Brakim

The brakims native to Bortan II live in small tribal groups. A planetwide war that occurred during The Gap reduced their numbers and left their world an irradiated wasteland where the brakims survive, organized into nomadic scavenger tribes. These tribes battle each other across blasted deserts and ruined cities.
When the Azlanti landed on Bortan II, the planet had been stripped of natural resources. The Star Empire engaged in a few brief, brutal skirmishes to prove their supremacy, built a small monitoring station, and left. Since that event, a city has grown up around the monitoring station. This settlement’s citizens are not only brakims, but also outcasts from the Star Empire who see Bortan II as a refuge. Criminal enterprise has since flourished on the planet as all sorts of scoundrels find a place on Bortan II. A few brakims head such organizations and have used the wealth they gained to move offworld.
Brakims are adaptable, industrious, and resourceful. Their ability to modify and even detach their limbs provides them with a considerable survival advantage. However, centuries of life on a war-torn world have left them brusque and distrustful, and they are slow to accept strangers. The opportunity to travel beyond Bortan II has given a few brakims new horizons to explore, although doing so is beyond the means of most of these people.
Some make the leap by hiring on as technicians on starships bound for other imperial worlds. Already used to treating their limbs as tools and extracting useful parts from ancient machines, brakims are well suited to dealing with technology. They see technology as reliable and practical compared to the potential chaos that magic can cause. Brakims also favor hands-on work that has pragmatic results to the abstractions common with computing and sorcery. A brakim’s adaptable methods and informal training can produce patchwork results. Nevertheless, a brakim’s work is quite functional.
Brakims stand 7-1/2 feet tall, and their gangly bodies weigh around 200 pounds. They’re considered adults at 15 and naturally live up to 75 years