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So I had a fun idea of a species that I've wrote in my head and thought I'd share it just out of curiosity if anybody wanted to put their 2 cents into it.
So basically its a race of mostly feral creatures that are basically a natural evolution of slimes over time (about a period of 50 years) and entirely rely on mimicry and instincts for survival. For the most part they are entirely feral and resemble the fiercest predator they know of as a scare tactic to other feral creatures, when entering society they typically take the form of whatever seems most prestigious and positively biased race available and lose a part of their feral attitude. They are incredibly intelligent and easily grasp new ways to communicate or blend in to their surroundings but struggle with things such as personal preference, abstract conscepts and art, This is because all members of this species lack emotion or consciousness, and are only concerned with remaining as valued a member of society as possible as to prevent extinction for their species. This leads them to naturally gravitate towards higher positions in where-ever they are working, or seek employment for very little pay ontop of being undyingly loyal until it conserns their continued survival. They are naturally biased in favor of their species as their is power in numbers.
The mechanics of this species would be: No Organs / Pressure sensitivity (begins taking damage at 50kPa) but survives 500kPa before taking damage / Water vulnerability / Heavy brute resist / The ability to sacrifice your head to create a baby slime, it will grow with nutrients and can regrow into another body, you can jump between both bodies or cycle between multiple bodies if there are 3+. / Regrows limbs similar to diona regeneration just with the requirement to eat 6 stomachs full instead of natural regen in light

Roleplay specific things that this species could do: They could try to mimic things that older members of their species do, such as their accent or emotes/phrases, they may greet eachother by asking eachothers age first and foremost to see who has the most experience in life. They may also naturally treat diona's suggestions with extremely high regard or with the same priority as captains orders depending on their age, as diona can reach hundreds of years in age, they must have very high levels of experience and excellent knowledge of survival.

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Neat idea, but afaik Skull has put a bottleneck on new aliens unless one of the ones we have just dies out.

If we're dealing with Slimes, I'd tie them into Glorsh Omega (or the aftermath of them) as that's where slimes originated from. Additionally, you can attribute their intelligent and mimicry abilities to Psionics.

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