Callum Saville
Court of Blades: Prince
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Create a species that not only extends to the Icarii but also explains their survival, along with Callum Savilles survival.
- Image Credit: Here
- Canon: Yes/No (Original Species before Mutation, the Icarii)
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Icarii, Codru-Ji
- Name: Icarii-Anax
- Designation: Sentient
- Origins: Vestar
- Average Lifespan: 300-600 Years (Depends on care of the body, cybernetics, and overall luck. Most common death is brain failure.)
- Estimated Population: Planetary
- Description: The Icarii-Anax are an unusual looking race, primarily in the form of humans, slender in stature even when muscular. The most obvious distinction is generally within a few decades, their eyes change to cybernetic eyes, with bright corneas that shine in the dark that cannot be turned off and is a tell-tale sign of them. Other signs are generally in age, sections of limbs and parts of the body will no longer heal when growing back, leaving small sections of flesh missing when it should kill them.
- Breathes: Oxygen
- Average Height of Adults: 183 centimeters
- Average Length of Adults: N/A
- Skin color: Slight Tan
- Hair color: Common colors are black, brown and yellow. Red and Silver is considered extremely rare.
- Distinctions: As they age, they tend to sport more and more cybernetics, most notably in the eyes with bright corneas for cybernetics to allow them to still see regular sight. Others that are more elderly will have misshapen parts of the body with flesh having been destroyed and no longer healing or multiple scarring from stitching holding them togther through time.
- Races: Icarii-Ji is a subrace consisting of the occurrence of children with the Codru-Ji. While considered very rare among their own species, they possessed the same traits as the Icarri though are considerably much stronger in frame and with four arms like the Codru-Ji but are more prone to neurological and muscular diseases.
- Force Sensitivity: Rare
- Aim for the Head: It is extremely difficult to kill an Icarii-Anax, mainly due to the Icariis passed down inheritance of surviving dismemberment. Most of the functions to keep the brain alive, such as lungs, hearts, ect. can be found around various parts of the body, most notably around the brain that lives as if its own body. Removing a limb merely causes the blood in their bodies to clot instantly, making them bleed out next to impossible. It is recommended to shoot the individual in the head, where the brain is to cease their life completely.
- Disease Proof....In Theory: Their mating with humans, along with the biological weapon the Galactic Empire used, remade their DNA to resist most forms, if not all of bacterial infection, as well as viral. Even diseases currently made in laboratories may not work on them, though those targeting the brain have a better chance of working.
- Death Becomes Us: The problem with losing ones limbs, vital body parts and so forth to where one rolls around as just part of a torso and head are just that...they are still alive. It may take days for them to fully be killed off from true dismemberment of most vital organs to the head but they become useless. In addition, injuries that get such as broken necks, spines, arms and so forth, messed up flesh, they have to walk around with that injury in unusual and most likely impossible ways, most likely falling over and getting hurt while being in extreme pain. Just because they can be stitched together and fixed, does not mean it will also remain that way as they get older, this becomes more and more difficult, requiring cybernetics and more upkeep over the body.
- Bodily Failure: While they cannot truly die from aging, they can die from bodily failure. Parts of the body, most notably the eyes in three decades, stomach in sixty years and liver in a hundred years, have to be replaced with cybernetic ones to keep their bodies in full functionality. By the age of three hundred, most major organs in the body along with some cranial surgery is required to surpass that age. If not, they will die of brain failure as it is the most common form of death in their society. Injuries may accelerate these cybernetic implants and if the body happens to reject them, the cranial brain shuts off the entire limbs original function for that part of the body and no longer can be cybernetically added.
- Diet: Omnivore: Mainly meat for their diet, rarely any form of vegetation as their consumption is more difficult over time. It is common for liquid foods to be introduced, smoothies becoming incredibly popular among the elderly.
- Communication: Spoken Language, mainly in Basic. Their body language is similar of those in Humans, having lost most of their societal traits long ago of the Icarii. Only unique function as those age, most no longer move their jaws to speak, rather it becomes more synthesized over time from vocal cybernetics.
- Technology level: Standard Galactic Level but are extremely prominent in the hands of Cybernetics and Medical Technology when it comes to restoring regular bodily function, such as destroyed sections of the spine or reattaching fingers after being cut off weeks prior. They are considered the pinnacle in their fields, at least in reattachment of body parts and forms of cybernetics to pump the blood back through the parts of the body.
- Religion/Beliefs: The common belief that stems from Icarris own culture, that as time goes on, when they lose flesh and limbs, that they will be found in the afterlife and be slowly built back together as the individual dies. It is generally recommended in culture to turn the body into ash, mainly having pyre funerals to ensure their body will always reach the afterlife whole as it is completely from flesh to ash.
- General behavior: Icarii-Anax are territorial when it comes to land on their home planet of Vestar, having lost it almost over a Millenia. Family values are generally comprised on important milestones towards their cybernetic implants from thirty to a hundred, most notably being their milestone at eighteen where they are to become a hunter, more so now as a militaristic personal for ten years for training to protect their way of life against foreign hostiles, a way to make a living afterwards as a mercenary while training for an ulterior profession in the last two years of their career though may be waived to be dedicated into officer training for the last two years of military service. While most values still reflect towards the Human side, though a notable exception is those with more cybernetic implants over time from battle is given higher respect as they are shown to survive great odds. Adults generally go into marriage around their thirties and have children in their fifties with a minimal of two children though those who frequently procreate may have families ranging from four to eighteen children, rare occasions even higher. Those that go over six members in a singular family becomes known as a clan and may have their last names changed from the two presiding members of the hierarchy, mainly the two spouses. While uncommon, it is accepted that families may have three spouses instead two if one is known to be in the military, most commonly being two males and one female though it can vary wildly. Adoption is considered extremely uncommon, given how long the species lives for as well as how difficult it is for one to be killed. If it does occur, a clan in relation to the family is to adopt the children. If that case cannot be done, the children is displayed at the end of the season and those who have clans may make the decision to adopt the child or children into their own clan.
The Icarii-Anax were born out of the Galactic Empires want to eliminate in totality, the Icarii race. A biological agent created made all of their flesh seemingly melt off from the simplest scratch what made their entire bodily function cease to work after several days. In response during the invasion not soon afterwards, the remainder of the Icarii in secret led a voyage through the unknown sections of the Outer Rim south of their planet, away from the destruction of their species. They lived in the next two decades as a nomadic space faring race in the mere thousands, avoiding all if any militaristic combat including procreation to prevent the biological agent from killing them. They become well known in association with various smuggler alliances, including those of a particular all human piracy group which within two years, stole the original formula that caused the mutation and cured their disease around 17 ABY.
After the cure was administered, there was interesting and notable side effects, including how their aging seemed to been affected in the long haul, most notably their sight being heavily decreased to the point cybernetics were needed. Within the next century, the remaining Icarii went into the hundreds as procreation among their own species had failed but those with regular Humans, created a hybrid of their species. The name of the species is known as the Icarri-Anax, Icarii being the original species and Anax being the noted piracy group, along with whom had not only become a key part of their group, but a majority of mates came from the Anax group, hence the name. By 246 ABY, no surviving Icarii existed beyond that point and the species of Icarii-Anax was thriving in the tens of thousands. Not only due to a high fertility rate which is regarded to be extremely careful but a good compatibility with most human like species, most notably the Codru-Ji which has their own sub-species, the Icarii-Ji which are generally more favored in military roles. Those that even procreated with humans four generations down in a row, still possessed portions of their Icarii heritage and were still considered Icarii-Anax, making it difficult to lose the species title completely.
After six hundred years and extremely rare sightings outside their nomadic ships, they arrived back at their homeworld of Vestar in 862 ABY. Their numbers had increased to several million in force and taken their homeworld back against the current occupants. Having now conquered the world for two years, they had released records of who they are along with knowledge of their cybernetics which had been of high importance for the last seven hundred years and are considered some of the best in cybernetics involving the eyes. While their records consist of them in the three to four million estimate, some estimate that those who went nomadic to other planets may have their genealogy still linked to the Icarii-Anax and be as high as ten million currently, given how some who left piracy lifestyle may have procreated with humans in the long run over several centuries. While their heritage has mainly vanished, the Icarii-Anax was there to stay and are a general militaristic force to be reckoned with.
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