Creature:Yakhaari (Concept)

== The Yakhaar ==

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Physical

The Yakhaar ((a Yakhaar, some Yakhaar, a Yakhaari building)) have a rather simplistic outside, because through evolution its proved to be good camouflage. Their diet consists of monstly leaves, but they consider spores and mushrooms to be a delicatesse. Their immune system is very advanced, making them immune to most diseases and virusses, and their body naturally regenerates wounds at a fast rate, as long as their brains are not damaged. The brains are positioned right behind their eye, to improve the speed at which they can see things. Their physical weakness is their speedy, they can dodge things very easily, but their small legs are not built for fast travel.

Their eye can see ultraviolet, which is why they prefer to stay at shaded areas. their hearing organs are inside of their mouths, so they have to open their mouth to hear at the maximum capacity. The reason for this, is that there are insects on his homeplanet, which penetrate their victims through openings in the body. In the early fases of evolution they had an ear of their head, but now that its closed, they can only hear loud noises, like vehicles or big creatures approaching.

Yakhaar have an average lifespan of 200 years. Their outerbodies do not "grow old", but their vital organs do. The Yakhaar have two harts, and they use both, although some are known to survive using only one. Yakhaar do not care about their lifespans, but they do care about guarding and taking care of the community (Y'Ghoor).

Social

The Yakhaar are social creatures, the civilians (Y'Trigu) gather all food and materials they find in community depots, and the depot workers (Y'Khoor) then supply the civilian buildings with the needed amount of goods. Yakhaar do not celebrate special days, in fact they count years by 100 days, without counting weeks, and count 100 years to one Alpha. Everyone who has lived through one entire Alpha is considered "adult" and can leave his family house, to start its own. It is considered "normal" for a Yakhaar male to take care of the children, and the female they are from feel no need to take care of them, because there are more men looking for children. Sometimes females do decide to join a family house and take care of the children, but it is not very common. Male Yakhaar have about 30 chidren from their first Aplha to their second Aplha. After that, they are no longer considered child-makers, and thus they stop doing so. Mating is not something desirable for the Yakhaar, due to their body. Yakhaar do not wear clothing, their skin keeps them warm in the winter, and cool in the summer. There are 30 different Yakhaari languages, but they agreed to use one and the same language in the 8th Aplha.

Hiearchy

The Yakhaar do not know of "nations", they live in cities, and keep expanding those, without making "villages" around them. Those cities were founded in the first Aplha, known as Origin Aplha (Alpha Y'Ogier). Each city has a council, consisting of the Yakhaar men who live their second Aplha. The biggest Yakhaari city, Y'Vicci, has a population of 2 million, of which 1000 live their second Alpha, while smaller cities, like Y'Tsufu, have a population of 500.000, of which 50 live their second Alpha. Those men are called Y'Ktulek. Directly below the Y'Ktulek are the Y'Khoor, and below them are the Y'Trigu. Y'Khoor are also the Yakhaari soldiers, although Yakhaar would do nearly anything to prevent war or violence. Their only true enemy was the Gorrig. But the Gorrig were vicious monsters, and they hardly mated. The are now extinct, putting the Yakhaar at the top of the food-chain.

Buildings

The Yakhaar live burrow-like buildings, they build a stone frame, put wood against the sides, and then cover it with a lot of sand and mud. After some time, now buildings can be built on top, forming huge, solid collections of buildings. To make sure you dont have to climb through 20 houses in order to get to your own, each house has its own skybridge leading to the center of the city, which then leads to the borders of the city by long, fortified tunnels. This form of building never changed, and even now, in the 30th Alpha, they continue to use it, although the stone has been replaced by metal, and it is often plastered from the inside, so no sand or dirt can fall into the house.

Vehicles

Yakhaar massively use vehicles, since their legs are incapable of long travel. In the early Aplhas, they mounted fast, friendly creatures, but they were never tamed, and always released in the wild once they did their job. They often come from the woods looking for food, or just some friendly attention, and they are very close to the Yakhaar, even though their intelligence goes no further then a 10 year (= 1000 days) old Yakhaar. But now they use speedy bikes, powered by water.

Homeplanet

The Yakhaari homeplanet is Y'DiOgier (Land of origin), has a dayspan of 30 hours. They planet is covered by plants for one half, and covered by shallow water by the other half. Yet there is a large crater in the shallow seas, that leads to a huge underground waterreservoir. In the water are some rocks, who send emp waves through the crater. And thus, no measurements could be done about how deep it goes. Y'DiOgier is approx. six times as big as the earth, but the planet does not know of any mountains, only lowland (shallow water) and highland (forest).

Yakhaari Space Control

When the Yakhaar decided to launch their first spacecraft, the Yakhaari Space Control was founded. They have the authority of all the Yakhaari cities to colonize new planets, and to represent all of the Yakhaar. The Yakhaar think much alike, so there will be no flaws in the command system, nor will there ever be corruption from the inside. Yet there are rumors of a black faction, inside the Yakhaari Space Control. They are assumed to be Y'Khoor, who believe in a god, or at least a divine being, and the rumors say, that they will rise up to follow it, once it shows itself to the Yakhaar.

The Yakhaari Space Control has about 30 of spaceships under its command. 25 of those are cargoships, but 5 of them are heavy battleships. It has often been suggested that these ships should be converted into cargoships, but the Yakhaari Space Control claims that there are savage creatures in space, who wish to steal Yakhaar goods.

The Yahkaari Space Control is allied to the DUP.

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Yakhaari male

Yakhaari Family House

Yakhaari Small Cargo Ship

Yakhaari body

Battleship by HanianKnight