Creature:Dubbya

The Dubbya are strange, sometimes peaceful yet sometimes backstabbing beasts from the planet Vespin II. They are located in the Graxea Galaxy. While they at first may seem friendly, or even pacifistic, they have been known to attack even their closest allies. They will attempt to ally if you provide good missions and good trade. If an empire is too much of a nuisance or threat, they will bore of you and will attempt to kill you. If you are a big empire, though, they will mostly stay on your good side. They sometimes try diplomacy as well, and if you are a true ally of the Dubbya they will fight for you until the very end.

Dubbya Appearance and Biology
The Dubbya Tee Eff are classified as Insolitus Bestia, which translates to "Strange Beast." True to their name, they are one of the odder members of the Spore universe. They are large, fishlike creatures with a single eyestalk, a slightly hunched back, and a long tail. Their body is adorned with lavender stripes and markings. Just like most mammals, the males are bigger than the females. Their hands are like a frog's flippers, their feet are like a sasquatches', and they have two tentacles on their tail. They are mostly quite muscular, but a few overweight specimens have been found. Their internal organs are larger than that of a human's, to make up for their larger size, and more of their skeleton is made of cartilage. This makes them flexible, but weakens their skeleton. Their necks have gill slits, hinting at their former underwater tendencies. They mate for life, and still use external fertilization.

Dubbya History: The Beginning
The Dubbya species began their life as a colony of eukaryotes, which were on a meteor that would later crash into the planet Vespin II. It was a watery planet, almost 80% water, and proved to be a more than adequate home for the eukaryotes. They were small and tentacled, with tiny filtered mouths taking in tons of plant life. They were also quite speedy, evading most predators with relative ease. Their lack of defensive elements caused them a lot of trouble, but eventually the Dubbya grew larger and larger. They even developed a primitive brain.

Dubbya History: Sentience
The Dubbya species walked outside of the water for the first time, washing up onto a small continent. They differed much from their later form, and had to stay near the water in order to reproduce. This did not prevent them, though, from fanning out into the world and socializing with other species. They were new to the world, and still pretty afraid of their surroundings. To cover this up they developed incredible socializing skills, and the more their brains developed the more improved these social skills grew. Eventually, the even managed to befriend a few Rogue creatures. These Rogues were adequate bodyguards, and defended the Dubbya from harm as they obtained more and more allies. Their brain eventually fully developed, and the Dubbya species grew sapient. Their grunting songs grew into a primitive language of grunts and clicks, and they began to grow quite clever. After studying a pile of rocks and sticks, they soon realized how to make fire. Striking a stick onto the pile, a large blaze sprouted. This bonfire would be the start of their tribal livings.

Dubbya History: Tribal Sapience
The three Rogue pets of the Dubbya tribe provided ample amounts of eggs, and watched over the Dubbya young as the adult tribe members went on trips to gather food. The Dubbya themselves began channeling their language into a new music, singing and shaking large, wooden maracas in order to impress other tribes. A religion also began to form when the Dubbya noticed a small monolith, with a picture of a blocky-looking Dubbya on it. They immediately began to wonder who brought this monolith, and crafted imaginative statues of what their creators may have looked like. Their first contact with other tribes usually involved a pleasant gift, a welcome, and a show of some music. Within a few hours of this concert, the other tribe would go from mildly irritated to quite satisfied. There was, however, one exception to this rule. The Lavender tribe was more hostile to the Dubbya than the others were, and before the Dubbya could even ready their maracas and fruit baskets they found themselves under attack.

All three of their bodyguard pets died fending off the savages, and this display of violence forever changed the Dubbya. How dare these strange barbarians invade their peaceful abode and kill their faithful pets? A small cruelty began to form in the Dubbya's guts, and they began harvesting the fruit of the toxic Sylvisteenz bush. The eyeball-shaped fruits of this bush were known to be toxic ever since a tribesman named Tim ate one out of pure curiosity. He barely survived 12 hours of the poison. Now its poison was put to use as it was sent to the Dubbya's Lavender rivals, who ate them and revelled while the Dubbya played cruel music. They camped outside of the town just to watch the barbarians suffer and die. Eventually, though, the Dubbya allied with the remaining tribes of the island and pooled their knowledge together to discover the science of mechanics. They built a primitive vehicle, and over time it eventually developed into a full-on machine.

Dubbya History: Civilized Life
Once the Dubbya obtained new knowledge fromt heir various, they began refining their tribal huts. Small, wooden shacks gave way to larger stone ones, which gave way to more structured homes of steel and wood. This same logic developed their vehicles, which went from simple beast-drawn carriages to speed machines when the engine was developed. The development of gunpowder was the final step between tribal livings and a more civilized life, as it provided the Dubbya with powerful weaponry and awe-inspiring fireworks. Their religion grew as well, and soon proved to be the driving force of the Dubbyan empire. They spread the word of the gods who created them in their image, known as the Precursors, all across the continents of Vespin II. They built statues of the Precursors, wrote holy texts detailing their wars against the Mechanoid Ones, and even constructed magnificent temples. Some nations of the continent were more than open to the idea of the Precursors, and merged with the Dubbya. Others, however, were more hostile and aimed to destroy them.

Immediately the Dubbya sought out one or two good allies, who would protect them from more hostile cultures or provide good trade routes. They eventually found one, a fellow follower of the Precursors, and the two of them set out on a conversion spree. The two of them cut across the two island continents of Vespin II, with the Dubbya eventually taking over almost every city present. In a final frenzy, they created a massive hologram and converted all on the planet. Those whor esisted were killed by the Dubbyan Army, who had grown more brutal in order to provent anybody from walking over them. This sped along their transition from pacifistic wanderers to powerful, even brutal conquererors. Once the whole of Vespin II was under their control, they began to create a spaceship known as the S.S. Hubris.