Creature:Acoyes

The Acoyes are a race of tusked pacifists formerly from the planet Acov, however their homeworld was destroyed when a massive asteroid collided with the planet, forcing the Acoyes to evacuate and killing nearly all of their kind. Acoyes are proud and peaceful people and violence is a rarity in their society as they maintain strong pacifist beliefs.

Biology
Acoyes are tall humanoids with skin colors ranging from light green to dark brown. At sexual maturity Acoyes begin to develop tusks. They have strong and flexible muscle and bone structures allowing them to life objects nearly three times their mass, along with having powerful stamina allowing them to run long distances effortlessly.

Acoyes females have birthrates of around 1 child per year, however a growing population of Acoyes are being infected by a virus that renders the victim sterile, which is now becoming a serious possible issue for the continuation of the species.

Culture
The destruction of their homeworld was a great loss to the Acoyes as nearly all of their cultural artifacts and history were lost in the cataclysm. Some try to piece together the ancient history of the Acoyes people, but there are entire eras of time lost to the fires.

The majority of Acoyes live now on enormous cityships that travel the Eagula Region and beyond, trading and interacting with other races. Many Acoyes communities decided to settle on other worlds such as Tylon, where they maintain small colonies and try to rebuild their torn civilization.