Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-25068159-20140320150748

I was thinking about adding a new faction for my RP chain, but I wanted to know what you all think first.

The Bazlin'kizaur is a serpentine species from far out in the ghost stars. They have existed on a singular, frozen and barren planet in the farthest reaches of space with no means to expand beyond their solar system- which has only one planet. For tens of thousands of years this continued. However, eventually a Chryllite scout came through the area. They quickly shot it down, and despite their lack of warp jumping capability they were still able to tear the scout to pieces with their small fleet. They reverse engineered the warp drive and traced its source back to habitable planets. Having never seen so much as a leaf on their planet, when they found the terrestrial planets they were overcome with a longing to own them.

Almost a century later they built up a fleet and army large enough to take the planet. They invaded imperial space, fending off almost a dozen battleships with their exceedingly powerful weapons and technology. Having cut all communications, they proceeded to obliterate the militaries on the planet, and siezed the planets for themselves. The civillians they shipped to a colony on a dead world in their original space, where only life-support aided facilities allowed anybody to dwell there at all.

When the ghost stars were subsequently abandoned almost immediately after, no imperial force came to reclaim the world. The Bazlin occupied the planet fiercly, and enslaved the human populace, although the humans were able to buy themselves out of slavery if they could get enough money.

REPRODUCTION

The Bazlin'kizaur were originally of male and female kind, and reproduced normally. However, almost twenty-thousand years ago, a ruler of their kind neutered the entire populace. Instead, they were cloned into an agendered species. The clones were biologically modifed heavily to become the perfect warriors and citizens, but this boosted their metabolism beyond belief. Thus, very few Bazlin'kizaur could exist at any given time because otherwise they would starve. Currently there are only 10'000 in the entire galaxy.

BIOLOGY

The Bazlin'kizaur are a bipedal serpentine race. They have 7 appendages (Wings, tail, legs, and arms.). The Bazlin'kizaur's extremely powerful metabolism is both a blessing and a curse- on one hand, a single one of them is stronger than a hundred humans combined. On the other, the Kizaur require massive ammounts of nutrients to sustain themselves. One of the strangest requirements is iridium and titanium.

The bazlin'kizaur originally had calcim-based bones and scales. But when they were recreated 20'000 years ago, their scales were made to grow from iridium and their bones were iridium and titanium. Their very flesh was at least 60% metal. While this made their natural skin armor as hard as that of a space marines power armor, this meant that they could barely sustain themselves. To make up for this, they are functionally immortal as long as they dont die from external causes. This is the only way that they can produce enough of the metals they need to survive. Dead Bazlin are recycled.

The Bazlin'Kizaur stand seven feet tall, although their wings stretch another foot. Their wings are not large enough to fly with, but instead they use them to speed them along as they run and to allow them to glide to the ground if they fall. They have large clawed feet which grip into objects and end in iridium talons. As well, their hands have three fingers and two thumbs which grip things with immense strength. Their faces are elongated and snake-like, with their eyes usually yellow or green. They also have horns, also made out of iridium. At the end of their head they have several gills which are able to pump out a phyric substance unknown to humans, which gives off a strange purple glow and burns through anything it touches.

As well, there are two subspecies: One is called the Bazlin alone, and the other simply Kizaur. The Bazlin are typically reffered to as Bazlin'kizaur, while the regular Kizaur are reffered to as such. The above description is of the bazlin. The kizaur, by contrast, are still bipedal serpentines, but they lack the titanium and iridium scales and bones, or the gills. These are the parts of the race that were less heavily modifed, and they make up most of the race- around 95% of it.

SOCIETY

The society of the Kizaur is heavily based on honor and personal strength. The Hatchlings are released from their cloning chambers at three years of age. If they were not in peak physical condition, they are executed, leaving around one tenth of them left. Then, they are given a year to learn the language, and if they fail at this they are executed as well. After four years of age, it is considered unethical to terminate them however, and therefore if they are deemed unsatisfactory after that they are simply exiled. They go to a large school, where they grow, learn, and mature for the next forty years until they are released. At this time, They already have a wide range of training, particularily in scientific, engineering, mathematics, military training, and geographical fields. Then they usually go to do whatever job they choose of the options given to them. Many of these become farmers or miners, although a fair amount become researchers and technicians. However, this is not for all of them. The very best- those that excel at their given field beyond belief, and show a steady conviction in the philosophy of the nation, are instead transplanted into fully functioning Bazlin bodies, with their old Kizaur ones being recycled. These become the chosen warriors and taskmasters of the empire.

The Bazlin'Kizaur believe in slavery not based off of race or class, but on strength. Their prisoners of war are taken as slaves, but they can earn money and eventually buy themselves and become almost full citizens of the empire. As well, these slaves, while not treated 'well' persay, are treated considerably better than they would be in most of the imperium.

The Bazlin'Kizaur have a strict code of honor which dictates that they must enjoy combat if they are warriors, that they must always honor their oaths, and that all oaths are void if taken on a 'false promise', which is the Bazlin'Kizaurs way of saying an oath taken without the oathtaker fully understanding what the oath required. As well, oaths are violate if the oathtaker has no right to finish the oath.

HISTORY

The bazlin'kizaur civilization spans forty-thousand years back, to when their planet was controlled by feudal overlords. The citizenry lived good enough lives, but the planet was in a state of constant warfare. At this time, they were very low-tech and did not even have guns.

This continued for a thousand years, when several powerful warlords crossed the sea and began a new country, one which would eventually consume the others. Still, the Bazlin, despite making heavy progress in genetics and medical fields, lacked the normal weapons used by most races. Instead, they used axes and armor, which slowly evolved into rare materials and superstrong artificial metals. The warlords, when they returned from the sea, took over the entire planet and split it between them. One of them gave up his power, on the requirement that his son would inherit all titles from the other two. The other two agreed, and despite some political friction they managed to get along until they died.

Thus, the civilization came under the command of a singular ruler. His rule was far from kind, and he was a ruthless dictator who exacted massive tribute and raised armies. He forced technology on the populace, and drew up a complicated system of governance and succession. Any who stood against his reforms was crushed underfoot. His belief was that if he could stabilize the empire then the next ruler- the next High Prince- would be able to prevent regression. He lived for a thousand five-hundred years, and in that time he had begun the progress on genetic experimentation.

The high princes continued like this for several centuries, growing their influence and technology. Eventually, one of the rulers, with the support of two of the four branches of government, forced genetic manipulation on the entire populace. The entire populace had their genders aremoved and reproduction was replaced with cloning. Thus, he solved the overpopulation issue. As well, this prince built the first spacecraft.

in the next ten-thousand years, the empire would build a space fleet and they would discover their psionic abilities. However, their strange psionic abilities were not capable of navigating the warp and they could not leave the planet. However, when a chryllite scout passed through the area, they realized it was an alien life-form with some way to move between systems. They immediately attacked and quickly destroyed the vessel, then reverse engineered it.

the next five-thousand years involved much technological progress until they were ready to enter the galaxy proper. Unfortunately for them, they landed in the ghost stars shortly before the imperium expanded into them.

WIP

PSIONICS

The Bazlin'Kizaur, to other psykers, appear as psychic blanks, blocking out their psychic abilities. However, somehow the Bazlin can use psychic powers to great effect, and the ability seems to be universal in their race. However, certain psychic abilities usually considered simple are lost on them, and they cannot even tell the difference between a normal human and one with the pariah gene. WIP 