Rekarian

The Rekarian home world of Rekar III is in the Trinity Sector of space.

History

Pre Romulan contact

The original Rekarian people were for the most part farmers. They were pre industrial, living off the land. Very few records exist from before the Romulans crash landed. All those records deal with weather, livestock, crops and farming techniques.

Post Romulan contact

A very long time ago, during the original migration of what would become the Romulan race to their new homeworld, one of the ships became separated from the rest due to mechanical problems caused by a strange spacial abnomalie. These problems caused them to drift far off course. Their communications system was to badly damaged to repair.

Finally they were forced to make a landing on the closest Class M planet they could reach. This landing was on Rekar III. They crashed onto the surface of the planet. In the aftermath of the crash they lost 16% of their people due to various factors. They might have lost a lot more if the natives had not been able to overcome their fears and seeing these strange people were in trouble came to their aid.

This aid included medicine, food and help building shelters and planting their first crops. From the very start both races seemed to find aspects in the other that fostered a true friendship. This peaceful initial meeting blossomed into full cooperative contact with technology, skills and food sources being freely traded back and forth.

It was not long before this contact resulted in intermarrage between the two races. Now after so many years their is no longer two races, only one.

Description

After so many years of intermixing the Rekarian people have on average between 18% and 26% Romulan DNA mixed into their genetic make up. While they do faintly resemble normal Romulans what with the pointed ears, straight eyebrows and height they also could not be mistaken for a Romulan either.

Males tend to have light brown hair with various degrees in reddish tints mixed in. They like to wear it long but tie it back in a pony tail. The females never tie their hair back and seem to have even lighter shades with a few blondes mixed in.

Physiology

Most Rekarians have on average 8% to 11% more muscle mass. Their eye's are mostly amber in color and their skin tones are darker as well. On the average they tend to be a mix of dark tan to milk chocolat brown in skin color.

Psychology

As a race they are more accepting of outsiders than most others at their stage of development. As a people they tend to be more relaxed. Stress related illness is unheard of.

Religion

Over the years a new religion has evolved. One based on peace, friendship and helping those in need. One that encourages family development, conservation and care of the planet as well as a limitation or ban on the use of any tecnology that would violate any of their basic beliefs.

Mythology

The only prevelent myth has to deal with falling stars. They are symbols of both great changes, both for the better or for worse. Proof of this is the falling star that turned out to be the damaged ship belonging to the visitors from the stars.

Society

For the most part communities are carefully controled and regulated. Their are no true cities on Rekar III, but their are literally thousands of towns and almost quadruple that number of villages. Towns seldom have a population in excess of 50,000 while villages are usually smaller than 10,000 in number

Culture

They enjoy simple celebrations that usually include all the members of the community. These will be held for various reasons such as a marrage, harvest time, end of planting time and following a building raising.

Customs

One strange custom is that every town and every village will challenge another town or village once a year to a contest of some kind. These contests are usually athletic and never result in hard feelings. They tend to be one of the few occasions where people from one community can or do mingle with those from another community. These festivities usually last for 5 to 10 days.

Technology

They have mastered all the skills and technology needed for them to progress from a pre-industrial people prior to the arrival of the Romulan crash landed settlers, into a more advanced people. It was the arrival of these off worlders that sparked the rise in knowledge and the study, search for new knowledge, skills and technology.

Now they have genetically engineered plants, genetically engineered livestock, ecology safe power and excellent recycleing facilities. They have high tech farm equipment and many luxuries.