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NPC ONLY: The Empiant race is NPC only because of two reasons.The race is very powerful and due to their motivation is virtually impossible to be played correctly.
Their motivations and actions are truly alien, and very hard to describe, let alone play on a regular basis, without the player becoming too "Human" in his actions and motivations
"Subject: We told you once
You MUST go, if you stay at our mother world we will
devastate more of your hive. Go while we let you go"
Biology
Empiants defy classification, they show traits of a crystalline race and traits similar to marine animals of earth and other planets.
The "aboral" area of a Empiant is rather simple with a pair of eye stalks popping out of its surface, a mouth or better referred to as an eating orifice is approximately at the same location as on a humanoid, they have no nose or ears visible on their forms and have fringes of tentacles equipped with cnidocytes around their edges.
All Empiants are Psionic with a P-rating of at least P-10 but are usually P-13s and some Empiants are have claimed a few of their race occasionally reach P-16 but its been at least 800 years since one has been that strong.
Theta-Waves
Empiants lack the mental facilities to filter out Theta Waves, as a result ALL sentient lifeforms harm them with the states of daydreaming,sleep & feeling deep and raw emotions. Even though this telepathic damage is non-lethal it can eventually drive an Empiant insane or into a great depression, A Force Sensitive' Mind shield that
is raised only to block theta waves will allow them to spend time around empiants without harming them.
"Subject: Flee from our minds
LEAVE US!... leave us or become death. Our tolerance shows no stress until now"
Natural Telekinetics
Empiants are one of the only races in the galaxy that possesses a naturally stable Telekinesis gene, as a result their entire race is telekinetic, Empiants are such powerful telekinetics that they have been known to cause the brains(and indeed entire skull cavity) of hostile fighter pilots to explode rather than attacking the vessel itself.
Questionable Origins
The Empiants are an artificially created race, an Ancient race known as the H'riak or "golden ones' seeded many class M planets with H'riak based life, they program all their creations with an overriding urge to destroy all non-H'riak-created organisms due to their races xenophobia. sometime after the destruction of their homeworld and many colony worlds due to a galactic disaster they began to Tinker with the thought process of creating H'riak based life in a gas giant, but due to the "Sick miasmas" of the empiant homeworld of cronus; their creations mutated, the H'riak call the Empiants the "crystal abominations" and the Empiants lack their hate due to the pressures of mutation caused by their homeworld, it is unknown if the Empiants attacked the h'riak because of the Theta-wave vulnerability or if perhaps they simply retaliated to a h'riak attack, it is known that they have co-operated with "smartmonkeys" before which is how empiants refer to humans and other mammalian based lifeforms, but only after they have taken measures to shield themselves from the Theta Waves being emitted by those races.
Life-form Type:
Bio-crystalline Jovian Cindaric
Homeworld:
Gas Giant Cronus
Beta Caeli System (Japori System)
Lifespan:
2750 years
Dawn of Civilization:
Millions of years ago
Achieved Interstellar Travel:
Hundreds of years ago
Achieved Transcendance: Partial
Extinct: No
Territory:
Empiant Territory is spread over the galaxy widely, they colonize any system they can that possesses a gas giant suitable to their needs, however they usually will only colonize empty systems as setting up theta wave scramblers are extremely resource and power intensive devices, studies show that the Theta wave scrambler technology is a device that someone else built for the empiants, it shows telltale signs of human craftsmanship.
Technology:
Even though the empiants hold First One status, they barely have a claim to it, their space technology is far behind most races, however in some areas of technology they are much more advanced as they make use of their telekinetic abilities to manipulate their ships. Telekinetic GFG lenses reduce Empiant ships mass far beyond technological ones and their telekinetic powers also allow them to open Slipstream portals and create Telekinetic slipstream runners to 'ride the rails' more efficiently, the empiants are likely the most FTL capable races ever to exist, their ships are unshielded, but their armor technology is extremely advanced being composed of telekinetically shaped diamond, they lack projectile weapons but carry low energy, highly focused Nadion beams, that usually only get used against shield fighters or capital ships, unshielded fighters usually experience a quick brain explosion.
Mindrider intervention?
Some of the younger races that have had encounters with the Empiants and learned their racial history have theorized that the empiants exist because of a coincidence. The current theory is that one of the mindriders must have either been in the beta caeli system at the time of the seeding or arrived shortly after and tinkered with the seed to cause such powerful psionic abilities to manifest in a h'irak seed when other h'irak life has none, the only h'irak lifeforms left in the universe with psi are the ones that the vorlons tinkered with much more recently and the vorlons tend to remove the xenophobic programming or atleast as much as they can as they find it counterproductive for a stable orderly universe, it is possible that the vorlons learned how to do this from the mindrider as a result of them tinkering with the empiants millions of years ago.
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