Appearance: They’re a humanoid species that is black-skinned with white spots or white skinned with black spots. Male Krickow have small shiny horns; female Krickow have none. Some have spots over the entire body, including hair. Height and weight comparable to humans. Have bright eye colors; sometimes eyes glow. Most of the species is overwhelming black and white, including hair. A smaller percentage may have varying hair color.
Abilities: adaptable, deep perseverance in the face of arduous tasks. They take longer to achieve their goals and finish projects, but their end products have superb quality, excellent builders.
Traits: reliable (dependable, loyal), patient but persistent, practical, sensual (enjoy physical pleasure, appreciate beauty), stubborn (famously so, once they have decided it’s difficult to change), moderate (take time to decide, will listen to arguments from all sides), desire stability, hard-working.
*note about the sensual species trait, this does not mean sex only. It may manifest in innocent, mundane ways such as wearing silk or even liking a particular gloss on their nails to rub their thumb against.
Biology: Strictly herbivores, cannot ingest animal-based products, including dairy. Male Krickow are physically larger than females, have a penis, produce sperm, impregnant females. Female Krickow have breasts, uteruses, produce eggs, become pregnant, carry live young and give birth, nurse their young. They have human equivalent reproduction and biology. They live around 120 years. Sensitive hearing, sensitive smell (can smell someone miles away), wonderful vision, two stomachs, and two hearts. Can regulate their body temperature very well, lasting longer in extreme temperatures. They’re vulnerable to chest wounds, having a higher percentage of blood volume. If they’re critically wounded, they bleed a lot and quickly. Despite having more blood than a human and two hearts, they bleed out quickly.
SB-5 Pact: General liked by their allies because of their even temperament, loyalty, and trustworthy demeanor. Skolexari call them Shtew (bullhead) as a slur, teasing the species’ tendency to take longer to do things and be stubborn. Krickow are valuable allies. They don’t cause trouble in the SB-5 Pact, are fairly easy to work with, reliable, and produce fine products.
Homeworld: Kricka. Is a well-designed world made from generations of loyal architects who took great care to create stable, long-lasting buildings, bridges, and transportation services. The world is concentrated into 3 major cities to conserve natural habitat and landscapes. The species prefers earthen and simple colors, rarely using bright or neon colors. Welcome SB-5 Pact members to co-habitat on their planet, are welcoming and polite towards aliens whom they see as guests no matter how long the alien may live with them. Grow a lot of vegetables, nuts, and fruit on their world, which is often dried and sold throughout the SB-5 Pact members.
Cuisine: Overwhelming salads, many ways of roasting root vegetables, a fondness for dried fruits and syrups made from distilled fruit. Drink a sour, purple beet based juice (Eiki), which most non-Krickow dislike.
Society: Advanced, like many space fairing species, they have little disease, and social problems have been majorly smoothed over. Historically, Krickow’s have enjoyed a society with less war than most, with a natural preference to gather in groups and debate, think, and then decide. Krickow love to debate, to them, verbal discussions are an art of combat. Victory goes to the smartest, the one with the best mind and keenest argument, and this leave no need for physical violence. They look at species who prefer war and bloodshed as being flawed. The practice may even confuse Krickow. Hardly pacifists, they absolutely will defend themselves from attack, but their battles have come from outsiders (invaders) and not from within their own species.
In SB-5 Pact: Krickow are much weaker than Skolexari, with a small military designed for protection. They’re not conquerors; they were brought into the SB-5 Pact because Skolexari see them as precious Star-Seeds due to their pointed ears, offering protection due to this belief they were allowed into the pact. Krickow tend to do things slowly but well. They have fewer ships but reliable ones. They have few warriors, but the ones they have are well-trained and brave.
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