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===Attire=== | ===Attire=== | ||
Beauty is revered by Caitian artists along with the general populace. Every colour holds a different meaning for a Caitian, and their fashion is often individually tailored to reflect their personality. Alien fashions may appear strange, absurd or unfashionable by Caitians, or in extreme cases offensive to the eye. However, the nature of the species is to avoid confrontation rather than create it, and any comment a Caitian may make on this matter is always worded exceptionally carefully. | Beauty is revered by Caitian artists along with the general populace. Every colour holds a different meaning for a Caitian, and their fashion is often individually tailored to reflect their personality. Alien fashions may appear strange, absurd or unfashionable by Caitians, or in extreme cases offensive to the eye. However, the nature of the species is to avoid confrontation rather than create it, and any comment a Caitian may make on this matter is always worded exceptionally carefully. | ||
===Architecture=== | |||
Caitians communicate via scent marking and this includes their buildings and structures that are often scented to represent function. This helps them navigate around towns and cities quickly as they would follow a scent rather than a map. As Cait became more accessible to other species, they began to colour the buildings to represent meaning. Such as purple for sanitation, green for business etc. | |||
===Language=== | ===Language=== | ||
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The Caitian language is made up mainly of silky vowel sounds, which are pronounced with a resonance of the tongue that strongly resembles purring. When speaking Federation Standard as a second language, Caitians will notably extend and roll 'r' sounds, and elongate 's' sounds. This may sound like purring and hissing respectively. | The Caitian language is made up mainly of silky vowel sounds, which are pronounced with a resonance of the tongue that strongly resembles purring. When speaking Federation Standard as a second language, Caitians will notably extend and roll 'r' sounds, and elongate 's' sounds. This may sound like purring and hissing respectively. | ||
Caitians also communicate using micro behaviours that non-Caitians would struggle to identify. They are known to have full, in-depth conversations using body movements and gestures with their tails, eyes, and limbs. It is known that Caitians can have multiple conversations at once with this method. | |||
===Music=== | |||
Caitians tend to listen to multiple pieces of music at once from a variety of different cultures. Their auditory processing finds it more satisying and almost like a blissful feeling to absorb many pieces of complimentary music at the one time. This leads to Caitians becoming fine Composers and arranging some of the most beautiful symphonies. | |||
==Technology== | ==Technology== | ||