Name: Kronospasts (singular: Kronospast)
Also known as: Time-Breakers, Deitonics, Lokians.
Average Height: 90cm
Average Weight: 67kg
Basic Description: Kronospasts are small, bipedal beings with broad snouted heads, four eyes and two thumbs on their hands and feet. They are considered plump and round, their arms and legs being somewhat thick and having short, stubby tails. Kronospasts have oversized canines which stick out from under their lips.
Many mature Kronospasts have a dim glow of energy that emits from their eyes and down spots on their bodies, allowing them to see in the dark.
Kronospast attire consists of loose sheets of sparkly fabric wrapped around the body. Armour may be worn on top of this.
Abilities and Powers: Kronospasts have the ability to shape-shift into any form up to 3 times their own size. This shape-shifting power is not perfect, as a Kronospast’s defining traits, their eye colour and energy glow, tend to remain consistent no matter their form. Some Kronospasts can control and change their colours and even blend in with their environments, but this takes decades of training.
The main ability of a Kronospast is the ability to teleport. The average Kronospast can teleport up to 1km in any direction, and can do so subconsciously to avoid danger.
Kronospasts are also powerful in other ways, having high levels of telepathic powers and the ability to create vast levels of electrical and magnetic power. This can be used both offensively and defensively as required.
Habitat: Kronospasts strictly live within their own cities, which are made out of a plastic-like translucent material called Yialin. Their homes are split into square rooms of equal size, with rectangular hallways in between each room. Kronospast houses are stacked on top of each other, and
Diet: Kronospasts eat nothing but sugar and sugar-based treats. Gummy ‘cola bottles’ and marshmallows are incredibly popular among Kronospasts, as are sugary carbonated drinks and ‘ice mushes’, crushed fruit sorbets with fast amounts of syrup on top, topped with sprinkles.
Breeding: Kronospasts are long-lived beings and breed rarely, with one couple producing 1-3 children every 500 years. After mating, a female Kronospast will carry a child for three years, often becoming immobile in the last 6 months before their baby is born. Kronospast children are fully developed physically and are half the size of adults, but require 50 years of careful training before they are capable of using their powers.
Younglings are educated by their parents until they are 10 years old, then go to a nearby school, where they learn about life and work towards a career or degree.
Kronospasts can live for over five thousand years, but most Kronospasts will only live to around 1000 years old, due to injuries or ill health.
Hierarchies: The Kronospasts are ruled by a single leader, known as the Lord of All, and leadership is passed down to the eldest or favourite child after a Lord’s death, as per their final wishes. A Lord will pick out subjects to assist them in maintaining rule over their kind, and has the right to mate with any Kronospast they desire. While Lords may be female, the majority of Lords tend to be male due to their longer lifespans.
Technologies: While Kronospasts themselves are powerful, their technology develops haphazardly, with huge leaps of progress in between vast, tiring slumps with almost no development at all. Despite this, Kronospasts have inter-universal technology and can easily travel long distances across the universe.
Their main technological weakness is in medicine. Due to the amount of power their bodies contain, it is incredibly difficult to develop technology to look inside the Kronospast body, as well as develop medicines and cures for internal issues.
Society: The average Kronospast works hard to obtain the “Deiton’s Dream”, the idea that, with enough hard work, anyone can become rich and powerful and gain the Lord’s favour, and that maybe one day the Dragon God will bless them with long lives.
Although Kronospasts are social and willing to work together, they generally work with their own interests in mind, and will put themselves above all others. Due to their sly, often self-serving ways, many Kronospasts are seen as tricksters or con-artists, fooling others to better themselves.
Religion: All Kronospasts worship the Dragon God of Time, hoping to win his favour and grant them even longer lives. Although the Kronospasts have no holy book, they have an unwritten set of laws which they follow, involving prayers before bed, weekly visits to their nearest temple and a yearly journey to the holy city of Kronia. They have a distinct fear of death and will destroy anything believed to be a symbol of the Thantophor.
Economy: The Kronospast economy is particularly strong, but only really due to their harsh, capitalist ways. While tax rates are low for corporations, the average Kronospast is considered material rich but cash poor, and there is little social safety net outside of basic education, infrastructure and health services. Due to the huge ban on slave ownership, the Kronospast economy is suffering from a slump, with the majority of production- or factory-based business having to restructure or go out of business.
A lot of Kronospast wealth belongs to the top 5%, vast amounts of which may or may not have come from the pillaged worlds the Kronospasts have invaded.