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Scrapyard Station: Soarers
Soarers are a sleek, streamlined species with massive membranous wings. Their flesh is bare, with no fur or feathers. They have thin triangular crests on their heads.
They have surprisingly powerful leg muscles and vicious foot-claws, but everything else about them is optimized for gliding, making them incredibly fragile.
Soarers can’t fly per se, only glide, but they have a strange way of gaining height. They can jump upwards while seemingly touching nothing but air. A Soarer maintaining altitude is somewhat goofy-looking, lowering their legs to jump and then raising their legs to reduce air resistance while gliding.
Jumping will eventually tire a Soarer out, so they prefer to live in regions with large trees. They build their houses in the treetops, only going down to obtain food and resources. Some have also settled in plateau regions, but they’re still geographically limited, even compared to the plains-dwelling Riders. And like Riders and Builders, they never crossed their oceans before first contact.
Soarers evolved from carrion eaters. They eventually got the hang of hunting and farming, but they only hunt small animals that can’t easily break their bones, and they farm plants rather than potentially temperamental livestock.
In combat against tree-climbing predators, Soarers drop rocks, use long-handled weapons, and otherwise maintain a distance advantage. They win if they can knock the predators out of the trees, because it’s a long way down.
A Soarer’s first instinct in a dangerous situation is to protect the communal hatchery. Their second instinct is to flee for dear life.
Soarer wing-claws are blunt and surprisingly dexterous. Their tool use is still a little awkward due to their wingspan, but at least they have an easier time than Riders.
Consumerism never really caught on with Soarers, because it’s hard to lug heavy knickknacks up to their treehouses. They have enough trouble lugging rocks to drop. (Soarers invented the bucket and pulley relatively early.)
Soarers have an unusually low rate of divorce, spousal separation, adultery, etc. When they mate, it’s most frequently for life.
Soarers have males and females, as do most species. Genderless species just seem so common because Nomads and Scholars are everywhere.
Soarer wings are soft to the touch and give very good hugs.
Post-contact Soarers don’t trade much, but they’ve taken an interest in space travel, and they’re working on the social and technological issues with creating an off-planet colony. Like Nomads, they’re drawn to the idea of a colony with no large predators. Some have even expressed interest in the potential to safely live on the ground.
Soarers can’t use standard cybernetics, because the weight would interfere with jumping and gliding.
Some Nomads theorize that Soarers “jump” off of fragments of hyperspace. They might even be able to survive in hyperspace. Soarers have so far been reluctant to test this.
They have surprisingly powerful leg muscles and vicious foot-claws, but everything else about them is optimized for gliding, making them incredibly fragile.
Soarers can’t fly per se, only glide, but they have a strange way of gaining height. They can jump upwards while seemingly touching nothing but air. A Soarer maintaining altitude is somewhat goofy-looking, lowering their legs to jump and then raising their legs to reduce air resistance while gliding.
Jumping will eventually tire a Soarer out, so they prefer to live in regions with large trees. They build their houses in the treetops, only going down to obtain food and resources. Some have also settled in plateau regions, but they’re still geographically limited, even compared to the plains-dwelling Riders. And like Riders and Builders, they never crossed their oceans before first contact.
Soarers evolved from carrion eaters. They eventually got the hang of hunting and farming, but they only hunt small animals that can’t easily break their bones, and they farm plants rather than potentially temperamental livestock.
In combat against tree-climbing predators, Soarers drop rocks, use long-handled weapons, and otherwise maintain a distance advantage. They win if they can knock the predators out of the trees, because it’s a long way down.
A Soarer’s first instinct in a dangerous situation is to protect the communal hatchery. Their second instinct is to flee for dear life.
Soarer wing-claws are blunt and surprisingly dexterous. Their tool use is still a little awkward due to their wingspan, but at least they have an easier time than Riders.
Consumerism never really caught on with Soarers, because it’s hard to lug heavy knickknacks up to their treehouses. They have enough trouble lugging rocks to drop. (Soarers invented the bucket and pulley relatively early.)
Soarers have an unusually low rate of divorce, spousal separation, adultery, etc. When they mate, it’s most frequently for life.
Soarers have males and females, as do most species. Genderless species just seem so common because Nomads and Scholars are everywhere.
Soarer wings are soft to the touch and give very good hugs.
Post-contact Soarers don’t trade much, but they’ve taken an interest in space travel, and they’re working on the social and technological issues with creating an off-planet colony. Like Nomads, they’re drawn to the idea of a colony with no large predators. Some have even expressed interest in the potential to safely live on the ground.
Soarers can’t use standard cybernetics, because the weight would interfere with jumping and gliding.
Some Nomads theorize that Soarers “jump” off of fragments of hyperspace. They might even be able to survive in hyperspace. Soarers have so far been reluctant to test this.