User:Canreb/Updated Race info

Description

The Andorian people are humanoid in appearance with white hair, blue skin and 3 to 4 inch antenna sticking up out of their heads. On the average they tend to be a very tall, slim race. They tend to be 1.7 to 2.1 meters tall. While obesity is not unknown among them, it is culturally condemed by the majority of them.

While their tall slim forms can seem to be frail and slight this is completely incorrect. They have very dense bone and muscle tissue that gives them incredible physical strength. In fact the average Andorian can easily lift twice their body weight with little effort.

Andorian Races

Their are technically 3 races and 1 sub-race among the Andorian. These are the Thallassan, Talish, Bish'ee and the sub-race of the Bish'ee who are called Aenar.

Thallassan

The Thallassan race are the most common and numerous of the Andorian races. They can be identified by their bumpy antenna that stick up from the top of their heads, but then curve forward so that the tips face forward. These tips tend to look like a flower because they flare out right at the tip around the opening.

Talish

The Talish race can be identified by their thin, smooth antenna that stick out from the tops of their foreheads and extend out forward with a slight bend in the antenna. The tip is smooth, does not flare out and ends with a small tiny opening that they use to hear and smell with.

Bish'ee

The antenna of the Bish'ee are straight, standing up from their heads about halfway between where they would be on a Talish or a Thallassan. They are smooth and end in an almost unnoticable flare right at the tip around the opening to the internal sensory organs.

Aenar

The Anear are technically a sub-race as they are closely related to the Bish'ee but they are also radically different from any of the other Andorian races. They are blind, albino cave dwellers that live in the far north in underground cities that exist under the polar cap. They were considered to be a myth for many years but since have been proven to exist. Still very few people have ever seen one as they are isolationists who value their carefully guarded privacy.

While they are considered to be a very secretive people it is considered fact that they are quiet, intelligent, peaceful and carry themselves with a kind of reserved dignity. They are also telepathic but are polite enough to ask for permission before they read someones mind. How they are able to get around with out being able to see is unknown. Just another one of the many mysteries that they either can't or won't explain about themselves.

Physiology

General Facts

Andorians can not tolerate chocolate, they tend to slip into shock fairly easily, even from relatively minor injuries. They prefer high levels of humidity, give off a sweet floral smell when exerciseing and turn purple when they blush due to embarrassment.

Among themselves a smile is convayed by a soft, liquid gaze. It is only because of their exposure to humans and other races to who facial expressions are the custom that they have learned to mimic and make a reserved kind of human like smile.

Andorians are neither nocturnal or diurnal and can function just as well at any time of the day or night. In fact they can easily survive on 3 to 4 hours of sleep during a standard 32 hour Andorian day.

While they have a normal skeleton like any other humanoid race they also have cartilage plates under their skin that act as a partial exoskeleton. This gives added protection to their vital organs, but it also provides addition strength to their muscles.

It is believed that because they can sense subtle variations in pitch and vibration that their speech is soft and sibilant. This is also believed to be partial due to their language originating from music and partially due to their hearing being different from other races.

As a culture most Andorians seem to have a great interest in music.

The Andorian race has a genetic tendency towards violent behaviour. The cause of this is a biochemical reaction to possible danger. The result is an increase in sensory input levels, enhanced analytical, reasoning skills and usually physical violence depending on the source of the danger.

Strangely enough Andorians have a greater ability to handle stress and pressure. In fact they usually get calmer, more focused in a crisis. That is until they finally allow themselves to resort to violence if the situation calls for it.

Skin Color

The remarkable blue color that everyone has come to associate with the Andorians is due to a protein dye called HZB-41 that is very similar to melanin in humans. This protein dye is produced by all most every form of animal life on their homeworld. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately the dye has a very short life span. Andorians need to constantly replace this protein. The most common method is through their diet.

The reason it might be considered fortunate to need to be constantly replaced is that when an Andorian becomes very sick his skin coloration tends to fade. This is because his immune system is fighting off the illness and can not produce enough dye to maintain their normal skin color.

Senses

Andorians have heightened senses. Their visual ability is astounding and well above that of what is considered as generally accepted levels for normal humans. They also have increased senses of smell and hearing thanks to their ability to recieve addition information with the use of their antenna. This information is usually superior to what they can recieve from their nose or ears.

Antenna

An Andorians antenna is more than just a sensory organ. They also use it to express emotions of all kinds. In fact their antenna are so important to them that touching them without permission is considered to be the ultimate act of rudeness and lets not forget that any threat of injury to their antenna is considered grounds for assault and murder.

Now while it is true that if they lose their antenna they will grow back in about 9 months, most Andorians prefer not to survive the loss. The loss of an antenna is very similar to being mute, deaf, castrated and mutilated all at the same time. It is because of this that most Andorians suffer from a deep and wide spread fear of antenna loss. Their is also the fact that while waiting for their antenna to regenerate that they are at a severe disadvantage.

Strangely enough their antenna are actually an extension of their sinus cavities and while they do increase both their sense of smell and hearing that is not all they do. They can also sense tiny variations in atmospheric pressure and temperature.

While Andorians do not seem to express much emotion useing the muscles in their faces, one can read a lot into an Andorians body language by watching their antenna. They easially convey such emotions as fear (by quivering), excitement (by standing rigid), confusion (by lashing about), rage (by pressing back against the skull), amusement (by the antenna faceing each other), interest (by curving towards object of interest), tiredness (by drooping) and sexual arousal (by slow writhing). In fact the most erotic caress or intimate kiss among Andorians involves the touching of the tips of their antenna together.