Creature:Vanara

Origins
The Vanara were never supposed to exist and indeed their entire existence was an accident. They were created by a mad scientist who wished to defy death. Abducting children from other worlds he killed them by flooding their bodies with radiation and then repaired their bodies with cybernetics and genetically modified planet symbioses before attempting to summon their souls back into their newly repaired forms. It worked but the children in question were left with grotesquely misshapen bodies, strange psychic powers, and extreme mental instability. Reveling in what is work had accomplished the Prerunner scientist extracted their DNA and infused into other cadavers to resurrect them. This worked as well but those resurrected displayed no signs of the horrific mutations the children had received. However, when those resurrected had children of their own these children were born as grotesque mutants same as the original children had become.

The Prerunner nobility was not impressed and demanded the scientist lock away his creations. They quickly changed their tune though when the Multus Esse went to war with them. The children were taken, further modified, and given weapons. Their job was to infiltrate Multus Esse communities. This backfired spectacularly when the Multus showed compassion to the children that they had never known under the Prerunners. The children thus sided with the Multus and then proceeded to infiltrate and slaughter the Prerunners in vengeance for the abuse they had suffered.

After the war was over and the Prerunners all either destroyed or exiled, the Multus took the children and modified them to cure them of their deformities and suppress their mental sickness. They still remained drastically mutated though and thus the Vanara race was born.

Biology
Vanara biology is something that defies most forms of conventional science, they are plant based creatures with a combination of biological and metallic tissues, though like animals they gain nutrition from eating and have two sexes with each individual being of a single sex. Like planets they sustain themselves through a photosynthesis-like process, as well as eating, but use ionizing radiation instead of light. Vanara are liquivores, meaning that they use digestive enzymes to liquefy the insides of their prey and then suck it up.

All Vanara are innately psychic creatures with most having telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Combining these psychic abilities with their radioactive biology allows the Vanara to do things like create electromagnetic shields around themselves, generate charged particle beams, and create a personal radar. They posses incredible regenerative abilities with only a direct shot to their nuclear core (located in the center of the chest), its regulation system (located in the head), or decapitation being able to kill them. However, Vanara have a major vulnerable point, their horns are key to controlling their psychic powers and they will go into a coma if they are broken and remain in such a state until they regrow.

While Vanara can reproduce sexually they can also reproduce by infecting other races with what is called the insurrection virus. When infected with this virus any children the infected has will be born as Vanara hybrids. The insurrection virus also allows the Vanara to combine their genes with beings of an otherwise irreconcilable biology and have children.

Behavior
Vanara can alter their very minds in much the same way they can alter their bodies. Instead of transforming into a more bestial form though they can switch between casual thinking that is based off cause and effect to synchronic thinking based off meaningful coincidence. This allows them to do such things as defy predictive modeling and throw off attempts to figure out what they will do next, but also makes them very erratic, chaotic, and eccentric beings in the eyes of others.

On a very fundamental psychological level the Vanara are cursed beings, for each Vanara is possessed of a voice seated deep within their DNA that seeks to drive them to destroy and dominate all other non-Vanara. While normally this voice can be resisted it gets stronger as tension within a Vanara's psyche builds up and given the right trigger (a traumatizing event for instance) can take control and drive the Vanara into a homicidal fury where they lash out indiscriminately at the world around them. Thus the Vanara must release tension on a regular basis. However, as a race of living weapons made for war violence is their only option for reducing the control of the voice. Thus they frequently engage in activities such as hunting, boxing, fencing, etc.

Socioculture
The Vanara are mostly organized into clans and sub-clans that they call Broods and Clutches respectively. Their broods live a nomadic lifestyle aboard vast world ships wondering from planet to planet to gather resources from, often times siphoning the planet of all raw materials (so long as no life inhabits it). They are also a fearsome and war-like people with every member being taught how to fight and kill from the moment they are able to ride and shoot. Unlike many warrior societies the Vanara prefer ranged and mounted combat over melee combat. Where as in the old days they would employ bows and beasts, but now a days they make use of railguns and biomechanical mecha.

The use of the mecha is very ingrained into Vanara culture with a Vanara not in possession of mecha often being seen as half and Vanara where as one with a mecha is seen as twice a Vanara. These mecha can range from simple, small speeder mecha, large armored combat mecha, suits of power armor, and land aerospace mecha. The greatest warriors pilot either titan class mecha or not even a mecha at all, instead riding the fearsome Precore Dragons the Vanara live alongside. These mecha are considered to have spirits of their own and are very much treated and tended to as if they are living beings.

Having once been exiled from their homelands and forced into a nomadic lifestyle the Vanara culture have developed a sense of longing to return to the lands they once called home. Even with their homeworld of Alastor having been returned to them these themes still permeate their music, poetry, and literature. Other things to note is that the Vanara are a rather free spirited people, driven by their creativity and passion. The word in their language for this is Terusk, described by them as "the roar of a dragon soaring high, knowing that it can go where it pleases and nothing can contain it."

The Vanara all practice a shamanistic and animistic religion known as Drakenism. Drakenism is shared between the Vanara and various other nomadic peoples and centers around the worship of Kiradonel the supreme god of the sky and the heavens. Opposite to him is Githordra the vile god of the underworld. Below Kiradonel are the five dragon gods of the earth Byaku (god of the sun and sand), Orchissis (goddess of the rivers and lakes, and of ice), Arata (goddess of earth and poison), Ava (goddess of the mountains and lightning), and Jura (god of the forests and fire).

The Vanara can be broadly divided into two groups, the Attero Dominatus Horde of the former Drakodominatus Tyranny Territories and the Vanara Remnants of western Mirus.

Terminology

 * Young Vanara - A Whelp
 * Female Vanara - A Queen
 * Male Vanara - A Bull
 * Collective Noun - A Vector
 * Collateral adjective - Vanaran

Alternate Universe Vanara
Universe P Vanara=

Universe S Vanara are much taller and stronger then their Onuris Universe counterparts, but just as skilled with the One Powers of Accel Space. While they lack sadistic tendencies they are far more aggressive and territorial. Lead by their Empress Zuki they have become fearsome conquerors who now hold Hegemony over most of the Mirus Galaxy. Despite being conquerors they are far from despots and let their none rebellious vassals pretty much rule themselves as long as they keep internal order. However, they are much less selective about who they will ritualistically sacrifice to their gods, and any prisoner of war will do.


 * The Universe S Vanara models were Vanara recreations made by for the Community Recreation Project. Gorzill latter decided to use the model as an alternate universe version of the Vanara.

Universe M Vanara=

Universe M Vanara are similar in many ways to their Onuris universe counterparts, at least in terms of physiology. In terms of sociopolitical standing things are very different. These Vanara were almost driven to extinction by the Scelus, until the forces of the Universe M Ugandalorians drove back the assimilants and the Universe M Vanara joined the newly forming Ugandalorian Empire. Having a significantly stronger wanderlust then Onuris Vanara, M Vanara frequently work as explorers, traders, and privateers for their Mendel masters who they see as their saviors from a hostile universe and are undyingly loyal to.

Quotes from others

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"When I first encountered the Vanara, I thought them savage and destructive. But now, having fought alongside them, and seen their culture, I see they are a group worthy of respect and honor, more so then most others."

"For all its laws and energies and materials, so predictable yet so chaotic, the beings born of this three-dimensional space continue to defy expectation. Such potent defiance is to be made useful in achieving Symmetry, shaped and nurtured like seeds in the rich soil of reality to become precise needles in weaving the final Pattern."

Trivia

 * Theme -
 * Vanara are based off Godzilla Earth from the Anime Godzilla movies, Diclonius from Elfen Lied, the Vasari from Sins of a Solar Empire, and the Mongols.
 * With Gorzill shifting the focus of his fiction to be very gothic horror themed the Vanara are made to serve as the Frankenstein's Monsters of his fiction.