Sabochans

**Sabochans**, or **Sabochuns**, are a race of Teadr 3 canine-like hominids that are native to the Planet Sabochalla (Epsilon Universe, Essephemer Sector, Glamri System). These beings were the first addition to the United Sentient Races Alliance after the Great Veexomite War fought by the Humans, Naroudans, Cunones, and Yuruns.

## History

Sabochans evolved from wolves that had the intelligence of gorillas, living in family groups, and building nests. They lived on a planet that was far enough from it's sun to be in a perpetual ice age. In prehistoric times, Sabochalla suffered 4 Snowball World eras that threatened life, the earliest Sabochans evolving from the last one, which was followed by a 20,000-year ice age. In this time, the Sabochans had to survive extremely hard due to the heavy storms and superstorms that plagued their world. They ended up living inside caves, only going outside for survival needs, living in subterranean or enclosed areas of the planet while the ice age raged on. They grew in intellect, strategy, and coordination when climate change caused by a powerful plume of volcanism ended this ice age, warming the planet and flooding it. In this era, the Sabochans had all came onto the biggest one, where they evolved with more resources, new wildlife, and all the years they needed to increase their intelligence. In time they became what is known as the Sabonine, a sentient wolf creature that would become the earliest true Sabochan, regardless if the sentience is only 75% true sentience.

The Sabonine grew to develop tools and language, and how to hunt more intelligently. Though each pack used different ones that made each other angry with envy. As a result, this became what could be the first intertribal war. This would continue as packs all over the continent developed technology and even learned how to stand upright. With their new sapient bodies, the Sabochans evolved and their primitive tools and traps became primitive technology. Their intertribal warfare continued as their new technological creations allowed them to spread across the rest of the planet. But soon they became high-tech and found themselves with the ability to engage in a powerful war. But when this proved catastrophic, the Sabochans decreed that technology was too powerful to be implemented into their society and was better exchanged rather than fought over. This became the reason why technology is the currency of Sabochan society.

This decree also evolved into the Sabochan's primary religion of Sabochaism, in which enlightenment is given by a balance between nature and technology, and not being overreliant on one or the other. The Sabochans thus traded technology and used it whenever they could, and kept to their tribal ways. They learned to modernize well and went through a renaissance spawned from them finally achieving the enlightenment they sought for a thousand years, and the trade of technology became widely beneficial and evolved into a capitalistic movement. As generations passed, the economy of their technological exchange began to dwindle and thus they learned how to create primitive space travel. They sent out hundreds of giant unmanned scout ships packed with all the autonomous machines they needed to go out into space and explore, searching for new leftover technology abandoned by AUU history to return with and give more wealth. Though this process took dozens of years, it succeeded as the Sabochans grew more wealthy with the bounties of technology uncovered from many abandoned worlds. But one delivered a distress beacon. One of the scout ships seemed to have crashed on Marbon, and alerted the humans and the USRA. They in turned traced the scout ship's coordinates to Sabochalla, and they soon made contact with the Sabochans. The Emperor of the time had thus spoken with the humans who contacted them, and after they visited their planet, they submitted themselves as part of the USRA, not only for a greater technological exchange, but for a better connection with the rest of the AUU.

## Society and Culture

The Sabochans are prosperous with their life of limited advancement, and treat technology as a privilege rather than a right, and thus give it as an award or for bartering. Because of this, they live in a technologically-primitive society, and eat their dead or dying comrades, believing it as a form of cremation. They are also very religious, and hold the act of hunting as a sacred rite. They do not wear clothing due to their fur, only wearing so in the name of fashion or royalty, among other reasons outside of modesty. Outside of that, they only wear utility belts and bandoliers. But they do construct and wear EVO suits and powerful armor, though they find both to be uncomfortable and restrictive. Females can tend to have longer head hair, and can often braid it with metal and bone beads to reflect their skills and accomplishments.

Sabochans live in an Asian-like society and live under an imperial edict. Though the government is fractured because of being separated into semi-technological tribes, the Emperor governs how the land works as a whole, and how the tribes adhere to the decrees. They have created holidays celebrating their independence from technology, and have also adopted other AUU holidays such as Grim Night and Kraanmas.

## Physiology

A full-grown Sabochan can stand approximately 8ft tall. Females are 15% larger than the males, and generally have broader chests and shoulders. Their lungs are very large and therefore can allow for greater stamina. Their minds are complex and capable of enhanced perception, and they have lovable yet vicious personalities as extremely social creatures. They have hair and fur with coloration ranging from blackish-gray, gray, whitish, and light-brown, and they have an eye coloration ranging from blue, indigo, violet, magenta, pink, and red. Sabochan minds are capable of being imprinted to fit a specific job such as watchers, hunters, herders, transporters, guards, law enforcers, and even therapists.

Sabochans, like any canine, possess great senses of smell, sight, and hearing, and can see in the dark. But in Sabochans, these senses are capable of getting broadened over constant training and experience. This means that in time and with proper health, they can see, hear, move, and smell better. Yet as they age, these senses seem to regress. This is caused by a protein that is fueled by adrenaline, nutrients, and other organic or fatty acids. This protein, called sabonin, can increase the cell count of the olfactory, optic, and auditory nerves, and therefore allowing them to grow and expand. As they age, some of these cells die because of the body losing the ability to produce sabonin.

Sabochans are also known for elaborate glandular systems. These systems can be triggered by any emotional response and the pheromones they create can have any effect on them that accommodates their emotional state. Most of these glands can be found in the brain region, but there are prevalent ones around the body. The scent of these glands have also been known to induce similar feelings in other beings, as this was believed to be a biological evolution meant to maintain social balance in the pack.

## Technology

Sabochans developed their technology through intertribal welfare, and had very few battles which allowed them to develop high-tech weaponry, hovercrafts and other flying battle vehicles. Though their technology is limited compared to certain USRA races, they modernized thanks to interaction from them. Though they use technology as currency, they are not afraid to use it whenever they can. Half of the technology they had was from a science era where they boosted their own advancement but then left it behind after a near-catastrophic war. The other half of the technology on their planet came from their unmanned expeditions with the scout ships that also attracted the USRA. They brought them their biggest supply of technology and fixed the economic crisis they had tenfold. The value of technology depends on how much it could be worth in any society across the AUU. Commonplace advanced technology is worth an average but high price. These are called low-class technology. Middle-class technology such as spaceships, world-changing devices, teleportation, advanced power, and so on, are worth millites, or the AUU unit of currency that equals a million dollars. High-class technology including powerful Teadr 1 or Teadr 0 technology are worth the most, measuring more than millites, because they are very rare.

#### **Power**

Sabochans harness power using hydroelectricity. The storms of their planet have been known to accumulate very conductive substances in the water such as silver, which makes up 34.5% of the atmosphere of the planet and is the richest metal on the planet's surface, that precipitates into the hydrosphere, making the water more susceptible to electricity, and therefore allowing for more powerful. Lightning can thus be more attracted to the oceans. This has allowed the Sabochans to create tech-buoys all over the planet's oceans that are equipped with lightning rods, meant to act as power conductors. The power that they provide can supply more than enough power to fuel all the cities they possess on the planet. They have also learned how to use water as a fuel by mixing it with silver to create what is known as electrowater.

#### **Material**

Because of the richness of silver on Sabochalla, Sabochans have managed to create computing matrices. Silver became the first form of currency on Sabochalla before technology, and it's appliance in conducting electricity proved essential for their technological evolution starting with their discovery of electricity.

Aside from silver, other metals have been found all over the planet that have gone into the armor and what fashion the Sabochans would wear. Others include biopolymers, bioorganic materials, fibers, powerful plastics, alloys, and so on. They have created fabrics that are smart and thus can adapt to anything and provide for the wearer when needed. Many of these biopolymers are derived from a very prevalent silk from the most populous grasses on their planet. These grasses have been renowned for their durability and ability to spread burrowing seeds upon death.

#### **AI and Automation**

Robotics and artificial intelligence have been average. They have mastered robotics, androids, powerful combat drones, vehicular robots, and basic artificial intelligence.

#### **Medical Advances and Biotechnology**

Because of the Sabochans being carnivores, they cannot normally consume plants. But their need for potential survival has allowed them to consume medicinal herbs, allowing them not only the potential to be omnivores, but also gives them the ability to create elixirs, serums, and so on, which are added as seasoning in meals. Their medicine is mostly given via their diet, while in some instances are done via syringes.

Though they learned stemcell technology, cybernetics, plantibodies, or plant-based antibodies, cryogenic serums that can freeze the body in many ways and numb illnesses, DNA-based vaccinations, artificial enzymes, and virotherapy, they prefer to show an ability to work without lost limbs and do what they can for the rest of their lives. Even when they are dying, they prefer to go out with pride and honor.

#### **Communications and Computing**

Sabochans have mastered communications and computing thanks to their discovery of electricity and silver, learning how to create data storage and emulators. They started this brand of technology using wrist-mounted computers called 'wrids', which evolved and became touch-screen mobile devices. Wrids still undergo experimentation to this day. They are capable of extensive calculation, communication with others over long distances, a variety of apps, and they can even measure the health of the wearer using a tricorder function.

Sabochuns have learned how to create computers that are lightweight thanks to the implementation of holography. They learned to do this using a portable core that uses lasers and light to cast any kind of screen display or interface. Some computers do not use this and are touch-screen panels with touch-screen keyboards and screens. Sabochan computing has thus come in many forms.

Sabochans have also been capable of using virtual or augmented reality. They developed glasses or shades that can enhance and analyze the world around them using small antennas and the use of a replicated AI guide derived from the wearer.

#### **Space-Faring**

The Sabochans still have yet to begin their space-faring crusades since they only have three colonies. They have more than mastered space-age technology, including the discovery of interstellar travel, but aside from crusades with the USRA, or with the use of interplanetary portals, they have not ventured off-world and into space by themselves.

Sabochans have created satellites all over their planet for a variety of functions, and each of them, like their scout ships, have a defense system, and can even work together in the event of a celestial danger such as a pending asteroid impact. These satellites are robots with the same central core and can be controlled manually by the Sabochans. They control them manually most of the time to avoid being too reliant on technology via artificial intelligence doing the work for them.

#### **Weapons**

The melee weaponry of Sabochans use silver and can be charged with electricity or energy to make them more dangerous. Some are also vibroweapons, which vibrate to provide more force to the weapon. Most Sabochans commonly use glaives with blades coming in many shapes, swords that were often made into patas, baton-handled gladiuses, katars, circular-bladed throwing discs, war fans, wrist claws, bokkens, and long-blade axes.

As for firearms, the Sabochans have the common and standard-issue handheld phasers that are small enough to fit in their palms, standard-issue blasters that are the standard sizing, and the larger standard-issue disruptors. All these functions don't use bullets or energy. Instead they use a kind of compressed and launched kinetic push which serves as a pulse blast, like a punch launched from a gun. These three gun types can exist in rifles and cannons as well. Their pulse functions can use the same vibration function as their vibroweapons and thus they can be set to kill.

#### **Vehicles and Buildings**

Sabochan vehicles are known as repulsor vehicles. These vehicles hover above the ground using the same kinetic technology used in their pulse weaponry. Though it cannot allow them flight, it allows for all-terrain transport. All repulsor vehicles are reminiscent of Chinese boats such as junks, and utilize solar sails made from algae-based fibers that absorb sunlight as an added source of power while they can alternatively use electrowater as a fuel. Though most Sabochans prefer to keep mounts as vehicles.

Sabochans are the only lower Teadr race known to develop techbuildings, or buildings that work like a machine. Though this would later be mastered by other races, the Sabochans first developed them as mobile forts using the same kinetic technology as the vehicles and pulse weapons. In time they evolved this into creating AI/robot-operated hovering building blocks for great cities. These blocks can come in many shapes and sizes, and can hook into each other using electron bonds, linking not just molecularly, but sharing power. These buildings are now made with an obsidian-colored silver alloy, making them shiny black and sporting red, blue, and orange lighting produced by light panels using bioluminescent microbes, are outfitted with durable glass windows, holographic rooms, and are capable of holographic broadcasting. Cities and villages also contain underground heated agricultural sanctuaries.