LORE
Made of rock and stone the Studs are one with mother nature and spend most of their time observing. Due to being a silicon based life form, Studs can live for ten’s of thousands of years without growing old and they use this time to gather the story of the universe.
Every/any change that happens to a planet is something a Stud needs to know. It can be anything as grand as tectonic plates shifting underground to a simple pebble falling of a cliff. To a Stud, every rock and every shape is unique no matter the size.
And it is for this reason they travel the stars, to document this grand story on not just their home world, but all worlds.
GENERAL INFO
| Life Span Range | 100,000+ years |
| Sleep Cycle | 1 – 1,000 years |
| Movement | Any number of legs, rolling |
| Special Movement | Perfect underground burrowing |
| Reproduction | Seeding |
| Perception | Tremorsense with sensitivity to geomagnetic fields |
| Language | Complex and precise, long detailed descriptions |
APPEARANCE
| Skin Color(s) | Any Rock/Stone color |
| Gem color(s) | Blue, Red, Orange, Purple, Green, Yellow, White |
| Average Crystalline Height | 10 – 16 ft. |
| Average Crystalline Weight | 2 – 6 tons |
| Average Terran Height | 1,500 – 10,000 ft. |
| Average Terran Weight | 500 million – 1 billion tons |
| Crystalline Distinctions | Skinny build with gems protruding from body |
| Terran Distinctions | Literal mountains; from small caves to hulking summits |
| Clothes | Pieces of fabric around bodies to distinguish homeworlds. |
PERSONALITY
| Likes | Dislikes |
|---|---|
| Getting minerals as gifts | Destroying a silicate/iron planet |
| Planets being modified to silicate/iron | Colony ships getting destroyed |
HABITABILITY
| Life Basis | Silicon |
| Allowed Planetary Compositions | Asteroids, [Iron], Silicate, Artificial |
| Allowed Atmospheres | NoAtmosphere, Ammonia, Methane, Oxygen, [CarbonDioxide] |
| Stat | Min | Mean (0.2 – 0.8 only) | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gravity | immune | immune | immune |
| Temperature | 73 | 0.25 | 1273 |
| Radiation | 0 | 0.2 | 300 |
TECHNOLOGY
Most view the technology of the Studs archaic in nature but it’s simplicity is what makes it so incredibly dangerous and hard to counter. Most, if not all of their technology revolves around defense and mitigating as much damage as possible.
The Studs were already hardy but with the crystallugry tree they are able to create compact hulls for their ship that shrug off all damage types and can even reflect some back! And with such strong materials the Studs suffer no damage to ships when it comes to ramming which pairs nicely as they prefer to be in close quarters.
That’s not to say they don’t have decent ranged options. Their shard weapons deal extra damage to enemy hulls while being weak to shields. Defenses can also be applied to their colonies giving them massive bonuses when dealing with enemy bombardments.
| Tech Name | Description | Category | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystallurgy | The ability to manipulate rock and other forms of Silicon. | Theoretical | Special |
| Shard Weapons | An advanced form of kinetic weaponry. utilizing dense crystals only possible with Crystallurgy. These weapons have high levels of kinetic damage, inherent levels in piercing and stealth | Military | Weapons |
| Crystalline Hulls | Hulls created via advanced Crystallurgy that have inherent special abilities such as inherent stealth, component damage overflow protection, and more. | Military | Construction |
| Crystalline Defenses | Defenses based on Crystallurgy that have various special abilities such as damage reflection, dynamic armor, inherent hardness, and more. | Military | Defenses |
Vehicle Sets
Battleship
Carrier
Colonizer
Cruiser
Destroyer
Dreadnought
Freighter
Frigate
Titan
