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*Liquid-electricity blood which electrocutes non-ethereals

*Upon being emagged an ethereals color goes disco mode for thirty seconds

Ethereals come from the planet Asma in the Galvana system. The Galvana star is a red-brown dwarf star, which meant the light levels on the planet of Asma were far lower than most habitable planets. Along with this, the planet Asma is known for its massive underground cave systems, and underground cities. Currently, the planet is undergoing a massive ice age, and most ethereals live in these underground cities to avoid the cold. The technology level has recently advanced massively, and major spaceport cities have been created above the underground cities. This has led to massive multi-layered cities full of ethereals. Additionally, all water on the planet is slightly electrical in nature. With ethereals being able to absorb nutrients from this electricity as a means of sustaining themselves.

Ethereals have a very open culture and society based upon freedom and curiosity. Also, they have an extremely unique genetic makeup allowing any two of the species to reproduce with one another, and having no gender. Ethereal culture puts an emphasis on what they call the “four stages”. These four stages are known as learning, curiosity, settlement, and the final travel. In the learning stage, ethereals are raised by their parents from birth to the age of fifteen and go to well funded public schools. They then enter what they call the curiosity stage in their lives. Depending on the ethereals interests, many ethereals enter one of many fields from exploring space (or historically the deep cave systems or the ever-changing ice surface), to scientific endeavors. Exploration especially is highly treasured in ethereal society, with the drive of discovery making up a large part of their media and personal ethereals dreams. Additionally, as part of exploration, most Ethereals attempt to seek out and familiarize themselves with different cultures, priding themselves on adapting to the most foreign of cultures. Finally at around the age of forty Ethereals settle down into more permanent housing and jobs, and begin creating offspring. Commonly their partners are someone they met while exploring, and their offspring comes in groups of three to four. This stage lasts for nearly the rest of their lives. The final stage of their life is known as the final journey. After giving away most of their possessions, the ethereal goes off on one last exploration, which in the modern-day means far off stars. The ethereal does not expect to return but hopes to eventually die exploring.  This is considered an incredibly important moment in Ethereal culture, and failing to do it is considered one of the highest dishonors possible.  

The Ethereals used to not live primarily underground, with the surface being much more hospitable. However, in 2409, a massive ice age began on Asma with the world rapidly cooling. This has led to the entire ethereal civilization fleeing to the underground caves their ancestors explored. In 2476 the Ethereal “Union of Cities” formed into one super-government uniting all their old governments underneath the Ethereal Union. This Union functioned as a loose commonwealth of city-states with various governmental systems for these city-states, but most commonly these city-states were democracies. Additionally, due to many of their population being busy with their culture of exploring, war is a very foreign concept for ethereals, with city-states having rarely fought each other. The technology level of these city-states before entering the underground was close to earlier industrial era technology, but their technological growth was slowed by the ice age. Additionally, little is known of their history pre-underground, due to many of the records being destroyed upon the retreat to the underground. However, shortly before an encounter with humanity, the Ethereals had finished the complete mapping of their home planet and had begun experimenting with space exploration technologies. The first encounter between Ethereals and the Commonwealth was from an Ethereal probe within the Galvana system.  

*Ethereals of the current day are constantly seeking new experiences and the unknown. Here are some suggestions to roleplay ethereals, but as with any species, these are just suggestions.