Ohrugans

**Ohrugans** are a Teadr 2 humanoid race native to the Planet Ohrugon (Delta Universe, Tilocrum Sector, Xaowin System). Though they resemble humans, they are truly more akin to monkeys than apes, and their hair grows in many different areas on their bodies. They come in 4 breeds just like humans, and they are the second race to be added to the United Sentient Races Alliance. They are also like the humans if they had a different technological history and never got regressed in Teadr level.

## History

Ohrugans evolved from carnivorous gorillas that were more like giant baboons. They were as big as a *Gigantopithecus* and fiercely intelligent. They were briefly arboreal and could stand upright, as the trees of their time were gigantic and strongly built. Like chimpanzees and gorillas, these early Ohrugans could use tools, such as clubs, rocks, sponges, broken teeth, or anything they could find, capable of using anything to their advantage. This in turn allowed them to evolve an adaptive mind and therefore grow their awareness and cognition. They grew in ranks and became like a giant gorilla family civilization the size of an average population. They grew so big, they spread out and populated the entire supercontinent at the time. As millions of years passed, these early Ohrugans managed to stand and walk upright, and their intelligence grew more and more. In time, they learned how to make fire, build more advanced tools, and by the time they evolved into Ohrugans, they became a vastly-populous early race, becoming omnivores due to climate change.

Then million of years later, the planet went through powerful continental drift that created the continents of today. Half the population died, and the rest had to live a life of hardships. But over the years, as things looked up, the Ohrugans developed into an increasingly-sophisticated society of pride, honor, faith, and destiny, as they learned their current warrior-poet beliefs to live the best lives possible. But at this time, nobody could choose their destiny. This resulted in several civil wars that took lives, forcing them into being separated into classes and states, called 'houses', which each chose their own destinies and how to create them. Though a new discovery would change their lives. They learned of a very unusual substance that has accumulated energy at a very dangerous level. They found it and managed to destroy the overcharge before it caused serious destruction. This substance became known as Ohrugium X, a potentially-radioactive amorphous substance that absorbs energy. The leaders of the houses saw great use in this substance and caused the Ohrugium Wars. As the war continued, they realized that the power this substance held were not balanced and could create more damage than the situation that they found it from, and decided it was time to share and exchange it. But they discover that this substance could do more than provide power. It could change their society. It turned people who ingested it into supersoldiers, it provided offense and defensive energy, and was a perfect blend of power and fuel.

With this gift, the Ohrugans' architecture evolved alongside their technological advancements, allowing them to erect citadels and expansive cities throughout the planet, enormous structures capable of rooting themselves into the ground as they were built high into the skies. Eventually, the success of Ohrugium X's uses made all the Ohrugan houses unite into a single unified nation. They underwent a grand renaissance that allowed them the ability to travel through space using portal-drives, nanobots capable of doing anything, and advanced genetic technology, which was used to breed new Ohrugans to fit class needs, as well as control their own population. They spread across the AUU and colonized other planets, and met many races, some good, others bad. After hundreds of years of space-travel, and after many hardships came with it causing upsets in Ohrugan society, they boosted their artificial population control into becoming a better race, primarily because of a moral change brought from their war against a race called the Asckerites. They went through new genetic reconditioning and went through hundreds of changes, even on other planets in their reach. Eventually the humans crashed onto their home planet by mistake and, even without membership, the Ohrugans had managed to build a more moral view and became so helpful and beneficial to the USRA, they became new members. They managed to help improve the humans technology by comparing it to their own, they gave the USRA a more philosophical view on the AUU to make it easier to govern even with people like the Union of Independent Systems around.

## Society and Culture

Ohrugans are boisterous and aggressive beings, yet they are also charming in a devil-may-care and live-life-to-the-fullest manner. Thus they live life with a spirit and a belief in their own destiny and how to fulfill it to the best of their ability. They have always embraced a warrior-poet belief of faith and hope. They hold honor and integrity as high morals, and hold family as sacral, making them very loyal and trustworthy companions once their trust is earned. Warriors can be heavily tattooed with blue spiral and/or zoomorphic patterns which can often glow in the dark or slightly when in extreme emotional states. They are known to wear emblems on their clothes or underneath their clothes that come in hundreds of symbols, each of which represent their place in life. In modern times, these emblems exist either as they used to be, or on nanoemblems they insert onto their nanosuits containing nanobots meant for the task they represent. Ohrugans dress in a practical yet sensual fashion, traditionally wearing clothing that shows off their physiques without being pretentious or provocative.

The Ohrugans live in a democratic hierarchy separated into three classes: The warrior aristocracy which contains law enforcement and the military, all upheld by the selfless and adventurous Ohrugan Ranger Core, which all wear Ranger-class Chursepharror (Ohruganese for 'adaptive skin') nanoarmor capable of automatic nanorobotic assembly over an undersuit and provides many other functions such as a ferro-liquid communication watch, and also perform other combat-based duties around the government, an intellectual class which includes professions such as druid who performed all types of beneficial jobs throughout the planet and can perform them well or perform one at a time, poets who can create beliefs and carry out stories and literature to commonly entertain or educate, and jurists who serve alongside the president to aid in governing, politics, and creating laws, and finally the common people who do any and all lower jobs to make a decent but worthwhile living.

## Physiology

Ohrugans may be identical to humans, but they have much more hair on their bodies allowing them to grow in different areas not possible to a human, and they are much stronger healthy and physically than humans. They possess two extra lungs and one extra heart, giving them much greater stamina. Ohrugans are bred to be capable of movement even at birth. Newborn Ohrugans can learn to talk and support themselves even when 5-10 days old. This is due to their elaborate skeletal systems and their cartilage layers which protect bones while also additionally protecting organs. These adaptations make Ohrugans hardier beings with lean, muscular physiques. They had different body color and hair than humans, and they had better senses. Like humans, they also came in 4 breeds, all of which are similar in role to the human breeds:

* **Original:** The original form of Ohrugans before genetic breeding occurred. They can come with pale flesh and brown skin, hair color ranging from blackish brown, brown, brownish gray, apricot, and mahogany, and their eye coloration can be blue, green, brown, cyan, and dark-yellow. Males can grow facial hair underneath their eyes, shoulders, and they can grow to make them look like apes.
* **Rugholun:** A breed of Ohrugan that has more darker hair and skin color but the same eye color as the original. They have immunity to sunburn thanks to their darkened skin, good eyesight due to transparent protective membranes on their eyes, quicker yet still-slow healing factors thanks to their greater circulatory and dermal systems, and have great immunities to certain sicknesses thanks to a larger immune system. This breed can be mainly for the civilian class of Ohrugan society.
* **Narzorph:** A breed of Ohrugan that has more yellowish hair and skin color but the same eye color as the original. This coloration is for heightened and enhanced body systems, allowing for greater intelligence and quicker adaptability. Their immune systems were as strong as a Rugholun Ohrugan's, great sight and smell thanks to the same transparent membranes and much more compact olfactory systems, and much stronger body systems. This breed is mainly for the intellectual class of the Ohrugans.
* **Tolvioran:** A breed of Ohrugan that is the most identical to the original breed, except more human-like and therefore having non-pale skin and hair coloration, but they have the eye color as the original. They have the largest brains of any Ohrugan breed, have a healing factor just like the Rugholuns with the same functionality, stronger and bigger body systems, heightened smell and hearing thanks to more compact olfactory and auditory systems, and their greater adaptability. They are mainly for the warrior aristocracy.

## Technology

Ohrugans have similar agriculture and technology to humans, but theirs is more alien than the humans. These were made possible through a trial-and-error method like humans, but they were less destructive and took less time.

#### **Power**

The backbone of Ohrugan technology is Ohrugium. This is an amorphous energy-filled but potentially radioactive substance of unknown origin that has the ability to store any kind of energy within it's proximity. There are many types of Ohrugium, but the most commonly used one is Ohrugium X, which is an unstable but powerful variant that can absorb all types of energy. Other types were engineered to absorb only one type of energy. Thus it became the prime power and fuel for most of their machinery and power.

#### **Material**

Ohrugans have mastered nanotechnology by studying viruses and creating their own virus-like machines that are their primary nanomachines. These small devices are linked and controlled by chemoreception and they can perform any task. Thus they can use them to create any kind of material they can think of. This can allow them to create durable armor and plastics, flexible suits, strong machines, and synthetic substances, and also even engineer organic flesh and blood.

Ohrugan clothing is made commonly of biopolymers and bioelastic substances like plastic or biofibers. The pinnacle of Ohrugan clothing material is their nanosuit. This suit weaves nanobots into each other by fusing them in the atomically-bonded metallic hydrogen and carbon composite fabrics that comprise the suit that are able to rapidly alter their structure, and is able to morph shape using holography and molecular assembly to fit a variety of wearers, as well as change appearance upon command. Upon command, the chemical signals sent from the neurons to the suit through a body-wide series of nanoreceptors can perform any job, and if required, compress into themselves to retract into central areas on a nano-emblem inserted onto a neuroreceptive undersuit to be easily donned or removed. Though there are hundreds of emblems that have different applications, whether through common clothes, medicinal purposes, environmental exploration, combat, and so on. Through their light-bending abilities, sometimes these can make the individual look like a common citizen and even look naked. They also possess recharging energy shields.

#### **AI and Automation**

Ohrugan robots are known for being based around real people. Ohrugans have mastered dumb and smart AI like the humans, except they can copy a consciousness in many forms. They usually do so for a passed Ohrugan with expertise in a particular field, allowing them to fit great needs for the Ohrugans. Thus most robots are controlled by one of hundreds of AIs that form an intelligence network, creating their own Holonet. Ohrugan robot designs are made from plastics and biomechanical designs, and they are coated with nanoceramic metals. The most common form of robot is the probe, which is an all-purpose service machine that uses an antigravity balloon for flotation, contains a ferrofluid face for display and communication, can contain side-mounted guns for self-defense, and have 4 hydraulic tentacle arms for handling objects. Inside the balloon is the head that can see everything in augmented reality and allow for near-unlimited capabilities.

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

Ohrugan medical technology has been mastered since the discovery of Ohrugium X. Ohrugans are the only race known to create tech-lenses, which were a kind of contact lens with programmable matter and a data interface that could become one with the eye itself. They invented this primarily to allow their eye to glow red as a kind of scare tactic.

The most common application of nanomachines in medical use is nanon, which is nanites suspended in a nutrient-infused gel that can be rubbed on the skin or ingested to perform any task including curing illnesses, regeneration, and so on. However, doing so can be painful to the individual if he/she is alive. Thus nanon can be best applied in a healing tank. These tanks come in many shapes and sizes, but the general use is not only regenerate Ohrugans and people who have suffered massive trauma, but also cure illnesses, conduct enhancements, and improve health.

Ohrugans can also inject Ohrugium into their bloodstream to serve as an enhancement to absorb energy and create their own breed of supersoldier called 'Highonauts' after the famous Ohrugan tale of magically-blessed super Ohrugans. Highonauts, though having a change in appearance through visible veins and arteries and sometimes grow blue skin, can absorb energy of any kind and repel it back, as well as channel it into their weapons.

The Ohrugans' greatest biotechnology was artificial evolution and population control. They learned how to improve their own DNA using chambers filled with primordial soup-like nanon, which could not only give any newborn child any enhancement, but also change it if desired. But first newborn babies had to be given proper environmental accommodation, meaning they needed to get used to the circumstances of their birth and grasp reality while also developing their bodies. This meant that they needed to fully develop before being used in this process. The pool chambers were used to mold genetics onto babies to fit them for their role in Ohrugan society using preowned genes. Thus they could ensure that everyone had a destiny that they not only came from, but one that they can change on their own, which in their beliefs is the truest way to live.

#### **Communications and Computing**

The most common form of display for Ohrugans is ferrofluid, or a ferromagnetic fluid that becomes strongly magnetized in the presence of a magnetic field. Ferrofluid can be found inside magnetic field generators that send electronic messages and thus bend the fluid to serve a variety of needs, serving as a form of programmable matter display. The fluid can also change color thanks to light control from nanobots inside the liquid to create a verisimilar picture or display. They have also managed to use this programmable matter to create virtual/augmented reality for them to live in a simulated environment of liquid metal that can alter itself in any shape or form to match the matter of anything, effectively creating a perfect picture. Their tech lenses can allow them to see things better and enhance their perspectives around them. This is perhaps their closest to non-ferro display.

#### **Space-Faring**

Ohrugans have outstanding space-age technology. Much of their spaceships are noted for some biomechanical features such as adjustable wings and AIs that make the ships seem sentient. Their satellites and other spacecraft are also biomechanical. These spacecraft also use Ohrugium X for absorbing power and using it as fuel. Ohrugan EVO suits are known for being comprised of a smart fabric which can also serve as intelligent armor meant to work with the wearer. They provide oxygen using an internal core molecular tank on their back, and use plastic helmets. Ohrugans have discovered terraformation using two terranode spacecrafts on both sides of the planet to control mass and create weather systems to reshape the atmosphere. Or the terranodes can be used to create a contained atmosphere for explorers. They have mastered hyperdrive by using portal technology, called 'portaldrive'.

#### **Weapons**

Ohrugans have long mastered energy weapons including lasers, plasma, pulse energy, elemental, electromagnetic, and even antimatter. Ohrugan melee weapons can use one of any of these types of energy, and they all contain adjustable power levels for controlling the intensity of the melee weapon itself. These melee weapons commonly include combat knives, gladiuses, longswords, throwing discs, bayonetted batons, and battle axes. Explosives and bombs also have adjustable power levels to control the damage dealt with the explosion.

Ohrugan firearms are commonly known to use a biomechanical internal structure. Though they look like high-tech guns, internally they possess biomechanical components to build up energy. Though they are projectile-based like humans, theirs work differently. The barrels contain a series of hair-like tubes that act as a conduit for the energy stored within the projectile and thus they discharge it when the gun is fired, giving it a more powerful shot as the blast goes on. These guns can have a blast function or a detonating function where the projectile explodes in energy upon contact. Projectiles can commonly contain synthetic laserum for lasers, can be vibrated for mass acceleration and thus armor-piercing, can be given electrical discharges, can come with plasma, antimatter, combat nanites, and so on. They also possess Gauss rifles which use the same hair-like structures in the split barrels to create stronger discharges of energy. There are also missile launchers that carry heavier variants of the projectiles.

#### **Vehicles and Buildings**

Ohrugans can often choose mounts to serve as transport. But they have learned to leave nature to stray away from sentience for it's own survival, and create their own genetically-engineered mounts. The most common of them is the four-winged large lizard creatures called Draymices, which is a genetic fusion of all the mounts they used in their past. As for vehicles, they are like a fusion of both human technology and biomechanics. Ground vehicles use wheels, but some can be hover-wheels and act like legs, they can be walkers, they can be hovercrafts that can skim across any surface, and they can be powerfully built. Their aircrafts can include hovercars that use adjustable wings for wheels containing a central turbine, jet fighters, attack ships, and large hovercopters, with the same four wings and often two bird tail-like turbine tails. Their naval ships can have flippers in the same design as the wings of their aircrafts, but have propellers and can also dive. These include DPVs, waverunners, speedboats, large attack boats, battleships, and even bathyspheres.

Ohrugan builds are based around large roundhouses and ringforts containing smaller high-tech buildings. These buildings range in size, but they possess duraglass windows and antigravity mobility, and like nanosuits, come with energy shielding.