Camions

Camions are a fictional alien race that comes from the planet Caivis. As the name suggests, their true forms look like trucks and are "built Ford tough," though it's unknown whether or not they are Ford trucks specifically. Due to a shapeshifting ability that was likely developed over time, Camions have no need to look like trucks, and many will go most of their lives appearing to be human or something else unspecific.

## Biology

While Camions can look like humans, their anatomy, reproduction, and DNA is quite different. This leaves them quite ignorant about human anatomy, aside from knowing that the brain is the most important organ in the body. While some Camions like to learn and view humans as equal, it's not a universal idea.

### *Anatomy and Reproduction*

When Camions are born, they are nothing but spores. This leaves them on their own for the first little while until they can start to build their bodies, made of a blue slime that never solidifies until they can fully shapeshift (see: *shapeshifting*). As they slowly start to age, they will begin to look like ferrets regardless of how solid their body actually is at the time. During this development, they will grow two hearts next to each other, along with other necessary organs such as a brain, lungs, and a liver.

In order to actually make new Camions, older trucks will release spores into the wind. Whichever ones survive will be the ones that grow into full-grown Camions, unless there are complications that make this process impossible.

One of the only known universal weaknesses of the Camions is high-fructose corn syrup, and is dangerous to the point of inflicting actual burns if it comes into contact with skin. How this intolerance was developed is not known, but is significant enough that the animals and plant life on Caivis began to produce it naturally as a defense mechanism against Camions when their planet was taken over by the species. Other sugars do not seem to have the same effect, and normal corn syrup is quite possibly too weak in order to do any damage.

All Camions are made of Camion goop, a substance that acts similarly to blood or skin in that it will regenerate over time and it is not (usually) harmful to lose a little bit at a time. This goop can change to mimic various bodily fluids in both appearance and texture, but will always taste like blue raspberry.

### *Shapeshifting*

Shapeshifting is a necessary part of a Camion's survival, as it helps with not only disguise, but the healing of various injuries, and preventing disease--both contagious and non-contagious--among the species. In order to do so, Camions need to take a body from another animal. This animal will preferably have a relatively long life-span when taking out the risk of violence and sickness.

While taking a body, a camion has to replace every single cell in the body with a Camion cell, which involves keeping the host alive for as long as possible in order to be thorough and contributes to the deletion of the host's memories (and consciousness in general). Putting the host in a coma-like state will screw with the process and leave the host alive with all their memories (and consciousness as well) intact. This has only been done once, by Gary Gay, and it's unknown whether or not it could have been prevented in a different way, and if the host's pain is as necessary for the procedure as it appears to be.

After this is done, the Camion can shapeshift with no problems (as long as the host is dead).

### *Other Abilities*

Camions possess a "computer" brain, with the power to search something up and text without access to a device or any Wi-Fi. This comes with other downsides though, such as the inability to read CAPTCHA or use things like reCAPTCHA, locking them out of various services if there is no audio option.

Even though they are not part of a hive mind, when looking at other Camions, they are able to tell what family another Camion may come from, and what their name might be. This brings into question whether or not this was something necessary for survival at some point. Similarly, GOD sings every single Camion to sleep every night, no matter how far away they may be. They can always hear him when he wants to be heard.

## List of All Named Camions

All Camions, with the exception of GOD, have an alliterate name with some sort of meaning. This is usually related to their family in some way, if not themself and their identity in some way.

## References

1. ↑ Spores | ScienceDirect
2. ↑ Ferret | Wikipedia
3. ↑ High-fructose corn syrup | Wikipedia
4. ↑ http://www.captcha.net/
5. ↑ https://www.google.com/recaptcha/about/