Telónio

## Anatomy/Biology

**Description**: The Telónio are a humanoid race that is considered to be on the smaller side in every aspect aside from their intellect and technological savvy, the tallest members of their race standing at roughly 5 feet in height. The Telónio have leathery skin seen in shades of green, gray, and even colors similar to human skin, which is often accompanied by large/long pointed ears. Sharpened teeth and beady eyes make up the otherwise peaceful visage of the creatures, who tend to have an affinity towards pierced jewelry and tattoos, as they feel a subconscious need to customize their body to their aesthetic. Both Male and Female members of the race sport anywhere from full luscious heads of long hair, to none at all and while typically seen as weak or frail due to their size and stature, the Telónio more than make up for it in brain power, both intellectually and psychically.

**Diet**: The Telónio are Omnivorous in nature, however often prefer to eat meat when available.

### Male

**Average height**: 4 feet, 6 inches or 137.16 centimeters.

**Average weight**: 85 pounds or 42.5 kilograms.

**Average build**: Short, yet Toned for their body size. Their bodies do not necessarily lack muscle in comparison to their bigger humanoid counterparts, but their size makes them “weak”.

**Coloration**: Varying Hues of Green, Gray, and Tan.

**Average lifespan**: 525 to 575 Years.

### Female

**Average height**: 4 feet, 2 inches or 127 centimeters.

**Average weight**: 75 pounds or 37.5 kilograms.

**Average build**: Short, yet Toned for their body size. The Female Telónio are physically weaker than the already weak males, however often make up for such in speed.

**Coloration**: Varying Hues of Green, Gray, and Tan, with the rare inclusion of Blue Hues.

**Average** **lifespan**: 550 - 600 Years.

**Extra**: The Telónio are reproduced in the typical sexual fashion, female’s carrying the unborn child for a period of roughly 3 months before giving birth naturally. Upon being born the Telónio child is considered an infant, and is still considered such until they have been alive for a minimum of 7 years. At 7 years in age, one is then recognized as a toddler, their next landmark in age being a child at 14 years in age, the next being a teenager at 91 years in age, then reaching adulthood at the age of 147 years. On average, a member of the Telónio race will hit middle age at around 350 years, reaching old age at roughly 500 with the oldest living Telónio living upwards of 700+ years.

The Telónio are overall considered weak, as they are not physically strong nor are they bigger than what most races would consider “Midget” in size. Despite this, the race developed quicker reflexes, higher agility, and the ability to contort into small places making them very similar to rodents. The Telónio, over the course of their 4 million year history, have evolved certain traits and/or abilities that truly make them who they are.

## Politics

**System**: A Diarchy or Duumvirate style of Governance quite literally can be broken down into “The Office of Two Men” and means almost exactly that. The Telónio hold a planet wide election of 150 chosen families which boil down to 2, then 2 leaders from the 2 separate families who then go on to rule the Telónio until their death, where an heir from each family will then move upwards to fill the role. In the event an heir is not available, a new election will be held from within another chosen family to select a ruler. The 2 leaders rule together, hand in hand as one resides over the Military as Athenaeum Warlord and the other over Politics as Athenaeum Chancellor. Each Telónio owned planet is recorded to have its own singular leader who acts similar to a manager in charge of a 20 member council, all of which then work to ensure the planet's successful existence. The singular leaders of these non-homeworld planets are known as a Regnant, their council members known as Ministers.

**Values**: The Telónio value nothing more than knowledge within the cosmos, they dedicate their lives to the arts, literature, and science among other things. Telónio often work in groups to further their goals and make wonderful friends/family. Telónio often finds no use for otherworldly currency as information is far more valuable to them.

**Religion(s)**: The Telónio did away with religion some few hundred thousand years ago, seeing it largely as a distraction from their destiny.

**Settlements/Colonies**: The Telónio controls a Galactic Territory of roughly 10 thousand Light Years in Diameter. The Telónio Homeworld is a temperate terran body known as Gob within the Vhridian System, 4th closest planet to the Type-K Vhridian Star.

**Diplomacy**: The Telónio currently have no relations other than Neutral towards the rest of the cosmos, this includes both known and unknown factions/races. This being said, the Telónio have been visited by space travelers before, and have negative relations with the Dom’Kavosh.

**Age of spacefaring civilization**: The Telónio have existed as a race for roughly 4 million years, however have been considered a spacefaring civilization for 15,000 years, as it was roughly that long ago that “Holio Vhandr Sr.” of the “A.C.E Galactic Traversal Study” successfully developed the first spacecraft module capable of allow FTL travel.

## Technology

**Military**: The Telónio Military is given authority to wield any Technology currently available

**Civilian/Public**: Civilian technological use is limited to recreational, research, educational, information storing, and most other basic needs. The general populace are allowed one Military grade firearm each although they do not all choose to own one, civilian grade firearms exist and are not restricted. Commercial industry or even Civilian based businesses are able to apply for Military grade technology depending on the usage.

**Overview**: The Telónio race prides themselves on their technology, often keeping up with the Galactic normality in tech despite not having much if any contact with the Galaxy. For roughly 1000 years the Telónio have remained amongst themselves, only using FTL for research gathering, resource gathering, and interplanetary travel.

**Traditions**: The Telónio have one distinct tradition/holiday, that being the Solstice of Eons, a Centennial based event that is held at the planets northernmost and southernmost poles where the entire planets worth of inhabitants gathers in gargantuan, utopian esque cities that act as a vacation home. The inhabitants stay here for the entire Solstice, celebrating the changing of an Era as another successful 100 years is completed. The Solstice typically lasts anywhere from 1 to 2 months, depending on the planet, and during this time festivals are held almost constantly across the entirety of the poles. Other than this, the Telónio also celebrate birthdays but only at every age based landmark reached by a member of the race.

**Conflicts/Issues**: The Telónio have not always been a peaceful race, having suffered several civil wars across the history of their race, almost dooming themselves to extinction over 2.5 million years ago. It was from this near extinction that a more wise breed of Telónio was born, which would then go on to evolve into how we know them today. Unfortunately this, paired with the psychic nature and photographic memory of the Telónio have left many of the race as cowards, others with hereditary PTSD, and has largely turned the race itself pacifist, despite their owning of a military, as one cannot be too careful.

## Racial Information

**Relevant history**: The Telónio as a race are roughly 4 million years old, having evolved from small cave creatures resembling gollum esque gnomes, into an intelligent sentient race of goblin like people. Over the course of these 4 million years, the Telónio utilized their small size and bright minds to revolutionize their societies, bring about several renaissance periods, as well as invent the Technology needed to birth great cities of steel, a long standing golden age for the race, and the means of traveling the stars. Despite several wars, revolutions, natural disasters, Pandemics, etc. the Telónio people continued forwards toward the future, eventually uniting their planet as one nation known as the Athenaeum Cherubim Enclave.

As of Stardate 4707, the Telónio have only come in contact with the Dom'Kavosh one time during the Dom'Kavosh Genocide of Dravia 9 almost 1000 years ago on the Winter Solstice of the Gumvhan System on planet Vrin. It was the Galactic year 3703 on the Dawn of the Winter Solstice, when the planet had gathered at the poles for their Centennial-based tradition. As the sun seemed to rise over the curvature of the planet, Dom'Kavosh ships were spotted in orbit, and without warning proceeded to fire upon the gathered Telónio. 2 billion lives were lost before the Assaults ceased and the enemy vanished, perhaps it was a trial or test, but whatever had happened the Dom'Kavosh seemed content for the meantime. Since that day the race has worked hard to recover, and has done so within a matter of years, however the Telónio have become reclusive as a result.

## Racial Abilities

### Race

* Dark Vision: Spending most of their early stages in evolution within caves, the Telónio have long since developed a knack for seeing within the dark. On average, a regular Telónio is able to see up to 350 feet in pitch black darkness unaided, and can see in any other form of darkness as if it were daylight.
* Innate Intelligence: Since the dawn of the Telónio Renaissance the race found themselves with a subconscious destiny, that of the Philomath. Over time the Telónio used this subconscious enlightenment as a reason for evolution, taking such pride in their races' average intelligence.
* Photographic Memory: Due to their innate crave for gaining and storing knowledge, the Telónio developed a biological photographic memory, allowing them to store an infinite amount of knowledge within their minds without forgetting anything. This gives them a perfect recollection of their history from the dawn of their first spark of civilization.
* Audio Mimicry: One of the first skills that the Telónio developed in order to better hunt, trap, and strategize, was the ability to Mimic sounds or voices they hear, similar to certain avian races.
* Innate Speed and Agility: Due to the underwhelming size of the Telónio, they find themselves both quicker and more agile than one would normally think due to focused evolution, as they scurry around at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour when sprinting, also able to jump up to 2 times their height due to this trait. This trait was largely adapted by the pacifist race in order to successfully allow them to escape the more deadly fauna on their homeworld.
* Minor Echolocation: Due to the Telónio developing very large concave ears during their early evolution, they are able to utilize the basics of Echolocation to better understand the location of predators or enemies within a certain range.

### Psychic

* Psychic Communication: The ability to message individuals or a group secretly through thought based conversation, able to relay covert information and intel with ease.
* Empathy: The ability to interpret or understand the emotions of another being as if they were your own.
* Tele-Empathy: The ability to communicate to others your emotions as if they were their own.1
* Telepathic Relay: The ability to act as a relay for several Telepathic users, allowing them to communicate through you, the host, as a group for as long as you allow.
* Psychic Construction: The ability to construct solid objects, tools, or melee weapons from pure Psychic Energy.
* Telekinetic Bullet Projection: The ability to project Psychic Energy or objects as bullet esque projectiles, albeit non-lethal in nature.
* Telekinetic Grip: The ability to grasp or hold an object/s in place telekinetically.
* Telekinetic Maneuver: The ability to alter an object/s directional course telekinetically.
* Telekinetic Pull/Push: The ability to push or pull objects using telekinesis.
* Psychic Homing: The ability to have any chosen object home onto any chosen target using psychic ability. Requires concentration.
* Telekinetic Compression: The ability to crush or compress an object/s using telekinesis.

## References

1. ↑ This does hamper their vision in bright light.
2. ↑ Their homeworld has a gravity very similar to Earth and higher gravity will hamper this.