The Gek are an amphibious species native to the water-rich system Balaron close to the Center of the universe. They are now a mercantile race. Their ancestors once believed themselves to be the first and master race in the galaxies until they had slaughtered every entity in their way to build an empire. They were ultimately beaten into submission by the Aerons when the core junta of Gek First Spawns were killed.
The Gek are a small-statured race with bird-like eye placements and beaks pointing back to their amphibious ancestry. They are bipedal with claw-like fingers, and have a variety of different head accessories.
Gek communicate verbally, though they also use scent to add emotional context. Their scents cover a broad spectrum ranging between pleasant to disgusting, and can accurately translate to other species.
Culture and society[]
Typical Gek are commonly corporate and plutocratic in their mannerisms, with many of their titles tied to trading / industrial related terms. Most of the initial encounters with the species require units (currency). Most Gek monoliths demand others choose a pragmatic approach (putting tortured lifeforms out of their misery, exterminating distant entities etc).
Language[]
Gek commonly communicate through verbal and olfactory means, meaning that one should also watch for particular aromas when in conversation with them. Many Gek utilize certain dietary additives (known collectively as GekNip and harvested from the weedy NipNip plant) in order to add specific fragrances to their emissions to elicit certain emotional responses in others.
Titles[]
The Gek each possess a title indicating their status within their society's hierarchy. Known titles include:
Attendant
Broker
Captain
Director
Employee
Hireling
Manager
Merchant
Mining overseer
Navigator
Resource analyst
SalesGek
ToilGek
Bar in a Gek settlement.
Trade Envoy
Underling
WorkGek
History[]
The Gek originally dwelled on their homeworld of Baralon, in those days they were known as the Firstspawn living in fear as the Aeron patrolled their skies, so for millennia the Gek Dominion remained secluded in the swamps of their homeworld, watching, waiting.
After the Vy'keen Alliance successfully defeated the Aerons in the Vy'keen/Aeron War, the Gek began their grand expansion, using mixtures of brutality and witchcraft, the Firstspawn expanded from the galactic centre, wiping out many civilizations in the process, when the Gek encountered Korvax Prime, they where suprised that the native Korvax hivemind wouldn't allow them to mine it's grand resources, so they enslaved the Korvax, severed their hivemind then destroyed their homeworld and took it's resources (all this lead to the creation of what is now known as The Abyss).
When the galaxy began to push back, a massive event happened, in one moment, hundreds of Korvax commited suicide, allowing their nanites to flow into the spawning pools of Baralon, eventually, the Firstspawn died out, and the the Gek became not more than servents of The Atlas.
