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The Yaujta Appearance
The Yaujta are larger and taller than adult humans, standing at least
seven feet (2-2.5 meters) tall but often much taller. Females, who have
not been seen by man, are even larger. An average Yaujta weighs between
250-350 lb., most of this is pure muscle. The Yaujta have very little
body fat due to their predatory lifestyle and diet. Yaujta have reptilian
skin of mottled red, green and yellow patterns. Their blood is a dark
phosphor green, which neutralizes Hard Meat's blood's caustic effects
(to a degree.) Like humans, they have two arms, two legs, and two eyes.
Eye color is green or yellow. Their mouths have four mandibles around
them, much like a set of lips. Vertical slits of its mouth open wide to
reveal inner teeth. These mandibles are used for communicating much like
a cat uses it's tail to communicate it's mood.
They have short black claws, 4 clawed toes, thick skulls, broad shoulders,
and large biceps. Their back is mostly bone.
Children are smaller versions of the adult, and a male will typically
father seventy or more in his lifetime. Yaujta have long hair that is
braided into dreadlocks in an extremely painful ritual taking months to
perform, and any Yaujta exhibiting pain during the process is forced to
endure it again.
They are fast enough to dodge bullets, if they see them coming and can,
because of their tough hides, shrug off most small calibur bullets.
They give off a musk other Yaujta, and canines, can detect - but humans
cannot. When canines sense them, they usually constantly whine, heads
down, or else storm out and make unhappy noises in their throats. Yaujta's
scent for aggression is an oily, bitter smell.
As far as environment, it appears that the Yaujta prefer hot, humid conditions
with an atmosphere rich in nitrogen.
Natural/Sensory Abilities:
- Thermographic vision to 2000'. See the invisible through thermographic
vision.
- They breathe 1% more oxygen, and 4% more nitrogen than humans.
- They can adapt to earth's natural gasses, but it could only last for
1 week at the most.
- They can hold their breath for several minutes.
- They can jump up to three times their height, and can fall ten times
their height and land on their feet.
- Using their technology, they can imitate the speech sounds of other
species, but do not necessarily understand the meaning of what they
say. They often imitate voices of the species they are hunting in order
to fool or terrify
their prey.
- They do pick up languages quickly, however without formally studying
the language as a secondary skill they will be unable to fully understand
what they say.
- They can hear a whisper up to 50 feet away.
- Impervious to heat (boiling water gets uncomfortable after 5 minutes),
invulnerable to electricity and to radiation.
- They have no use for magic, and find it disdainful. Only cowards would
resort to parlor tricks.
- Chances of a psionic Yaujta are rare, but those that exist are unbelievably
powerful, so much that they'll not hunt with normal Yaujta, and are
for the most part cast out from Yaujta society.
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