Creature:Vanara/Biology

Biochemistry
Vanara are boron based lifeforms, as of so far they have discovered no other lifeforms like them. Vanara evolved on a planet with a low atmosphere, low temperature, and bombarded by cosmic rays. Vanara also utilize ammonia in their biochemistry in place of water.

Radioactivity
Vanara naturally produce levels of radiation lethal to most forms of life and need to absorb a certain amount of radiation to survive. They can stave off this need by consuming food and via versa. They can also control their own naturally accruing electromagnetic fields making themselves almost invisible to beings who can detect such things(such as themselves) or raise to a point to cause minor interference to electrical devices within a foot of them.

Circulatory, Respiratory, Endocrine, and Lymphatic
Vanara have a circulatory and respiratory system like most creatures though there are a few specialized adaptations. For one Vanara have one primary heart as well as a smaller secondary heart that kicks in should the first one be taken out. Their lungs are quiet large and very effective, able to filter out most particulates and poisonous gas allowing Vanara breath as long as some oxygen is present. Vanara blood contains a potent necrotoxin and is bluish grey color. They have rather high amounts of adrenaline pumping through system making them seam rather high strung to others, and also have incredibly effective immune systems and suffering from very few diseases.

Most interestingly is that Vanara posses a very large and well devolved Pineal Gland, about the size of a chicken egg, this allows them to control their sleep patterns and circadian rhythm quickly adapting to day and night cycles of different planets without the effects of sleep loss others can experience from the change. Also it allows them to wake almost instantly and without any drowsiness if they feel there is a threat in the area, and prevents them from suffering severely from sleep deprivation.

Integumentary, Skeletal, Muscular, and Nervous
Vanara skin is very effective insulator allowing them to maintain a constant inner body temperature in conditions well below freezing and in equally intense heat. It also has a metallic quality making it something of a weak natural armor. Their skeletons are collapsible allowing them to fit into extremely tight spaces, but are fragile and can be broken significant force and have a very high am mount of fast twitch nerve fibers making them incredibly agile. Vanara claws are sharp and hard enough to scratch diamond if enough pressure is applied and they have a bite force that can exceed a thousand pounds and is full of deadly radioactive bacteria.

Digestive and Urinary
Vanara are omnivores eating both plants and meat, though they can also process minerals especially radioactive ones. Their digestive system is very effective absorbing most of the nutrients and moisture from what they consume. Their urine is extremely concentrated and they can go without eating for a month. However Vanara are predators by nature and prefer meat, especially blood, as a result they tend to prefer their meat extremely rare, as well as gaining somewhat vampiric tendencies. Despite being a Boron and Ammonia based race, Vanara can consume carbon and water based food and drink, however ingesting over 5 cups of pure water has a toxic effect. Though capable of sustaining themselves on very little, they will instinctively gorge themselves when food is plentiful.

Sensory
Vanara have very effective eye sight able to see effectively in extremely low light as well as one the infrared and ultraviolet light spectrum. They can also hear a wide rang of ultra and subsonic sounds as well as feel their very vibrations, this does make them vulnerable to extremely high pitched noises. Their sense of smell is also very potent able to track most targets for miles. They also have potent sense of touch and are even able to detect electromagnetic fields produced by either artificial or living beings. This detection ability also gives them improved orientation and navigation abilities

Stages
Advent Stage= The first stage is a cat like stage. All Vanara are born this way and most stay so through the rest of their lives.

Kaiser Stage= This is the second stage in the Vanara life cycle. Though once very few, more and more are starting to appear. It is not exactly known what causes a Vanara to develop into this stage, but it is believed that finding oneself in a life and death situation may have something to do with it, which would explain the rising number of this stage as the Vanara find themselves dragged into more and more conflict.

Third Stage= There are only six third stage Vanara out there simply referred to as the Six. The resemble humans, but with elongated faces, pointed ears, large cat like eyes, fangs, and retractable claws. Due too the Six having become third stage Vanara because of interference from a being called the Moderator it is believed that the metamorphosis can only be caused by a being of extreme power.

Reproduction
Vanara reproduce sexually between a male and female. When they begin the two individual's nervous systems actually merge resulting in an even more sensual experience then usual as the two actually feel what the other is feeling at the same time. Vanara females can choose whether or not they wish to become pregnant. If not they simply reabsorb the fertilized egg back into their body, once it becomes a fetus however it cannot be reabsorbed.

Viral Symbiosis and Hybridization
Having a boron based biochemistry it should be impossible for Vanara to reproduce with other species, however this not the case. This is due to a latent sexually transmitted virus that lives inside a Vanara. The virus is not harmful and for the most part remains inactive only becoming active when the host is engaged in sexual activity and transmitted to the offspring created. If reproduction is done with another species the virus actually analyses the genetic and biochemical information and can then generate biopolymers that bridge the biochemical and genetic gap between the two species creating viable offspring. The virus itself actually contains Vanara genetic code and infects the non-Vanara partner, it however does them no harm or alter them in anyway, instead if said individual from another species produces offspring with another those offspring will have Vanarine DNA.

Growth and Development
Vanara are born live, when they first come out they are leathery, long limbed, large eyed versions of the first stage Vanara. They quickly develop fur, become more equally portioned, and are slowly weened off their mothers milk. Vanara grow at a rapid rate, for comparison the first year of growth is equivalent to 13 years of human growth, after that things begin to slow down top about four years of human growth in the second year of life, and finally three years of human growth reaching adult hood by the age of three.

Primitive Forms
Vanaris Hecate= A sub species native to Worldship Leviathan, they live in packs near the shore were they scavenge on washed up corpses. They are the most primitive sub species. They are sometimes kept as pets.

Vanaris Helios= Native to Worldship Ziz, they live in small clans on the slopes of the plateau were they feed on small rodents and birds. They are also sometimes kept as pets.

Vanara Atlas= As sub species native to Worldship Behemoth, they live in caves in small family units throughout the great dessert. They are the most intelligent, but not full sapient.

Evolved Forms
Naiyu= The Naiyu are the evolution of the Imperial Vanara after their DNA was fused with that of the Scelus and Zangreal. They are fully capable of controlling the level of radiation they produce as well as enhanced pineal control that allows them to extrude sleep inducing chemicals causing drowsiness in foes or putting them fully to sleep.. They resemble humans, but much slimier and with fanged mouths, retractable claws, cat like ears, hair of a vast range of colors, horns, and eyes with rectangle shaped, glowing white pupils.

Saucerian= Genetically enhanced Vanara designed by the Suacerian Singularity to be a superior species having become a sub-species unto themselves. They are tall, pure white creatures with smooth skin, ribbon-like structures coming from their shoulders, featureless faces, and three red eyes. They are cold beings, known for their detached nature and communicating with telepathy as well as control their radiation output. Extremely cunning and cruel, they naturally believe in their own superiority over others and are programmed to be extreme xenophobes. They posses a deepy, echoing, raspy, growling voice.

Social Structure
Vanara naturally have a social structure based on gender and reproductive potential. Vanara females with the highest reproductive potential tend to occupy higher positions on the social ladder with several females of lesser reproductive potential congregating under them. Sterile females are generally at the bottom of the social ladder, but are often times closer to those of higher reproductive potential as they are less of a threat to their dominance as females of relatively equal reproductive potential tend to be in fierce competition with each other. Males tend not to develop as strong a social structure and are more amiable with each other. However those with the best genetics tend to be more valuable to females as mates and can often times become more powerful.

However this is not a hard and fast rule, with generally ability and competence being more determinate of position of power with fertility being secondary.

Personality
Vanara are by nature an aggressive and assertive with a strong desire to establish dominance and hierarchy in society. However they are far more acknowledging of those higher up on the hierarchy as long as they prove effective and capable. Ineffective and incompetent leaders will quickly find their underlings trying to usurp their position. This is also due to an instinct to seek long term self benefit and gain. Vanara by nature tend to be suspicious and leery around others they have not developed emotional bonds with and so prefer to live in relative isolation with those they have devolved positive emotional bonds with. To those they have negative feelings to and hostile relations they can be exceptionally antagonistic and cruel.

However when Vanara find themselves under the command of a capable leader and trustworthy companions they are incredibly loyal and reliable, sometimes to a fault. This leads to them developing very strong bonds of family and friendship that not even the most lucrative of offers can lure them from. This makes them very reliable and to their friends from other species can come across as almost having split personalities.

Another interesting note is that they cannot stand to be caged, imprisoned Vanara will become extremely restless and agitated, eventually snapping and will throw themselves against containment with little to no regard for their own well being until they escape or are killed unless they are kept sedated. This makes Vanara unsatisfactory slaves as they will eventually revolt and try to kill their enslavers no matter what is done to keep them under control.

Group Mind
All Vanara minds are linked via a group mind. The group mind however does not act as a means of communication, rather it is more like a collective secondary subconscious that helps organize and manipulate the Vanara in subtle not very obvious ways.

Sadistic Side
As above mentioned all Vanara have a sadistic side to them. This incarnates itself in their mind as a voice that constantly tells them to kill and cause as much pain as they can to those around them, the more emotionally unstable the Vanara becomes the louder, more insistent, and persuasive the voice becomes. Under normal circumstances the voice can only give advice, however if the Vanara gives in to it the voice can and will take control.
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Vanara who spend more than a year under the Sadistic Side's control will under go a shocking transformation. First their body will begin to melt and then grow and reform itself into a massive black and green monstrous slug-like creature with black stinger-like spikes painfully rupturing from it's back, masses of useless insectoid limbs, sickly yellowish green blood, and a body covered in red eyes and mouths filled with massive teeth and toothed tongues.

This is rare and the only recorded incidents are Vanara of the Olympians Malicious Olympian Chapter These beats are called Drastrigoi The Chapter actually ravers the Drastrigoi seeing them as the optimum form for destruction and their own sadism incarnate, the leader of the Olympians Malicious himself is one who has managed to maintain his consciousness.

Berserkerisim
Separate from the Sadistic Side is the tendency for the Vanara to go berserk. This happens when the Vanara has been pushed to the emotional edge in combat causing them to fly into a combat frenzy in which they will use whatever weapons they have at their disposal. Even more disturbingly they developed and apatite for the flesh and blood of their foes and Vanara who go berserk can be seen licking blood from their hands and will often go for their enemies throat with their jaws. Even more noticeably is that their eyes will develop a red glow. Once the enemy forces are slaughtered the Vanara will almost instantly snap out of it. Interestingly enough the Sadistic Side has a much harder time controlling a berserk Vanara.