The Adumbral Empire

## Basic Biology

The Adumbral Empire refers to a massively expansive colony of reptilian like creatures originating from a rather small solar system found in NGC\_4622 (an unbarred spiral galaxy with a very prominent ring structure) that hosted a now dead star. The creatures, which used to have relatively small numbers, were created with a chlorophyll like structure in their scales and fed on a combination of solar energy and the meat of other animals that inhabited their original planet. Over time, the colony began to grow at an unrestrained rate, and over the decades had ravaged their own planets resources to the point where they were the only creatures left alive on the planet. Due to the lack of resources, the empire evolved to feed solely on the radiation from their solar system's star, especially their queen, and before long, the empire required so much energy to sustain itself, that the diet of their queen had evolved to feed on stars in their entirety. This caused the creatures to seek out other solar systems to feed the voracious appetite of their queen, ravaging all of the planets that they encountered in their wake.

## Creation and Evolution

All members of the Adumbral Empire prior and current were born of the colony's one and only Queen. The Queen herself was designed by Exomen of the Trinigog generation, very little is currently known about this generation of Exomen as their history has been lost to time, but a reoccurring theme of their creations seemed to follow an elemental theme regarding the way their creations fed. While their were many other solar feeding plants and creatures, as well as meat eaters, it is believed the creation of a creature who fed on both would bring a necessary balance to the world. At the time of her creation, the Adumbral Empress was a relatively small egg laying creature with visual similarities to that of a skink. She was only capable of producing broods of up to 12 eggs in one season, though as time went on, she evolved to produce upwards of 14,000 viable offspring twice a season. As her broods sizes grew, so did she in size, and what was once a creature of size comparable to that of a small dog, grew to compete with skyscrapers in length.

## Characteristics/Abilities

While members of the Adumbral Empire differs greatly in role, size, and appearance, there are many characteristics and abilities that are shared throughout the whole species. These characteristics and abilities are as follows:

* The mouths of these creatures contain up to 6 glands (depending on their role in the colony) which secretes a highly caustic substance, a very thick layer of mucus that coats their mouths protect them from the secretions.
* Members of this species are able to enter a freeway like travel dimension, sometimes referred to as the The Obscured Pathway, they are able to do so by stretching and warping the thickness of their cells. They use this dimension exclusively for travel as the amount of individuals in the colony has lead The Obscured Pathway itself to become overcrowded.
* These creatures are able to mend fatally injured allies by rerouting their core energy to the other through a song that is unique to each individual, however, due to the amount of raw power this takes from the singer, unless two individuals sing their songs together, the singer will perish. This is almost exclusively used to heal their queen, and has not been observed to occur between other individuals in the colony unless done to aid the queens healer. It has been observed that other musically charged powers can drown out this ability, rendering it useless.