Creature:Azghora

The Azghora are a now-extinct race of sapients who, despite their vicious physical appearance, wanted nothing more than to find other sapients like themselves out in the universe somewhere to prove to them that they were not alone in the universe, but never got the chance to discover any.

Statistics
Nicknames: Darkworm, Scareface, Fright Homeplanet: Unknown Species Type: Warm-blooded Bipedal Organism Lifestyle: Social Predator Hunt/Forage Success Rate: 100% Hunt (80% success rate) Armor: Azghora possessed no known natural armoring at any stage of life, and did not seem all that interested in its usage, as they were not much of a warring species. Defenses: Azghora had no true physical defenses, which was why they evolved into sapience in the first place. While arms could be used to push away foes or help to crawl or climb away and legs could be used to flee, it was the head-claws that could really do any real defensive damage, by scratching pathetically at a foe. Weapons: The only real tool in an Azghora's arsenal was their set of thin, razor-sharp teeth. These were used mainly in feeding, but could also be used to "bite" a foe and grind apart the extremity that the Azghora had had placed in its gaping maw. While their face is adorned with sharp head-claws, these are used mainly to push food down their jawless throats, although they could be used for offense in dire times. Tools: Azghora had a set of major manipulators - their pair of arms, and an array of minor manipulators - their head-claws which adorned their face. Head-claws were used mainly for feeding and communication, however, and so all holding of objects was delegated to the arms. Method of Eating: Unspecified Reproductive Rate: Unspecified Gestation: Unspecified Number of Offspring: Unspecified Offspring Survival Rate (before age of maturity): Unspecified Singular/Plural/Possessive: Azghora/Azghora/Azghoran

The Science of Star Study
When Azghoran scientists first announced that they had discovered that their blue-white star would one day explode, the Azghoran people were shocked and disheartened. When the scientists thereafter announced that the explosion would hit their fair planet and there was nearly no chance of any organism's survival thereon, the citizens were fearful. Great panic tore through the ranks of the populace like the species had never known before, and fearing their civilization might tear itself apart with this news, the astronomers immediately set to determining how long the star had to live.

The next decade was the most degraded set of time in the existence of their people, having produced a global economic crisis. Nearly the entire world was lowered to the rank of slums, and the once-humble scientists were now considered living in luxury. However, the scientists finally came back with an answer to everyone's lingering question: the Azghora would live for a very long time more, and with the date set for when their star would go supernova, they could plan ahead for when they needed to have found a new system to call home. The people soon calmed down and the world slowly but surely returned to its former glory over the course of the next 160 years.

End of the Azghora
Unfortunately for the Azghoran people, one of the scientists who had studied their system's distant blue-white star apparently made a slight error in their calculations for exactly how long the star had before it would go supernova. This put their ideas off-track, meaning that in the end, the Azghora thought they still had a million years before their star erupted. With the idea that they still had a full million years to prepare and leave their home system, they were caught vastly unawares. Those caught in the explosion were eradicated instantaneously, but those exploring the outer reaches of the star system had a slightly longer time to survive. In the end, all Azghora were killed, leaving behind only a number of their exploration drones and satellites that had not left the system. All remaining evidence of their existence was finally wiped clean when the remnants of the star they idolized so dearly collapsed into a black hole, taking all matter once existing in the system into a singularity.

Proof of Their Existence
While the Azghora were now long gone, they had been sending out exploratory drones for centuries before their sudden extinction, which were sent out in an attempt to discover life on other worlds. There are literally millions of these drones searching the galaxy, and certainly a number of them have discovered life on other worlds. Unfortunately, those who do eventually attempt to return to their home system, only to get collected into the singularity. No known Azghoran probe has been permanently collected so far. However, one day someone might get the idea to keep one of these probes to try and extract as much information about the Azghora as physically possible.