Naroudans

**Naroudans** are a Teadr 2 semi-arboreal lemur-like race native to the Planet Naroulu (Epsilon Universe, Bogthen Sector, Bogyen System). They are the first alien race that the Humans made contact with and one of the primary founding members of the United Sentient Races Alliance. They are known for coining the term of 'Teadr' which is an AUU word for technological level.

## History

The Naroudans evolved from small herbivorous lemur hominids called Narothals, which lived on a secluded but large island called Narogo during times when dinosaurs ruled the mainland. They also had enough brain power to survive a destructive meteor shower that wiped the dinosaurs out and they rebuilt their island home into what would become their capital city of Enrymne, starting out as a Teadr 6.5 island village. Soon they grew smart enough to get off Narogo and develop an omnivorous diet through lack of their proper plant diet, as well as long and intense snowy seasons leaving plants too inedible. They soon developed themselves in a remarkable renaissance and a remarkable military government as they had to adapt in the conditions of the rest of their planet.

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## Biology

Naroudans are an arboreal lemuroid species that stand approximately 7 feet tall. They live primarily in trees. Though they can live on the ground, they are more mobile in the trees. Like many alien beings in the AUU, Naroudans possess a ribsac instead of a ribcage, which is a cartilaginous sac-like apparatus more practical in storing and protecting central organs. They have larger lungs which give them more stamina. Their hearts are also larger, containing more chambers than a human heart. They possess eight chambers, four being atriums for intake and four ventricles for outtake, which pump more oxygen and nutrients through the body. Also like certain AUU beings, Naroudans possess two stomachs, carnivorous stomach and the herbivorous stomach, owing to the Naroudans’ omnivorous diet, as they also have lemur toothcombs alongside human-like teeth. The division of food intake type is an efficient method of sorting food nutrients for the necessary metabolic processes. They possess two livers that detoxify the food from each stomach. They possess two spleens above their kidneys for doubled circulatory and immune responses.

They possess highly evolved brains with seven lobes: the temporal, parietal, frontal, occipital, limbic, insular, and kinesthetic. The kinesthetic lobe is an extension of the cerebellum located in the front that gives Naroudans enhanced motor control, balance, attention, cognitive functions, behavioral control, and kinesthetic senses which allows them a greater experience in learning movements, which is crucial for a tree-faring species. Due to the flexibility of their kinesthetic intelligence, they can learn a variety of mobility styles, such as rolling, leaping, skipping, and so on, as their primary method of movement. Their senses are more developed, as they can see better than an average human and possess natural night vision, their inner ears are connected more to the kinesthetic lobe and allows for higher hearing and balance, and their smell is greater than humans by 50%, added by their vomeronasal organs that detect pheromones. The Naroudan brain is more limbic, and this makes Naroudans a more emotionally driven race. Their glandular systems are stronger and they produce more natural musk and hormones than humans. They would feel pain greatly, they are more expressive in emotions, and they care more greatly for their kin. Anything that stimulates their senses are thus pleasurable, and they would have a greater meaning for motivation.

Naroudan limbs are designed like those of a lemur. Both hands and feet possess thumbs crucial for climbing. They possess small nail-like claws like a lemur, including a lemur’s toilet-claw. Their tails are long and prehensile, useful for hanging onto branches. The tails are also useful for passing hormones like the tails of ringtail lemurs which also make it a stimulation organ. Their skeletal systems have more cartilage that allow for greater flexibility.

Naroudans came in 5 different breeds through proto-artificial evolution, genetic breeding, and experimentation. Though these breeds had little to no improvements, they were still good indicators of the Naroudans' ability of genetic selection.

* **Jakayne**- A red-to-brown breed that evolved on the island of Jakay, the first land that the Naroudans inhabited since Narogo, seeing it as a baby-step level of colonizing.
* **Trobeen**- A black-gray-and-white breed that evolved on the cold north and south poles and named after the mostly-storm-filled continent called the Trobe.
* **Runiarn**- A ring-tailed brown-and-white breed that evolved on the continent of Runiar.
* **Oelarun**- A brown monkey-like breed that evolved on the continent of Oelar.
* **Urwevar**- A yellowish-to-white breed that evolved on the African-style continent of Urweva.

## Society and Culture

The Naroudan race live under a tribal democracy. Each country lives under a dominant tribe under a single chief. The chiefs answer to the President, the headmaster of the entire planet’s Chief Council and the people in the tribes as a greater whole. The branches are government are different and more expansive than Earth governments. There’s the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, lead by their own heads called the Chief Legislator, Chief Executive, and Chief Judiciary, but there is also 5 others. The feudal branch shapes the societies and infrastructure of the planet, run by the Chief Baron. The monetary branch maintains the economy, wealth, capitalism, and finances all over the world and is operated by the Chief Broker. The academic branch that maintains not only education, but also scientific research and advancement for the race as a whole. The martial branch is in charge of law enforcement and defense for the planet as a whole, operated by the Chief Commandant. Finally, the expedient branch is in charge of the other planetary colonies on other planets and it contains a Presidential Council consisting of each president of each planet, and it is run by the Chief Consulate. Each of these branches are headquartered in the capital in a literal definition on the Capital Tree.

Naroudans, as a semi-arboreal race, built their cities mostly in the trees than they did on the ground. Thus their cities only exist mostly in giant Malagasy-like jungles, all of which contain wild and gigantic populations of steelwood, the strongest tree species in the AUU. The Naroudans have a strong belief in nature as much of their technology is derived from reverse-engineering it. They developed a grand respect for nature, and their dominant polytheistic religion of Naturistity is centered around the belief that each lifeform on the planet has a central deity that makes sure that their place is maintained. Naroudans are also skilled gardeners. They started out living in trees, but they learned to cultivate all manner of plants, methodically trimming and grooming large fields of crops, flora, and so on by regularly removing overgrown or dead branches and cutting back woody trunks regularly to maintain a proper size, and they likewise eliminate unwanted plants using plant thinner. Their skill in woodcraft have allowed them to build structures from living trees such as basket-like huts, bridges, fences, and even sculptures. They have even genetically created their own plants for construction purposes. Each city on the planet also encourages the invitation of other types of fauna such as pollinators, and thus plantations are found on any surface.

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## Technology

Naroudan technology is very semi-advanced compared to human technology, but it is still somewhat advanced in their definition. Their methods of experimentation were based on experience as they preferred to reverse-engineer from nature, or stick to it when they can.

#### **Power**

The Naroudans have at first used fossil fuels, but when they were all dried up, they began to use hydroelectric power plants as well as wind power plants and solar power plants. These allowed them more power than they could ever achieve, and this power, low in cost, allowed them to upgrade their technology greatly. They have also learned how to use algae as a fuel just like the humans did in addition to extremophilic bacterial fuel.

#### **Material**

The Naroudans had been the first race in the USRA to discover neutronium, the strongest metal in the AUU, capable of deflecting energy attacks and many other types of damage. They used this to it's finest during the Neutronium Age when they first discovered the metal in a large undiscovered vein underneath their home island and built their first knighthood and weapons.

The Naroudans have made buildings and fortresses from the durable wood of steelwood, which is a tree species that makes up most of the forests on Naroulu. This durable wood is built like steel and thus the Naroudans have timber lands in open areas where they grow trees to use their wood. Thus all tree buildings in the forests of Naroulu are made of the same wood as the trees they are built in.

Naroudans are expert welders, metallurgists, and techsmiths, capable of powerful metalwork and material technology, as they can create new types of metals by using elemental reactions and ionic reactors. This allows them practically an unlimited amount of metallurgy and metal-working, and thus they can make any metal they want. This has also allowed them to create metal foam, which they can use to craft the metal that makes it up into any shape or form.

Naroudans have weaved fabrics from the plants around them, and some leaves around them, including the leaves of steelwood, have allowed them to create highly-conductive and even durable superplastics for their clothes, jumpsuits, and so on. They have also mastered the growth around them by controlling them via regular trimming and grooming to make them grow into any shape, usually an artificial construct.

#### **Automation**

Despite not advanced in artificial intelligence like humans, Naroudans have managed to perfect robotics by using biomechanics and the use of genetic engineering. Their machines are synthetic and built to perform a simple job, but their jobs are for the hardest labor as the Naroudans have a belief in responsibility, and thus the robots are meant to do things that are physically impossible for them.

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

Because of the endless bounty of flora on Planet Naroulu, the discovery of the untold flora on the mainland allowed the Naroudans to master biochemical remedies, enhancements, medical breakthroughs, and so on. Naroudans have discovered how to grow grass on any vertical or horizontal surface and even genetically engineered them into absorbing any kind of light. They have created in vitro products and thus they can create meat without needing to hunt for it.

They have perfected nanoviruses just like humans, which is a virotherapeutic agent that can fight against infection. Many have even adopted nanoviruses into their immune systems as a kind of self-aware antibody that they can use straight through their brains. However, some diseases can adapt around these nanoviruses. Naroudans can use stem-cells and thus regenerate dead tissue. They can also use temporary bodily enhancement serums, as well as the ability of proto-artificial evolution, which they discovered when they created not just their own breeds, but other breeds on other worlds, allowing for adaptation on other exoplanets.

They have excelled at mutagenic horticulture as well and have thus created mutant plants meant to fill a role. Many of these artificial plant species include hoxweeds, which are plants that can grow into any shape or form when fed the right DNA, meat or plant. Hoxweeds are used for construction and artwork, among other uses. Carnosporuses are a defensive carnivorous Venus flytrap-like plant used for security and pest control, and are imprinted to their planter like a parent, and any allies. Solasprouts are large bulbous stalks that absorb sunlight and illuminate the night with it providing luminescence to the nights of the tree cities, and also gives tree cities access to solar power. Armoseeders are a plant pod that serves as a sentry turret capable of firing any projectile depending on the dozens of breeds. Detons are a bush that produces a highly volatile fruit capable of detonating to produce any effect depending on the dozens of breeds. They even breed hundreds of pods, an AUU class of plants that are like organic plant pots.

#### **Communications and Computing**

Naroudans are well-known for the adoption of the Omninet when they discovered it by accident before meeting the humans. With this, their first device for connecting to this signal was a screenless display device worn on their ear called an fDevice. In time, they modified this device to allow for enhanced augmented reality and even connection to any wireless network and can display screens only seen through one's own eyes. Though they also have access to touch-screen computers and mobile devices which allow them to use their fDevices much easier.

#### **Space-Faring**

Though they had not mastered spaceships until they discovered humanity on Marbon, they have only mastered unmanned spaceships which they could control through quantum computers. These unmanned devices, which ranged from exploration probes and robots, satellites, and so on, are powerful and they discovered how to travel across lightyears by sending high-velocity portals all over the AUU, all near what would become their next colonies, and one near Marbon. These ships are capable of teleporting people from one location to another, or they can carry cultivated plant-based DNA clones to act as explorers.

Now, the Naroudans, with the humans' influence, managed to create their own version of hyperdrive using the same portal technology as a kind of slipspace travel. This allows their ships to portal anywhere in the AUU. They still retain their autonomous space machines that aid in their spatial travel. Their spaceships are the same size as average types, but they are all operated autonomously or remotely.

#### **Weapons**

Most Naroudan weaponry is based on semi-primitive designs. These include vibroweaponry, or weapons that vibrate and increase efficiency as a result, like vibrospears, vibroblades, vibroknives, vibromaces and vibroaxes that unleash powerful bursts, and large catapults which are albeit robots, in addition to ballista cannons, and basic cannons that deliver magnetically-propelled elemental rounds.

More modern-like weapons include extremophilic detonators that contain a fuel made from extremophilic reactive bacteria for any reaction including acidic, incendiary, cryogenic, and so on. They also possess throwing club detonators that stick to surfaces. They also possess handheld shotgun blasters, rapid-firing blasters, detonator launchers, ion cannons, missile launchers, and heavy miniguns, all housing vibrobayonets.

They have also produced cultivated weaponry such as carnosporuses, armoseeders, and detons. These species come in different breeds for different types of firepower and explosives.

#### **Vehicles and Buildings**

Though the Naroudans have developed algae-fueled vehicles like large monocycles, zeppelin-shaped flying carriers, and basic hovercrafts, their primary methods of transportation are basic mounts from the fauna of their planet, including Foses, fossa-wolf former predators to their ancestors now turned into their vicious primary mounts, as well as the Phantis, a giant dextrous-footed elephant bird, Gawkens, an amalgamation of all Malagasy accipitriformes, Gekkines, large colorful monitor chameleon-geckos that can scale surfaces, Naroches, giant hopping hissing cockroaches, and Vogates, a giant voay-like crocodilian with very powerful hides and four eyes, two of which for seeing in infrared.

Aside from their artificial plant shaping capabilities, they have also made much of their treehouse cities into buildings that are built in a tree itself, and they have even been genetically engineered to have the tree they're built in share the same life-link through being built from the same wood, allowing for the house to be one with the tree and thus give the Naroudans the ability to treat it like a proud living thing. This achievement has given the Naroudans an advanced arcology, as much of their cities are noted for having massive growths of plants. There are also closed ecological systems, which are contained ecosystems that are found on the grounds of open areas on the planet and thus they have perfected artificial ecological control.