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<blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1761243" data-attributes="member: 6390"><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 22px"><p style="text-align: center">Shivak</p><p></span></span></p><p><em>Don't trust him. He's out to steal your burrow-mate.</em></p><p></p><p>Mammalian and ursaliod, there creatures stand at less than a meter tall, with pads on thier feet and the wide spread eyes of evolved herbivores. Shivak have flat herbivore teeth, wide nostrils, and look somewhat like Terran "teddy bears" although thier grouchy temperment often offsets this appearance.</p><p></p><p>The Shivak come from a planet with heavy vegitation and undergroth, and very few predators. With a low axial tilt and a temperate climate without much serious seasonal variation, the Shivak were an allay of the G'Tak Empire during thier destruction of the proto-Terran race eons ago.</p><p></p><p>Despite the destruction of the proto-Terran race, the Shivak did not find themselves elevated to a high position in the galactic scheme of things. Mainly, they lacked the carnivore instinct for pursuing a goal with ruthless determination, and this held them back from what they felt was thier destiny.</p><p></p><p>Over the millenia since the fall of the proto-human race, the Shivak has contented themselves with causing strife and contention within the races that remained of the G'Tak Empire.</p><p></p><p>With the return of Terran Humans, the Shivak were the most vocal about attacking the race of man and thier companion creatures as well as fledgling allies. The Shivak were the ones who encouraged the Varmeck into sending probes further and further into the "Fallow Zone" to check on the progress of the human race, and were the ones stirring up panic within the other races that probes were coming back without data more often than they were returning, at the rate of 100:1.</p><p></p><p>However, the Shivak made the mistake of attacking an outlying human colony with a fleet of warships, and the even larger mistake of fleeing without trying to cover thier tracks. Human ships followed them to thier homeworld, and while other human vessels ran to summon the Terran Confederate Naval Forces, the ships that had followed began a program of guerrilla warfare and interdiction of the system.</p><p></p><p>Human counter-attack and the first human attack of the resurged G'Tak/Human war was on the Shivak homeworld. Human paranioa and predatory instinct mobilized the entire TCMC First, Second and Fifth Armies and the 9th and 17th TCN fleets.</p><p></p><p>Over 500,000 combat troops slammed into the Shivak homeworld, backed by everything the Terrans could throw at them. Monitors, radioactive dusting, battleships, supercruisers, temporal dissonance wave cannons and everything overly adaptive and highly aggressive omnivore primates with over a hundred thousand years of warfare in thier history could bring to bear.</p><p></p><p>The Shivak were crushed in less than a Terran standard month. Thier cities cast down, the vast forests in flame, and the oceans steaming. The Terrans even broke apart the Shivak's moons and rained the pieces down upon thier planet as "kinetic kill weapons" in order destroy what they assummed would be a more technologically advanced oppenent.</p><p></p><p>The Shivak were cast down, thier homeworld destroyed, and they immediately sued for peace, thier contentious attittude muted in terror (After the Franklin-437 incedent, where a rogue admiral warped into system, fired a nova-bomb, and left, incinerating over 240,000,000 Shivak) of the humans.</p><p></p><p>While the Shivak as a whole have surrendered, thier worlds occupied, and their databases are now being researched by the Terrans in order to continue thier war against the G'Tak, billions have fled deeper into G'Tak space, intent on avenging the 10,000 year old slight the initial proto-humans committed.</p><p></p><p>Shivak can be found both in the Confederacy and the G'Tak Empire.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Species Traits</span></strong></p><p></p><p>Shivak share the following species traits:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Type:</strong> Small Humaniod</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Size:</strong> Small</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Ability Modifiers:</strong> -4 Str, -2 Con, +2 Int, +2 Wis, +2 Cha</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Speed:</strong> 20 feet</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Low Light Vision (Ex):</strong> A Shivak has low light vision and can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of shadowy illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish colors and detail under these conditions.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Empathic glands (Ex):</strong> Where normally tear-ducts would reside on a Terran ursine, empthic glands are on the Shivak. This causes thier eyes to grow large and luminious when they are manipulating emotions. This provides them a +4 racial bonus to bluff, intimidate, sense motive and diplomacy.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Contentious Aura (Ex):</strong> The Shivak can put out a field of psionic energy that causes other creatures to have ill will toward one another, become more suspicious of others, and in general, ignore the Shivak. Those within 150 feet suffer a -8 to diplomacy as well as having others feeling toward them worsen. Suspicions often run toward motives, placing a -8 penalty on anyone within the circumferance toward sense motive.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Swim Bonus:</strong> Due to the fur, light bone structure, and high fat content of the Shivak, they gain a +2 racial bonus to swim.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Racial Progress Level:</strong> 6 for war material and space-craft, 7 for medical technology (excluding cybernetics) and entertainment. The Shivak dislike robots and will not manufacture or purchase them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Shivak cannot accept genetic enhancements or cybernetic systems.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralts Bloodthorne, post: 1761243, member: 6390"] [color=blue][size=6][center]Shivak[/center][/size][/color] [i]Don't trust him. He's out to steal your burrow-mate.[/i] Mammalian and ursaliod, there creatures stand at less than a meter tall, with pads on thier feet and the wide spread eyes of evolved herbivores. Shivak have flat herbivore teeth, wide nostrils, and look somewhat like Terran "teddy bears" although thier grouchy temperment often offsets this appearance. The Shivak come from a planet with heavy vegitation and undergroth, and very few predators. With a low axial tilt and a temperate climate without much serious seasonal variation, the Shivak were an allay of the G'Tak Empire during thier destruction of the proto-Terran race eons ago. Despite the destruction of the proto-Terran race, the Shivak did not find themselves elevated to a high position in the galactic scheme of things. Mainly, they lacked the carnivore instinct for pursuing a goal with ruthless determination, and this held them back from what they felt was thier destiny. Over the millenia since the fall of the proto-human race, the Shivak has contented themselves with causing strife and contention within the races that remained of the G'Tak Empire. With the return of Terran Humans, the Shivak were the most vocal about attacking the race of man and thier companion creatures as well as fledgling allies. The Shivak were the ones who encouraged the Varmeck into sending probes further and further into the "Fallow Zone" to check on the progress of the human race, and were the ones stirring up panic within the other races that probes were coming back without data more often than they were returning, at the rate of 100:1. However, the Shivak made the mistake of attacking an outlying human colony with a fleet of warships, and the even larger mistake of fleeing without trying to cover thier tracks. Human ships followed them to thier homeworld, and while other human vessels ran to summon the Terran Confederate Naval Forces, the ships that had followed began a program of guerrilla warfare and interdiction of the system. Human counter-attack and the first human attack of the resurged G'Tak/Human war was on the Shivak homeworld. Human paranioa and predatory instinct mobilized the entire TCMC First, Second and Fifth Armies and the 9th and 17th TCN fleets. Over 500,000 combat troops slammed into the Shivak homeworld, backed by everything the Terrans could throw at them. Monitors, radioactive dusting, battleships, supercruisers, temporal dissonance wave cannons and everything overly adaptive and highly aggressive omnivore primates with over a hundred thousand years of warfare in thier history could bring to bear. The Shivak were crushed in less than a Terran standard month. Thier cities cast down, the vast forests in flame, and the oceans steaming. The Terrans even broke apart the Shivak's moons and rained the pieces down upon thier planet as "kinetic kill weapons" in order destroy what they assummed would be a more technologically advanced oppenent. The Shivak were cast down, thier homeworld destroyed, and they immediately sued for peace, thier contentious attittude muted in terror (After the Franklin-437 incedent, where a rogue admiral warped into system, fired a nova-bomb, and left, incinerating over 240,000,000 Shivak) of the humans. While the Shivak as a whole have surrendered, thier worlds occupied, and their databases are now being researched by the Terrans in order to continue thier war against the G'Tak, billions have fled deeper into G'Tak space, intent on avenging the 10,000 year old slight the initial proto-humans committed. Shivak can be found both in the Confederacy and the G'Tak Empire. [b][size=4]Species Traits[/size][/b][size=4][/size] Shivak share the following species traits: [list][*][b]Type:[/b] Small Humaniod [*][b]Size:[/b] Small [*][b]Ability Modifiers:[/b] -4 Str, -2 Con, +2 Int, +2 Wis, +2 Cha [*][b]Speed:[/b] 20 feet [*][b]Low Light Vision (Ex):[/b] A Shivak has low light vision and can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of shadowy illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish colors and detail under these conditions. [*][b]Empathic glands (Ex):[/b] Where normally tear-ducts would reside on a Terran ursine, empthic glands are on the Shivak. This causes thier eyes to grow large and luminious when they are manipulating emotions. This provides them a +4 racial bonus to bluff, intimidate, sense motive and diplomacy. [*][b]Contentious Aura (Ex):[/b] The Shivak can put out a field of psionic energy that causes other creatures to have ill will toward one another, become more suspicious of others, and in general, ignore the Shivak. Those within 150 feet suffer a -8 to diplomacy as well as having others feeling toward them worsen. Suspicions often run toward motives, placing a -8 penalty on anyone within the circumferance toward sense motive. [*][b]Swim Bonus:[/b] Due to the fur, light bone structure, and high fat content of the Shivak, they gain a +2 racial bonus to swim. [*][b]Racial Progress Level:[/b] 6 for war material and space-craft, 7 for medical technology (excluding cybernetics) and entertainment. The Shivak dislike robots and will not manufacture or purchase them. [*]Shivak cannot accept genetic enhancements or cybernetic systems.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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