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The Posleen are broken up into two distinct elements. The 'Normals' and the 'God Kings'. Both of these share similar physical characteristics (Resistance to Biological and Chemical Weapons , highly efficient metabolisms, armoured body structures etc.), however the 'God Kings' are also blessed with enhanced intelligence that makes them the leaders of their less intelligent brethren as well as a crest on their necks that expands like certain lizards. In battle God Kings ride atop personal fighting vehicles called Tenar which are not only heavily armed usually with plasma cannons and hypervelocity missiles but also contain communications equipment, a sensor array and tactical displays, the quality of tenar and their systems varies due to personal preference on the part of their owners and upon their owner's wealth. Tenar resemble flying saucers and use anti-grave technology to fly, they can not only hover close to the ground but fly at significant altitudes. A tenar can sense and track isolated weapons fire and respond automatically making it very dangerous to snipe a God King, however once a certain amount of weapons fire is present in the environment the "noise" keeps the tenar from being able to keep track and can no longer identify specific threats. Even in this case however tenar have anti-air capabilities that make conventional aircraft useless. Flying anything from a helicopter to an F-22 in a line of sight of a Tenar is suicide and hugging the ground just leaves an aircraft open to mass fire from the normals. Tenar are durable but contain very volatile energy cores which explode quite powerfully when pierced usually killing many nearby normals and potentially other tenar as well. In addition to his Tenar many God Kings carry swords with mono-molecular blades. A God King will lead a "fief" of several hundred normals who he essentially owns, he is also responsible for outfitting them at his own expense. God Kings get their starts by working for a higher ranking God King who will set them up with a simple tenar and a small and barely equipped fief in return for subservience. The basis of Posleen economics is materials looted from conquests, God Kings with the talent and the interest will lead fiefs in battle only long enough to accumulate startup resources to start manufacturing concerns. Normals are equipped only with small arms which they don't really aim but simply point in a general direction, these arms range from what are essentially shotguns to linear accelerator rifles all the way up to handhold plasma cannons depending on the wealth of their God King and a single fief will generally contain a variety of these weapons among it's members. Posleen spaceships are owned by the wealthiest fiefs and transport the lesser fiefs in return for tribute and subservience. Posleen are functioning Hermaphrodite s, able to reproduce in random pairs, vomiting forth eggs from within their abdomens with great frequency. The young mature rapidly, and since they have been imbued with genetic knowledge, the maturing young have no need of education and they are able to add to the race's combat ready numbers within months of birth. Usually young will be raised in combative birthing 'Pits' from which only the strongest emerge alive, surprisingly both normals and god kings alike share the same pits forcing young God Kings to be as physical and vicious as young normals fighting to survive to adulthood in the same manner. Adult Posleen have been observed to pull young from the pits and eat them alive like a delicacy. While Posleen prefer to raise their young in the previously mentioned manner young Posleen are quite capable of surviving unattended in the wild and often do as adults will simply drop their eggs while their fief is on the move, these abandoned young grow up as Ferals and fashion rudimentary weapons. |
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