Nāga Description

Racial Name: Nāga

Alias: Synthetics

Nicknames: Snakeoids, Scale-Faces

Home Galaxy: Milky Way

Home Planet: Phaya 2 and Phaya 3

Alternative Planet Names: The Jungle

Colonized Planets: Nāga share the planets of humans. These planets consist of Mars, the Moons of Jupiter, the Moons of Saturn, the Moons of Neptune, Epsilon Eridani B (annexed), and Protega (annexed)

Major Organizations: Terran Allied Forces or T.A.F. (Union of Earth Countries), Prometheus Enterprises (Natural Resources Corporation)

Physical Description: Nāga are are elongate, legless, reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. They are covered in overlapping scales and have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. They have a torso, head and four arms. They have five major sense organs, in which four are located on the head.

They have two eyes, two ears, one nose, one mouth (all located on the head) and a large set of nervous tissue throughout the skin. They are hybrids of the earth animal called the snake and humans. Their body types do not vary much among males and females. They are all very fit and are found in either green, black, brown or red colored scales. The average height of an adult Nāga is about 1.9 m (6 foot 4 inches) tall. The average mass of an adult Nāga is 128 kg (almost 300 pounds). They are highly adaptable to many environments, though since they are cold blooded, suffer greatly in freezing atmospheres.

Nāga are hairless with scales. The average Nāga has a simple anatomy which heals at a more rapid rate than any other sentient beings. The hue of Nāga scales ranges from black, grey, dark red, brown, blue, yellow, orange, white, light green and dark green. Nāga also tend to have stripes or shapes along their backs in order to help them better camaflauge with their environments. Nāga have no hair, but a set of tendril like appendages that hang from their scalps. As Nāga age, they tend to thin and heal less quickly, a trait that takes over after 30 years or so. They have sharp, venomous teeth which help them attack prey and dull molars which break down meats and vegetables. Their digestive systems tend to be more like humans, taking food down into its set of organs to be processed and push out through scale shedding later.

Nāga are omnivours (eat meat and vegetables).They live for an average of 40 years, reaching sexual maturity at 2 to 3 years of age. Females continue to develop physically until age 4 while males develop until age 6. They reach their physical climax at age 6 and begin to slowly fade in strength and stamina at age 40. A Naga is considered elderly (and incapable of certain physical actives) when they reach their 50’s. They can live in most temperate or hot environments provided they have appropriate shelter, however, their cold blood makes them suffer in wintry temperatures below -6.6 degrees Celsius (32.2 degrees Fahrenheit). Nāga have a relatively high birth rate, able to produce twenty offspring every six months due to their birth process. Nāga produces batches of eggs instead of live offspring which take an additional week to hatch. The creature is very efficient in hot temperatures such as planets near suns and tend to overpopulate any environment they are in if their numbers are not supervised.

Culture: Nāga are mildly social beings who live well among each other, but because of their short cultural timeline, are unable to communicate with other races as well. More than any other creature, Nāga tend to communicate through body gestures and hints rather than words. Nāga groups tend to exist only in small families, unless associated with other large racial structures, such as human organizations. They tend to gravitate towards Humans who’ve helped them understand their creation, but also are appreciated by the Hexisan Union, who see the race as formidable creatures due to their physical prowess. All Nāga societies organize, recognize and classify types of social relationships based on relations between parents and children (consanguinity), but do not believe in marriage due to their promiscuous nature. Nāga are too sexually active to recognize a relationship with one single mate. Nāga sometimes suffer from manic depression and mood swings due to their social flaws and inability to properly communicate.