Fiction:Union of Mecholife/Members/Oulani

Oulani are an aquatic species with a gelatinous build and a roughly conical body. Their solid body is in the center, containing the brain and all important organs within a weak shell of silk secreted by the tentacles. THe tentacles themselves are about 2in in diameter and covered from top to bottom in stinging cells. These creatures, though aquatic, can breath air if it is damp enough, but cannot move in a gravitational field without water to support their bodies.

In space and in all of their cities, the Oulani use gravitational manipulation to reduce gravity to the point of letting them swim around through the air. They also pressurize the atmosphere and increase its humidity to an extreme, as they need lots of water to breath properly. However, that's only if they need to interact with species not their own. If left to their own devices, they flood planets and use gravitational manipulation to raise the oceans up higher then they would, making the entire ocean a uniform pressure and temperature (the temp and pressure found at about 25ft below the ocean in a tropical sea). They then build immense coral and composite cities that can be 15 miles tall in some places. They illuminate these oceans to allow for photosynthesis and warm across the entire body.

Despite being 90% water, the Oulani are very intelligent and very aggressive. You wouldn't think of a jelly ball as being aggressive or self-confident, but they are. They hold their pride above their lives, and often get into trouble for it. They are a warrior species and a Chaotic Evil nature make them an unstable species allied only because they are mechanized.