Gosei Burning Application

[box][size=150][b]Species Description[/b][/size][list][b]Name:[/b]  Gosei (works as singular, plural, and adjective)[b]Appearance:[/b]  [spoiler]Gosei are able to produce physical shells to house projections of their software selves in essentially any configuration with no mandatory rules about appearance.  Only some optional hardware can mandate some minimum requirements for some given shells.  Their defense focus as a race also limits what is and isn't standard.[/spoiler]
[b]Average Lifespan[/b]:  Immortal, as long as their core back-ups on Laihiala remain intact
[b]Rate Of Reproduction[/b]:  Not applicable, they are finite in number
[b]Biology:[/b]  Though a mechanical lifeform, the Gosei have several aspects that are very similar to organic physiology.  While not the most advanced artificial intelligences in the known galaxies, they have come a long way from their humble origins and continue to evolve.
Their primary source of power is known as a biofuel converter.  Though individual Gosei can develop, or at least learn to mimic, a personal sense of taste, they are able to 'digest' most food and drink through a nanotech based stomach analogue that turns it into power for the unit.  This is backed up by a passive electromagnetic radiation absorption system built into the skin analogue.
The biofuel converter ties into a integrated self repair system.  A nanomachine containing fluid, often just called nano-fluid, runs like a blood analogue through analogues of veins and arteries throughout a Gosei's body.  Upon sustaining physical damage, this nano-fluid acts akin to platelets and, using reformated matter transferred from the converter, repairs the damage at a rate comparable to a human's natural healing rate.  This doesn't allow them to regenerate from what a human would consider as lethal injuries;  they are only more durable in the sense they can shrug off some injuries better than a human would.  This nano-fluid is also how a Gosei's shell maintains itself on a daily basis so it doesn't get worn out from normal wear and tear.
Gosei may be able to externally mimic various races in appearance, but hardware to mimic scents is not generally standard - with current technologies, it was seen as an inefficient use of space.  As a result, races like the Ragon and others with a heavier reliance on the sense of smell have been generally avoided as Gosei wouldn't 'smell right'.
Modern technologies have also proven as a counter to the Gosei.  Even relatively primitive scanning equipment like Earth was utilizing before becoming an interstellar power would easily reveal the truth of a Gosei beneath their imitation exteriors.  As the various races around them developed more and more as technological civilizations, the Gosei have found it that much harder to remain unobtrusive as they observe and learn.
Gosei shells, when not specifically engineered for a physical task that requires it, are usually intentionally designed to be considered average in terms of physical capabilities as the race they are learning about - the industrial grade shells generally not being seen outside of Laihiala.  There have been exceptions to this, but these are rare special cases where the shell is intended for operations beyond simply blending into the crowd and observing.
Gosei are hard coded with a defensive nature.  So, although they counteract attacks from opponents with ferocity, they are a defensive race in nature.  If not provoked, they have no aggression towards the person or group.  Therefore, they could potentially lose if they are beaten by the first move or if an unpredictable method they have not seen before is used before they can fully assess and correct the situation.[/list]
[hr][/hr][size=150][b]Background:[/b][/size][list][b]Homeworld[/b]:  Laihiala[b]Galaxy[/b]:  Andromeda[b]Alignment[/b]:  Neutral/Oni Empire[b]History[/b]:  Five thousand years before the modern era, the earliest ancestors of the Gosei were used by their insectoid creators after achieving interplanetary status in the process of dismantling their star system and utilizing the materials to isolate themselves within a protective Dyson shell - the fragility of the insectoids making them hyper paranoid about interacting with anything and anyone.  Though these construction droids continued to be manufactured and maintained, their creators were still curious about what lay beyond there sphere, so began crafting probes and other automated exploration platforms to seek out knowledge and bring it home.  Eventually, the ever growing complexity of the droids reached a point of self evolving hardware and learning artificial intelligences - which is also when they began the slow process of developing sapience.
Though increasingly more and more able to stand as a independent species, the droids were hard coded to be defensive.  This proved fatal for the insectoid creators only one thousand years later.  A group of like minds fearing the development of their creations and how the child like intellects that were developing could accidently slaughter countless of their kind simply due to not thinking about controlling their strength.  In their attempt to develop a counter, they triggered the droids' defense programming and managed to get their entire species designated as a threat.
After the majority of the race was exterminated and the droids returned to a stand-by state, the survivors quickly realized they didn't have the numbers or technology to repopulate.  As a result, instead of the slow decline, as deaths outpaced births, into full extinction, they uploaded their minds into the neural network of their artificial children while time delays physically erased the memories of the race from the records in an act of mercy from the creators to their children, so the developing intelligences wouldn't be weighed down by the memory of what they had done.
The machine intelligences continued in this state, going about their daily tasks as if nothing had ever changed while continuing to evolve, for the next five hundred years.  It was at this point that the Oni arrived at the Dyson shell and gave the inverted world the name of Laihiala and the race of machines the name of Gosei.  As part of the agreement reached between the two cultures, the Gosei were taken under the Oni's umbrella as an allied client race.[/list][/box] 
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