Sarkakion

The Sarkakion are from planet Duchanva in the Stratus Centauri system. They are a hive-minded insectoid creatures governed by queens.

The Sarkakion's discovery of an Omni time capsule on their homeworld utterly changed the face of their society. The Sarkakion are frequently used as a case study for anthropology and philosophy students in universities funded by the Galactic Senate to learn how paleotechnology impacts the development of other species.

Physiology

A Sarkakion has two arms and four legs and only stands about one foot high. They have an exoskeleton that repels most physical attacks but can easily be penetrated with lasers. The queens however can grow up to 50 feet. Sarkakion also have mandibles like most insects and feed on both leaves and other life forms scattered throughout. In order to communicate, the queen generates radio waves, sending them to the target and uses the individual Sarkakion as avatars.

Although an individual Sarkakion has a life span of only 3 days, the queen can live up to 2,000 years. The Queen has control of every Sarkakion it gives birth to, thus making the species hive minded. This also makes the Queen the only sapient Sarkakion. Also, each Sarkakion at birth contains eggs and lays about fifteen throughout its short life span thus making the species reproduce quickly. The species is mono-gendered, and the eggs are created via parthenogenesis. There about 100 queens scattered across Duchanva.

Culture

Because of the Sarkakion's hive-minded nature, their culture is only known amongst the queens. They believe in a goddess called the Omniqueen who created all other queens to live on the planet. They entrusted them to watch over their children, which are the hive-minded individuals. Throughout their time, the Sarkakion have often engaged in wars due to overpopulation as well as competition for the Omni time capsule. This resulted in a global conflict known as the War to End All Wars.

Eventually, the queens eventually agreed on a pacifist society by isolating themselves from one another. While the discovery of the Omni time capsule led to a boost of technology that even allowed the Sarkakion to leave their planet, the Sarkakion have since regressed to a more primitive state after the War to End All Wars.