Vuknaraa

The Vuknaraa are a Civilized species of the United Council of Systems.

## Description

The Vuknaraa are a bipedal race with pale skin and soft downy fuzz covering them. They have four fingered hands, slightly offset large eyes, giving them a wide range of vision, sensitive ears perked up from their heads which lie flat when they are anxious, and stubby tails that twitch when they are excited. They are omnivores and possess three hearts.

## Culture

The Vuknaraa are most comfortable with vast forests or complex warrens.

Their culture is largely placid. The birth rate is roughly 1.7, the doubling time for their species is in the negatives and has been slowly diminishing.

They have been "gentled", genetically altered to maintain happiness and contentment, right down to supposed scientists claiming that too much intelligence would lead to depression.

## History

One of the first races to be accepted into the Unified Civilized Council over ninety million years ago, the Vuknaraa have slowly become a stagnant society.

For millions of years they have done little more than exist on the edges of Lanaktallan Space, the Vuknaraan territory encompassing a 250 light year bubble tacked onto Lanaktallan Space, almost like a cushion, but the space had slowly shrunk over the last 20 million years. The species bordering Vuknaraan Space have all been accepted into the Near-Civilized races over the last few million years and their territory had expanded into the Vuknaraan Space as under-population had led to a retraction of Vuknaraan society.

A female Vuknaraan, using a cloned maintenance ID, infiltrated the Unified Council Chamber during a recess and answered Yes on the Council's High most's terminal to the Terran Confederacy's request to come in.

A female Vuknaraan diplomat, infected with nanites, attempted to assassinate Dreams of Something More leading to the Terran Confederacy's declaration of war. The diplomat was incapacitated by Dreams and returned to her homeworld.

The Terran Confederacy is waiting to see if the Vuknaraa will surrender, declare neutrality or join the war.

## Home System

The Vuknar System is deep within the Core Worlds, it had been terraformed to a pleasing state for the Vuknaraa for millions of years. Even the continents have been stabilized to the point of earthquakes being a thing long past.

The system has five planets remaining outside of the green zone, all of them strip mined until nothing was left but bare rock. The gas giants have been reduced to wisps, the asteroid belts mined until all that remains is thinly spread gravel, and even the Oort Cloud has been mined out. The only beings living there are the Vuknaraa, all 6 billion of them living in luxury.

## Notable Members

An unnamed female player of CYBERLIFE, an alternate reality eVR game, who, on her first meatspace run for Mister Johnson, answered Yes to the Terrans request to come in to the Unified Council.

Her name, carved in burning chrome onto the bow of the *CSN Courage in Despair*, painted in Neon Pink on the banners of ten thousand Neko Marine cat-girls, scrawled in liquid iron on the sides of a half million Orkz wartoyz, inscribed in liquid fury on the chainsword blades of the Chapters of Imperial Marines, applied before their numbers of two hundred thousand clones, inscribed in chrome and fire on two million neural smartgun links of the Terran warborgs and breathed upon the wet carapaces of a quarter-million freshly hatched Treana'ad warriors to dry them. As the Idiots were thawed out, her name was screamed across space in rage and hate and burning wrath, a promise of revenge and carnage in the name of one who could not protect herself or her people.

## Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 First Contact Second Wave - Part Ninety-Two
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 First Contact Rewind - Chapter 143
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 First Contact Rewind - Chapter 142
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 First Contact - Part Sixteen