Creature:Sinchori

The Sinchori are a space-faring sentient species who originate from the planet Vinheria.

Evolutionary Ancestors
To see the Sinchori's evoloutinary relatives, go to Sinchorius Palus

Creatures resembling the modern Sinchori first emerged around 100 million years ago. They were the descendants of omnivorous amphibians. They were smarter than many of the species which they hunted and which ate them, and this superior intelligence allowed their population to rapidly spread across their native continent. Over tens of millions of years they grew even more intelligent, and they changed significantly physically as well. Animal Sinchori lived in packs or herds, which usually lived in one place, although some were migratory. However, around 25 million years ago a worldwide natural disaster (possibly a meteor strike) occurred on Vinheria, and the Sinchori nearly went extinct. Additionally epic creatures began to appear on their continent, and the epics hunted Sinchori (as well as most other creatures). About 1.5 million years ago a species of Sinchori called Sinchorius Nominos began to use their environment to make primitive tools (sticks used as spears, etc.) and basic clothing in harsh weather. Some groups also discovered how to make fire. However the Nominos Sinchori couldn't think creatively very well, and so their technology improved very little. Around three hundred thousand years ago modern Sinchorius Sanus appeared. Unlike the Nominos Sinchori the Sanus Sinchori were very creative and curious, altering their environment to better their living condition, and making more complex tools and clothing. They quickly outperformed all other species of Sinchori, which went extinct. Around nine thousand years ago the Sinchori began to develop a language, which was followed by other elements of a basic society, such as music. The Sinchori began farming, and also started to band together into basic tribes and began to develop concepts of government and laws. Several different Sinchori cultures developed in different regions, and they had separate languages and beliefs. Sinchori also developed a sense of loyalty to the tribe or culture they belonged to. The first Sinchori "nation" was the Kingdom of Jaivon, which was the first time several tribes formed into a central government for mutual benefit, and because of a shared culture. This nation was founded by a Sinchori called Jamon the Great.

Early Civilization
The year this Kingdom was formed is now know as 0 SSC (Sinchori Society Commencement). It is the base year in Sinchori time; one year after the kingdom was founded would be 1 SSC, a year before would be 1 PSC (Pre-Society Commencement). The civilized Sinchori in this Kingdom were also the first group to all wear clothes, for fashion and modesty as well as for practical use. Common clothing was wooden shoulder pads, and a grass covering between their legs. Over the next centuries more Sinchori nations appeared, as well as those of other intelligent species. Little is known about these other nations (whose records, for the most part, were destroyed by time or conquering enemy tribes.) Contemporary Sinchori refer to them by what their national colours are assumed to have been. The Sinchori nations rapidly expanded, using their proximity to the sea for great economic and military advantage. Several other nations were utterly annihilated, including the Brown Kingdom and the Pink Kingdom. As well, the Sinchori allied another species, the Cyanites, some of who's descendants still live on Vinheria today. Through their industriousness and imperialism, the Sinchori soon dominated their continent in terms of technological prowess (they discovered forging metal and black powder, among other things) and economic and military might. Of course, the different Sinchori kingdoms fought against each other too, but eventually they defeated and assimilated their rival species.

Simple Civilization
Over the next few centuries, the Sinchori tribe split into many factions across the continent, and the population skyrocketed. The Sinchori also began advancing technologically. They began making weapons and machines out of forged metal, and built massive castle-like structures out of stone and earth, each controlled by powerful leaders. The different Sinchori castles fought each other for control of farmland, villages and resources outside of their walls. This increase in food supply and technology helped the population grow even more. Although they fought each other, all the different kingdoms of Sinchori gathered together to celebrate the 300th anniversary of their destruction of Lavender Village, their species's defining moment of triumph. When the Sinchori examined the remains of Lavender Village during the ceremony, they discovered ancient drawings of "huts that could move and spit fire", as well as  "great metal villages" larger than a volcano. They also found drawings of "a great fire that could destroy a forest", and a drawing showing that the other drawings had been found inside a  "great metal monster" that had fallen from the sky. Most likely Lavender Village had discovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft, which had contained blueprints of a city, a military vehicle, and nuclear weapons. After carefully examining the pictures, the Sinchori realized they could replicate the powerful machines in the pictures if they continued to work in metal and stone.

Civilization
So the Sinchori began to try and build the machines. One thing they found they were greatly lacking was a fuel for the machines to run on. A Sinchori Healer came up with the idea of putting together plant oil and powdered wood. It made a fuel, although it was very weak. With this new development, steam powered vehicles, explosive arrows, and large cities were quickly made by a coalition of all the Sinchori kingdoms. The Sinchori revamped their stone castles, and replaced them with more modern buildings, metal walls, and roads. Within a decade the Sinchori had built an internal-combustion engine, powered boats, and giant crossbows to mount on their vehicles. However, just when the Sinchori had developed considerable technology the different tribes - who had been close to reuniting - split again and built their own cities and vehicles. This made the different groups very uneasy, as they were all very powerful. The main Sinchori, now called the Aryeak, had a distinct advantage. They had discovered that the Spice that came out of geysers in the ground, which they had previously used as flavoring in food, became a flammable liquid when mixed with water, and was highly explosive when dried into powder. This made their vehicles run far faster and longer when used as fuel, and enabled them to make powerful weapons, such as guns, and artillery weapons they could put on their vehicles. They set up a building over the spice geysers near them, and began harvesting the spice. Unfortunately for the Aryeak, however, the other races of Sinchori noticed the spice collection buildings being built and caught on about the value of the spice near their cities. This started an all out Spice Rush, as the different race-nations tried to claim as many geysers as possible with their vehicles and soldiers. All geysers on the Sinchori's native continent had been tapped into by 1068 SSC. Three years later the Sinchori Spice War started over control of the most productive geysers. The main combatants were the Aryeak Sinchori and the eastern Fijnuz Sinchori. The war resulted in the Fijnuz losing most of their spice geysers to the Aryeak. After the war, most of the Sinchori nations divided into two mega-states, the Chevbeg Nation, led by the Yibnaf Sinchori, and the Nation of Reynaq, led by the Aryeak. They uneasily competed for power and influence in smaller Sinchori countries. By 1100 SSC seven other formerly-tribal species had reached or surpassed the level of technology the Sinchori countries had. The Sinchori nations mostly left the other civilized species alone at this point, although wars and trade unions did occur. As time progressed, however, both SInchori alliances (and some independent Sinchori countries) began capturing other nations to expand their territory. Some countries put up a significant fight, and the Reynaq were almost defeated by a coalition of two non-Sinchori civilizations. The Reynaq also allied several other nations around this period. Some Sinchori nations also began trading with other nations and then purchasing them for huge amounts of money, or converting the nation to the Sinchori's religion, then annexing them. Chevbeg Nation was particularly fond of religious conversions. However, gaining land faster than both Sinchori Alliances combined was the once-insignifigant Jueeu Nation, run by creatures called the Rivvy. The Sinchori and the Rivvy entered a cold war with each other, which they remained locked in for several years. Then, suddenly, the Rivvy attacked Chevbeg Nation. City after city was captured or totally destroyed. The Nation of Reynaq and other Sinchori countries was starting to be affected by the ruthless invasion as well. In 1117 SSC all the Sinchori nations officially reunited into one nation. The Sinchori were once again a single faction, for the first time in over eight hundred years. The Sinchori Nation fought fiercely against the Rivvies, but were still suffering major losses. They were saved from total defeat by their newest technological innovation: the missile. The Sinchori bombarded enemy supply routes with long range missiles, and forced the enemy back. They also used their religious conversion vehicles to torment the citizens of the enemy's cities day and night. By 1150 SSC, all independent nations had been taken over by one side or the other, except for the Sinchori's closest ally, the military Leyume Nation. The Sinchori's tribal allies, the Cyan Village, had formed their own civilization by now, although it was incredibly weak and only survived because of protection and support by the Sinchori. The Leyume Nation helped the Sinchori fight the Rivvies, but their main contribution was supplying food and other supplies to the Sinchori, who had recruited all working citizens into the war effort. Using superior tactics, the Sinchori managed to force the Rivvy back into three cities on their home continent. The Sinchori government was planning to try and demoralize the Rivvy into surrendering without suffering more losses; the Sinchori death toll from the war was already over 20 million. They were planning to terrify the Rivvy's citizens by launching a new weapon: nuclear-armed missiles. The Sinchori had just developed these, and were planning to use one as physiological warfare, as well as to cause great destruction. However, when the government gave the order to launch, the firing crews misinterpreted the launch codes as to destroy all the Rivvy cities. One crewmember realized the mistake as the missile was lifting off, and, in shock, grabbed the outside of the missile while it was launching to try and stop it. He failed at doing so, and was videotaped by Sinchori fighter planes hanging on to the missile until the time of detonation. He received the Sinchori Outstanding Patriotism Award, and he was mentioned in a documentary about the final days of the Global Conflict for Vinheria (what the war was later called). Since the Sinchori had no enemy to fight and had achieved world domination, they initiated a long anticipated systematic genocide of all epic creatures on Vinheria as long-overdue revenge for an epic creature severely damaging the Sinchori population while the Sinchori were creatures. The Sinchori called the attack Operation Epic Kill.

Space
The Sinchori had always been curious about what was beyond their planet. In 1160 SSC the Sinchori had formed the Sinchori Space Administration (SSA) to explore beyond Vinheria's atmosphere, although the SSA only became majorly active in the late 1170s. The administration studied space with terrestrial telescopes, and worked on building space vehicles with their almost unlimited resources. In 1181 the SSA sent an unmanned satellite into orbit. It took several pictures of space and sent them back down to Vinheria. It also gathered other scientific data. While scientists studied the information sent down by the satellite (named Spari ), the SSA decided to build a space ship capable of sending a Sinchori into space to explore. Sinchori Military commander Frez Skee was one of several Sinchori who joined the SSA and trained as Chomon (astronauts). Skee was eveuntally nominated to be the Sinchori's Space Captain after excelling in training, especially strategy, bravery and survival tests. In 1185 the SSA sent Skee into space in a habitable variant of the Spari rocket (Skee was 23 at the time). Skee sucessfully made it into space and conducted his assigned experiments (including collecting a rock from Vinheria's planetary ring), and safely returned to the space center outside Sinchori City. He received a hero's welcome, and met Vininchri Boltul Iories (the leader of the Sinchori in the 1180's) at his mansion. Skee agreed to continue to be the Sinchori's space explorer, and the SSA began to construct an advanced, personal spacecraft for Skee to travel in. Sinchori citizens were so interested in what was beyond their planet, the SSA received several donations from rich Sinchori and suggestions from top scientists. Because of this, they managed to build the spacecraft within two years for a total cost of 1 876 000 Orbucsi (the Sinchori's currency at the time). Skee departed with enough fuel to last for a month in space and was told to explore Vinheria's moons and neighboring planets. Skee visited the two moons of Vinheria (Vinibal and Ivil) and left a life-sized statue of a Sinchori raising the Sinchori flag on each moon. He collected several samples of rock (and air from Vinibal, which has a very thin atmosphere), then set his slow-moving ship on a course towards Vinheria's closest neighbor, the planet Ovhorpa. Upon arrival on Ovhorpa, Skee began traveling across the planet's surface, looking for items of interest. His sensors picked up a small metal structure on the planet, which he investigated. He landed on the planet and examined the structure in a atmospheric protection suit. It was an abandoned building, the Sinchori were apparently not alone in the galaxy. Skee determined the building was at least several centuries old. Inside, he discovered some unusable tools, and also discovered the barely-recognizable hull of a flying vehicle. Skee took the engine and other equipment out of the vehicle and took it with him on his own ship. After a brief examination of the rest of the planet, Skee put another Sinchori monument next to the building, then headed back to Vinheria. When Skee arrived back on the planet, his discoveries caused an uproar of interest. Most Sinchori had always believed there was life somewhere else in the galaxy, but the fact that there was once intelligent life on the planet next to them was incredible. Skee showed his superiors the machinery he had recovered from the planet, as well as pictures he'd taken of the building. The SSA researchers realized that the machinery was not from an aircraft, but a spaceship. The engine was beyond repair or use, but they realized from x-rays of it that it would enable the ship to travel at immense speeds. Fast enough, in fact, to travel to different solar systems in mere hours. Since with the Sinchori's current technology it took several days to reach their nearest planet, they decided to see if they could replicate the engine for use in their own vehicles. It took them three years to successfully replicate the engine, although the Sinchori's version was still significantly weaker than the relic engine once was. The Sinchori outfitted Frez Skee's skip with a SETI tool, and sent him into space to try and find the extraterrestrial civilization which had build the building on Ovhorpa, if they still existed. Skee became the first Sinchori to leave the solar system on the 12th of the month Cedi, 1188 SSC. Once out of the gravitational pull of Vinheria's star, he activated the SETI system and scanned several nearby solar systems within range. Three returned negative SETI results, but the fourth was found to be emitting radio signals. Skee transmitted his findings to the SSA mission control, and was instructed to cautiously approach the solar system. He traveled for eighteen hours towards the solar system, preparing for a potential encounter. Around the time he entered the gravitational pull of the solar system, his ship was intercepted by several spaceships. The Sinchori had discovered another intelligent alien race. Skee managed to open a communications channel with the ships after several failed attempts, and discovered that the ships were run by creatures known as the Duckulon. The Sinchori had equipped Skee's ship with a crude universal language translator before he disembarked on the journey. Skee introduced himself as a member of the Sinchori and that he was from the planet Vinheria. The Duckulons in turn explained that they were scientists who had achieved space travel several hundred years before. They also said they had, in fact, observed the Sinchori during their late time as a tribe. Frez Skee questioned the Duckulon about the galaxy, and discovered there were many more intelligent creatures and an entire galactic community. Skee thanked the Duckulons and returned to Vinheria, where he explained the situation to the Sinchori government and people. The government decided it was essential the Sinchori establish a foothold in the community of empires around them, and began researching to build a colony on a planet near them to begin living in space. In 1189 SSC the Sinchori also held a National Election to replace the current Sinchori Vininchri (leader), Boltul Iories. The plan was to democratically replace Iories with a "Sinchori Emperor to lead our race into the next stage of our history as a glorious space empire", to quote the government announcer who opened the elections. Many political candidates sprung up during the year-long election preparations, promising everything from better public services to the thrill of colonizing space to galactic conquest within ten years. When the elections were held, however, the winner was Amdev Etkah, a former scientist who had turned into a politician. His first act as emperor was to pass the Sinchori Essential Servies Act in the Sinchori Gons (loosely translates as senate). The SES Act made a weekly food and water ration, "practical" clothing, medical care (excluding unnecessary medical care like cosmetic surgery) and housing to any Sinchori who requested it. This was of great benifit to poorer Sinchori, and made Etkah even more popular. Etkah also ordered the construction of an Embassy on the Duckulon planet closest to Vinheria. Building the embassy took three years, and was the first major test of the Sinchori for working across solar systems. The embassy also helped the Sinchori contact other alien species who traveled through the Duckulon planets and establish themselves in the interplanetary community. The Sinchori's next goal was to build a functioning colony on another planet. The Sinchori government gave Frez Skee the assignment of exploring neighboring uninhabited solar systems that could be potential candidates for colonization. The Sinchori military also formed the Sinchori Space Corps. The Space Corps initially consisted of a single starfighter: another modified Spari rocket with high-altitude rockets and other military hardware added to it. On the 2nd of the month Kalani 1193 SSC, Frez Skee discovered the planet Vokihen, which was two solar systems away from Vinheria. It had a thin atmosphere and was rich in minerals and Spice which could easily be mined. The Sinchori government decided this would be a good first colony, and began planning the colony's construction. First, however, a small base was built on Vinheria's moon Vinibal, as a launch point for Sinchori spacecraft traveling outside the solar system. Building the base took eight months, and once it was constructed it took another four years to complete Vokihen Colony across the gulfs of space. In 1198 SSC the Sinchori also entered into an interplanetary trade agreement with the Duckulon and a new ally, a species of  Bards known as the Giklanri. This exposed the Sinchori to products from other planets, and the Sinchori bought several spaceships from the Duckulon, which they used to expand their trade fleet and the Space Corps. The Sinchori Space Marines were also formed to protect Sinchori space transports from attacks by  pirates. In 1200 SSC, major celebrations were held on Vinheria and Vokihen Colony in celebration of the start of what was hailed as "the space century". Several more colonies were built in 1200 SSC and the years after. The Sinchori allied another species of space faring-creatures, and the Sinchori also engaged in their first interplanetary war. This started after Space Captain Frez Skee, in a fit of anger over the Giklanri's aggression towards the Sinchori (the Sinchori's alliance with the Giklanri had deteriorated recently) conducted "live firing exercises" next to the Giklanri's capital city, provoking a counterattack on Sinchori trade spaceships passing through the solar system. This started a war, although the war ended fairly quickly. The Sinchori Space Corps attempted to blockade Giklanri solar systems from receiving interstellar trade, but this wasn't particularly effective because at that time the Space Corps consisted mostly of short-range starfighters which were inefficent at maintaining blockades and were outnumbered two-to-one by the Giklanri space forces. The Sinchori suffered significant casualties during this war, but Sinchori Army troops transported from Vinheria did manage to capture several Giklanri worlds and turn them into new Sinchori colonies. The Sinchori now had about a dozen colonies, although the Sinchori were far from a superpower or even significant influence in their region, because their interstellar economy and military were still quite new and inexperienced. The Sinchori maintained a truce with the Giklanri, and continued trade with the Duckulon. The amount of planets under Sinchori control grew significantly after they developed "self-building" construction technology, with which a ship-sized box could be dropped on a planet, and within a day it would unpack itself and build an instantly inhabitable colony. The Sinchori tried building colonies on civilized planets and controlling the inhabitants using puppet governments, but this was not always successful. This also started a second war with the Giklanri. The Sinchori military was known to sometimes use nuclear weapons to pacify resisting civilizations, which caused outcry among their own citizens. The Giklanri were known for supporting protection of planets and species, and tried to stop the Sinchori from capturing civilized worlds. Amdev Etkah promised to "utterly destory" the Giklanri once and for all, and although this took twelve years and many casualties, as well as several eventually failing cease-fires, the Sinchori forced the Giklanri to surrender by launching a massive invasion of their homeworld, and inherited Giklanri-controlled regions. At this point there was significant political unrest in the Sinchori Empire, as although they now had almost thirty colonies, all of them were governed by Vinherian governors and had no respresentation in Sinchori government. This led to anger in colonies that didn't like the government's policies.

Civil War
Many colonial Sinchori were angry they had no input into the empire's policies, despite being home to most of the population, and many also wanted the empire to stop building new colonies, which would spread the Sinchori population over many sparsely-populated worlds. Also, the natural resources of their colonies were taken for government projects without colonial input, and many colonies had underdeveloped industry and infrastructure. The InterColonial Organization for Recognition (ICOR) was formed in 1226 SSC to organize petitions for change in colonial policy. The government's response was to ignore - and eventually make illegal - the ICOR. In 1230 SSC, a mob of angry citizens and pro-ICOR soldiers seized the Sinchori government building on the colony of Moeles and declared the Sinchori imperial government on Vinheria illegitimate. This sparked a revolt by the Space Corps military bases inside a nearby asteroid belt, who joined with Moeles Colony and formed the Interplanetary Union of Sinchori Republics (IUSR), led by leaders of the ICOR. They declared an official secession from the Sinchori Empire. Vinheria responded by sending a military invasion force to retake Moeles. This aggressive move, however, convinced several more upset colonies to join the IUSR. The invasion force was designed to stop the revolt of one colony, not half a dozen, and retreated to Vinheria after a brief battle with pro-IUSR Reserve soldiers. The IUSR leadership told the Vinherian government they would rejoin the empire if they were given equal representation in the Sinchori imperial government, could elect their own colonial government, and could refuse to continue sending citizens to form new colonies. This was officially sent to Vinheria in a petition called the Freedom Resolutions. The Vinherian government ignored the demands, and declared a state of emergency. The IUSR had elected as their leader a former ICOR leader named Keisei Fleoa, who was well-known for her opposition to the government's aggressive foreign and national policy. Hoping for continued diplomacy, she agreed to meet Emperor Amdev Etkah on a neutral Duckulon planet and said the IUSR was willing to negotiate some aspects of the Freedom Resolutions, and was willing and hoping to rejoin the Empire. Etkah, seeing her movement as a weak but irritating insurrection, said "Some sort of forceful reunification will not be necessary. Without the support of Vinheria, the colonies are nothing. They have no industry beyond raw materials, no structured cities, no political capacity. We wait a month, and your 'government' will have squandered your few resources. Our army will be an army of rescuers to your people, not conquerors." In response, before leaving the meeting, Fleoa told Etkah "Without the colonies, the Sinchori Empire is nothing. Vinheria has a great manufacturing base, but without the colonies where will the supplies come from? Where is the medicine in Vinheria's hospitals supposed to be developed? We will be the rescuers. That is, if we decide to bother rescuing you." The next day, the IUSR and the Sinchori Empire stopped communicating with each other. The Sinchori Empire deployed military units to all colonies remaining under their control. However, the Army Legion sent to the colony of Elat was

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Military
See Sinchori Military

Abilities
Sinchori have fairly powerful natural weapons. The jaw part of their mouth can bite quite hard, and their other weapons are the spikes on their bio-luminescent bulbs and their acid-shooting glands on their knees. They're also capable of punching somewhat with their hands. When creatures, they weren't particularly good at impressing other animals with singing or dancing, and they mainly did such things to socialize with each other instead. Their bio-luminescent bulbs can be consciously turned on or off, and were originally used to locate other Sinchori at night. As their intelligence grew, they were used to communicate in very basic forms. Modern Sinchori mainly use them for socializing. Sinchori can swim fairly well (though not nearly as well as Sinchorius palus) since most Sinchori lived at least relatively near to bodies of water while they were creatures, which they hunted fish in. They aren't born knowing how to swim, buy they learn extremely quickly. They also communicate with their "Cause of Death" organ (see Anatomy) when they are dying, but they can't consciously control this communication.

Anatomy
Probably the thing with the Sinchori most different than other animals is that they don't actually swallow their food permanently. Instead, they crush the food up with their jaw-mouth, and then snakelike nutrient extractors (their herbivore mouths when they were cells) move in and around the food and extract some nutrients while the Sinchori is chewing. The Sinchori then swallows the food into an extremely small stomach/intestine organ directly behind their mouth. The organ absorbs any nutrients the exterior nutrient extractors missed, usually taking a few minutes at most. Then the Sinchori spits the non-nutrient parts of the food out again. Another throat leading further back from the mouth allows the Sinchori to breathe. They drink by inserting their mouths into a liquid body and holding still. Tiny holes in their nutrient extractors suck up the liquid, and filter it. Because of the latter Sinchori can drink filthy water and not get sick, although they don't like to. Because of the lack of a large stomach, intestines and all other eating organs, the Sinchori are quite light. However, they have a Horra-Ha (cause of death) organ, to use its Sinchori name. The Horra-Ha becomes operational when a Sinchori gets sick or is in mortal peril. It will store the memories of what the situation is (for example, if the Sinchori is sick it will record what the Sinchori ate recently), and in the event the Sinchori dies, it will posthumously emit how the Sinchori died through a complex set of smells it emits. Other Sinchori's Horra-Ha organs will pick up on these smells if they are within range and decode them (the Sinchori themselves can't consciously smell them) to find out how the Sinchori died. The Sinchori will then become aware of how the other Sinchori died, and can make sure they won't make the same mistake. This is an incredible help to Sinchori Rantu (Police) investigating murders, as they can determine the cause of death provided it happened somewhat recently. It is also probably the reason Sinchori naturally hate epics, and therefore the reason of Operation: Epic Kill. The parts of the Sinchori's brains controlling sight in each eye is located in the eye stalk, giving the Sinchori a very large brain. Sinchori lay eggs, which grow fairly quickly (five to six months). They are not required to be incubated, as Sinchori have a large heat (and to a small degree cold) emitting organ while in their eggs that keep them the proper temperature. The organ dissipates over time out of the egg, so young and middle aged Sinchori will be able to regulate body heat to an extent, although old Sinchori will be unable. Sinchori do not have any hair, and are covered in blue scales, which vary in pattern and exact shade of blue. Some Sinchori have greenish-blue or completely green scales, although this is uncommon. Female Sinchori are more likley to have this trait. Male and female Sinchori look fairly similar, with some differences. Male Sinchori have darker coloured forearms and lower legs, but female Sinchori are the same colour everywhere. Females also usually have slightly larger eyes, and more elongated bio-luminescent bulbs on the rear of their body, while male's bulbs have larger spikes. A noticeable feature of the Sinchori is their large acid-shooting glands, which are on their knees. These do not limit how much the knee can bend, surprisingly. The glands produce their own acid, and in stress situations can produce up to half a liter a minute, although such an extreme level of production is dangerous to the Sinchori. Another noticeable feature of the Sinchori is their bio-luminescent bulbs, which can emit light and are used for socializing, generally between males and females. The heels of their feet extend beyond their ankles, this helped Sinchori stay upright in their plains habitat as creatures. Most modern Sinchori opt to have them surgically removed, as they make modern live difficult. For example, walking down stairs is nearly impossible with the heel. This is one of the few "cosmetic" surgeries the Sinchori government will pay for as part of the Sinchori Essential Services Act of 1189 SSC.

Personality
The Sinchori are curious, to the extent they will enter a hostile planet's atmosphere and risk death, or all out war, simply if they find something interesting on their satellite scans. They also do not ever forgive, and if you attack them they will try to kill you for the rest of their existence. However, if they think you're a threat, they will give you a bunch of money so you won't attack, and then once they've got the resources, they will completely destroy you. That being said, all of the Sinchori's greatest allies were once at war with them. This is thought to occur if the other empire apologizes enough (perhaps offering monetary compensation), and seem uninterested in war. Or, the Sinchori might just think it's funny. Although they are adapted to violence and often use it, they are not like The Grox! If it suits them, they will use trading, or simply bribing someone else to evacuate a city. However, they think of religious conversions as difficult and with bad results, although this might be because they don't actually have a religion. They don't get along very well with empires that are either Zealots, or ones that are  Diplomats. In general, Sinchori don't like empires that demand money, or are needy often. For example, if you get attacked and ask them for help, they will probably ignore you or, occasionally, help the attackers. As mentioned above, the Sinchori value self-survival, with the exception of space explorers and soldiers; both of whom value the survival of their race more than individual survival. When the Sinchori met other intelligent creatures for the first time, their self-survival liking was increased to the point that they will often take allied ships on a mission to a hostile planet, just to use the allies as cannon fodder. Although they have completely wiped out two empires and have driven a third into hiding (yes, all three insulted them and demanded money), they currently have no enemies. They were at war with the Imperial Guard Empire (a major threat), but they have now allied them, again showing their strange liking of allying former enemies. Some Sinchori are calling for a severing of this alliance, simply because the Sinchori do not believe in Spode or any other deity, and especially do not tolerate followers of Spode, due to their extreme hostility. One strong ally with the Sinchori is the scientific Duckulon Empire. They are probably friends because they don't demand much of the Sinchori, and the Sinchori think their studies are important.

The Sinchori and the Grox
The Sinchori first became interested in the Grox when their friends the Duckulon Empire (see above) refused to show the Sinchori their scientific files on the Grox, claiming "That information is horrible enough to drive you to war with the Grox, which you will not win." Interested, the Sinchori government asked a diplomat empire near them to set up a meeting with the Grox, but the diplomats said that was impossible, they had no way of contacting the Grox, who would probably refuse anyway. Finally, the Sinchori offered their space program's only Captain §25000 to find the Grox. After a large amount of getting lost, the Sinchori captain located a Grox planet. He contacted their empire. Their meeting was short, ending with the Grox ordering the Sinchori captain killed. With Sinchori consciousness transferal technology the captain was revived, and the Sinchori decided not to bother the Grox again. This decision was tested, however, when the Sinchori heard the Duckulons speak of a "Staff of Life" in the Galactic Core, which they later denied existed. The Sinchori revisited the Grox, and managed to negotiate being allowed to complete a mission for them. Although the Sinchori were paid a large sum of sporebucks for helping, the Grox refused to allow them to travel to the Galactic Core, and forcibly transported them back to Vinheria. Now, the Sinchori visit the Grox occasionally, for the sole reason they are paid large sums of sporebucks for doing Grox missions.

Clothing
The Sinchori don't wear very much. Most wear some sort of covering between their legs, and rectangular plates on each shoulder. Although these plates were used as armor in Tribal Stage, they are now unnecessary, but still worn. Government clothes are given to each Sinchori, although they are not required to wear them. Most Sinchori fashions and uniforms focus around the shoulder/between legs idea.