Creature:Pallan

''"come my brothers and sisters, the great enemy is waiting..." Leader-Hunter Balrac''

Overview
The Pallan empire are an old warrior-race of sentient beings that inhabit various parts of the Galaxy. They claim they were created by an ancient alien race called "The Ancients" to fight the Grox, this theory is being questioned by most of the other races in the Galaxy. However they do possess highly advanced technology which was last see in use many thousends of years ago.

History
It is said, in ancient texts, that two mightly empires went to war over the Galaxy's core. they were called the Red people of iron (most likely the Grox) and the Ancients (no body knows who they are exactly) To win the war the red people created ugly beasts to fight for them, The ancients realised they could not fight these monsters so they set to work. The head scienctist at the time was sent on a long jorney around the Galaxy to collect DNA from every warrior race, predator, beast and even some of the smarter races to create a warrior to fight the red people. He was sucessful and the first Pallan was born. The red people suddenly found themselves thrown back and beaten by a army of large warriors clad in the latest armour, there were very few but they were elite and fearless. Now the war grinded into a stalemate, the ancients could not let the red people take the core and improved their efforts. Then, after 60 years of war the red people did something. It is not known what they did, but it was something so catastropic the ancient one's empire fell to bits within weeks and the red people claimed victory over the galaxy core. But to their suprise the Pallan continued to fight, even without their masters and the red people encountered stiff resistance for many years. They realised the Pallans had been perfect warriors: strong, fearless, clever, brave and most of all, they knew their purpose and that they would die for it. But after another 20 years the last of the Pallans were pushed out of the galaxy's centre and the red people swarmed around it forming a near-impentrable blockade. The pallans, now few in number and ruined retreated into various places of the galaxy to re-build themselves and re-arm.

The Pallan's continue their war to this day and their empire has grown in size, yet they remian a shady race, appearing and disappearing like ghosts levaing their victims in many pieces. They call it "The Eternal War" or "The mighty Hunt" and are recongised as a very powerful galactic power to this day.

Path of the Warrior
Almost every Pallan is a warrior, each is created in DNA contractors and made from the DNA of a male and a female. When the youngling reaches the age of 5 they begin warrior training and become an Acolyte, they then train for another 10 years and after Trail of Combat they become a offical Warrior. The warrior may choose to become a Hunter, Seeker or an Executor. After that they climb the ranks until they reach the rank of Veteran and they do Trail of the mind and then continue to climb the ranks until they reach Commander and they do another Trail, Trail of Death. The Final rank, High Commander can only be achived by completing the final trial, Trail of The Ancients. All of these trials are extremely dangerous and many have died trying to complete them. After 10 years as a High commander they may choose to retire, other than that death is the only way out of the Pallan Military.

Military Organisation
Before a warriors personal name comes the rank and what warrior varient he/she is (e.g. Brother-Hunter Vahal or Leader-Seeker Vemish) Firstly is the warrior's Rank, Pallan Military ranks in order starting from the lowest:


 * Acolyte- A trainee/cadet, they only fight under extreme circumstances.
 * Brother/Sister- They take up the vast majority of the Pallan Military, each one is a elite warrior caplable of taking down a foe that is much stronger and bigger.
 * Leader- A Sargeant of The Pallan Military, they lead squads of the same type of warrior of them. (a Leader-hunter would only lead a squad of hunters)
 * Great Warrior- Stronger then most because of the life of warfare.
 * Veteran- These warriors have seen many battles and fought many foes, they often operate in specialist squads.
 * Leader Veteran- Leaders of the veteran squads.
 * Lessar Commander- They often relay the high commander's orders to the troops, although they do often fight with a veteran squad.
 * High Commander- The supreme commander of a Pallan army, very few ever reach this position, High commanders march into battle with a squad of handpicked veterans who are usually friends or other warriors with similair DNA.

Warrior Varients

 * Hunter- The most common of the warrior varients, they fill most battlefield roles and can be eqquiped with a variety of equipment and weapons of war.
 * Seeker- They are the assassins of the Pallan Military and operate alot behind enemy lines before a battle and once the battle begins they cause as much damage as possible.
 * Executor- Most Pallans favour stealth and agilty but Executors come eqquiped with alot more armour and firepower, carrying the heavy guns of the army that are not put onto vechiles.

Biology
The Pallans are tall beings with alot of muscle and are very intelligent, they are surprisingly fast for their size. When The Ancient ones created the Pallans to be the perfect warriors they knew exactly what they were doing:


 * 1) They are immune to most posions found near the galactic core and a few on the galaxy arms.
 * 2) There skin can heal minor injuries quickly, the process of healing major injuires is slightly quicker.
 * 3) Pallans do not tire easily.
 * 4) if no other weapon is around they will use their tusks, claws, teeth and feet.
 * 5) Intelligent beings.
 * 6) each one has an ancient bit of bio-technology fixed into their brain, all are born with it. It appears to improve thinking and reflexes.
 * 7) They do not forget their purpose.

Technology
The technology of the Pallans is of ancient design, gifted to them by the ancient ones. But most of all they pride themselves in their weapons of war, especaily their battle armour.

Battle armour
The battle armour of any Pallan warrior, using advanced DNA cntrol technology, is finely tuned to only activate when he is present. so a warrior may pass his armour down to his genetic "son" (Pallans reproduce using DNA contractors and the DNA of one female and one male) but it may not be used by another Pallan or another species. This also means he/she can issue commands to the battle armour (such as activate the cloaking device)via brainwaves.

A Hunter would come equipped with: a cloaking device, short-range radio, small sheild generator, handheld scanner, thermal vision, night vision, sleeping pills (to drug an enemy if the high commander wishes for him to be captured), a mini flamethrower, radar jammer.

Culture
The Pallans are a warrior race that follow a strict code of honour in battle, however it does imply that you remove the head of a worthy opponent and keep it on a large hook on your belt. Every Pallan is loyal to their Emperor, reguardless of what he does or his style of ruleing.

Cyniz, homeworld of the Pallans
Cyniz is the homeworld of the Pallans because it was where the first Pallan was created in the labs of the ancient ones. The loctaion of Cyniz was deleted from records when the ancient ones lost the war with the red people, It is known as the lost planet. Although, it is rumored that the last of the ancient ones still live their and that they are prepearing a device to defeat the grox once and for all...

Alien Races
When the Pallans come across a new alien race they scan the being, buildings, vechiles, spacecraft (if it has any) and anything else that might be useful. Then they decide what to do with it: if the new race could somehow ally with the Grox then it is destroyed, this they follow a similair tradition to Pallan culture they may be allied but most are left to follow their own path of choice.

The Pallans always have a difficult relationship with the followers of spode because they believe spode to be one of the few remaining ancient ones, and every time they tell spode's followers that they end up be screamed at and this on more than one occasion led to war. Because of this spode's followers know them as "The Heretics".

Allied Alien races
No offical races so far...

Alien races currently under observation
No offical races so far...

Alien races that have declared war or are on the brink of war
The Grox

(if you wish to put your race in one of these catagories then let me know.)