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Meepers: Aquatic species with beautiful brightly colored mosaic scales and no noses. Skolexari use this species for meat. Meepers are commonly sold at slave markets and bred on production colonies. Meeper meat is soft and delicious. Meepers are between 3-4.5 feet tall and physically weaker. They don't have teeth, claws, or any natural defense beyond being able to deep dive in water and hold their breath for many hours. Have the name "Meepers" because they make a "meeeeeeep! Miiiiiiip!" noise when upset or scared.
Can learn and speak Skolexari, are intelligent and social, but Skolexari don't care and view them as animals.
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Tivtalk: Reptilian species, big 6-11 feet tall. Strong, dangerous. Used in manual labor and entertainment sports (pit fighting, gladiator rings, training fodder for young Skolexari). Can speak, but open their mouth and push words from the throat, creating an unnerving speaking pattern.
Intelligent but defeated, loss of homeworld and communal bonds have left Tivtalk broken hearted. They are in decline and endangered with no viable or consistent way to reproduce, and no will to do so. Their society, bonds, and homeworld are broken.
Despite their fierce appearance and strength, they have a code of honor and under no circumstances will harm children (even Skolexari children).
Jaw strength is brutal, if they're able to bite, will likely sever the limb so their heads are usually bound with muzzles and restraints as safety measures.
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Babar: A stout hardy species between 3.5-4.5 feet. Bumpy, thick hides with large mouths and a huge single eye. Cannot speak Skolexari and bark boxes don’t work on them, seem to be stupid but express a natural gentle demeanor many find off-putting. Babar are slow and don’t blink often. They eat only wilted vegetation and drink muddy water. They like to hold and rock children and rocks. When upset, pick up things around them and throw it violently at the dangerous entity (rocks, usually). Sleep by closing their eye and curling downward, they don’t move, and are mistaken for lumpy stones. Used for: meat and hide is used for exotic textiles.
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Nargul: Dangerous flying reptilian alien 6.5-8’ and very strong and hardy. Used in manual labor (wings removed or clipped so they can’t escape) and entertainment sports (pit fighting, gladiator rings). Nargul can speak, though prefer not to. They’re intelligent, brutal, and hate Skolexari. Numbers in terrible decline. Nargul, one-on-one in hand to hand combat, are difficult foes for a Skolexari to defeat.
Transportation and housing of these aliens must be done carefully because they have the potential to inflict harm. Skolexari are fascinated with Nargul because of their great physical strength and natural hand-to-hand combat abilities, they make excellent training foes for young warriors because they’re worthy foes.
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Sardool
Another alien kept by the Skolexari Empire for gladiatorial sports and training. Bi-pedal reptilian alien that’s brave and vicious, like the Tivtalk Sardool have lost a lot of their drive and often are irresponsive to attempts to communicate with them. They’re not being bred or otherwise sustained by the Empire, and are in severe decline. Those left are in the hands of private owners, who use them as star fighters in gladiatorial sports.
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Eating aliens
Skolexari love exotic meat. Exotic meat is alien meat. They don't see other aliens as legitimate life forms, they have no issue killing and eating them. Skolexari don't differentiate between an animal (like a deer) and an alien, both are slaughtered for meat and eaten.
Limited species are sold for high prices, rare meat often served at royal functions as a discussion piece. This meat becomes limited meat as the species will become extinct, creating high prices.
To get exotic meat, Skolexari have to attend the slave market, which is part of most cities Skolexari market district. Aliens (Bokosh) are brought onto the auction block, sold to the highest bidder. Most of the time these aliens' species, name, or any information about them is not stated because no one cares.
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Known Glarbash Slaves
Elvii’li
Elvii'li
Conquered by Skolexari long ago.
Elvii’li’s planet was terraformed and lost, no living Elvii’li even remembers it.
Some % of their native population was spared extinction and became slaves for Skolexari elites.
This is one of the more common slaves seen in the Skolexari Empire.
Elvii’li make excellent pets, companions, and servants. They’re weaker than Skolexari, not a threat, and easily controlled. Skolexari generally find them to be visually pleasant (attractive, cute, interesting). Skolexari consider them stupid but affectionate. Emotional and easily bullied, usually trusted around Skolexari children due to their gentle demeanor.
Abilities: Can make light appear between their hands. This serves no purpouse beyond it being visually beautiful.
Appearance: humanoid, 4'5-6’ height, typically petite, yellow and pink skin tone, pastel hair colors, blush different colors, soft skin, have small blunt tails, sometimes have cute shiny curled horns growing out of their heads, blush easily.
Other: May suffer from some genetic disorders due to Skolexari breeding and tend to only live around 60 years. Easily trained, submissive. Skolexari breed Elvii’li on some colonies.
It’s legal but seen as distasteful to buy an Elvii’li to eat.
Elvii'li pictured below~
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Humans: Humans are prized as pets and companions. Intelligent, adaptable, and amusing. Easily controlled and easily kept healthy.
Humans have a good reputation among Skolexari as making good slaves for a variety of tasks and needs.
Humans are very expensive to acquire and must be special-ordered. These are uncommon though highly sought out slaves.
Humans are from another SB-5 Pact member, not from Skolexari.
Seen by Skolexari as soft, fragile, useful, entertaining, but unimpressive. Unable to damage an adult Skolexari without a weapon, this makes humans generally safe to have in families and humans can be trained as well as taught to speak Skolexari.
It’s legal but seen as distasteful to buy a human to eat.
Creator Notes: I included humans in my Skolexari world because I know the majority of people want to write as or interact with or have the ability to interact with humans. The alien species that has humans could be a non Star-Seed SB-5 Pact member or another Star-Seed species, their galaxy may be far from the Skolexari homeworld. I am not going to define that at this time, maybe never.