Sealachan

"What is this creature? It has no breasts and is smaller than it's female look-a-like, is it a machine?" Sealachan greeting party member during their first contact with another DragonKin species.
Sealachans are the native DragonKin of the planet Sealach (pronounced See-Lash). Their average lifespan is around 2500 years.
==Overview ==
The Sealachans are an all female species of DragonKin with an average height of around 45ft, that are said to have evolved from ocean bound DragonKin creatures, such as a Leviathan, and still have fins on their elbows and tails which allow them to swim better than most sentient DragonKin.
Along with their shark-like features, another visually defining trait of the Sealachans are their abnormally wide hips with bulky, powerful legs as well as webbed feet. Apart from the wide hips, these features in combination with their tail, assorted fins and pointed head allow the Sealachans to be powerful and fast swimmers by DragonKin standards.
The Sealachans as a whole are widely considered to be friendly and fair to other species, a cultural trait many believe had come from their ocean-faring days on Sealach where you'd help a fellow sailor out.
The Sealachan population stands at around 3.2 Billion.
==Appearance==
Skin Type: Small Scales.
Colour Range: Sealachans are two-tone, with their main bodies being assorted shades of grey including bluish greys ranging from mid-greys to almost-black dark-greys, while their underbellies and lower half of their snouts are a paler shade of grey than their main scales.
Eyes: Sealachans have mid-sized eyes in wide-ranging colours that include reds, purples, blues, greys, greens, browns, yellows and pinks where shades of red and pink are the most common. Sealachan eyes also have a small iris with a slit pupil. These eyes are side mounted rather than front mounted.
Heads: Sealachans have shark-like heads which mount 2 large fin-like scaled horns which contain an darker than main scale colour indentation that forms part of the Sealachan era. Sealachans have half-lipped jaws where parts or their thin shark-like teeth are permanently exposed.
Bodies: Sealachan bodies are very similar externally to that of humans although lacking human genitalia, are generally more bulky, have incredibly wide hips and have large, clawed 3-toe feet with webbing between each toe and clawed 4 finger/1 thumb hands. Sealachans also have a fin on each elbow and a long tail resembling a shark's.
Tongue: Dragoians have a short, single pointed tongue.
==Technology==
Sealachans have advanced technology on par with the Shadraxians although they do not utilise energy weapons exclusively in their ground forces, with rifle-sized harpoon guns that can be fired underwater efficiently and can still utilise the harpoon-like projectiles used by Sealachans for thousands of years still being part of their official arsenal. However, the most common weapons tend to be energy weapons that fire energy in crescent shaped bolts. Despite the antiquated harpoon rifles being a part of the modern Sealachan arsenal, they are mostly used for ceremonial purposes and rarely see actual combat use outside of water due to their large and awkward ammunition which consists of a large barbed harpoon with an integrated propellant charge which is almost the same size as the rifle.
Sealachan security forces carry unique scanners designed to pick up anything within around 10 foot that doesn't contain DragonKin Base Metal. Such scanners are designed to pick up concealed weapons by locating one of the few parts that cannot contain DragonKin Base Metal, such as the power core or gunpowder.
Weirdly, the Sealachans still have bladed weapons in their modern arsenal that are not mounted on their ranged weapons, these weapons come in the form of crescent shaped blades attached to the tail which can be swung at foes to deal deal damage. Such weapons are mostly effective against smaller targets and generally aren't used for more than ceremonial usage much like the harpoon rifles.
==Culture==
Sealachan culture is rather normal and is considered to be friendly and welcoming of outsiders by DragonKin standards, going so far to make certain areas of their worlds accessible to aliens of all manner of sizes, and to assign all alien visitors to their worlds an "Escort" for both security and interaction reasons. They have been known to over-react and take security way too far in a somewhat paranoid way when shaken, such as when an assassin killed the Sealachan leader in 1247 and prompted an overzealous security push for government and military locations and high-ranking personnel that took over a decade to return to normal and caused serious disruption to day-to-day operations.
A very odd law among the Sealachans is the 'Right To Punish' ritual, which allows someone who is punished by their boss for doing wrong to challenge their boss in unarmed combat to prove their point. Should the challenger win, they win the right of no punishment and to keep their job with the unjust punishment being compensated, while if the boss wins, she can personally punish the challenger with anything she likes, up to and including death. As a result some bosses punish their challenger by devouring them although this is an uncommon practice. The right to punish ritual can only be invoked if a 3rd party, usually a co-worker, disagrees with the bosses' punishment.
While the Sealachans are open to other species, requiring nothing more than a simple scan (to check for concealed weapons and other contraband) and a registration form upon landing to access their worlds, with many of them being considered the quadrants safer trading hubs, they do not actively seek other species out and are not explorers by nature. As a result, they are known by few DragonKin species, but those they are known by include the Selde, Algranians and Shadraxians. Any Non-Sealachan visiting a Sealachan world is escorted by a Sealachan assigned to them when they land, who serves as a guide, personal body guard, and to make interaction with the Sealachan world for non-Sealachan sized aliens easier. 
==Reproduction==
Sealachans are oviparous and reproduce in the hand-stabber style, which is similar to species such as the Dragoians and Ancient Dragoians, requiring blood to be exchanged via a cut made on the palm to create eggs. The typical Sealachan will lay 0-3 eggs per reproductive attempt, with an average of 2 eggs between the two parents.
==Ancestral==
Around 1 in 500 million Sealachans that hatch are what is considered to be "Ancestral". Ancestral Sealachans are considerably larger, often hitting around 95ft and always grow to have a large belly, Ancestrals also have a high infant mortality rate with the majority dying within a few years of hatching. Despite being around double the size of a normal Sealachan, Ancestral Sealachans still work in normal society, often crawling inside buildings to get around. Only 2 Sealachan Ancestrals exist by the 2000's, Perana Lelnae and Levitha Hanae, the largest Ancestral to exist within the past 1,000,000 years.
Ancestral benefits are many and come with the only downside of being larger than normal Sealachans which does make interacting with Sealachan society more awkward. Ancestrals are proportionally stronger than a normal Sealachan and are given a selection of state-provided "Perks", one of is allowing an Ancestral to get away with up to 5 crimes a year as long as they fill in the appropriate "Ancestral Perk" form in advance and give it to the local authorities who then approve it. These "Ancestral Perks" can include murder depending on who the target is.
Ancestral is known in modern times to be a rare genetic abnormality, but for most of recorded Sealachan history was considered to be, depending on where the belief came from, either a blessing from the ancients, or the actual reincarnation of an ancient Sealachan who was bigger and stronger than modern Sealachans. Almost no real evidence exists to suggest that Sealachans were ever a considerably larger species than they currently are, but the name and the traditions surrounding them have stuck around.
== Notable Sealachans==
*Nirana Heracha
*Perana Lelnae
*Levitha Hanae - Sealachan Leader
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