Hisein

The Hisein are the newest members of the Forty-Seventh Florescence. They were native to a world with F2 white star four-hundred, eighty-three light-years away, from the Retread Shop and toward the galactic south pole.

Biology
Hisein are low-gravity, L-L based, and chemovore predators. Their morphology consists of a ground-hugging, eight-limbed insectoid form with hard upper exoskeleton and soft underbelly. They use four compound eyes to light-percept in the ultraviolet through green part of the spectrum.

They resemble monstrous, hulking, four-meter-long giant blue-green scorpions that sport six waving mouth-palps, a whisker-fringe of chitin spikes on top of their four-eyed cranial globe, raised triangular spinal plates on the thorax, and a series of black liquid-weeping spiracles along the length of the abdomen. Hisein manipulators are evolved mouth palps.

While they seemingly appear to be insect based creatures Hisein, differ in that their food-chain reliance is from direct underbelly contact absorption of nutrient chemicals from their prey. Instead of digesting, they exude an acid that quickly reduces most matter, which they imbibe as their meal. How they avoid harm from the acid is unknown.

Culture
Hisein have a hive social structure, and they breed excessively. They are led by a group of genetically bioengineered caste known as the Brood Mothers. Brood Mothers who control specialized castes of Workers, Thinkers, Drones, Defenders, Technicians, and Seeders. They are strictly hierarchical, with most species members in servitude to a small control group. Like many insectoid races the Hisein are characterized as arrogant, paranoid, condescending, and potentially very dangerous if insulted.

They respond well when stroked on their abdomen and with light-filled phrases of their superiority as lifeforms. Like most predatory insects the Hisein identify Hive members on the basis of an applied Hive scent rather than strictly morphology.

In terms of technology the Hisein were a spacefaring race, utilizing antimatter-matter main drives with ship the lengthen the four-kilometer-long and propelled by mercury-based ion thrusters.