Takkian

TAKKIANS
(aka Takkian, walking Pine Cones, Living Cheesegraders)


 * not to be confused with their close relatives, the Takians who are their own civilization and specis.


 * Union Member Civilization and indigenous species.


 * Race Affiliation : Takkian, Silicone based live forms.


 * Sentient


 * Tech Level before joining: TL 6


 * AL:6


 * Native to Tqakkia (assumed[1]) Perseus Arm Upward (Galactic West)


 * Related to the : Takians, The Conck, the Olours


 * Expansion: 23 Worlds (before Union Membership)

Now Takkians are found all over Union Space. Takkians are very active in Union related activities and over 70 percent are in Federal Employment. They are fiercely proud and it is not uncommon for a Takkian to proclaim Union Citizenship instead of saying “I am Takkian”. Takkian Civics a form of Republic Democracy where the Civilization Representative is also their Top Rock. Takkians consume a wide variety of minerals and metals dissolved inAcid solutions. They have no respiratory system and do not breathe, but they do use squeezable silicone bladders to produce an audible language from any gaseous sound carrying medium. They use similar silicone membranes to hear and feel vibrations. The Takkian Home-world Takkia is a very hot extreme world. Takkians tolerate intense heat conditions of 600-900 degrees, but find hotter temperatures painful. Unlike the Takians or the Clonck the Takkians do not tolerate extreme cold as they need liquified food and use silicone membrane bladder pumps to move their limbs similar to hydraulics. Takkians tolerate Gravitation up to eight Gee. The sense of touch is underdeveloped compared to their other senses and it took them much longer than comparable species to develop technology. Union Sensor Gloves and micro manipulator gauntlets have completely erased this handicap. Takkians come to be as small Nodules growing from stationary sentient Parent Rocks, and it takes a Parent Rock about 100-150 years to produce two or three Takki-Nodules. To grow to adolescence and Union School age it takes another 400 -500 years. Takkians have an average lifespan of about 2500-3000 years, but only about 600 are spend mobile. Out of 10,000-15,000 Takkians one or two become Parent Rocks. Takkians do not have genders or knew the concept of family, but Nodules grown from the same Parent Rocks are considered close relatives. No memory remains of the Parent Rock in an adult Takkian. The average Takkian grows to about 200 cm and can weigh up to 800 kilos. (Standard is about 450 kilos) They have four to six eyes from layers of Silicone Jelly and three brains. One brain is for body functions, one for ego and personality and one for memory and Data Storage. Takkians find Water slightly poisonous and get drunk on drinking heavy Saline Water solutions. They used to be very religious and chanted the Songs of Old written on the Chant Plates at regular ceremonies, but Religion faded until the discovery of the Blue Mountain (Clonck) who is revered as a Deity. It revived the Religious aspects of Takkian life.

