Vondunke

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Ruling over a host of failed stars and massive planets stolen from their home systems. They travel as a pack from star to star devouring what the galaxy has to offer. Renown as masters of fusion and feared as the horror from the depths (of both space and the sea), their way of life was set in motion from the species earliest starfarers, and is continually influenced by the governing caste known as the **Paradigm**.

# The Supreme Entity of Vondunke (VSE)

The Vondunke is the foremost military, cultural, economic, and technological power of the Majestic Galaxy exerting it's influence even to the fringes of the Silky Way. They are a unique civilization dwelling in the shadows of the Majestic Shoal. Having mastered fusion, the Race is completely independent of solar power and instead inhabit the void between stars as they harvest system after system, robbing them of their planets and moons before rendezvousing with the rest of the greater civilization in the Void.

The Vondunke do not currently maintain any diplomatic relations outside of their vassal state **The Escene Federation**.

## Species Statistics

### Average Lifetime

* Natural: around 100
* Aided: varies 1,000 - 1,500,000

### Reproduction

Natural is Sexual resulting in a few eggs every five years, cloning is commonplace

### Movement

Two powerful hind legs with webbed feet and eight tentacle appendages in the front front arms allow them to move across moist land at around 5 MPH, movement in water is much quicker at around 20 MPH

## Classification

### Species

* **Erç Vondunke**
* **Çey Vondunke**

The Vondunke are large Amphibious Cephalopod like creatures with vertebra. Covered in a thick dark grey skin, They have two eyes looking forward situated above a beak. The body has two segments with eight tentacles in the front that can fold into the body and two legs in the back. Pores above the tentacles joints are used to "taste" water and air testing for pollutants and nutrition, the tentacles have a vain like structure that runs from the tentacles through the pores communicating feel, taste, and electrical currents. The front segment carries the nervous center which centers around the brain primary, additional memory and emotion can be kept in two secondary brains which can be voluntarily or traumatically sealed off and temporarily or indefinitely severed from connecting directly to the primary the secondary brains still communicate with the rest of the nervous system with the left specializing in motor skills and movement coordination.

Actions are either: instinctive such as heartbeat, reflexive, or deliberate, either conscious or subconscious, and either: fully (Both primary and secondary), primarily, secondarily, or semisecondarily (cut off secondarily). Critical organs are in the back segment.

They have an almost eternal mutation rate. This is due to premature extermination or alteration of clones or eggs that vary by more than 0.05% from any of ten recorded “ideal” genes within each caste along with also needing to meet other specific genetic requirements.

As the vast majority of eggs do indeed vary more than 0.05%, they are generally genetically altered before hatching instead of being killed.

There are eight different castes within the species: The worker class of **Drones**, the four upper castes; **Commons**, **Professors**, **Scribes**, and **Judges**. And the three minor castes; **Independents**, **Paradigm**, **Soldiers**.

During the Bloom, **Drones** comprise sixty to seventy percent of the total population with an average lifespan of eight hundred years, eleven hundred only including natural causes, They are governed by local unions and the **Supreme Directory**. During the **Bluff** the **Commons** comprise thirty percent of the population having an average natural life span of three hundred thousand years, however the expected lifespan is forty thousand. The remaining upper castes comprise sixty percent of the remaining population and have average natural lifespans of five hundred thousand years. Again the expected lifespan is much shorter at fifty thousand. The Soldiers and Independents each comprise around five percent and have a natural life span of three hundred thousand years, but one hundred and fifty and one hundred thousand respectively when considering all causes. The **Paradigm** are a tiny minority and could not even fill a small rotating habitat. They are excepted to live an average of one and a half million years and very few **Paradigm** deaths have occurred in contemporary history. A few from before spaceflight are still alive to this day.