Name: Skyavok (singular: Skyavok)
Also known as: Skyans, Threavok
Full name: Panvrekavok Threthan Threavok
Average Height: 160cm
Average Weight: 80kg
Basic Description: Skyavok are small, bipedal beings with rubbery skin, armour plating and long, flexible tails. They have reptile-like heads, with long snouts and eyes set back so they can have binocular vision. Their plating covers their chest area, groin, lower arms and legs and their thighs, with a long, thin plate running along the top of the head.
Skyavok have 3 fingers and a thumb on their hands and run on elongated toes, tipped with 2-3 sharp claws and a thumb-like appendage on their heel. Their tails provide balance while running, but can also be used as weapons. Skyavok are capable of running on all fours but prefer not to.
Colourations are varied, with the majority of Skyans having black or grey skin, with brightly coloured armour plating. White, silver and gun-metal metallic natural plating is also possible, although a mixture of black and orange, red, green or blue tend to be the most common.
Many Skyavok will attach extra armour to their own plating, covering their shoulders, knees, elbows and stomachs. Tail plating is also popular.
Abilities and Powers: Skyavok are naturally attuned to the Void, known as the Space Between Spaces. They are capable of accessing the Void with ease, and can use its power to communicate telepathically, move items with their minds and create telekinetic shields capable of blocking small arms.
Skyavok have excellent eyesight and a good sense of smell, but have poor hearing. Their sense of taste is somewhat weak, and they are known to enjoy otherwise rather bland foods.
On a Skyavok’s back there are two large bump-like protrusions, known as Wing Access Points. Using their voidborn powers, a Skyavok uses these protrusions a basis to create a pair of wings made out of pure energy. Using these wings, Skyavok are capable of flight and will fade away when not in use. They can also carry themselves using pure telekinesis but only for short periods of time.
Habitat: Skyavok always prefer warm, dark places. While they originally lived in warm, subterranean cave systems, they have since relocated to pockets of the Void, living on floating asteroid belts and building long bridges between Skyan cities.
Skyan homes are also incredibly dark and warm, lit by small lamps and filled with soft cushions, blankets and pillows, the only exception being their bathing areas and kitchens.
Diet: A Skyavok’s diet consists of mostly carbohydrate-based root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, as well as plants and fungi that grow well in dark places. Skyavok teeth are quite delicate, so their food is often mushed up and easy to swallow. Soups, mashes and stews are the most common meals a Skyavok will have. Rices and pastas are also common, generally served with creamy sauces and over-boiled to assist with fast eating. Skyavok enjoy some sweetness but tend shy away from anything too sweet.
Breeding: Like all Threthan species, the Skyavok are hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female reproductive organs. They are egg-laying beings, with a fertilized individual laying one or rarely two eggs in a large, heavily guarded nest. Eggs remain inside the body for 2 weeks and hatch after about 5 months after being laid.
Skyavok children (called kids) hatch fully formed, but their armour does not harden until their first year. They reach sexual maturity at the age of 7 and are fully grown at the age of 20. The average lifespan of a Skyan is about 95 years.
Younger Skyavok under the age of 30 are flirtatious, but after the age of 30 they will tend to settle down with a single child.
Hierarchies: The Skyavok live in clans called ‘Classes’, groups of Skyans who come together for the same cause, working the same jobs and believing the same things. The leaders of these clans are called Ksiar, generally the strongest and most intelligent of the group, but are always elected by the Class’s members. Every five years, elections are held as to which class and their Ksiar have the right to rule over all Skyans, both managing laws and representing the Skyans outside of their territories.
Technologies: Skyan technology is slightly more advanced than current human technology. They lack proper interstellar travel but have developed hovercraft technologies to enable them to travel quickly from place to place. Their main source of energy comes from wind turbines and geothermal vents, stored in easy-to-transfer batteries called Sol-Cases, capable of holding vast amounts of power.
Society: The Skyavok define themselves as socialists, although their society is more closer to communism, based on group sharing and making sure that everyone has equal of everything, no matter what. All Skyavok are capable of reading, writing and basic arithmetic, and know basic first aid, are given the same education and freedoms, and have the same opportunities in life.
Skyavok spend their first 4 years living with their parents before attending full-time schools, living away from home and visiting their parents at weekends. While at school, they will learn multiple careers and will leave school to begin working at the age of 20. Skyavok will generally have only a couple of jibs throughout their lives.
Due to their group suffering, Skyavok feel high empathy for their own but are somewhat xenophobic towards other species, preferring to keep to themselves.
Religion: The Skyavok are against strict religion and belief in freedom of speech and the right to believe whatever one wants. While they do not worship any deity especially, they do give small token gifts and sacrifices to Kenon, by dropping coins and other trinkets wrapped in paper into the Void. Apart from the most important of Skyan heroes, all Skyavok are cremated and placed inside small pots, offered to the Thantophor for good luck and a better next life.
Economy: Sol-Cases and minerals and flora only available in the Void are the man sources of Skyan income, providing enough money and resources to be able to live care-free lives. Their communist society means that there are no rich Skyavok, but also no poor Skyavok either. All Skyavok get a universal basic income, as well as a small amount of ‘free money’ which they can spend on whatever they want. Taxes in Skyan society are incredibly high. There is a 99% tax rate on all earnings, meant to both provide for Skyan society and dissuade other races from investing with them.