Species of Alternatrek

Created by Captain James McGowan on Sat Jul 2nd, 2022 @ 6:38am

This page will list the various species available for players.

[[Aktevans|Aktevan]]

    Era: All
    Planet: Akteva IV
    Description: A tree-dwelling species with purple skin, pointy ears, and a long, prehensile pointed tail, and a naturally kind, curious, helpful nature, though they do not often do well in combat situations, with a natural tendency to want to hide or run. They are very insightful and make good scientists and engineers. Picture Trance Gemini from Andromeda, season 1 for a general appearance and common behavior. Skin tones range from light to dark purple, and pinks and blues are possible. Eye colors are most often various shades of purple, though green, blue, pink, red, and yellow are also possible. Eyes turn brown when they die and black after a few days, so all Aktevans have an aversion to brown-eyed individuals in other species, a culturally ingrained bias that is difficult to avoid. Hair color is often purple, pink, blue, or rarely a blue-green or strawberry blonde, which are often the most desired colors. Aktevans use their tails regularly as a kind of third hand in working on ships.

Andorian

    Era: All
    Description: Blue skin, white hair, antenna on their forehead, and often distrustful of other species due to their history with Vulcans, but this wariness can be very helpful in interstellar situations. They are not averse to using racial epithets with other races (calling humans 'pink skin', for example), though this has lessened with time and has become less socially acceptable in the 24th century.

Antaran

    Era: Post ENT onward
    Planet: Antar II
    Description: A species with dual facial ridges and a complicated history with Denobulans. They have served on Federation ships since the 2170s.

==Betazoid==

*Era: 2161 and after *Description: Most look entirely human, but black irises are common; human coloration is not common but is highly prized when it happens. The species is telepathic and values honesty highly.

==Betelgeusian==

*Era: TOS onward *Planet: Gamma Betelgeuse II *Number: 4 billion *Description: A bird-like species with blue skin

==Caitian==

*Era: TOS to present *Numbers: 8 billion in various planets and colonies *Description: bipedal cats with hands that have opposable thumbs, enabling civilization to develop on their planet. Many do lot like it when humans try to scratch behind their ears, under their chins, or rub their bellies like house cats.

==Canidian==

*Era: TOS to present *Numbers: 9 billion *Planet: Canis II *Description: A widely varied species that appear like humanoid canines. They have a wide variety of markings, and have legs similar to Caitians. There are some Canidians who don't get along with Caitians, though there are a great many who are quite friendly with each other. Canidians are quite strong, with a varied diet that is primarily carnivorous, and are very loyal to their family and to Starfleet.

[[Daltari]]


*Era: TOS onward
*Planet: Daltar Prime
*Numbers: 22 billion
*Description: The Daltari are a reptilian race, highly resembling humanoid dinosaurs or the Jem'Hadar, with more spiked protrusions, often forehead, head, and nasal. Their canines are larger than in most humanoids, and they often eat meat rawer than other races, with medium considered well done to them. They are highly xenophobic of other races, and view themselves superior to all other races in the galaxy, and the natural superior race. Other races exist to serve the Daltari. Their government cooperates with business frequently to a degree that Italy and Germany on Earth in the 1930s could only hope to achieve, and their goals are largely similar to those governments. Their ships are modular and can function with over 1/3 of the components separated from the main ship. Historically, the Daltari had been conquered by the Klingons, a huge insult to their pride and race, leaving a mark on their language, which is seen by some xenolinguists as a modified form of Klingon nowadays. Their alcohol has a reputation and is often prized by smugglers.

==Deltan==

*Era: TOS onward *Planet: Delta IV *Numbers: 9 billion *Description: a semi-telepathic species, with bald heads, the Deltans are a very intelligent and intuitive species. They are required to take oaths of celibacy due to higher pheromones than normal causing issues with humans.

==Denobulan==

*Era: ENT and beyond *Planet: Denobula *Numbers: 18 billion *Description: A humanoid species from the Alpha Quadrant with a complicated family structure. They can be friendly to others, notably Doctor Phlox who served on the NX-01.

==Edosian==

*Era: TOS and forward *Planet: Edos *Numbers: 9 billion *Description: Edosians have orange hairless skin, three arms, and three legs.

==El Aurian==

    Era: 2290s onward
    Planet: unknown
    Numbers: unknown
    Description: A human-looking species with a long life-span. They are intuitive and insightful, and appear to be sensitive to changes in the timeline.

Humans

    Era: All
    Numbers: Several tens of billions
    Strength: Average
    Special Abilities: intuitiveness, creativity, leaps of (il)logic.
    Planet: Earth and colonies
    History: Humans originally evolved on Earth, and beginning in 2063, started to move out into the stars with the early help of the Vulcans. Many humans, eager to leave war-torn Earth, leapt at the chance to start over on new planets nearby. This however, resulted in Vulcans slowing their technology sharing to avoid risking causing an interstellar incident with what they realized was a species unaware of the effects of their too-rapid expansion into space. This caused resentment towards the Vulcans by some humans, accusations of 'holding them back.' However, with the advent of the Warp 5 engine in 2151 fitted onto the NX-01 and the Romulan War, humans finally realized that space was dangerous enough that they needed to work more with other races, resulting in the United Federation of Planets. For much of its history it was a human dominated organization, though by the early 24th century, other races had gained a lot of representation in the government of the Federation.
    Humans are considered relatively average for an interstellar species, with psychic potential in some individuals showing as precognitive dreams or flashes of insight.
    Variants: *Augments: as a result of 21st century genetic engineering, various stronger humans were created and threatened to destroy the human race. This version of humans are not available for players. *Bellringers: 52 humans were altered by the Orions against their will to act as infiltration agents; these are allowable by any player. They have the ability to change hair/eye color at will, curl/straighten hair, pheromone control, higher metabolism and healing, and are on average almost 2x as strong as a human male.

[[Kwenarans|Kwenaran]]

    Planet: Alpha Teiidae III
    Era: all
    Numbers: 18 billion
    Languages: 461, with many dialects
    Currency: krone/n, divided into 100 thwitten. The Krone is a polymer rectangle with the value and metallic backing on it, backed by gold, silver, copper, rhodium, palladium, or platinum.
    Planet: 8 continents, 2 microcontinents, thousands of islands.
    Description: Like Earth's whiptail lizard, this species is all female, and all attractive. Some women donate genetic material, while others give birth. There is no word for 'father' in this race; only 'donor-mother' and 'birth-mother', roles which alternate in couples. They tend to be fascinated and infatuated with human males, not having any on their own planet. They look human, just more attractive and endowed than average.

Their culture prizes physical beauty, and sexual selection has emphasized the hourglass shape and more prominent secondary characteristics in adults. The ugliest or plainest Kwenaran would look something like the Earth model 'Nata Lee', and on average like Thylane Blondeau, Vlada (instagram) in the face, and Stephanie Fox, Lindsay Pelas, and the like physically. The Kwenarans tend to wear clothing that is tight in some places, and light and 'flowy' in others and often more revealing than most human females off-duty, but tend to emphasize their natural beauty, and keep their hair long. (Imagine the female costumes in 1960s Trek off-duty). Kwenarans are honest, but considerate, trustworthy, loyal, kind, considerate, passionate, compassionate, and tend to be very clean and enjoy clean environments, and tend to get antsy when around messiness. About 45% are left-handed, and they tend to be visually oriented and stimulated, and are great with numbers and math, often doing more complicated calculations in their heads. Kwenarans are often found in highly technical fields, but also in caregiving roles as well.
When a Kwenaran gets into a relationship, they tend to alternate dominant/submissive role and swap the role of birth mother back and forth. When in a relationship with a species that has more than one gender, Kwenarans sometimes ask to bring in a second female (or Kwenaran) if they are in a relationship with a human male so they can perform what is perfectly normal role-switching when intimate. A Kwenaran often gives birth to multiple children, with single births being slightly under half of all births.
There are 461 languages on their planet, and a variety of sub-cultures. Architecturally, around their equator tends toward styles similar to Mediterranean revival, with styles more like Renaissance Italy and France north of that, and further north like Georgian to Victorian England and Germany. There is no government charity (medical, retirement, unemployment) as that is all taken care of with the large families of Kwenarans. They tend to be very generous with family members and value their elders and their advice greatly. Each culture has long histories of families and their accomplishments. There are a number of monarchies on the planet (about 83), elected monarchies (federations of monarchical societies that then pick their collective monarch), and the rest are republics of various forms. By and large Kwenarans value family and don't want non-family messing in their private affairs. Families tend to gather on the last day of the week for family meals, which can be a multi-hour affair. Government on their planet is very minimal, with the equivalents of sheriffs and their police departments keeping most of the peace. There has been no major war between nations in about 296 years. The last war, World War V, nearly wiped them out, with nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare agents being used. They encountered humans in the 2160s, but only joined the Federation in the 2260s after a delegation from the Enterprise visited the planet in 2268.

==Lakedonians==

    Planet: Alpha Lakedonia IV
    Era: All
    Numbers: 12.9 billion
    Description: This species is a polytheistic human-looking species, all born male. Some children naturally become female during puberty, while others remain male. The culture is very reminiscent of ancient Greece and Rome, though having joined the Federation, slavery was outlawed 150 years ago, replaced with indentured servitude where the boss is required to pay, house, and care for the servant. The languages are quite similar to Old Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and Ancient Greek. Culturally, physical ability is highly prized, and most men are quite fit and muscular, while the woman are also quite fit but also very feminine in appearance. The capital city is interestingly called Sparta, ruled by an elected king for 10 years before a new king is chosen.

Orion

    Era: all
    Strength: roughly 2-3x human
    Special Abilities: females have higher pheromones than men, allowing them to be seen as rather attractive to other species' males and many females as well.
    Planet: Orion
    History: First encountered by the NX-01, Orions showed they were willing to buy and sell anything to anyone for a profit. Their mercantilist nature meant they care little for even their fellow Orions if they could sell them. A one-time incident of note was an experiment to increase the pheromonal abilities of their own women resulted in a temporary coup in a colony world in one sector, where a group of women seized control of the colony, claiming to be in charge of all male Orions; this was a lie told to the humans to gain advantage with them. The Orion females who had been experimented on were soon defeated and stripped of quite a bit of free will through mental conditioning, also leading to the cessation of education of Orion women in much other than the arts of temptation and seduction, eliminating many of their rights in many Orion societies. Orion genetic engineering, however, continued well into the 24th century. At various times, Orions would experiment on other races, including humans, to create 'infiltration agents' to steal intelligence and technology to sell on the black markets. The most recent such incident was at Bellringer Station, where a shuttle of 52 ensigns were captured and experimented on. They were all rescued, but had all been completely genetically altered with higher pheromonal abilities and subvocal 'suggestion' powers. After their rescue, they were allowed to return to Starfleet if they chose with altered public records, provided they didn't mention their genetic alterations to anyone but their captains and immediate superiors, and used a new name to go with their new faces and often new genders.

      Ever since Captain Robert April rescued a load of Orions from Targana IV and the R.J.S Morgana in 2245, Orion slaves have been illegal to trade, own, or transport through the Federation, and are declared free if they reach Federation territory. Captain April adopted one of the orphan Orions, Gaila, who would grow up to join Starfleet as the first Orion officer and later, first female Orion captain of a Federation Starship.

      Shokarian

        Era: TOS movie and beyond
        Numbers: 18 billion
        Planet: Shoka
        Description: Four-armed humanoid species that are always at least 6' tall, muscular, and quite attractive to humans. They have longer canine teeth than humans, but not too long. They have five fingers and five toes, and can control each arm independently of each other. Their planet is ruled by a monarch, and there are many jungles and active volcanoes on their world.

      Tellarite

        Era: all
        Numbers: 30 billion
        Planet: Tellar
        Description: Short and resemble Earth pigs or boars, depending on the ethnicity, and very argumentative.

      Thieden

        Era: all
        Numbers: 42 billion over several worlds
        Planet: Thiedus 2
        Description: A human-looking species noted for their good looks and high metabolism, this species is noted for males having multiple wives and several dozen children. Women go into heat when ready to mate in synch with the lunar cycle, and men can become combative for women at this time. There are typically 5 women for every 3 men, resulting in this lopsided arrangement. Women are highly respected in their society, but have a high expectation for child-rearing and building a family; despite this, many women do go on to become prominent scientists, farmers, doctors, and teachers. Men are found in nearly all professions as well. Gender roles are highly respected in this species. Men are typically trim and muscular; women are typically curvy, well endowed, and wear their hair long.

      Trill

        Era: TOS onward
        Planet: Trill
        Numbers: 5 billion
        Description: Trill are a joined species, similar to marsupials, where a symbiote is allowed to join with the host, and thus carry on memories of prior hosts.

      Valerians

        Era: 2245 onward
        Numbers: 9 billion
        History: This is an all-female species, similar to the Earth lizard ''Aspidoscelis''. Females are attracted to both men and women, and are often surprised upon encountering Earth men. Valerians are typically more attractive than Earth women. Their skeletal mass and muscle mass are similar to Earth men, and consequently are about as strong as an Earth man who engages in regular weightlifting, on average having a physique of a well-endowed fitness model.

      Vulcan

        Era: TOS onward for Starfleet
        Numbers: 10-20 billion
        History: Vulcans committed to peaceful exploration of the galaxy and as such, did not initially join Starfleet, a military organization. This changed with Spock, Ambassador Sarek's son, leading to the first all-Vulcan crew on the Intrepid, and scores of Vulcans joining Starfleet to conduct peaceful exploration. This led to greater friction with the logical species, being forced into close contact with so many emotional species in Starfleet, but also improved the performance in many ships and shore installations with their efficiency and intelligence.
        Description: Vulcans have pointed ears and eyebrows, green blood and tinted skin, and are telepathic, though not to the degree of a species like Betazoids.


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