Betid

Underground bug builders
* Innovation engineering, science and technology
* Collaboration, cooperation, curiosity
* Family and small community
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Appearance and Biology: 
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Betids are bipedal creatures, if they are standing straight they would be around 3m in height but are most often crouched to around 2m in height. Betids have long arms and legs, their feet are  large and flat, covered with sensitive feelers and grips. They have 6 very thin and nimble fingers, with no discernible thumb each finger can articulate individually allowing incredible manual dexterity. They have additional feelers and grips on their fingers. Betids have segmented torsos, with a thorax and abdomen.
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Betids have flat faces with large segmented eyes, allowing vision in multiple spectrums and excellent night vision. They have no nose, and large mouths without articulating lips.  They produce throat and mouth noises as a form of communication.  They also have additional blood vessels near the surface of their skin allows heat to be used to generate some additional language signals to those with infrared vision.
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Betids are covered in segmented iridescent plates, sexual dimorphism is seen in the shape of plates on the head and portions of the body: peaked, flat, ridged.  These provide significant protection from solar and other radiation, which is also why Betids remain underground, especially as the plates do not develop until much later in life. Betids are born in a chrysalis, the genetic material and components of which are provided by the 3 parents. The chrysalis remains gestating for a few years, before a young Betid emerges, they will then re-crysalis after some time in order to produce their plating.
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Betids are able to digest rock material and extract nutrients.  They gain energy from solar radiation, similar to photosynthesis, and thus are required to go to the surface from time to time.  They can substitute this with other forms of radiation from rock matter, and have since developed substitutes needed for space travel.
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Average life span is 300 earth years, most will have 1 offspring each.
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Culture:
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* Live primarily underground in massive and intricate structures and spaces.
* Engineering, science reasoning.
* They are adept with technology, building and creating complex machines and structures
* Highly curious and investigatory species, less concerned with terraforming.  They have colonies on a number of worlds, but few highly developed or established beyond their homeworld.
* More prominent presence in the edges of the galaxy.
* Depth and breadth of knowledge is to be achieved.
* Leaders are generally academic or intellectual figures.
* Ruled by and council of highly valued individuals, appointed on mass.
* Value on cooperation and collaboration
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