Forestborn Peloran

by on June 4, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

The Forestborn Peloran are probably the most ambitious genetic alteration of the Peloran race to remain…Peloran. Others are generally accepted as different races entirely and live in their own communities, but the Forestborn are not like that. They love living a simple life in nature, you see. That earned them a level of acceptance the homeworlds Peloran don’t really give to many others. They look far more exotic than other Peloran, but culturally they’re more integrated with the vast majority of the Peloran race than most other offshoots. Of course they are part plant. Considering how much the Peloran love plants, that makes a certain amount of sense.

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Normandy

by on June 3, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

A fleet of hundreds of ships left Normandy in 1066 to move one of the largest troop deployments in history and conquer England for the Normans. The English would assemble another fleet of hundreds to land thousands of troops to conquer New York in 1776. And the English would help assemble hundreds of more boats to land troops on Normandy in 1944.

The moral of this story? The English have launched three of the greatest seaborne invasions in the history of the planet. Don’t piss them off. The second moral of the story? Never try to kill France. That is an honor the English reserve for themselves. If you try to do it for them, they will kill you. The third moral of the story? The Americans learned our lessens well from England. If you think they’re crazy, you’ll just love what happens when you get us involved.

Remember Normandy this week. It was a long time coming, and it will be remembered for a long time to come.

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Nightborn Peloran

by on June 2, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

The Nightborn Peloran were designed with chameleon-like skin that defaulted to a coal-black color at most times. They fully or partially absorb nearly all wavelengths of the visible spectrum and beyond, and can convert that energy into changing the actual wavelengths they radiate back out. Their color. Their heat. Everything they radiate through the skin or hair is adjustable through a simple matter of will and visualization exercises. This was designed to allow them to blend into the environment they would be fighting from. But when they proved to be poor soldiers, it became the camouflage they wore to look like the people whose groups they were infiltrating. This, along with their quick and ready willingness to learn things and adjust their ways of acting to conform with other groups, makes them human intelligence agents without peer in all of human space. And the literal fleet of small stealth scout ships they deploy throughout human space allows them to go anywhere they need to learn things.

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Nightborn Peloran

by on June 1, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Art, The Races of Humanity

I met my first openly-Nightborn Peloran during The War. No, I can’t say her name. And I can’t say where I met her. That’s classified. Seriously, I don’t have clearance to know, and I was there. My point is that there are stories about them that I know from experience simply aren’t true. Firstly, they can’t change their eyes. Those are bright red. Always. They can’t change their weight or bone structures. They’re not like shape shifters from mythical stories. They can’t mimic the looks of any one person, so you don’t have to worry about one of them wearing your face around town. But yes, that coal-black skin of theirs can mimic any color they choose to take. And they can do the same with their hair. This girl I’m talking about? Her hair and skin were coal-black when she was all natural. But give her some time to prep, and she was a natural redhead down to the freckles on her tatas so realistic that no man would question it. Yeah, there’s the eyes, but if we’re being honest, how many of us really look that high? And even if we do, contacts and shades are a thing, and they work pretty good.

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Nightborn Peloran

by on May 31, 2019 at 12:01 am
Posted In: The Races of Humanity

The Nightborn were supposed to be special forces warriors without peer. Deadly assassins and unparalleled infiltration specialists. Well. One out of three ain’t bad. They have no affinity for combat at all, so when given a choice they gravitated towards other pursuits. Information gathering was actually one that they loved so much as a general rule that a race built for war became some of the best natural scouts in the galaxy. Give them a mission to go in and learn things, and they’ll jump to the task like no other. The stimulation of discovering new things is a natural high to them. They just love to learn, and the more people don’t want them to learn something, the more they want to learn it. That makes them really good intelligence gatherers.

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