Ash'lie

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Ash'lie
Four Letter Code	ASHL
Federation Status	Neutral
Planet of Origin	Ash'lie IV
Encountered	USS Chernobyl
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	M to N
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"The lines, the color, simply a perfect combination of surreal and impressionist expression don't you think."

a Ash'lie expression.

The Ash'lie are a species that enjoy all forms of artistic expression. One could almost call them a race of artists that abhor violence and they have built and designed an artificial intelligence self-defense technology system that can and will protect them with out them having to be involved in any way.

Home System

• Quadrant: Alpha
• Location: Draco Sigma Sector (coordinates A24-0002-1300)
• Proper Name: Ash'lie system
• Stars: It orbits a class M (Red) star
• Distance from Star: its orbit is approximately 66 million km
• Companions: It is the 4th of the 7 planets in the system
• Moons: It has 3 tiny moons and 1 large moon (this is the base for the drone production facility)

Home World

• Proper Name: Ash'lie IV
• Diameter: 13,733 km (8,583 miles)
• Gravity: 1.10 standard gravity with a density of 5.6
• Axial Tilt: 9.6% minor tilt with minor seasonal effects
• Orbital Period: 377 days
• Rotational Period: 25.2 hours
• Classification: M
• Surface Water: 41%
• Atmosphere: a standard atmosphere with a pressure of about 1.08 earth normal, with nitrogen 72%, oxygen 23% and other gas 3%
• Climate: Tropical zones cover most of the planets surface with the exception of high altitude regions and the small, mild polar regions. Ocean currents are warm, contributing to the heavy amount of precipitation across the entire surface. Seasonal changes are minor.
• Terrain: Only a few mountain ranges, some large forests and jungles with numerous rolling plains.
• Population: About 3 billion

History

Their recorded history is over 25,000 years old. In that time they have never fought a war among themselves, crime is almost unheard of and they have developed at a slow even pace. They first developed space travel over 5,000 years ago but few ever went to the stars. Those that did traveled and observed from a distance the races and worlds around them. During this period they left satellites in orbit of any world that they found interesting, usually those that had some type of life forms on them.

It was because of these observations, that they discovered what to them was illogical behavior by those they considered to be technically intelligent species. All of them displayed violent, aggressive and savage behaviors and the subsequent debates among the representatives in their government and many of their intellectual leaders regarding those abhorrent species resulted in them adopting an isolationist attitude. While some of them they still traveled among the stars they would avoid contact with all other races.

Another result of these observations of other species was a centuries long series of debates regarding what they should do if any of them survived long enough to develop the technology that would allow them to visit the stars. Many of their leading intellectuals argued that the possibility was so slim as to not be worth worrying about, however the vast majority of the people were not willing to take that chance. This resulted in further debates. While the concept of war and violence was totally alien to them they had to accept the fact that other races could and would employ violent force against others. The result of these debates was the creation of a completely automated defense system. One that they have continually upgraded and expanded upon over time. They also removed all of the satellites that they had left to observe these other worlds and species.

Over the last 500 years only a small percentage of their population has left their own solar system.

Government

They have a strangely effective government that consists of a council with 300 representatives. They seldom fight and each takes his turn to bring forward any new issues that need to be considered. They will then discuss it and take a vote. Majority rules.

Description

The native people, the Ash'lie are tall, slim and graceful. They have long blonde hair and pale skin. They are on average about 5'9" to 6'2" and weight between 140 lbs and 180 lbs. The males tend to be slightly taller than the females as well as being slightly heavier.

They prefer to wear sandals and pastel colored robes. They will also wear loose billowing shirts, body hugging vests with no sleeves and loose comfortable pants.

Facial tattoos are small, decorative and aesthetic to the eye. These are found on the ears, near the eyes and on the neck. Other tattoos can be found on the arms, chest and legs. All tend to be more decorative than anything else.

Physiology

As with most intelligent humanoid species they have a very complex system with specialized organs, and unique hormones, chemicals and enzymes. They are a very hardy species with very few ever suffering from various forms of illness and tend to be exceptionally healthy. This may be due to their vegetarian diet or the large amount of exercise they get on a daily basis.

Psychology

They are curious, friendly and tend to be shy around strangers. Among themselves they are energetic, relaxed and generally happy. No known form of mental illness has ever been recorded among their people. It should be noted that while they are concerned for and care about the well being of all living things they also realize the limitations of their ability to assist them. As such the safety of their world and its people, plants and wildlife take top priority with them. Many of them tend to project a air of superiority when dealing with other species but this seems to be more a result of their disdain of violence than a true feeling of superiority.

Pan-Sexual

Approximately 63% of their population do not recognize the distinction between male and female, rather they see only the person. Each person is a unique individual and should be accepted as such. For many of them this belief also affects their choice of partners and mating activities.

Religion

They have no true religion other than a deep love of nature and the world around them. In this respect they care for and nurture both the wildlife and the plants. Great effort and much time is spent on projects to protect and care for all forms of plant and wildlife.

Mythology

They have stories about older beings that have traveled from world to world tampering with them, creating life, seeking even greater knowledge. They are to be feared and avoided.

Society

They have a peaceful society geared towards harmony and love towards all living things. They spend their lives in search of an even greater understanding of their world around them and in the hopes of creating or participating in the wonder to be found in art, song and music.

Swimming

Almost every one of them learns to swim at about the same time as they learn to walk. This physical activity has long been one of the most popular forms of physical exercise and pools can be found just about everywhere.

Culture

Music of many types and instruments of all kinds are used by them for recreation. This will usually result in dancing and singing. They express themselves with many types of art and enjoy visual beauty, especially that which can be found in nature. This is also the only off world products they are interested in.

Coralis

It is an instrument that is faintly like the Earth saxophone but with one mouth piece connected to two sloping metal tubes, one longer and thinner than the other which is slightly thicker and each tube has its own keys.

Olarisia

This is their most popular form of performing art. Every major city has a couple dozen performance troupes. In many ways this large spectacle resembles a hybrid blend of Earth like ballet combined with circus de soile acrobatics and backed up by a symphony orchestra of 50 plus musicians and an audience participation that might resemble those individuals attending a performance of the Earth cult classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show” but without the audience wearing any silly costumes. As you might expect most performance groups have at least 100 performers and some of the bigger groups have close to 500 performers with each group having a 50% blend of musicians and dancers.

Customs

Many and varied. Most deal with some form of art expression.

Technology

Their technology is highly advanced. They grow their buildings out of a pastel building material that resembles crystal. Most of their buildings are tall graceful towers. Some of the towers in their cities stand as tall as 5,000 meters. Travel between towers can be achieved in a couple of methods. First are the bridges. Almost every ten levels will have at least one bridge connecting it to another tower. These bridges are wide enough for two walking abreast each other and have no railings. They can be as long as 100 meters and are usually semi- transparent. The other method is small one meter by one meter floating platforms that are activated and controlled by foot pressure on the surface of the platform. These devices are flat with no railings, about six inches thick and can travel very rapidly from ground level to the highest point in the city or from one end of the city to the other.

They have an extremely effective, none polluting, renewable energy source that can be built into incredibly small devices such as the flying platforms, weapons systems and even larger ones that provide power to each tower.

For transport craft they have many. All are sleek, graceful, fast and highly maneuverable. For space craft they now use what looks like a graceful yacht. It is usually powered by a majestic set of solar sails. However these can be rapidly retracted to allow for a much more rapid form of transport.

Economy

They are completely self sufficient and have no interest or need in any outside products or material. However their incredible love of all forms of art, artistic expression and music has sparked a limited form of trade. However they will only trade art for art. No other trade deals have been considered by them so far.

Military

While no member of their race would ever use a weapon for any reason they do have an extremely effective military defense system. This system consists of 3 primary systems or devices. All of these devices use a highly adaptive and intelligent form of artificial intelligence with a complex inter-communication system that closely resembles a hive mind. It operates completely independently of the people who created them.

All of these devices were constructed off world on the largest moon in orbit of the planet by a fully automated construction system that has its own artificial intelligence. This is also where the repair and maintenance facilities are. These are also fully automated and controlled by the same artificial intelligence that constructs the devices in the first place.

The large planetary protection vessels can transport 3 sets of 3 personal drones in docking ports found on the bottom of each vessel.

Personal Protection

Normally when ever any member of this race goes off world for any reason they take with them three flying disks. These disks are almost one meter around in circumference. One disk will have a series of what looks like antenna projecting from the bottom of it. This is a shield drone. The other two will have a pair of linked blaster weapons on a single arm protruding from the bottom of it. These are weapon drones and the weapons are not capable of causing physical damage but were designed to stun and neutralize the target. They are extremely intelligent with a hive like artificial intelligence and are programmed to protect the individual they have been assigned to.

It should be noted that members of their species who plan to be off world for extended periods of time or who plan to seek employment off world are not assigned a set of these protection devices. This is for two reasons. First to reduce the possibility of these devices every coming into the possession of some other species and more importantly because they were never designed to be used in such a manner.

Planetary Protection

In space around their world are thousands of disk shaped vessels that seem to orbit the planet with out any reason. However if any hostile action is detected they will raise shields, power up weapons and move to attack and defend. They are extremely intelligent with a hive like artificial intelligence and are programmed to protect the the planet.

Their shields are very strong and use a rotating series of shield frequencies if needed. There are also automated repair systems on board designed to repair almost any damage while in use. Last of all the weapons systems are not designed to cause any physical damage. They are designed to overpower enemy shields and then to deliver an energy blast to the enemy vessel that will act like a EMP, disabling any and all computer systems.

On-world Protection

Built into the roof of every tower are holding tubes for the small weapons disks. Hidden in underground hangars are thousands of the larger disks just waiting to be activated. Added to that is the fact that any time an alien is allowed to set foot on the planet he has 3 disks assigned to him. However they are not for defense. They are to guard, detain and if necessary neutralize the visitor until they can be removed from their world. All of these devices are extremely intelligent with a hive like artificial intelligence.

Starfleet Intelligence Files

Prior to 2243 there was extremely limited contact with this species, usually just a sighting of one of their vessels with no actually communication. Most of these sighting were recorded by Bajoran vessels, various freighter belonging to numerous species and the USS Chernobyl and USS Equinox. In fact it is one of the only records from the USS Equinox to survive totally intact prior to it vanishing from the Alpha Quadrant.

After this and leading up to 2362 there are a number of reported contacts with beings that might have been members of this species however the data gathered is inconclusive and extremely limited. Between 2362 and 2388 there has been a few reported sightings and a few members of this species have found jobs within the Federation with a couple even applying to join Starfleet.

A civilian nurse by the name of Gewel D'piere served on the USS Doyle-A before transferring to the USS Athena. She is one of only a handful of her species to leave her world and find employment within the Federation.

Ensign Torali Azivalora Poracin Elzizabath has been assigned to the USS Athena as a scientist. The Federation allowed her to join Starfleet in the hopes that it would be the first step in establishing a more formal contact with her species and while their has been communication it has not been as positive as they had hoped. Ensign Elzizabath's family has cut off all contact with her as a result of her joining Starfleet.

Civilian Lyna Namid

In 239208 the USS Darwin made contact with an Ash'lie civilian named Lyna Namid on Brut III while in the system on a mission related to the Prometheus Incident. She had been abducted from her home on Ash'lie and suffered despicable abused at the hands of her Sicarian captors. They had intended to use her to gain knowledge about Ash'lie technology but their plans began to fall apart after their small ship crashed and Starfleet responded to their distress beacon. At first communication was problematic due to a lack of knowledge or previous contact with the species making this a unique first contact. Lyna was slow to trust, having started to develop a xenophobic attitude due to her experience with the Sicarians. The universal translator soon began to translate her ethereal native language allowing Starfleet officers to earn her trust and learn her story.

Player Notes

• Most characters of this species, both PC and NPC will normally be in one or more of these fields, medicine, science, engineering or the arts. That does not mean you can not create a character that is something else. All species can produce individuals who defies the cultural and typical norms for their species.
• In game play the Ash'lie species should adopt certain aspects of non-violence such as acting like a Conscientious Objector, a term that can mean individuals who will not take part in violence of any kind due to religious or cultural beliefs that prevent such actions. Quakers in American history served in the military as combat medics with distinction but never fought. This is the grounds under which the character Ensign Torali Azivalora Poracin Elzizabath enlisted in Starfleet.

Sources

• This is an original Starbase 118 species created by Cmdr. Tal Tel-ar. I used my oldest daughter as my inspiration. This species is dedicated to her.
• Modifications to this page were done in order to explain the fact that a number of PC, NPC and PNPC characters have been created and used within the Starbase 118 community.
• Moved to Need Reviewed Section by CC Magistrate due to user creation and no CC Approval on File See CC Bylaw 4.

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