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EvilpixieA — Helsttea: The People
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We have no term for what we are beyond that which was given to us by others. Helstteans, they call us, after the name we attached to our world. Before that, we simply called ourselves 'the people'.Like most young races, Helstteans were originally thrilled with the discovery of intergalactic intelligent life off their planet. Since then they quickly adapted a very business like relationship, mass producing and selling engine fuel, natural gas, iron, silicon, titanium as well as other mineral resources. It is unsurprising considering their nature that they have high dependency on solar energy and thus have not previously tapped their underground resources. Helsttea is rich in highly valued mineral resources, as are the hundred asteroid moons that orbit the planet. Helstteans mine an extraordinary percentage of both their planet and these natural satellites.
Interaction has given us another name as well; humanoids. We are told a series of features sort us into this category. We stand erect on two prominent limbs connected to a body or torso. We possess two arms with workable hands and a head on top of a neck. A pair of forward facing eyes, a single mouth and a nose gives us a face through which we interact with the world.
We have been told it is a common evolutionary occurrence.
Despite their unique nature, Helstteans do possess a basic humanoid outward body structure broken by the series of extra highly movable branchlike limbs lining their skin from under their arms down to their ankles. These limbs are fragile and often break though regenerate quickly with little to no pain ever felt. Helstteans skin pigment is also an abnormal green that extends to colour all of their eyes and even the inside of their mouth.
Our variation of this common evolutionary occurrence, however, has been accused of being unique. We are not animals, but neurotically advanced, fast reacting plants. Branches sprout along the sides of our green bodies from ankle to under arm like a series of extra limbs. Flexible, we often fold them around our bodies or let them fan out around us. Long thin membranes, leaves in form and function, sprout from our skin and fold against these branches, fanning out into large sails when we stretch. Gliding is possible on these complex wing-like structures and is a common form of transportation. Because of our plant nature these branches also can be used as roots to 'feed' by latching onto a tree and tapping into its life flow and these leaves can stretch to collect sunlight. Deforestation and scientific advances make this form of feeding rare in modern Helsttea.
Helstteans originally were parasites that would latch onto a host tree using their roots to gather nutrience while collecting sunlight by stretching out their leaves as they do when they glide. With mass urbanization and deforestation this method of feeding soon become obsolete and Helstteans invented large pipe systems that could 'plug' directly into their spines, delivering them the same sublimates as they would receive from a healthy tree. All cities now possess this as the primary method of feeding and areas where Helstteans can connect to their joint food source are located in most homes and in some commune locations throughout every city. Large black pipes coiling throughout the cityscapes have become signature to Helsttean culture.
Our throat is closed; not used to swallow or breathe as an animal's would. We use our mouth to make sounds, to communicate, but would survive easily without one. Our teeth or thorns are simple and not designed for chewing but our bite is poisonous to animals that once called us prey.
We all have six eyes, our two main ones and four smaller ones leading from our main eyes around the side of our head. Finger nails, hair, a tongue, genitals and belly buttons are all aspects of an animalistic being, and thus we do not possess them.