Monoga

Monoga male and female

## Monoga Biology

The mogona are a tall, thin, colorful people that come in many verities of color both in hair colors and body. They are normally a mix of silver and black with patterns covering their bodies, the more rear the pattern the more beautiful that Monoga is considered. Monoga tend to be bisexual with around a 76% bisexuality rate among the males and females of the species. Their tall thin structure would normally be the product of a low gravity home world however the Monoga's home world isn't any lower then most other species's home planets; instead it appears as though this height occurred naturally.

## History

The Monoga had a very interesting history as well they had multiple large scale wars in their pre-space history, it was not about territory or resources but rather about art. Art and expression is a massive part of the Monogan culture; the performing, visual or audio art are all considered of grate importance to them and to be held above all else. When they did achieve space flight in -15 DoS they did so under the pretense of art and not scientific achievement. They developed their first FTL drive based on Ocilion technologies, that were discovered on one of the planets in their system, only 51 years after their first space flight. With the new ability to network they reformed under a centralized government known as the Monoga Consortium. They saw this government as take care of the boring parts of life well artists could travel the stars and see the beauties of the galaxy. Instead after traveling through their first Jump-point they discovered they were not alone and soon got embroiled in the growing cold war with their new neighbors. For the first time the Monoga had to develop war ships (their home world is mostly desert, swamps and glaciers with only a few water sources wide enough to warrant naval traversal so naval warfare was a new concept to them). However war never happened and in 87 DoS the formation of the Mass Alliance had them joining their former cold war opponents in a super nation to which the Mogona contributed their vast resources pool and art and culture to as well as one of their darker secrets that would eventually become OSNI.

## Morphology

### Legs

The Monoga leg matches that of the Human leg with a thigh, calf and a five toed foot. Their typical leg length is around 60%-70% of their body height.

### Arms

Again, very similar to the humans the Monoga arm is made up of a bicep, forearm and hand with four fingers and a thumb.

### Torso

The Monoga have a thin torso with an hourglass like figure. Notably some sex dimorphism between males and females is that the males have more pronounced abdominal muscles where as the females are not quiet as pronounced.

### Head

The Monoga head matches that of a Human as well, with a similar jaw shape and hair. The only noticeable differences are that the Monoga's eyes don't have white but rather dark grey and their iris glows slightly to help them navigate the dark and more defined cheek bones. Monoga do have a more diverse color to their hair with just about every color in the visible spectrum found naturally occurring.

### Special features

The Monoga have specialized skin that often appears rubbery and is similar to that found on a dolphin. Another notable feature of their skin is that they have different stripes and patterns, most Monoga consider this as visible evidence of their artistic culture, this was likely evolved for attracting mates or blending into their environments. The last and most notable feature of the Monoga is that they have very malleable genetic codes. This has allowed them, under specifically monitored conditions, to breed with other select species. Such as: Acar, Elions, Humans, Julitharian and Thental an attempt to mate with the Cathlium was made but only a select few made it to maturity.

## Psionics

Many Monoga possess low level psionics that they were unaware of till they departed their home world. Most are able to subconsciously pick up on the emotional state of others but with training they can achieve more powerful feats such as telepathic communication. Under tutelage from the Tribion some groups of Monoga have been able to develop this ability much farther then would otherwise naturally been able. With the use of psionic boosters some Monoga can do low level telepathic attacks. Most Monoga have no intention of training this ability so most do not increase this power to any usable amount. This has also given the Monoga a high amount of empathy towards other species.

## Hybrids

### Cathlium hybrid

After contact was made with the Cathlium an attempt to interweave the DNA of them and the Monoga as a psionically potent species. The project, code named Xaura, attempted to find a way to hybridize the two species. The project met many genetic failures throughout the coarse of its 30 year duration. Most successful attempts to form a hybrid that survived past youth turned out to be infertile or psionically unstable. Late into the projects life it turned out one genetically stable template, however it was unable to develop psioniclly associated action groups. It was determined that the genetic groups between the Cathlium genes and the Monoga were completely incomparable, one could either develop to adult hood or develop psinoic abilities not both. Some genetically stable hybrids continue to live throughout the Mass Alliance. However they tend to live in colonies away from high population regions.

### Talon hybrid

Following the failure of the Cathlium/Monoga hybrid project the company that worked with the Mass Alliance government, Ronin pharmaceuticals, took their part of the research and began to develop a commercial hybrid program. This program would be focused on making hybrids of coups of different species, Monogan DNA being malleable enough to serve as the bases for this program. The first successful hybrid that was offered was the Talon/Monoga hybrid. These hyrids were incredibly genetically stable but couldn't reproduce due to the reptilian and mammal reproduction organs being contradictory. They often got the nickname of "Killer Whales" based on their skin color being a glossy black and white.