Cylirian
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Name (Singular): Cylirian
Sexes: Hermaphrodites (see Sexuality below)
Height: 6’3 to 6’7
Hair: Dark, slender spines that grow rapidly and have no feeling. Cylirian spines can be cut and shaped similar to typical mammalian hair. The neck bears a “mane” of extremely soft, thick fur, which sometimes extends down to a tuft between the breasts.
Skin: Cylirians possess a mix of features. Fine, soft scales cover their limbs, backs, and some of the lower belly. Scales range in color from silver, white, and grey, with some rare cases of ice blue or black. The rest of the belly, chest, and face are fleshy, and run the gamut of skin colors.
Eyes: Two eyes, in the typical humanoid location. Cylirian eyes each possess three vertical slits within the iris, rather than a single pupil, arranged side by side.
Feet & Legs: Cylirians are bipedal, with feet ending in five clawed digits built for grappling and traversing difficult terrain. Legs tend to be long and muscular.
Wings: One pair of sleek, thin wings shaped similar to those of a moth. Colors tend to be vibrant but dark, with greens, reds, and blacks most common. Cylirian muscles in the back and shoulders are extremely strong to allow for flight, and their wings are both large and durable.
Aging: Average lifespan is between fifty and sixty years, though the extremely harsh conditions on the Cylirian homeworld make this statistic somewhat weighted. Average lifespan in a modern environment has not yet been properly documented.
Appearance
Cylirians appear as tall, muscular winged humanoids. They follow the human/ausar norm of body shape in most respects, with a similar facial shape and body arrangement. The species is covered in a mix of skin, fur, and scales in different locations, with most of the body dominated by a supple layer of scales similar to those of an ovir. Their most striking features are their dark, colorful wings and the two pairs of bony horns that grow from their ridged brows and sweep back across the scalp. Of course, the species’ tails (see Sexuality below) are their most well known feature, perhaps to the point of memetic focus by those who meet them. Cylirian tails are long and prehensile, made of a series of muscular bulbs of armored flesh similar in shape to a terran scorpion, ending in a four-petaled slit which can open to reveal the individual’s primary genitals.
Members of both “sexes” have thick penises, measuring between eight and ten inches on average, and which have recessed slits nested under a prominent, clitoris-like sensitive point. Cylirian vaginas are ultimately human in shape and size, with thick labia and large clitorises. On average, the species’ vaginas are larger, wetter, and more able to stretch than their terran equivalents, due to the necessity of passing eggs. All cylirians have breasts which sit high on the chest, and which tend to accumulate the vast majority of fat any member of the species gains. Typical sizes range from DD to G cups, with individuals tending to slowly grow in cup size during the entirety of their adult lives.
Sexuality & Reproduction
Cylirian sexuality is rather unusual by galactic standards, as the race lacks females and males in the traditional sense. Instead, cylirian physiological sex is determined by two sets of genitals: either a vestigial vagina between the legs paired with a phallus-tipped tail, or a phallus located in a genital slit in the crotch paired with a functional vagina in the tail, which is connected to the individual’s womb. Cylirian have no gender, so to speak, but differentiate between “bearers” with vaginal tails and “sires,” with phallic tails who cannot bear children.
All cylirian, regardless of genital arrangement, have a feminine appearance, with breasts and large hips and soft facial features. Unusually for an all-hermaphrodite race, cylirian sexuality is generally feminine-focused rather than bisexual, with most members of the species only expressing interest towards females (or female-appearing) members of other species. This is of course not a universal rule, simply the most common expression of inter-species sexuality among cylirians.
Cylirians reach sexual maturity at twelve years of age, about which time “bearers” become fertile and members of both sexes become virile and sexually active. Cylirians “bearers” can become pregnant at any time, and are oviparious. While both sexes have vaginal openings, those of “sire” cylirians are not paired with a functioning womb, while “bearer” cylirians have them attached to their tail-side sex, meaning semen and eggs must travel a great distance - and in turn, the vaginal tail is extremely muscular and well lubricated to allow passage.
Members of both sexes experience regular periods of rut, usually once every three months, during which they have a significantly heightened sex drive and semen production. Individuals in rut generally focus their sexuality on their phallic organs, whichever location they’re located in, and begin to emit potent pheromones that cause intense arousal in those around them.
As both sexes have vaginas and penises, which share a common shape and texture regardless of location, both possess the species’ unique vaginal fluids and semen. Cylirian vaginal fluids, especially those of “bearers,” is a powerful contact stimulant, causing a rush of blood to a penetrating organ and keeping it aroused and active for mating sessions which can last for up to two hours of repeated ejaculation.
To make up for this intensity of mating, cylirians have six internal testes, which produce a remarkable amount of seed very quickly starting at sexual maturity. Members of both sexes express a need for fairly frequent release, sometimes several times a day, giving the species a reputation for high sex drive and lasciviousness in Confederate society. The four most productive testes (much more so among “sires”) are located in the buttocks, and can swell rapidly with seed which in turn causes the species to have extremely plump, full, and pleasure-sensitive rumps - doubly so when the individual has not seen recent sexual release. Since First Contact, it has become somewhat common for cylirians to intentionally remain chaste for several days in order to “plump up” their behinds in order to attract partners of other species.
Cylirian ejaculation is very potent, perhaps even explosive, compared to most species. Due to their multiple high-production testes, and the need for seed to travel through up to three feet of vaginal tail in order to take, cylirians of both sexes have high-pressure ejaculations that can result in up to a gallon of semen shot between ten and twelve feet in an open space. Thanks to the species’ stimulant-rich vaginas, rapid-fire orgasms are the norm, and the species has no measurable refractory period. Among their own kind, a single mating session can completely drain the father to be, and may involve upwards of a dozen orgasms until well after she has “gone dry.”
Cylirian ejaculate is noted to be sperm-intensive, more so than the human average, and to have a dark coloration. Due to a high sugar content, it is believed to have a sweet, almost juice-like taste and quality. Recreational oral sex is extremely common among the species for this reason, as well as to help relieve the pressure of their several virile testes.
Once a “bearer” has been successfully inseminated, she will rapidly swell with eggs. Typical clutches are between six and ten young, and are carried by the mother for roughly four weeks before she will lay them through her tail. During her short pregnancy, the mother usually experiences a marked increase in sex drive, described colloquially as becoming “cum hungry,” as she will usually become extremely receptive to penetrative sex. Some experts theorize this is to accumulate the nutrient-rich semen of the species to help keep up with her rising metabolism.
When the pregnancy concludes and eggs are laid, the young hatch in about two weeks. Cylirian eggs are thick and hardy, and during the species’ primal years, were often abandoned by the mother. Young grow quickly, and can find food and water in a matter of hours after birth. Still, since the species’ Uplifting, it has become progressively more common for mothers to raise their children, or to at least send them to communal “hatcheries” that have arisen on their homeworld, and which care for and educate young cylirians. Hatcheries are sponsored by a combination of the Confederate Youth Protection Association and Steele Industrial Technology, whose late C.E.O. first laid corporate claim to the cylirian homeworld.
History & Society
Cylirians hail from the highly volcanic world of Dragaera, a world noted today for its extremely high metal content and inhospitable atmosphere. While their world has an oxygen supply suitable for humanoid life, Dragaera is perpetually plagued by thick black clouds akin to the worst industrial worlds in the Confederate core, with rare sunlight and high temperatures. Between a hostile environment and sharing their world with several large carnivores, the cylirians evolved to take to their air, and build their settlements in the high mountains away from the myriad dangers of the surface.
Cylirian culture, upon First Contact, could best be described as that of a Templar society: prowess at the hunt and physical strength were both praised highly, but the species had also become extremely religious over the previous two hundred years, worshipping their sun itself as a “Fire Mother,” a giver of life rarely seen or heard. Hunting, or rather combating the mammoth reptilian predators that dominated the surface, was the species’ highest calling, with wings of warriors trained to take down creatures several times their own size.
Still, civilization did not come easily to the cylirians, and only about a third of the species’ numbers were located in the mountainous cities. Feral individuals or amazonian tribes of nomads were common, and conflict was common.
Dragaera was met with First Contact during the 13th Great Planet Rush, discovered in the close shadow of their sun by a team of Rushers commanded by Victoria Steele. Due to the high metal content of the planet, it was a natural claim for the up and coming mining magnate, who after some adventure managed to win over several queens to her cause, enough to pacify a large area of settling land, and began the Uplifting process.
Dragaera’s Upliftment is still an ongoing process, due in part to the hostile nature of the world itself and the militant belligerence of many cylirians. While not as fast as some Steele and Confederate leaders would like, the education and settlement process has not been the slowest in the galaxy, and several generations of cylirians have been raised with Confederate education and technology, and Uplifted cylirians are becoming a more and more common sight across Confederate space.
Technology
Left to their own devices, cylirians could best have been equated to the early Bronze Age of Terra, or the Age of Gods on Ausaril. Cylirians had no modern technology to speak of, and armed themselves with crude bronze or stone weapons and armor. Tools were common, concentrated on farms and in cities. Blacksmithing had become an almost holy profession by the time of First Contact, with smiths attaining a priest-like reverence from typical members of the species, likely related to the solar cult that had taken hold on three continents.
Cylirians born in Confederate-aided territory have access to modern education and are as technologically apt as any other species. Due to their flight and physical strength, many find occupation in the industrial or security industries, while their appearance has helped them quickly grow in popularity in the holovid and service industries.
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