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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizO_Pounamu" data-source="post: 2564438">**Empyreans are the stereotypical aliens often seen in the movies. They average four and a half feet tall and weigh no more than seventy pounds, with long spindly limbs and disporportionately large bald heads. Their pale grey skin is smooth and totally hairless. Except for their large dark lidless eyes, their faces have no features to speak of - no external ears,a pair of nostrils, and a lipless slit for a mouth. They have four long fingers on each hand, any one of which can be used as an opposable thumb.Although their species has both male and female sexes, their androgynous appearance makes it hard for other races to tell them apart.Empyreans are endlessly fascinated by high-tech gagetry, and excel at anything with a scientific or technological basis. Those encountered on Earth are members of their Explorer Corps, and tend to be starship crew or scientists, although the occasional diplomat will also be encountered.Empyreans are a peaceful (some might say cowardly) race and prefer to avoid combat whenever possible. They are typically armed with an energy weapon that functions like a stun gun in melee, or like a taser at a distance.Names: Since Empyreans normally communticate via telepathy, their actual names are impossible to pronounce. Instead, they choose simple names that other species can call them by. The convention they use on Earth is that every name contains only three letters (in the English alphabet) and has but a single syllable. Example: Cor, Del, Gar, Joh, Lin, Mai, Val, Xon.They sometimes use common human names that meet this criteria, such as Bob, Ann, Jim, or Sal. However they are none too familiar with human culture, and sometimes get the gender of a name mixed up. (So it is quite possible to meet a female Empyrean who calls herself Ned.)Biology & Ecology: Empyreans produce only genetically engineered offspring, without the direct use of the parent bodies as host. As a result, gender differences among their kind, both physical and social, have atrophied. Some Empyreans are amused by the quaint courting rituals of other species, others find the very idea repulsive.Empyreans are accustomed to food that is heavily processed. Other races would consider it bland and tasteless. Occasionally an Empyrean will sample "foreign food," but anything coarse in texture or heavily spiced can make them quite ill. They have a very low tolerance for alcohol and controlled substances.Racial Traits: Empyreans are dextrous and highly intelligent, but are accustomed to low gravity and are physically frail.Telepathy: Empyrians communicate with each other telepathically, and only speak when dealing with other races. Their vastly different brain structure does not allow them to read the minds of non-Empyreans.Low-Light Vision: An Empyrean can see twice as far as a human instarlight, moonlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.(D20 stats avaliable for this race on request, but in the interest of keeping it ISRP I will not post them here now.)</blockquote>

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