Tethyans
sing. Tethyan, adj. Tethyne
For trillions of years the sim ran its hellish world, and in it the Ikoska transformed into something that should not exist, could not exist, in all the time the stars will burn. Something from beyond time.
- Origin: Simulated Evolution
- Environment(s): Hard Vacuum, Human, Benthic, Hyperthermic, Cryogenic
- Body Plan: Hard articulated shell with six vent ports for reconfigurable limbs.
Tethyans are a telene species evolved in an environment engineered by by Kichalteron researchers. In realspace, their preferred environment is benthic regions of large, high-gravity aquatic worlds. They have incredibly strong bodies and can withstand almost any environmental conditions including hard vacuum and the atmospheres of Gas Giant planets.
Origin
Tethyans emerged from Simulated Evolution via a Kichaltric attempt to understand the Vimana. Unlike the Vimana, whose creation heralded long eras of disaster and domination, Tethyans were kept from evolving a superluminal engine. Also unlike Vimana, Tethyans have a failsafe: they have no sense of ordered time with a dormant Hyladrome.
Description
Tethyans are massive six-limbed beings with long necks and tails that grow to 500-1000 meters in length from head to tail. Their bodies are built from incredibly strong and self-healing materials similar to the hulls of Vimana, but are much more flexible. Their limbs emerge from large vent-ports as masses of nanocomponents that Tethyan concsiously assembles into tissues and joints. Four of these ports are on the underside of the body, and a third pair of ports opposite the neck at the top of their forward body section allows them to reach anywhere 360 degrees around themselves. Between their six possible limbs and strong, thick tail, Tethyans are dynamically stable in any orientation: they cannot be rendered helpless by rolling them onto their backs. This makes them excellent defending themselves in close combat and in low- or no-gravity environments in general.
Depictions
As a TTRPG class: Superheavies and Living Starships