Mutzachan

The Mutzachans are short-statured large-headed humanoids from the planet Trishmag of the Germinga star system.

Biology
The Mutzachan Energy Controller is probably the most powerful of all the known races. They have the innate ability to manipulate energy forms and can use these forms to generate tremendous amounts of power. Energy Controllers cannot properly generate while wearing heavy or mechanized body armor, for it disrupts the harnessing process. These melon heads, as Humans call them, love energy in its raw, uncorrupted form. They view the storage of energy as useless. Thus, Mutzachans must purchase specially insulated energy-based weapons, otherwise, they would suck the energy dry to get a rush.

Mutzachans are indigenous to the planet Trishmag of the Germinga star system. They are small, bipedal humanoids, with large heads and large pale green eyes. The energy controllers are by far the most intellectually advanced race in the known galaxies. Their brains have almost twice the convoluted surface area of Human brains. However, they pay for this with an inherently weak physiological makeup which is extremely susceptible to disease and infection. The entire Mutzachan population is less than 400 million, and their culture has almost been eradicated twice due to plague. Melon heads have a very low fertility rate, with the females bearing young only once every 100 years. The average life expectancy for a Mutzachan is about 2,000 years.

Trishmag's surface contains abnormally high levels of the radioactive elements Uranium-235, Plutonium-255, Di-trit-ium-305, Rutolium, and Korilium. Hence, Mutzachans have developed an immunity to all but the highest levels of radiation and can actually feed off radiation to speed up the recovery time necessary to generate. A Mutzachan's idea of sunbathing is lying out where the radioactive decay emissions are about 200 rads/hour (in comparison, .01 rads/hour is considered safe for Humans).

Culture and society
This culture emphasizes knowledge above all else. Children attend public schools for 150 years, until they have reached adolescence. Upon reaching the age of consent, the Mutzachan finds a Mentor to teach him for the next 100 years or so. Energy Controllers are generally law abiding. Some view adventuring as a boring pastime that is only engaged in by the unenlightened. Mutzachans are required by Galactic Law to wear a robe or other visible article of clothing that denotes their matrix using skill.

General occupation
Most Mutzachans are hired as crew on board starships to work the complex ion drive engines. Others find jobs at spaceports and a few bold Mutzachans get hired out for combat as matrix controllers.

Favorite foods
Sirim: Small lizard, indigenous to the planet Trishmag. Sirim tastes similar to Earth chicken, but sweeter.

Caril juice: Taken from the Caril tree. This tastes like raspberries.

Radioactive minerals: Mutzachans also supplement their diet with mildly radioactive substances such as Uranium-238. Needless to say, most other races don't like to be too close to an eating Mutzachan.

Pets
Viggit: These huge, ugly, turtle-like creatures have powerful jaws and razor sharp teeth. They are able to eat through rock at a rate of 5m per day. Viggits only fight if cornered. Otherwise, they flee. They have an exceptionally tough hide.

History
Recorded history predates 400,000 B.C. Chronologies kept in the Mutzachan libraries suggest that they first developed space travel around 110,000 B.C.

Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest applies to all aspects of life on Trishmag. In order to survive, the Mutzachans had to learn to overcome the planet's natural instabilities by learning to manipulate energy structures. All children are required to attend school year-round in order to learn the controlling matrices, and do so quite willingly. The best students attend the Cotarzchadin, dreaming of one day being taught the most powerful of energy matrices, Mutzia-cieve (time travel).

Energy Controllers share a friendly relationship with Humans, having first made contact with them before the birth of Christ. It was the Mutzachans who helped the Egyptians to build the Pyramids. In 2051, they made contact again, offering technical knowledge necessary to build starships in exchange for medicines and medical knowledge. The friendship prospered and in 2086, the Mutzachans helped Humans build the first stargate.