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Purple Fruit
Name: Silphia
Designation: Non Sentient
Homeworld: Tatooine
Language: None
Average height of adults: Grows to heights of up to 2.5 m
Skin color: Sage green, purple fruit, bright gold flowers.
Hair color: N/A
Breathes: Converts CO2 into O2
Strengths:
+ Plant stems and flowers contain herbal properties that could be used to treat cough, sore throat.
+ Fresh juice of the purple fruit contains herbal properties that could be used to dull the senses of pheromone based attractiveness and libido. Also promotes a sense of alertness much like stimcaf.
+ Fermented juice of the fruit contains diosgenin, a chemical used as natural birth control and contraceptive for both men and women.
Weaknesses:
- Very Fragile
- Odd in that it is difficult to cultivate outside of desert region.
Average Lifespan: Perennial plant
Estimated Population: Substantial
Diet: Soil based nutrients.
Communication: N/A
Culture: N/A
Technology level: N/A
General behavior: N/A
History:
This dessert species of flora first saw its use within the Tusken Raider community. With the nomadic lifestyle of the Tusken Raiders, the need to use what manner of plants and wildlife in the dry arid planet of the Twin Suns brought about the knowledge of Silphia's most useful commodity.
The history of this particular plant species begins in the common raids taken by Tusken Raiders. As raids needed to be handled promptly and quickly, with weeks at a time out in the dessert, the need for the men in these raiding parties to remain focused and attentive to the task at hand was of the utmost importance. To be distracted by the baser desires of the opposite sex in these raids was something that the Tusken Raiders did not want to have to worry about.
The juice of the large oval like purple fruit of the Silphia provides a means to ensure that such distraction is no longer a concern. When drank fresh, the herbal properties of the fruit provide a means to lower a sapiant's more baser desires, that of their libido. It provides a mean to focus, much like a strong cup of stimcaf, while ensuring that distractions of any attractive slaves remain at the back of the mind. The normal length of the juice effects can last for twenty-four hours upon ingestion, with the side effects of a slight increase of heart-rate and heighten sense of alertness if overdosing more than the recommended 1oz intake.
The fermented juice has also provided a wonderful concoction that promotes the use of diosgenin, a chemical used as natural birth control and contraceptive for both men and women. A daily intake of a 1oz shot of this alcoholic beverage has been known to prevent the attachment of an egg to the uterine lining by way of thickening it beyond the favorable environment for proper implantation. In men, it has been known to create a similar thickening of the in the tubes leading sperm away from the testes that can cause a complete lack of sperm in the event of dot dot doting.
Dessert life can be rough, as such the Silphia retains moisture by limiting water loss through their leaf surface. It has accomplished this by adapting the size, sheen, or texture of their leaves. Small leaves limit the amount of surface area exposed to the drying heat. Waxy leaves prevent moisture from escaping and it has learned to only open leaf pores during the night when air temperature is cool and evaporation rate is low. Extensive taproot systems of the perennial taproots that go deep into the ground and tap into groundwater sources, which is also why it is difficult to cultivate outside of its current range of adaptation.
Notable Player-Characters: Not applicable, it is a plant.
Intent: To expand on Star Wars lore on herbal birth control, counter pheromone based species like Zeltrons and Falleen, and provide another way to be the new Red Bull.
