Name Leader: High Queen Kalerria
Race: Vespara
Planet: Arthropoda
Description Race:
The Vespara are a small race of amphibious humanoid insects. A worker caste Vespara is no larger than a human child, and the other Castes rarely grow taller than 5'6. The Vespara are actually several hundred closely related species, some of which are quite different from the others.
All Vespara however share the following common traits; The ability to fly through air or water, the ability to breath underwater, a tough exoskeleton, and great vision. Vespara go through a larval and pupa stage before reaching adulthood. Vespara require a humid atmosphere to survive, and will suffocate if the air gets too dry. Vespara communicate both verbally and via pheromone signals. They have a written language, but it is used almost exclusively for record keeping; most Vespara consider the written word to be an incomplete form of communication.
99.78 of All Vespara are average workers. Most of the rest are short lived male drones who exist solely to impregnate queens. Some Vespara subcultures still produce soldiers, Vespara with low intellect, huge muscles, and nasty mandibles who can grow over 5 feet tall! Soldiers are seen as nothing more than evolutionary leftovers in the age of modern weaponry, and are generally regulated to roles as athletic performers or ceremonial soldiers of honor to march in parades and carry the flag into battle! Depending on the subculture and species there is one queen for every 1000-1000000 workers. Queens are large bloated Vespara who exist solely to produce offspring. A queen who outlives her reproductive potential is given a local leadership role. The planetary government consists of a council of the 500 oldest queens lead by a high queen. A high queen is simply a young queen who is incapable of reproduction due to genetic defect or injury; young enough to have a long reign and with no reproductive potential to waste on leadership.
Description planet+ Solar system:
Arthropoda is a jungle planet that sits relatively close to its star. It has about 1.2 the mass of earth. For most of its civilized history the population distribution of Arthropoda closely mirrored the humans of earth. Within the last hundred years the Vespara began to construct 'Super Hives'; huge population centers organized and streamlined by powerful AIs. Super Hives now make up 29% of the planets population and 78% of its industrial output.
Arthropoda orbits two stars; Chelicerata and Hexapoda. The system has two other rocky planets and two gas giants. A brown dwarf has recently been confirmed to exist at the edge of the system.
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