Creature:€ttrech Empire

Creature
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The Ettrechians are a small, centaurlike species, not unlike the screeble. They come from the planet of €ttre, but have established colonies in the next 20 solarsystems. Their species started it's life as a small microbe, preying on bacteria, as it continued it's evolution, it switched it's claw-like mouth for a proboscis. It then grew fins, allowing it to swim even faster. As it grew bigger it grew primitive limbs on the front. In the beginning, it's fins sat on these limbs, but the edge grew sharper, the fins moved backwards, and all of a sudden it had redeveloped it's claw-mouth, just in a bigger scale. It kept developing, grew two extra sets of limbs, grew fins on them. A few million years passed. They grew feet on their newest limbs. They could walk up on the dry earth. The only other species there were giant rat like creatures that, despite their size, were harmless herbivores, sluglike omnivoric creatures, small bird-like predators(Quiggen). The first Ettrechian to walk up on land was quickley eaten by a Quiggen. The rest of them ran away instantly. One million years later they grew wings too, taking the fight to the their predators. They also got a new kind of mouth (Omnivoric). The Quiggen was rapidly extinct and they had to find a new food source. They split into two groups, one, the Splerr went into the ocean and became a waterdwelling species. The other group grew hands on their front limbs, where they previously had spikes. They began growing bigger brains. Soon they bonded together and started small tribes.

Tribal and Civilization
They started tribes all over the world. They learned how to farm and therefore they got a virtually endless supply of food. They learned how to dance and forged other tribes into theirs. They quickly became a peaceful society. And so, they went into civilization stage. They built big cities out of the two most common metals on the planet, a hard, silvery material and a glass-like substance with 99% transparency. They built a small army, mostly to protect themselves. It consisted mostly of see-trough planes. Finally, they united all of their planet under The €TTRECH Union. A scientist later built the Cloner, a primitive genechanging device. An accident with the device caused all of them to mutate into smaller forms, meaning the 2 meter long species shrunk into 1 meter equillavents. This caused a massive rebuilding of their society. The genechanging device was destroyed, but not before the scientist responsible genetically changed the giant rats into smaller, friendlier creatures they could easily domesticate.

Space
Soon they began building a spaceship, since they had depleted all the Schrooka (the glasslike metal) they needed to build their spaceships in an mix between Coorga(very strong), Schrooka and Meyyga(Used in their buildings). This mix proved very strong and they used up the last Schrooka for the ship. The ship looked remarkably similar to the Scimitar (Star Wars-Google it!). They went out into space and found more Schrooka on the second planet in their solarsystem. They terraformed it and started colonies there. The Schrooka problem was solved, but 10 years later they were done on Emoo (The new planet) and returned home. Upon their arrival they found out about a new device, the replicator, capable of turning materials into other materials. They had an endless supply of Schrooka. They had also built the subspace communicator, capable of sending digital signals across the galaxy in a matter of seconds. The UFO set out once again and terraformed the rest of the solarsystem, including the two moons of €ttre. A few years later they developed the interstellar drive, based on their subspace communicator. They set out to colonize the rest of the galaxy.

The Empire
They found intelligent life in their neighbour solarsystem, the people of Völlm(see sporepedia). Together, they formed the €ttrech Empire (The Völlm did'nt really care). The Empire currently stretches across 20 solarsystems. They are in war with the Amyng (see sporepedia), a war they are currently winning.

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