Kolsari

Name: Kosari  (Northerners = Kosari'e / Southerners = Kosari'a)

Home System: Kolsarious

Home Planet: Kosari Prime

First Contact Date: First contact has not been officially made by a Federation delegation due to technology level.

First Contact Made By: Ferengi

Faction: Unaligned

Government: Representational Monarchy with two ruling factions, one per hemisphere.  Each tribe has a representative that reports to a central Queen per hemisphere.

Violence: Kosari are a shy and skittish species.  They are naturally curious about new things and people but are easily frightened and startle easily.  They can be hostile and vicious when cornered and if they cannot hide or run, they become ferocious fighters to protect themselves and even more violent when protecting their eggs and families.

Language: The Kolsari speak in a series of murrs, purrs, chirps and rolling r sounding language.  They mainly communicate through a series of sounds and body languages, spoke languages are less predominant and saved for royal functions.

Skin/Pelt:  Varying shades depending on continent.  The Northerners have skin tones beneath their fur ranging from white to black through the spectrum of gray.  The Southerners have skin tones beneath their fur ranging from light tans to dark browns with a few exceptions in between for both sides.

Hair: Not hair so much as fur.  Their bodies are covered with fur with a density depending on climate.  The colors ranges the spectrum that mimics Earth felines both wild and domestic mainly depending on the region they hail from.

Eyes:  Feline slitted pupils of either green, amber or blue.

Audio: Very keen sense of hearing with their large lapine shaped ears.  Much better than human and a wider varying range of frequencies.

Empathic: Rare genetic aberrations.

Telepathic: Rare genetic aberrations.

Intelligence: Coming from an era closer to WWI Earth, they are knowledgeable about the basics of industry but the species, being naturally curious are quick to pick up new ideas and theories and are quite adaptable.

Gender: The entire species is hermaphroditic.

Other: Egg laying species.

Summary:  The Kosari are a small animalistic people, who, depending on where they were born, have adapted to their climates accordingly.  The are a family (tribal) species and being the way they are have large family groups that normally live in large generational homes filled with food and laughter.  They are nimble of movement and thought but have a tendency to be flighty and easily distracted as their minds jump from topic to topic.

The entire race is hermaphroditic in gender.  Single sex offspring are very rare and normally looked upon as outcasts or half people.

Timeline:  Kolsari Prime is at, or around, WWI era Earth.

Culture:  The Kolsari are a tribal species split between two hemispheres, the arctic North and the tropical South.  They are very family oriented and being an egg laying species tend to hide their eggs to protect from predators and go back frequently to care for the eggs to keep them safe.  Tribes have been known to intermingle and even marry between the varying clans making a larger clan by the whole, but it will always come down to clan over community.

Technology:  WWI Era Earth technology, with an influx of higher tech "junk" from Ferengi traders to aid in their never ended civil war.

Monetary System:  Basic bartering system and monetary compensation in the form of small gems and various precious metals..  The Ferengi found out that Kolsari Prime has deposits of latinum that the local inhabitants find pretty but useless.

Theology: Ancestral / Egg worship.

Recommendations:  Not ready for Starfleet membership, but may need saving from the Ferengi.

Notes:

A Kolsari on a standard Terran gravity environment will experience severe strength and speed increases in relation to beings raised on a standard Terran gravity environment due to Kolsari Prime being a heavy gravity world.

A Kolsari will need heavy metal supplements if off-world for long periods of time due to the nature of the Demon Class planet they originate from.

Civil war is fought over the differences in appearance and resources that the planet has.  There is more than enough resources on the planet to support both groups but neither one can get over the physical differences of the other enough to work through a peace accord.  The Ferengi found a specific mineral that the planet produces and has deigned to trade with Kosari Prime exclusively, this also causes conflict because the Ferengi find it profitable to keep the two warring halves at war, because war is good for business.  The native ceremonial garb for both species is a billowing robe and hood colored to denote job and clan.  It just so happened that Rebel and Genna were chosen as emissaries for their respective peoples to trade with the Ferengi for weapons to help their individual causes.  They end up leaving their planet together by stowing away on a Ferengi cargo hauler and end up working their way across the expanse of stars.