Creature:Vhalslask

Vhalslasks are a race of interstellar travelers who lead a shamanistic religious culture. Their two mouths (one outer carnivorous mandible and one inner set of feeding tentacles) are protected by six thick, prehensile tentacles.

Statistics
Species Nicknames: Squidfaces Home Planet: Dosganna Species Type: Warm-blooded Terrestrial Organism Lifestyle: Social Hunter/Gatherer "Space-Shamans" Hunt/Forage Success Rate: 40% Hunt (90% success rate), 60% Forage (96% success rate) Armor: Unspecified Defenses: Unspecified Weapons: Unspecified Tools: Vhalslasks utilize a pair of two-digit hands which rest on an equal number of forearms; however, these forearms fuse at the elbow, giving rise to only a single upper arm section. Unfortunately for them, they have a narrower reach because of this, but they quickly adapted to overtake the mental and physical challenges presented by such an evolution. Method of Eating: Unspecified Reproductive Rate: Sexual maturity is reached after 14 years. Can reproduce at any time of year that they wish to. Gestation: 4.3 months then lays egg. Offspring Incubation: 1.5 months until egg hatches after being laid. Number of Offspring: 1 polyp per birth. Offspring Survival Rate (before age of maturity): 92% -- due to their K-strategist natures, they have been forced to take very good care of their offspring in order to prevent extinction. Near the end of their civilizational era, however, they perfected cloning techniques, which increased survival rates (of clones only) up to around 99.9999999999987%. With this in mind, though, while the technology exists and is available to all Vhalslasks, their shamanistic religious upbringing causes most citizens to choose to return to the planet to come back as potentially something even greater. Important individuals such as ingenious scientists, creative inventors, and the captain of their capital ship, the Dosganna Pride, are always cloned upon demise. Singular/Plural/Possessive: Vhalslask/Vhalslasks/Vhalslaskian

Trivia

 * In-game, Vhalslasks have a surprisingly "cool" animation for their mouth-tentacles, which roll in almost waves together around the mouth in unison.