Lyranian

Overview

Lyranians (pl.), Lyranian (sgl.)

The Lyranians are the species with the most power at the playground we call Galaxy. Not only do they have the largest armada of ships and groundtroops, but they also have the largest and most stable economy which supplies them with more people, wealth and strength. I, for one, admire them because they somehow can keep the economy the way it is.

Also they have the most influence in the Galactic Federation and so the Council. It is not that the Lyranians are ruthless or reckless or just a bunch of war-mongering hostiles, they are just...effective.

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Biology

In the early days of the species the Lyranians were just like humans. Same appearence, some parts a bit different, in a way a cousin is part of you. But whoever created them, gave the species an enormous brain with rapid processing speed and a slightly higher amount of intelligence. That is the reason they developed engines way before the wheel. Kinda strange, but whatever floats their boat, I would say.

As they started to use the wheel, they were in a time humans would call "Steampunk", really fast followed with solar-powered stuff. And they sticked to it, channeling the raw power of their three suns and creating a thriving society.

But they got bored really quick after getting the first space ship into the air and in orbit and space. Their biological form was weak, easy to break and hard to maintain. So they started to replace organs and body parts with mechanical parts. First only small organs, blood veins, patches of skin. But the progress was fast, the results extraordinary.

Over the decades the Lyranians created something like a pattern that would be the blueprint for all Lyranians after they matured. Replacing the important larger muscles with artifical, but stronger and self-healing fibers; reinforcing their chest and spine with stronger materials, like really flexible steel; shielding their brain with a shock-resistant skull; enhancing their vision with newly grown eyes, capable of better night vision and seeing infrared.

Society

Society thrived with their enhanced abilities and the possibility to harness the power of suns. But they were not in line. There were war and small rebellions until some scientists created the first and only supercomputer. It was not a building, it was a moon, hollowed out and replaced with gun batteries, server farms, wireless connectors and more processing power than the entire human society could muster without counting John and his endeavours.

The biological blueprint was altered with a connection to the supercomputer which later was called "An'han Ogh'An", the Mind Above All.

Some would say it is a hive mind, but no, it isn't. Every Lyranian is keeping their identity while being connected to a not-shutting-up voice in their head. The Mind Above All is outfitted with the strongest emitters, transponders and recievers the Lyranians could develop and is protected by a ten layer thick defense, not including the moon-based artillery.

Lyranians conquered the space with might. They enslaved some species and maked them their own, integrating them into the fledging empire. "Helping folks" the Lyranians call them. Basically slaves, if you ask me. But no one could withstand their might, their ships powered with raw sun energy, their energy weapons melting through shields like a hot knife through butter.

With the small wars and helping people in their empire the Lyranians kept a good economic basis. Their mining planets, their agriculture systems and whatever they had built, helped them to uphold a good flow of... well, basically everything. Food, materials, luxurious goods, clothing, armaments of war, you name it.

They only stopped because they met the Anthraxians and then other species. A war between those rivals wasn't a good advise and there wouldn't be a winner, only losers. So the society of the Lyranians thrived a bit slower than before, but that was okay. They prepared for the worst case. Until they met humanity. Than they prepared for their extinction.

Biological Cycle & reproduction

Lyranians can have up to two children per (Sol) year. They live for around eighty to hundred twenty years. A matured Lyranian has green-ish iridiscent skin which emerges between their twenty and twentyfifth year. Procreating is possible before that, but not advised.

They procreate in a similar way to humans and give birth like the humans, but with much lesser blood and pain because of their technology. Pain reducers, shock absorbers and other things help with the task.

Lyranians can't reproduce after around seventy of their years. Which is also not advised.

Battle

Lyranians don't tend to fight in close quarter. They like it when they can crush the enemy with a large force from above or with huge guns on the battlefields.

If they need to fight personally they fight with hands and teeth, knives and blades, with guns and grenades. The Anthraxians were their equal, until humanity reached the stars.

The empire

Depending on the purpose of a world it looks always a bit different. Lyranians try to keep the pollution stick to a minimum so they can harvest the energy of suns. And since one sun is not like the other they are masters of their craft. A mining planet is not so green as an agriculture planet or a livestock planet. Not all planets are specialised, but most of them are. To keep it coordinated.

Lyranian SolarPunk World by CrazyEddie via Midjourney

Lyranian SolarPunk Mining World by CrazyEddie via Midjourney

Male Lyrianian by CrazyEddie via Midjourney

Female Lyrianian by CrazyEddie via Midjourney

Data

• height: 140 - 220cm
• weight: 90 - 200kg
• lifetime: 80 - 150 years
• Two legs
• two arms
• one brain
• two eyes
• five fingers
• five toes
• two lungs
• one heart
• two kidneys
• humanoid primary sexual organs