Saru

Name:  Saru
Notes:  A willful species, Saru are a unique combination of human and monkey.  Artificially created in Holy Terran Empire laboratories, the Saru were inspired by the Vanara and were first created for Terrans who wanted slaves with the monkey like traits but on a more human-like form than that sported by the Vanara.
Intentionally created to be willful, independent, and spunky, some Terrans enjoyed the fact their Saru 'pets' had minds of their own while others enjoyed breaking them instead.  As such, there came to be two vastly different sub-cultures of Saru:  the meek, submissive ones either already broken or raised in such an environment and Saru who were allowed to keep their original natures.  Due to several factors, the latter are primarily only found in private 'collections' instead of public access 'collections.
Free born and liberated Saru of both groups in the Zodiac Empire are, like humans, widely adaptable to almost any environment and career path, military or civilian.  The closest to human of almost all the Terran artificially created species, the Saru are actually, in part due to their prehensile tails, like that of the Vanara, being able to see use as a functional fifth limb, able to due more than most humans.
In Aku's Holy Terran Empire and the territory of the Terran Loyalists, Saru slaves are viewed differently.  Aku's faction sees them as a 'legal' way to perform experimentation on 'near humans' that they could not perform on actual humans and, as such, broken willed Saru are more likely to be found in public and private 'collections'.  The Loyalists, however, see the natural spirit and traits of the Saru as useful, provided the right conditioning, and, as such, are more likely to have 'natural' Saru in public and private 'collections'.
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