Jirrhnu

The Jirrhnu are a race native to the planet Jirrh.

## Biology

The Jirrhnu are humanoid, with dull-brown, wrinkled skin, one large eye encompassing most of their heads, and below the eye is a large mouth full of fang-like teeth. The Jirrhnu reproduce asexually, but can only produce one offspring in their life, and this occurs just before death.

While the Jirrhnu look lanky, they are actually extremely strong. The Jirrhnu breathe sulfur dioxide. The Jirrhnu are extremely resistant to cold temperatures due to their native planet of Jirrh being a cold desert world. They can also go for years without water.

## Society

Due to the way that Jirrhnu reproduce, the Jirrhnu are divided up into families. While there were originally many families, by the time of the Jonathan Crisis there were only two families - the Destructicus clan and the Annihilatus clan.

The Destructicus clan is generally stronger, faster, and generally more physically capable than the Annihilatus clan, but is also quite dim-witted in comparison. Conversely, the Annihilatus clan is more intelligent, but weaker.

Other clans existing before the Jonathan Crisis were the Exterminatus clan, the Obliteratus clan, and the Genocidus clan. All the clans had differing mentalities, but were able to work together if needed, taking advantage of the doctrines of each clan to defeat enemies.

## History

The Jirrhnu were formerly a vast empire, with all the clans having one Lord, the supreme leader of the clan, seven to eighteen Paladins, who were the best warriors in the clan aside from the Lord, ten to twenty thousand Knights, who were incredibly skilled fighters, and twenty to thirty million Partisans, who were relatively untrained and viewed as disposable.

The Jirrhnu originally had 8 clans, Annihilatus, Destructicus, Exterminatus, Evisceratus, Obliteratus, Omnicidus, Demoliticus, and Massacrus. The doctrines of these clans were quite different. The Annihilatus clan favored cunning, strategy and melee combat, the Destructicus clan favored indiscriminate mass murder by any means available, Exterminatus clan members favored brutal melee combat, those of the Evisceratus clan were reminiscent of medieval knights, only doing what was "honorable," which in their case meant not killing anyone who couldn't fight back and not fighting from a range. The Obliteratus clan favored massive, extremely powerful weapons. The Omnicidus clan's members had a bizarre obsession with excessively brutal weapons such as saws, poison gas, and giant blenders. Those of the Demoliticus clan were obsessed with blowing things up, and the Massacrus clan used incredibly fast-firing weapons such as Gatling cannons.

Lords of each clan were named Lord, their clan, and their place in the list of the lords of that clan, an example being Lord Destructicus CXVII, pronounced "Lord Destructicus the 117th." Paladins were named in a similar manner, but were numbered chronologically based on when they became a Paladin. An example would be Paladin Annihilatus II, pronounced "Paladin Annihilatus 2." Knights and Partisans simply kept their birth names.

In its prime, the Jirrhnu empire stretched from Jirrh to the nearby Bujker Galaxy. The Jirrhnu managed to control these two galaxies until a foe arrived in the Pristatrek Galaxy. This foe was the Ski'ttar. After several years of rising tensions, the Ski'ttar declared war on the Jirrhnu and destroyed nearly the entire race save for Lord Destructicus XII and Lord Annihilatus V. The two went into hiding, and eventually the former's descendant, though it is unknown exactly which one, enslaved a race known as the Lnrai. The Lnrai were forced to make powered suits of armor for the Jirrhnu, which have been improved over time.