Seddrath

A Seddrath

The Seddrath (scientific name: *Aolius Seddrathi Avis Sapiens*) are a self-aware intelligent species orginating from the world Aolius. All Seddrath belong to the demo-anarchic Commonwealth of the Seddrath, based out of Aolius in the Penran System. The Seddrath have grown to cover 13 star systems, with six ongoing missions to nearby star systems.

## History

The Seddrath are an ancient species, originally evolving into their current form more or less twenty million years ago. However, they only gained the capacity for self-awareness and intelligence a few hundred thousand ago, and for the vast majority of that time they were hunter-gatherers. However, once they invented agriculture and society, they quickly spread out and covered the entire of Aolius. Their civilization progressed extremely quickly, and by the time they invented the atom bomb (293 BAE) they had a global civilization with sub-orbital flights anywhere. However, when the Aolan Empire collapsed, Aolius was devasted by the detonating of multiple nuclear weapons. Seddrathi civilization fell, and it took seven hundred years for them to claw their way back to where they were before. The United Nations of Aolius was founded in the year 1043 AE, and Seddrathi society flourished. However, inequality was a huge problem. The top 80% of all the money on the planet was concentrated into the top 0.05% most wealthy people.

Over the next millennium, things stayed pretty much the same until the Seddrath spread out into the rest of the Penran System. It was around this time that the Commonwealth of the Seddrath was founded, and they quickly progressed to colonise nearby systems.

## Culture

Seddrathi culture nowadays is focused on freedom. You can do whatever you want. Period. Anything you want, whenever you want. This system works quite well, as almost nobody wants to kill anyone, and nobody harms anyone as the only thing really important to the Seddrath now is society. If you don't have any friends and family, then you're as good as dead.

## Biology

The Seddrath are carbon-based water-solvent using life forms from a carbonaceous ecosystem. They are suited for temperatures of ideally 75 degrees, but can stand temperatures up to 110 degrees or as low as 40 degrees. They reproduce sexually, having two genders, known as *Alon* and *Forla* in their language. These words roughly translate to Upright and Flying, in reference to the fact that Forla typically prefer to fly, and Alons prefer to walk. However, these are stereotypes long since eradicated from Seddrathi society.

Seddrath have two legs, two wings (which also function as arms), and a angular head containing a highly developed brain. Their bodies contain a vast circulatory system which utilises digallium monoxide (Ga2O) as a oxygen-carrying agent. Their blood is a lot cooler than the rest of their body - it's temperature can vary from 20 degrees to 50 degrees, depending on what they are doing and where the individual is. One instance when this is not the case is during birth, when Seddrathi blood acts as a lubricant, making birth easy and virtually painless. However, the Alon typically loose a lot of blood during the process, and have to spend a lot of time recuperating.

The Seddrath have a incredibly complex nervous system, stretching from wing to wing and from head to toe. Spread across the body of the Seddrath are small nerve clusters, which act as backup brains. A Seddrath can have their brain completely removed, and they would still live on. But just not the same. They would have baby-level intelligence, and would not be able to do any high-level activities. The nerves of Seddrath also regenerate extremely quickly, and with an error margin ridiculously low. It is not unheard of for Seddrath be paralysed, and then wake up the next morning able-bodied once more. As their nerves are constantly dying and regenerating, neuro-divergence is the norm in Seddrathi culture. No one person is similar in any way to another.

Seddrathi digestive system is not that complicated, mostly featuring a large sack in their chest which churns food up into a paste, mixes it with water, and passes it on to a acid chamber which rips it up using enzymes. It is then passed on to be absorbed in a third sack, where it enters the blood. The leftover non-nutritious material also enters the blood, and is filtered out at a special organ. There, it is passed out of the body through a small opening in the crotch.