Hakkan

The **Hakkan** are a race of serpentine reptilians native to the planet Haaka. Due to their longevity and flexibility, the Hakkan have established a griphold on multiple races, including the Poone and Karcoffians, and on most underground activity. Hakkan culture is easygoing because of the race's aversion to all forms of suppression. Hakkans have the ability to change colors based upon their chemical intake.

## Biology and appearance

The Hakkan are a race of serpentine reptilians native to the planet Haaka. Hakkan have a serpentine body structure with a head and an elongated tail. Hakkan are typically large, with a length of 7.6 meters and weighing 343 kilograms. The head is 1.1 meters in height. Along the entire body on evenly spaced segments with wispy tendrils that are a remnant of the Hakkan's camouflage. These tendrils vary in shape and depth to the point where each one is unique. The largest tendrils are on the head and along the beginning neck. The tail ends with a large tendril that can spread in shape like a fan. Hakkan come in various shades of green with darker colored spots along the body.

The head of the Hakkan has a pronounced long snout that lacks a nose. The small mouth has noticeably large lips hiding a tube-like mouth lines with up to 400 teeth. All Hakkan have small tendrils on their chins reminiscent of facial hair. The two eyes have large dark-colored lids. The pupils are horizontal and can be dark green or yellow in color. At the top of the head there is the largest of the Hakkan's tendrils, these tendrils are in noticeable quantity on the head and down the neck, becoming more evenly spaced on the rest of the body. Despite their lack of limbs, Hakkan are flexible and can move deceptively fast.

Hakkan have a physiological attraction to chemicals, a remainder of their early nature of hiding from predators by masking themselves with plant toxins. Hakkan skin changes color based upon their amount of chemical intake, meaning ingestion of specific plants can allow them to camouflage easier.

Hakkans reproduce by laying egg bundles that hatch after eight months. Young Hakkan are immediately capable of living on their own after hatching and thus are abandoned by their parents. Like most species, the Hakkan have two sexes that are assigned at birth, male and female. Male Hakkan are larger in size while the females have larger arrangements of tendrils. Hakkan are long-lived, capable of living up to 300 years.

## Society and culture

Hakkan culture is easygoing due to the race's aversion to all forms of suppression. This means that each Hakkan is individualistic by nature, often having no connection to family or society. Some of the only beings that Hakkan willingly interact with is their friends and lovers. Hakkan that get together abandon their young in fear of suppressing the young's needs. Though Hakkan build cities, they lack any structure and have an anarchic nature with no laws or regulations.

Because of their attraction to chemicals, and their culture's lack of rules, much of Hakkan society is built around chemical intake. This has caused a large chemical trade to develop around the species. Because of this relation to chemicals and the their longevity, many Hakkan have established a griphold on multiple races with their trade, including the Poone and Karcoffians, and on most underground activity, with many of the most powerful crime lords in the underground being Hakkan.

Most Hakkan spend their time high on various chemicals. Hakkan that attempt to achieve greatness in the wider galaxy often have cybernetic arms installed for easier interaction with other races.

The main language spoken by the Hakkan is Haak, a simplistic, guttural tongue.

## History

The Hakkan first evolved from a small reptile on the planet Haaka. This early species ate various plants to change colors and covered themselves with plant toxins to hide from the ancient predators of Haaka. These traits eventually developed into the Hakkan's chemical addicted nature. The species developed sentience and technology by 8,000 YBO.

Overtime, Haaka began to trade its abundant chemicals with nearby civilization, giving the Hakkan a firm status in that region of the galaxy. This status allowed more ambitious Hakkan to spread across the Unclaimed Regions, gaining power as crime lords. Because of the Hakkan's lack of government, they remain unaffiliated, rarely interacting with the wider galaxy at all.

## Hakkan in the galaxy

Most Hakkan remain on their homeworld and spend all their time high on various chemicals. Elsewhere, Hakkan can be rarely found throughout the Unclaimed Regions in the underground. Hakkan are nearly unheard of in the western galaxy, while they have a reputation as fearsome underground lords in the eastern galaxy.

Most off-world Hakkans often have great power in the underground, operating as bosses or crime lords. This adds to the species reputation as a fearsome race in the eastern galaxy, despite this claim being mostly untrue.