Better Late Than Never.

So here is my entry for the 2nd Species Contest! I actually finished them a while ago but I wanted to finish the drawings to go along with the entry before I submitted anything. Anywho, Here they are!!!

Tennë-Jin’ Raka (Tnnë-Jin)

            The Tennë-Jin’ Raka or Tnnë Jin’ (same difference in meaning between People and Human) shared their home planet Röq-Najaa with the Tnö-Jin. The two races may once have been the same species but as a result of ages and ages of caste system exclusion and segregation, two genetically similar but different species evolved on their home planet.

            Firstly, there were the Tnö Jin’. They evolved to be very flexible, with a commanding and often times intimidating mental and physical presence. The Tnö were advanced in science, government, combat and willpower. They were an honorable yet prideful species.

Secondly there was the Tnnë-Jin, a subservient slave race to the Tnö Jin’. The Tno, who were more powerful,  believed that the Tnne were inferior versions of themselves, simply “Tno’s gone wrong,” like they weren’t quite a sentient race, and that they needed to be enslaved for their own protection. Because the Tno were so much more powerful than the Tnne, the Tnne could never really argue against the Tno’s superiority and the majority of the Tnne were naturally conditioned to believe that their enslavement was necessary.

The Tnnë-Jin on the other hand, evolved to have good hearing and sight plus smaller physical builds to notice and flee from their slavers.  An uprising may someday have occurred if not for the genocide of the Tno, which the Tnne refer to as “the Culling.”

Thousands of years ago, in a history that was been lost to time, the Tnnë saw the complete eradication of their masters. They don’t really understand what happened.  Some people think it was the vengeance of an angry deity, and others think that the Tno finally reached the pinnacle of evolution and were changed or cut down by some cosmic force, hence why this event is referred to as “the Culling.” Regardless of the truth, the only thing that remains in the history books is that supposedly a giant metal dragon descended from the sky and separated the two races, cutting down the Tnö Jin’ and completely ignoring the Tnnë-Jin. The entire event lasted a mere several days, and then the beast left.

With the almost overnight eradication of their masters, the surviving Tennë-Jin’Raka society was thrown into anarchy and they almost went extinct themselves. Very few had any idea how to use any form of technology, the few who did were so conditioned to never use their master’s technology that they would have rather died anyway.  Without the calming aura of the Tnö Jin’ the slaves began fighting for food and power. Starvation was the leading cause of death with fighting coming in a close second. This lasted for about two months before a Tnnë-Jin female, who today is heralded as a hero, started reasoning with all the remaining slaves until they all had come together, maybe not unified but at least cooperated enough to survive as a species.  A census was taken in the aftermath, and roughly only 10% of the Tnnë-Jin population survived, barely several million. Këm-Yvan, the hero of the Tnnë, was one of the few who actually knew how to operate Tno tech. She taught others how to use technology and slowly the Tennë-Jin’Raka began to prosper and eventually think for themselves.

           

Race Name:  Tennë-Jin’Raka

Home Planet:  Röq-Najaa

Languages:  Alk-Nakesh, (the masters language) Alk-Nikaan (the slaves language)

Avg. Lifespan: 130 years

Sleep Habits: 10 hours out of every 35, (10 asleep, 25 awake)

Avg. Height: 7’6” (extreme height variations common, i.e. between 6 to 9 feet)

Avg. Weight: 250 lbs.

Hair:  No head hair but can sometimes have small thin horns

Eyes: They have four eyes where the iris can be any possible color (Shard lines of different colors common)

Skin: Their skin is much like humans but it is grayish in color, they are covered in light fur or fuzz which can be any color (Pastel colors most common.)

Ears: They have 4 thin long pointy ears

Arms: They have two arms which, compared to humans, look elongated and thin.

Hands: They have no thumbs, but 4 symmetrically placed strong and flexible fingers. No fingernails.

Feet: They have 4 flexible big toes (which in truth are more like big fingers on their feet.) Two are pointed forward and are more slender and can grab things, and two are pointed backwards and are thicker and not so flexible and are used for balance.

Physical Description: Tall and slender, (to the point of looking frail) there are no overweight Tnne unless they are sick (Genetically incapable of creating stored energy as fat, leading cause of death is malnutrition and starvation.)

            They have a prehensile tail (strong enough to grab and hang from but not dexterous enough to do advanced actions, such as firing a gun) it can be used to pick up or carry objects and it is also long enough to “hand” objects to the arms.

            They have one 6 chambered symmetrical heart that sits in the middle of the chest and 4 lungs, two normal sized and two small redundant lungs (1/4^th the size of their normal lungs).

            They have above average strength but look frail and slender because of the length of their extremities.

           

Possible Average Attributes:

Strength: 13

Endurance: 11

Knowledge: 8

Reasoning: 10  

Charisma: 10

Comeliness: 10

Dexterity: 13

Perception: 16

Heal: 8

Willpower start: 0 (no bonus) 

Society: Their society was based, for a long time, on just survival, creating a commonwealth, in which the people were united by a compact of the people for the common good. This came to be known as the Këm-Yvan Commonwealth, taking its name from the hero (Këm-Yvan) who created “the Pact”, the writ of rules, regulations and laws that all citizens should follow to survive and prosper. In recent times however the commonwealth is shifting to an oligarchy, where a group of individuals claim authority based on wealth and power. Though the Commonwealth of Këm-Yvan is still claimed to be in effect, the wealthy and powerful have great influence over the affairs of state.

About 65% of the survivors from the aftermath were female so they became the majority of the leaders. Genetically about 60% of newborns are female. So males are less common in everyday life. Families are close-knit and very protective of each other; it is not uncommon to see one household that has four or five generations present.

Military and Tech:  Every member of society must serve in the military for at least 1 year, during this time each person is taught and given more insight on how to use old world Tno tech. After the one mandatory year each person is given the option to remain in the military for however long they want, the military is one of the best paid occupations. There are no police functions as the military serves as the law keepers.

The technological advances in Tnnë society came from two separate endeavors, one; to create or discover new things, and two; to reverse engineer old Tnö Jin’ technology, so they are both advanced and not advanced at the same time, for example they do not have wireless telephones and only the military and wealthy have computers, but, by reverse engineering old Tno tech they actually have achieved FTL travel. (In human eras the Tnnë-Jin would be in the equivalent of the 50’s or 60’s.)

Physiologically, it is easier for the Tnne to hold spherical objects (because of their hands), so Tnne equipment, utensils and weapons are usually spherical or curved and almost always symmetrical. For example the Tnne keyboard is slightly curved and there are 40 buttons total, 20 buttons radiate outward for each hand with five for each finger grouped at the cardinal directions. (north, south, etc.)

(Example of a Tnnë-Jin keyboard)

Fighting Styles: These fighting styles were originally created by the Tno, but were learned and perfected by the slaves after the Culling.

            - Tnö-Iatrii – This is their hand to hand combat. It employs flips and spins to hit and grapple.

            - Tnö-Chaell (Ball and Chain) – They invented this form of fighting because their hands have no thumbs and it is easiest for them to grasp spherical shaped objects. They use a chain about 3 feet long with a metal ball on each end (a Chaellen) that can be used for offense or defense.

            - Tnö-Aatiritee – This is what the military teaches, it is the combined use of Iatrii and Chaell in fighting.

Star System: the name of their home system is Rään and it is a binary sun system, having a blue giant and a white dwarf. There are five planets in the system where their home-planet: Röq-Najaa is the third in line and the only habitable one in the system; it has 3 moons, each which orbit the planet at different angles and distances. The planet is 70% water where most of the land is near the equator and tropical in climate. There are ice islands near the poles. The Axis tilt is 2.1 degrees, being almost completely perpendicular to its orbit plane. The surface gravity is .91, which is slightly less than earth. There are 35 hours in a day and one year is 421 days. The home galaxy for the Rään system is called the Qäe-Siriia Nebula, which lies relatively close to the Thanok galaxy.

            The Këm-Yvan Commonwealth has explored their own system and some surrounding areas but they have only just begun to colonize other worlds. The KYC military is in charge of the deep space exploration program and because of population and land issues (current population on Roq-Najaa is 15 billion) they are very interested in exploring and claiming new areas for themselves.

Below are two pictures of different Tnne-Jin, the first is Commander Cha-Abakk Geij who is sporting a basic military space faring uniform and wielding a classic Chaellen, and the second is Colonel Roq-Jako who is wearing the flexible yet durable Special Forces Armor, and wielding light rapid fire arm cannons on both forearms and holding a custom made SMG sidearm.

Hope you guys like them!

Xzebo out.