear. On the bottom is a wooden knob that can be used as a club.

Double Bladed Longbow - It works like a typical British Longbow but at the ends it has 2 blades. In which can be used like a double bladed scimitar. Also near the handle are two spikes in which can be trust forward like a quarterstaff.

Oral Tentacle Punching Daggers - Like a punching tagger or knife this is put on the 4 other tentacles without fingers. It is strapped on like a glove. Went all 4 are in action no one can get near the head of the Naucean. They can also jump out at the attacker like squid this stabbing or stashing a foe.

Duel Bladed Snout Axe - Attached to the upper pseudo-mandible this has 2 places on an ax on eather side. They are connected by support to make sure the pseudo-mandible is not crushed upon impact. The throw their heads side to side in a cutting action to slide the sides of an opponent. these are also used for cutting down trees for wood.

Tail Fluke War Flail - Since their tails are extremely powerful for swimming the Nausicans have attached a spiked ball on a rope to make a deadly weapon. They can not only flick it side to side like an ankylosaurus but can flick it over their heads like a scorpions tail. Sadly this is also dangerous to the wearer since it is easy to miss. Only the most trained warrior use these.

Flat Bottomed Potter Bomb - These Flat bottomed pots are fillled with explosive chemicals that explode upon impact. They are flat on the bottom so that can toss with their tails. But they can also sling the around by throwing them like a shotput with their oral tentacles.

Note these are not the most efficient designs for weaponry but they are very exotic and diffrent.

Warriors


Here are just 3 warriors from 3 different tribes, River Tribe, Jungle Tribe and Grassland Tribe. I have already explained the River tribe warrior so i will not go over it again.

Jungle tribe are very small and live in the jungle canopy. These are blowgunner warriors who peak out of the leaves and ambush enemy's. They also double as hunters. They live in the stone age still. They wear green headdresses which also blend into the leaves as well as tradition. They may be small but they can swing fast though the trees by their tentacles to either ambush with poison darts from their blow guns or will jump on the back of the larger Naucean tribes warriors back.

The Grassland tribe are one of the most land based tribes. They do not swim in battle if they can help it. This is because they are heavily armored with bronze plating with spiked horns. They also have punching daggers like the ones described before.Their tactinc is to get close enough to puncture and are armored enough to protect themselves. Their punching daggers are no match for the River tribes padded armor or the Jungle tribes lack of armor. Sadly this make them slow when walking. Which is a shame since without armor their speed is much faster with their long legs. They also tower over all but the ocean Nauceans. And even then the ocean Nauceans do not come on land. Thus are not really a threat. Like the River tribe they also wear "leather floots" except they have the clawed spikes on the front for kicking action. One kick to a Jungle tribe warrior with this weapon and they are dead.

The other major players on land would be the swamp tribe, desert tribe and mountain tribe (since the ocean tribe will not travel on land and the cave tribe are almost never seen above ground.

Music


Here is a Naucean River Tribe Musician. He is playing some sortt of brass Nacean horn. It has valves, keys, holes, sacs and pipes that pop up. I have no idea if this would acually wortk but it sure looks neat. Hope you enjoy this Very Happy

Religion


Here is the High Priest of the Goddess Nauceanica. She is the creator of all things and is why the planet is named after her. She holds out her 6 oral tentacles. Top right holds the home Red Dwarf Star, Au and in the other is the huge Super Giant Star in the neighboring soloar system. Both give their solar rays and give warms to the soloar system and the strange seasons. In each lower oral tentacles she hold s the 2 moon Serina and Sina. And in the middle oral tentacles she hold on the right darkness and all things evil and on the left light and all things good. She holds them out to separate them and keep the balance. Also on the headdress is the holy blue saphire stone with a blue feather which represent the air.

The High Priest is holding red olivenuts which are used for healing, a dead leptikdillo which is an offering to the goddess, incense in a teapot-like object, and is adorned with many tentacles rings. On the neck poncho it has the holy symbol of the goddess which looks like a stream, as opposed to the River tribes poncho which looks lore like waves of the river. On the robe it has swirls which represent the stars and galaxies seen in the sky as well as the swirlling water. They believe that outer space is one big vast black ocean. And when they die they go to these stars in the afterlife ocean.

Naucean temples are separate from the villages or cities and are usually in very rural areas which have a natural beauty about them. They all have complex ponds, fountains and waterways in which reperesent the goddess Nauceanica. There are many fresco paintings about the holy stories as well as many sculptures made of clay which is thought to be special in that it need water to create. The Swamp Tribe infact have an entire clay temple in honoring this magical property of clay.

The high priests also believe they can look into the future my scrying into water. This method is known as "hydromancy" and works like an Oracle. Only the high priest can get visons and they believe these visions are from the goddess herself. Durring the Renaissance the river tribe built a gigantic hydromancy pool in which became one of the 8 wonders of the world.

The Mountain tribe have ice temples and ices sculptures in which they use to depict the stories and they too believe that ice is a holy material just like mud and water and even steam. Also you can imagine hot springs are very holy places and usually become places for temples because of its special nature.

Other Stuff


This picture is in response to peoples questions.

The left picture is to the question if Nauceans can climb ladders. As you can see the desert tribe can climb just fine and keep many tentacles on each rung as well as the main weight on the 2 "fleet". Also the desert Nauceans are smaller. Not as small as the jungle but around the size as the mountain and cave Nacueans and still smaller than the River, Swamp, Ocean and Grassland.

The right picture is showing how well the small Jungle Nauceans can swing through the treetops of the jungle. They use the 2 main tentacles to hold most of the weight then use 2 smaller to support the more developed ones and then the other 2 move to the next spot so the more developed knows where to go next. It's very cool to see as well as how fast they go.

The bottom is a Ocean Tribe Fire Pit. So many asked how they use fire. They float this on the surface while still attaching it to the bottom.These floating fire pits are used for cooking, ceremony and some metallurgy (though not very much since they have to swim with it).

Enjoy and i hope this gives you a better visual than anything that i could describe.

Sports


Here is a picture of Naucean Turnabegga Ball. They throw the root of the turnabegga plant like a football then run around with it trying to get it into a vertical hoop. However they can only toss the turnabegga ball with their tails. It is a very full contact sport and they have huge competions between tribes. This picture however is showing kids of the river tribe playing. You can tell the teams by the color on the bronze tail rings. In this game it is red vs green.

Numbers


Here are the symbols for Naucean numbers. They have base 8 system (Octal). Which means they only count up to 8 rather than like us going up to 10. The reason for this is they only have a total of 8 digits on their hands (2 thumbs and 2 fingers on each of the 2 hands). The symbols also represent body parts. the "S" like symbol represents their oral tentacles. They have 3 on each side of the head. Thus this is why the pattern only goes up to 3. the 4 symbol is a V with 2 notches on it. This represents their hands. The 2 big pars of the V represent their 2 fingers and the 2 notches on either side represent their thumbs. Then the first pattern repeats and combined with the 4 until you reach 8. The * symbol represents each of the main arms on the side of the pseudo-mandible. In bump in the center represent the pseudo-mandible. Thus it looks like a Naucean from the top with both handed oral tentacles sicking out.

Once you get past the first 8 you get to add a place holder. an underline at the bottom represents the one (and repeats once you get to hundreds place and so on). Meanwhile the entire number has a line over to top so you can tell that that is a complete number. so you would have a number like ...

Thousands place (symbol with no underline), Hundreds place (symbol with an underline), Tens place (symbol with no underline), Ones place (symbol with underline) and all 4 of those symbols with an overtop line. And you read from Left to right.

Also like the Romans they have not quite discovered zero.

Reed Ship


Nauceans may be able to swim but they can only carry so much. Thus ships are still needed. They use these reed cargo ships to transport items they normally could not transport from swimming. Trade routes of the River tribe spread to the swamp tribe, ocean tribe and desert tribe (at the delta). They would travel south to the jungle tribe but they do not have a seaport on the coast.

The ship is self is made of woven reed sails similar to the weave used by Earths Hawaiians. The hull itself is also reeds muchlike Earth's Egyptian reedboats. The back is a typical Naucean Basket house converted into a sleeping quarter. Under the wooden deck is a small amount of room for cargo so most must be strapped down on the deck or kept in the sleeping quarters. he masts and bow are made of strong kelp like stalks that the ocean tribe uses on their homes. Its is prefect for masts in that is strong flexible and water proof.

Lystrophant


I have been thinking of this for a long time. What creature would a Naucean need sicne they are built like a raptor or ostrich. I did not want them to ride a creature that looked to much like them. Then i thought what would i need a mount for if they could run preaty fast. Ah they need something for construction. Thus i got the idea of an elephant-like creature i call the lystrophant. "Lystro" means "shovel" in Latin, thus this could shovel dirt and move it as well as carry large loads of lumber in the duel trunks.

These creatures are larger than Earth's elephants. They live on the grasslands of the planet and were first domesticated by the Grassland Tribe. But have spread to other regions like the River tribe. As you can see they eat alot so only a small herd is needed per village. They are mainly used for constriction but have been known to use for war.

Lystrophants are actually quite smart and can learn many commands. A Lystrophant rider i bonded to a calf when just a child and raised together for the rest of their lives. A Naucean family is lucky to have a child bonded to their families lystrophant.

As you can see they have 6 tentacles just like a Nauceans except two of them have formed tusks. These tusk can be used to hold lumber on or uproot trees and dirt or even used in warfare. Lystrophants like water too to cool off but are not used by the ocean tribe because they must have land. The swamp tribe have yet to get Lystrophants because no ship can hold them yet. And cave Nauceans do not have them because it is too small for them to fit.

Mountain Nauceans have tried to raise them but do to the lack of food for them they cannot support them. Desert and jungle tribe however do use them alot. Especially in making their homes atop jungle trees and desert cliffs.

=City Stage=

Qullswordsman


Here is a Dark Age warrior from the River Tribe. The dark ages happend after the fall of the Grassland Empire that once spread all the way South to the Desert, North to the mountains, West to the grasslands and even East to the river. As youcan see the style of Quill blade is similar but is much better and made of iron rather than bronze. It also has protective handle. Floots have also been upgraded with iron plating. There is still padded armor but it is worm under iron plates. The helm too has been upgraded to cover the pseudo-mandible. Also if you notice gloves have caught on to protect their tentacles. The most important feature of this age is the discovery of the iron shell shield. More and more the River Tribe is becoming less aquatic. They still live above the river in their stilt homes over the river but battles are more land based.

Qullswordsman


Here is a typical melee unit of the River Tribe Middle Ages. Due to the ever increasing opposition of more armored Nauceans the river tribe too had to face this. One compromise of weight and protection came with chainmail. Which replaced padded armor still underneed the iron plate armor. Their quill sword have advanced too to become broader and thicker to slice through such armor. Some of the strongest Nauceans fight during this time. Where tentacle muscles bulged.

Not shown here is the armored War Lystrophants and Composite Double Bladed Long Bows. The river tribe are known for their advanced archers who shoot from high atop their river castles. Durring this time advanced siege equipment was developed to take out these castles in the river.

Hand Cannoneer


Here is a Renaissance River Tribe hand cannoneer. As you can see the River tribe were the first to discover gun powder and took the advantage over the other tribes. They also kept up with the armor race in which this shows it has full plate. Sadly this will be all for nothing in the future because as gun powderer gets better the slow armored knight will be obsolete. If you also notice the whole body is covered with metal except for the eyes which have 4 holes and on the top where the nostril is has a grate to breathe through. Also even the 3 main tentacles are covered in chainmail.

Explorer


Sorry this is out of order but this age goes between the Renaissance and Industrial Age of the River Tribe. This is the first time they traveled far far east and discovered a new world. Un-like Earths there were no inhabitants but there were strange and exotic creatures as well as untamed landscapes. After the river tribe found it it became a race for land with the Grassland, Mountain and Desert tribes. By this time the Ocean, Swamp and Jungle Tribes are still to primitive and were used for slave labor by the other tribe. The only exception is the Cave tribe that used slaves for mining but did not have a navy to explore the New World.

This is a typical explorer with a compass in one tentacle and a flint-lock pistol in the other. This is more advance than the hand cannon but is not as advanced as the industrial revolver. Also you might notice that the armor is much lighter than the previous age for better movement and guns were getting better. Thus being slow would not help.

Coins


Here are some coins in which have evolved over the ages. As the ages improve and the higher the cost goes the more advanced the money has gotten. This is money around Imperial Age. If you look carefully you can read the numbers from my Naucean numbers. The coins come in 2 - Bone, 4 - Copper, 8 - Tin, 16 - Bronze, 24 - Iron, 32 - Silver, 64 - Gold. There is also the 80 - Platinum (not shown). Over the ages the material and styles have changed. Also depending upon the leading tribe has changed it too. Sadly by the time of the Nano Age none of these coins are used and all currency is electronic. Thus making these only collectors items.

Cowboy


I know i jumped the Imperial age (Earth's 1500-1700 AD) but had a great idea for this Industrial Age picture.

This picture is the Industial Age River Tribe. As you can see it is very much like America's Cowboys or other Colonies like Australia or South Africa. Durring the previous age they discovered a new contentent and have already started colonization of it. Which are still within the River Tribe Empire.

In his hand is a revolver which is better than the flint lock of the previous age. In the 6 sacks attacked to the tail is ammo and supplies. He also has a quill dagger which is a current version of the Quill blade once used. His hand helps keep the glare hot sun off his eyes and he wears gloves and floots made of a new world beast's hide.

As more and more industrialization comes the more polluted their homelands becomes and they must ever seek out new clean areas to get resources from. This is one of the most destructive times where many creatures become extinct do to over hunting. Also there is talk about anti-slavery of the Ocean, Mud and Jungle Tribes who were enslaved by mass during the Imperial age by the River, Grassland, Cave, Mountain and Desert Tribes.

Slavery


Here is a River Tribe plantation owner in the new world with a Jungle Tribe slave. This is during the Industrial Age but slavery has been going on since the Imperial Age. As you can see this slave is picking the red fang berry shown before in the Naucean food list. These are extremely hard to pick because they berry has a poisonous stinger on the end. Sadly over worked Jungle Tribe slaves die all the time from this berry due to their small size. However their dexterous tentacles are small enough and carefull enough to avoid the stinger alot more than any of the larger Naucean races.

The Jungle Tribe have been shipped by the boat load but not all make it to the new world. Only the deepest Jungle tribes have escaped slavery. But slavery is not forever, for in the future there has been anti-slavery wars which eventually lead to freedom and equal right for all Nauceans.

Steam Engine


Here is a River Tribe Steam Engine from the Industrial Age. These were alot faster than caravans of lystrophants. They like Earth's locomotive ran on steam power. The tracks ran East to West from the River Tribe to the Grassland Tribe and Also North to South from the Mountain Tribe to the Desert Tribe. The Railroad did not get to the jungle tribe until later when it was taken over by the Desert and Grassland Tribes and the Swamp Tribe region was not developed until the River Tribe took over. Also around that time New World was filled with tracks connecting the colonies and later plantation and slavery tribes. By the Atomic Age most lay in ruins due to the devastation. It was not until the reconstruction did any rail roads get put back in but by then it was mostly mag-lev trains.

Pilot


After the Naucean Industrial age is the Flight Age. Unlike Earth the Nauceans did not have a World war. But they did develop air travel. During this mostly peace time planes were developed to move things around faster than boats, lysotrophant pulled cart or even the industrial age's steam machines. But not all time of peace last for long. more and more anti-slavery is becoming prevalent and soon a war over it will be inevitable. Aircraft are still not advanced enough to travel betten the old and new worlds but by the next age they will, which will change things for ever.

Airship


Here is a Flight Age River Tribe Airship. These were used to transport Nauceans and shipments.However it is also equipped with a cannon on a turret on the bottom for defense. There are also small aircraft during this age that i will eventually get to. But i thought you guys would enjoy this Laputa style air ship that the Nauceans use. You can also see the similarities betwen this and the other Bronze Age Reed Ship.

Pterabat Bombs


After the Flight Age tention mounts and the World is thrown in to its first true "world war". But unlike Earth's this is over slavery. The River and Grassland Tribe for the fist time in history have join forces in the idea of anti slavery. But The Desert, Mountain and New World conies do not want anything do do with it. The reason is the Desert Tribe uses them to convert their barren desert into a lush agricultural center, the Mountain tribe use them for plentiful mining and the new colonies use them for plantations. Due to the River and Grassland Colonies separate from their home tribes into the Plantation (River tribe's colony) and Slavery Tribes (Grassland Tribe's colony). For the Slavery tribe would get rich off capturing salves from the ocean, swamp and jungle tribe while the Plantation tribe would get rich of selling plentiful crops off the plantations to the desert and mountain tribe. Also the cave tribe is neutral during this time.

As the War escalates the 2 super powers Grassland and River Tribe create amazing new aircraft, sea craft and ground vehicles. One of the lesser known but very effective weapons is shown here in the "pterabat bombs". Pterabats are nocturnal desert creatures who roost in caves and under the bootom of Desert Tribe sphere homes. Taking advantage of this behavioral trait the River Nauceans developed the "pterabat bomb". This bomb drops out of their bombers and opens up its parachute. Once open the compartments slide out with sleeping pterabats on them tied to thin strings. One awake they see a roost because its day. Attached to them is a timed explosive that when they break the thin string activates it for a limited time. Enough so that the bats can find roosts all over the Desert tribes city. And then when the timers run out ... BOOM! Sphere homes bust into flames and the cities are inflamed.

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On a side note America during World War II developed this same method with Mexican Freetail Bats with Naplam attached to them to drop over Japan. This project did not get to be applied in the war due to the Atom Bomb which made this very effective method obsolete.

Naucean Geneticist


In the Galaxtic Age the Nauceans are the best geneticists in galaxy. Thus creating all the other creatures i have been drawing in their test labs.

The Nauceans once at the UFO stage are a peaceful race. They have had too many wars and now embraced science and seek knolledge. In short the Nauceans ultimately would rather be in the lab splicing genes rather than taking over the galaxy. However they are not pushovers either. Become their enemy and they will turn you into a newt Or at least give you the deadly newtpox!

Genocide Plague


Here is a Cave Tribe Genocide Plague Victim. Durring the Biotech Age the Desert Tribe unleashed a plague specifically targeted towards the Cave tribe which completely wiped them out. This allowed for the capture of the cave tribes mines for the desert tribe and angered the Mountain, River and Grassland Tribes. Unfortunately the Mountain tribe was close enough related to kill of half of the population as well as a 4th of the Grassland River and Swamp races. The Ocean, Desert and Jungle were all do diffrent to be effected by the plague except for rare circumstances.

This race specific plague caused huge boils, vomiting, running nose, blindness, starvation, raw flippers, trouble breathing, the body eating itself from the inside, internal hemeraging and diarrhea. If they were not killed in the first concentrated exposer they were killed with long painful suffering. It is airborn and spread to the other tribe mentioned before quickly. This meant an easy take over of the Desert tribe without the help of the River and Grassland tribe which were in a panic that they got effected too.

Naucean Android


Here is a Naucean Android from the UFO age. These Androids can do most of the functions a Naucean can do. They can walk, use tentacles and even swim by unfolding their flippers on the back of the foot and using their dolphin-like tails just as a real Naucean would. The difference is they are much stronger, faster and smarter than a Naucean and are used for manual labor, cleaning, helping the young, old and sick, as well as being used in war. However the war-bots are a bit more equipped with war gear than these. Like all robots they must follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics;

1. A robot may not harm a Naucean being, or, through inaction, allow a Naucean being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by Naucean beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

As you can see these are the perfect obedient servants for the Nauceans ... or so they think.

Nano Age
=UFO Stage=

Abduction


In the Galaxtic Age the Nauceans visit the Kazea's planet during their Modern Age and abduct their animals for genetic research and their own zoo planets. They do not bother the Kazea because they are sentient but it the Kazean's now develop conspiracy nuts saying their are UFOs, while the Kazean governments deny any such thing exists. The Nauceans hope that someday they will be advanced enough to become allies. However until then they plan to prod and probe their livestock, as seen in the picture above where they are abducting an Imizin.

Crop Triangles


Here is you surprise huggkruka. :) (I was not sure if you had crops or not so i made field of those green leafy things you had on your food chart).

The Nauceans are taking samples of Kazean crops which leave their famous River Tribe symbol (the one thats on their poncho) of triangles in a line representing the river. However the Kazea do not know this and call them "Crop Triangles" thus bringing another piece to their UFO phenomenon.