Kubaz

Average Height: 1.8 meters
Average Lifespan: 150 years 
Proceeding through three distinct stages of maturity, Kubaz only gradually grow the elongated nozzle for which they are so well known. In their mature state, this nozzle eventually darkens in hue and withers. The rest of any Kubaz is virtually unknown except to the Kubaz themselves. An extreme photosensitivity makes it necessary for this species to wear dark goggles and cover their body almost completely.
 
Originally from Kubindi, a vast world of dark canyons and bogs, the Kubaz fled their world long ago, and spend their lives in constant flight from world to world, never making a home for themselves. This nomadism has made it necessary for every Kubaz to familiarize themselves with the basic operation of starships... after all, you never can completely trust a hired pilot.
 
The reason for the Kubaz migration is the key to understanding their tormented psyche: for the only thing that a Kubaz distrusts more than another sentient is another Kubaz. Paranoid often to the point of delusion, Kubaz cling in terrifyingly erratic relationships to non-Kubaz sentients, at once overwhelmed with fear that their acquaintances will betray them, and at the same time nearly hysteric at the thought of running across a fellow Kubaz. The former is compounded by the fact that they are almost unable to speak basic due to the honking sounds produced by their probiscus, and little able to understand it due to a complex ear structure that is better able to pick up rhythm than tone. To be sure that they are not betrayed, Kubaz often collect information on their friends with which to black-mail them, an often failed gesture considering their lack of verbal articulation.
 
When Kubaz are especially frightened, they release a cloud of spores from their probiscus. When these spores meet the spores of another Kubaz and are mixed with water, a new Kubaz zygote begins to develop.
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