Star carriers

Star carriers are an ancient race of subhumans. How they came to exist is unknown. But they are described as having a little extra "stardust." Their myth says they came to be when the sun and the moon were chosen to watch over the earth. The sun was treated as more important because she was more powerful. The moon was so angry that he attacked the sun. All the stars rushed to defend her, and some of them that died fell to earth. The sun won. They believe the sun watches the earth.

## Characteristics

There are two types of star carriers. Plasmic type and rock type.

Star carriers come in red, orange, yellow, blue and white. Listed in power order, a star carriers color depends on their power level. Meaning red is weakest, and white is most powerful. But there are no white rock types. White is considered not rare, just uncommon. White is the most unstable. They have both mental and physical problems.
All the other colors tend to be on the same level of rarity, but red is just a bit more spiked, the most common. Red star carriers also tend to have abnormal height averages, ranging from 4’3, to 6’5 at maturity, when the normal star carrier is 5’0 to 6’1 at maturity.

One thing all star carriers share is that curly, frizzy hair, is common. Especially among plasmic types. Must be all that static. Wavy hair is uncommon. Straight hair is even more uncommon, but not ultra rare. They also share the same eye color as their energy color. Red star carriers have pink irises.

Star carriers cannot be pink, purple, green or gray. If  a star carrier is black, something is severely wrong. Star carriers have a very warm body temperature. While the normal human is 98.6, a star carrier is 106 degrees fahrenheit.
When one star carrier is going unconscious or going to die, or is very weak, two star carriers can circulate energy by touching foreheads and palms. However they must both be the same type. Plasmic cannot circulate with rock and rock cannot circulate with plasmic. Something disastrous might happen.

A group or family of star carriers is called a “constellation.”

A baby of two human parents has a 1/10000000 chance of being a star carrier. These are highly regarded as bad luck in star carrier culture. They call it “displaced allegiances.”

Smashing or breaking a “star piece” is also bad luck, as well as picking dandelions or harming lightning bugs.

A star piece is a baseball shaped piece in the middle of a star carriers chest that provides them with their energy. If removed from their body, a star carriers hair and eyes will turn gray, and they’ll die.

If you pick up a star-piece and put your ear against it, you’ll hear a little voice. If a star piece is damaged or smashed, it will release a ton of energy and explode. Star pieces are treated like corpses or human ashes in star-carrier culture. When a star carrier dies of natural causes, the star-piece is removed from them and family members keep them like urns. When two star carriers greet, they exchange a little bit of energy. Just for awhile. So they call greeting and gatherings “Exchanging energies.”

Star carriers are only found in the cascadia reigon.

## Solid types

Solid types tend to be more stable and down to earth. Their energy is less ionized. They’re calmer and able to form solid orbs. A common hobby in Solid type culture is “matter-bending”, a competition in which Solid types bend their energy into different shapes like glass birds and cups. It involves endurance (keeping the energy in “energy form” for just the right amount of time) and skill (bending at just the right curves and angles) Solid types are able to form both plasmic and solid orbs, but they’re a little weaker. They’re more common.

## Plasmic types

Plasmic types are more flowing and energized. They’re also more powerful, but they cannot form solid orbs. Their veins glow in the dark and they have streaked and colored hair. If a plasmic type is born with streaks or colored hair, it may fade, may not. The chances are 50/50. They also tend to be unstable. They tend to be reckless and scatterbrained.