Bove

Bove
Base Information
Classification	Omnivore/gatherer
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Walker
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Arthropodoid
Size	2.5 meters
Weight	50 kg
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Arkady
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Primary Star
Atmosphere
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	User:Sstefan - Wiki Contribution
Canon	No
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The Bove of Arkady are a technologically sophisticated Minor Non-Human Race with a non-humanoid appearance.

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)

The Bove have an elongated, segmented body structure much like caterpillars (about 2.5m long, 20kg/m), but are endoskeletal and warm-blooded. They have fifteen body segments, each of which (except the head) possesses two limbs. The upper three segments’ limbs are equipped with "hands:" simple, bony, curving pincers like those of crabs. Bove have extremely flexible arm joints: their elbows and wrists are capable of nearly 360-degree rotation. Most of their tactile sense, however, lies not in their pincers but in the half-meter long tongue.

The Bove have better depth and peripheral vision than humans. They see mostly in the upper infrared, and are blind to human-visible light. They are as agile in trees as Terran monkeys and have tree-pattern camouflage covering the finely meshed microscales of their skin.

Bove have no centralized brain, instead relying on neuron clusters distributed along a central notochord. Many other bodily functions are similarly distributed. They are hermaphroditic: every two years or so after age 30, when the scent of the Hi’ich flower triggers mating, and after several months gestation, their rearmost body segment breaks off and becomes a hard-shelled egg. A Bove can produce four to eight children in this unique fashion. Its consciousness dissipates with childbearing (the results are akin to Alzheimer’s disease), since segments of notochord with their memories and knowledge are thus passed on to the offspring.

Bove achieve physical adulthood at age 12 (they are born with full sentience, language, and abstract reasoning), and generally die by age 60 or so. However, only a few thousand or so individuals survive due to over-development of their world by human colonists.

History & Background (Dossier)

Only a few thousand or so individuals survive due to over-development of their world by human colonists.

Language & Letters (Communication)

The Bove are quite good at languages.

Their technological development is still Stone Age.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Arkady

World Listing: 1105

Significant communities of this race are known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Bove

References & Contributors (Sources)

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• Author & Contibutor: User:Sstefan