Yuruns

**Yuruns** are a race of small Teadr 3 rat-like beings native to the Planet Yurue (Theta Universe, Faste Sector, Gaios System). They are the third race that the Humans met and one of the founding races of the United Sentient Races Alliance. They are renowned for their ability to construct and destruct at any scale, and their remarkable human-level adaptability despite their small size.

## History

Yuruns began as muroid humanoids that were the only cognitive race on their planet of Yurue. In prehistoric times, they fought for survival against giant predatory synapsids. Their home planet was dominated by synapsids and locked within a Permain era until a giant superplume wiped out most of them and allowed mammals to evolve exclusively. Though these creatures were equally as dangerous. The early Yurun ancestors remained roughly stagnant this entire time. Their planet has had a history of treacherous and rampant evolution, with massive amounts of dangers, predators, geological and thermal shifts, horrid diseases, and powerful storms. But as time went on, the Yuruns managed to discover meat that contained a kind of virus. This virus, called *Cellovirus yurue*, indigenous name *Yuruvirus*, was widely known for being responsible for the planet's accelerated evolution, but mysteriously rare. The virus worked by building itself into a single-celled organism and thus it's bacterophagic form is it's young form, thus allowing it to create it's own food and not steal genetics from a host. Yet it can form a symbiosis or parasitism from multicellular creatures, and in this area, the virus thrived from a chemical reaction in a geothermal wasteland, cooking the meat and even turning the meat into something unexpectedly different when it enhanced the proteins in it. Consuming this virus at great amounts seemed to slowly but surely increase the learning, cognition, thinking, and even metacognitive abilities of the Yuruns. Each descendant had a different mutation as a result.

As they continued this diet and the virus thrived in the reactions spreading across the planet, this beneficial plague allowed the Yuruns to eat anything and develop their own genetics from them. Their meiosis was enhanced extremely from this diet, and as they kept reproducing, it slowly increased their brain power and improved their adaptability. In their first official Stone Age, called the Survival Era, the Yuruns learned how to hunt with the use of elaborate tools, traps, knowledge of physics, studying animals, and having perfect photographic memory. They learned how to calculate and do math in their heads, and thus learned how to avoid and tame the greater beasts. When they discovered fire, they also discovered electricity because of the lightning that ignited the fire, and learned how to harness both using the wood, and a special primitive lightning rod at high altitudes. They developed their own flight technology after riding small birds. They discovered how to use lights and later on lasers after discovering the light-reflecting nature of the prisms in diamonds and traces of laserum. These discoveries and the period in which they learned them are what was known as the Thriving Era.

Eventually their availability of resources went through the roof, and this allowed the Yuruns the opportunity to take advantage, and evolve away from a hunter-gatherer society and use their resources to build a better and organized society. Thus began the Cultivating Era in which was their earliest period of civilization, where they lived in large civil tribes that often had conflicts with each other over how they should live. Though people were killed, time allowed them to learn and see more until finally they saw that they could unite and formed their capital city, Hoole City, named after the heroic leading figure of the time. This became the Organized Era, where the Yuruns grew out of their tribal society and into civilization. From here they expanded and conditioned the planet into being tamer and using the adapting virus that gave birth to them as a breakthrough of genetic engineering. They mastered engineering and building so well that they practiced building things smaller and bigger than themselves, even down to the microscopic level when they genetically engineered the viruses to become nanoviruses, or nanite viruses that are meant to do microscopic tasks. This in turn allowed them to upgrade their architectural and monumental techniques. As time went on, cities were constantly upgraded and up-to-date, and in time, Yurue was entirely civilized.

Dubbed the Civility Era, this is where the Yuruns began to develop nanotechnology and allowed them to master more than they ever could. They could create monuments and buildings using nanoviruses. They could demolish them just as well with them. This virus allowed them to enter a renaissance that would eventually make them the Teadr 3 race they are today. When they discovered space-age technology and colonized the other planets in their system, they heard distress calls from humans, Naroudans, and Cunones fighting against the Veexomites during the Great Veexomite War. However, they could not properly get the clear message nor understand their language at the time. As such, it took them 5 years to decipher the transmission and discover that it is actually distress from a war. This accelerated their need to adapt and they began to build the Hoole Armada, which would investigate the source of these transmissions, and exercised several methods of peace-offerings including a 'techneconomy', in which they share their gift of nanoviruses and nanobot assembly, among many other types of technology. The Hoole Army spent the next year following and investigating until they finally reached Marbon, where they offered a chance to stop the Veexomites by sabotaging their astro-laser, which was headed for Cunoone and intended to knock it out of orbit. They put their skills to the test and they managed to redirect the astro-laser to their own home planet of Veexine. This knocked it out of orbit and seemingly wiped the Veexomites to extinction. Thus the humans, Naroudans, Cunones, and Yuruns went on to found the USRA.

## Society and Culture

Yuruns are semi-Darwinistic, and view adaptability as a rite-of-passage in growth, and view the inability to do so as shameful, yet still have a kinship to those who cannot. Yuruns do not believe in anything absolute because of their ability to achieve the impossible, and as such they sometimes dislike being told what they can and can't do. Regardless, they push themselves to limits, and even take risks. But they also have an awareness to what can and cannot be mortally achieved, as they believe it is why they were born mortals with limits. They believe religiously that they were brought to existence to be a sendoff to mortals achieving what a god can and more.

## Physiology

A full-grown Yurun stands approximately 2ft tall, and despite this diminutive stature, they are adaptable creatures. They have highly-developed senses of taste, smell, hearing, and sight, as they can sense their surroundings extremely accurately even if one of them is lost. They can smell and taste anything in their surroundings, they can hear over great distances, and their eyesight is sharp. These senses were developed through evolution due to their long history of being preyed upon by predators. Their language and even accents have large emphasis on words because of their ability to communicate and hear ultrasound.

They have naked arms and legs, but their tails are long and tufted, they have fur color ranging from blackish, gray, apricot, and brown, and eye color ranging from yellow, green, and blue. Their dentures match the same physiology of AUU rodents, as their teeth are made entirely of regenerative calcium and can regenerate. They have skeletons 50% cartilage to aid in squeezing through tight spaces, and their gums are 25% cartilage. Their teeth in particular are partially metal and thus can cut through the toughest of materials.

Like rats, Yuruns are excellent and hardy swimmers, capable of doing so for 6 days. They are also excellent and quick climbers, possessing claws with adhesive glands on the bottoms of the fingers and toes allowing for tighter grips. Their metabolism is balanced because of their powerful digestive systems which can digest food and excrete it in half a day. Though they can go for a week without food because of their ability to create metabolic proteins and the fact that the food they eat nourishes them for roughly a week.

## Technology

Yuruns are widely known for their computer skills, their human-like adaptability, and the ability to invent machines at any scale to fit the needs of other races. They do not follow the trial-and-error methods of experimentation like humans, but instead they always evolve from extensive study before testing. They also never use animal trials as their adaptive ways and view for risk can allow themselves to test the trials, which are mostly successful because of the flawless calculations.

#### **Power**

Yuruns, in their earliest days, have learned not only how to mine fossil fuels to power their earliest machines during the Cultivation Era, and in the earliest days of the Civility Era, they learned how to artificially create fossil fuels using the nanovirus. However, doing so meant damaging the planet and the ecosystem, so they eventually learned how to use a fusion-based power source using a reactor containing giant synthetic diamonds and laserum. This served as an advanced form of light-based power and became what is known as a laser reactor. This is the Yuruns' primary form of power, which is more harmless than nuclear reactors.

#### **Material**

Yuruns have been known to craft durable substances that allow their cities to withstand the impact of larger beings and animals. They have been known to analyze material and any substance they come across using their great senses, and could even reverse engineer them. But when they mastered the nanovirus, they learned how to create any kind of metal. The nanovirus allowed them to use atomic assembly, and thus they could use special construction vehicles called nanovators, which uses a nanohive to remotely control the nanoviruses and construct anything in any image, provided the materials needed are integrated.

Yuruns have also managed to create organic-based materials such as plastics and polymers. These have uses including biomechanical machines and clothing. Durable plastics like latex, spandex, and kevlar are useful for combat-based armored jumpsuits, and they have only discovered neutronium, the strongest substance in the AUU, in the asteroid belts around their planet's system.

#### **AI and Automation**

Yuruns, thanks to their mastery of studying and replicating biomechanics, have created robots that can be at the maximum size of a cow and the minimum size of a fruit fly. These robots can range from industrial-grade to vehicular. All Yurun machines are constructed using an extensive study of biomechanics and constructed using organic substances internally and from purified metals externally.

Yuruns do not believe in artificial intelligence, as doing such could potentially do harm, and they themselves are the only intelligence they need. Because of this, all robots are not fully intelligent. They can only be intelligent through neural links offered by nanotechnology.

#### **Medical Advances and Biotechnology**

Yuruns have long mastered the virus that made them intelligent, and have now used it to engineer their own nanovirus, which allowed them to use nanotechnology to do anything in the field of medical technology. Nanoviruses can form a symbiosis with their hosts and thus they can strengthen their bodily systems in any way. They have also learned how to control the original mutagenic virus to serve as a form of artificial evolution, and unfortunately have even made it into a gene drug, which is an addictive illegal drug that can enhance the genetics temporarily, but chronic use can damage the user's genetic makeup and cause cancer. However, Yuruns have used the mutagenic virus to create mutalixirs, which can have one or more of infinite purposes, and can come in either the elixir or pill form. The nanovirus can also control the body's functions for any medical purpose thanks to quantum computing, allowing for stemcell technology and therefore flawlessly killing dead cells and replacing them with healthier stemcells, allowing an internally-fabricated transplant.

#### **Communications and Computing**

Yuruns have mastered mobile devices like oPhones and laptops, but in the fields of exploration, combat, and experimentation, they always use an interface in the form of wearable computers like smartglasses or smart contact lenses. The classical methods of display is normally found in the public, while the wearable version is implemented in situations where external display can be unnecessary. They can actually communicate with anyone straight through nanovirus-based neural lines, allowing them to talk through their minds like some artificial telepathy. After joining the USRA, they have hooked themselves to the Omninet, but they have limited the digital signaling as to keep more powerful data and networks they are not used to like artificial intelligence from coming into their own. They also use laser-based communication.

#### **Space-Faring**

Yurun space cruisers of any type are common for being the size of any average spaceship due to their scale. This means that their ships can contain the power of the biggest of spatial battleships even at a smaller scale. They have learned how to create manned probes, satellites, or spacecraft for any kind of purpose, and they all use laser-panels for power, absorbing light from stars and increasing their power capacity tenfold. Their size allows them to even pilot these manually and dodge any obstacle including space rocks or space debris. They can also control these spacecrafts from a piloting computer in another spacecraft or on another planet. Their ships use laser propulsion.

EVO suits exist which are created from organic and airtight material. Though they have not evolved to contain air-filtering and thus run on limited air supply, they can absorb any material depending on where the wearer is. They are also made from smart fabrics to adapt to any situation like the Yuruns themselves.

#### **Weapons**

Thanks to their early discovery of laserum, a red energetic crystal found across the UUniverses and used in laser weaponry, the Yuruns have long mastered laser weaponry themselves, though ancient lasers did so by harnessing sunlight and accumulating the energy inside and they later modified it into arm cannons, as opposed to the handheld gun version used by most races. Gauntlets are thus the most common type of weapon used by Yuruns as they are the least easy to lose in a battle.

Yuruns have also learned how to artificially synthesize other types of laserum into what is called energy crystals. These crystals use the same physiology of laserum, but instead contain the plasma state of other types of offensive types such as acidic, incendiary or disintegration-based substances such as fuel and natural gas, hydrated substances for liquidation or anti-machine blasts, nitrogen for freezing people, kinetic-sensitive substances for pulse blasts, or just basic plasma, making them contained crystallized all-purpose energy.

Yuruns have even learned how to transform guns into military vehicles like tanks.

#### **Vehicles and Buildings**

Yurun vehicles are purely biomechanical as a result of their ancient history of reverse-engineering the mechanics of the animals around them. As a result, terrestrial vehicles can have wheels but also legs. Wheeled vehicles are called wheelers while legged vehicles are called walkers. The common wheelers are modeled after four-legged predators and even named after them. The common walkers are modeled after the prehistoric bipedal creatures the Yuruns used to live with and also named after them. Aerial vehicles are no different in design and material. Yuruns have learned how to create jetpacks or copterpacks, but they have also learned to create VTOLs, gunships, dropships and jets, all of which are derived from and named after aerial animals. Underwater vehicles are amphibious, capable of floating and diving, are also biomechanical, and made from the designs of animals and named after them, coming in the forms of giant whale-like submarine/battleships, small manatee-like submersible/motorboats, and the pinniped-like small DPV/waverunners. They have also learned how to create skimcrafts, or vehicles that can operate on land or float, as well as hydroplanes, which can float on the surface and also fly. Some are called omnicrafts, which can travel in all planetary climates.

The buildings of the cities on Yurue are all modified to be kept up-to-date using nanoviruses. They are all mostly to scale with the Yuruns, and they are mainly a silver coloration. Public broadcasting in all varieties all use the same screen display as the mobile devices and wearable computers. Metro systems exist as well as underground tunnel systems which root back to the Yuruns' prehistoric subterranean eras, with trains being capable of crawling anywhere like a centipede. Cities exist on this planet to fit the scale of bigger beings since the formation of the USRA, and they all exhibit the same appearance as the smaller cities. These cities offer services based on the shrinking technology of Atonts that allow them to go to the same scale as the Yuruns so as to visit the smaller cities. They also possess laser-based teleportation capabilities.