Creature:Nguts

The Nguts (plural: Ngutii) have, for millennia, used their feet and hands interchangeably. This strange behaviour resulted in the Ngutii using their legs as arms and vice versa.

Pre-civilisation
When the Ngutii first made landfall from Planet Chalcy's oceans, they were in fact quadrupedal creatures. Some 106 million years later, the Ngutii gained bipedal locomotion, their front legs having evolved to serve as arms. Early Ngutii adopted a very social approach, probably fuelled by the desire to learn more about other species.

Tribal
As the Ngutii started forming tribes, their world view changed. Faced with the decision of attacking or befriending other tribes, the Ngutii chose the former. This was helped by the fact that the nearest and first rival tribe on Chalcy were friendly to the Ngutii, hence easy prey. Once the Ngutii conquered the 'Brown Village', they steadily moved on to conquer other tribes. The other tribes, having witnessed, to some extent, Ngutian ruthlessness, proved far more difficult to defeat and several Ngutii died as a result.

Civilisation
The Ngutii, having not forgotten their forefathers' great struggles, also were hostile in their treatment to 'outsiders'. Nations strove to gain strategic footholds in the Ngutian economy by obtaining as many spice geysers as possible, often resorting to taking occupied geysers by force. However, as continent after continent fell to the Nguts Nation, the only other nation left, the Blue nation decided to call it a day, surrendering to the inevitable. Thus, the Ngutii managed to unite their planet as one.

The Galaxy
The Ngutii then manufactured the Eta-2 Actis Light Interceptor to take on the stars and the Galaxy. Worshipping the Force, while pledging to defending their home colonies, the Ngutii set forth to move beyond planet Chalcy.

Trivia

 * The Ngutii were actually based on the Star Wars alien species the Dugs.
 * In trying to keep with what Dugs really looked like, the Ngutii were 'downgraded' almost immediately before the Tribal Stage.
 * The Ngutian spaceship, the Eta-2 Actis Light Interceptor, was modelled after the Jedi Interceptor in Star Wars. The reason it was chosen was that the Ngutii had achieved the Knight archetype.