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The Bernand are a spacefaring race that evolved on the planet Vermona. Though Vermona is a planet that managed to evolve vertebrate animal life, the dominate species is a sapient fungus. The Bernand have two distant forms in their lifestyle, their juvenile and adult form. It is the juvenile or sporeling that is seen mostly throughout the galaxy, and who are the main architects of their society. The first sixty years of a Bernand’s life they remain in this juvenile start exploring, learning, discovering, and other scholarly pursuits, an urge so great that it prompted their technological development. During this form they have very powerful regenerative abilities, able to regrow a limb within two weeks. After about sixty years a new hormone takes route inside them urging them to grow into their adult form. Some Sporeling however choose to continue their mobile existence longer however and have been known to take hormone blockers, at the cost of their regenerative abilities.
Adult Bernand are largely sessile, rooted in one spot, though they can uproot themselves on occasion and move slowly. They are formed when four or more sporelings merge together, combining their experiences and memories. The usually rooted adult Bernand do bend in order to feed on prey, and use the blue sticky net-like structure near the mouth to attract and catch flying creatures, which it then casts into its mouth. Unlike the Juveniles which have a single compound eye, the adult has its photoreceptive cells (or ommatidia) spread throughout the body. The adults are able to communicate and transfer information between one another by intwining their root-like tendrils, which it can then relay to the youth. Reproduction happens through budding after the Bernand has spent at least three years in their adult form, the buds break off and hatch open when they hit the ground, the juvenile already fully educated and able to move.
Bernand Technology is a combination of organic and inorganic materials. To communicate cross continents, they discovered ways to link their fungal internet to manufactured wires and machines. Their spaceships and buildings resembling metal shells on the outside while the inside looks alive. This unusual skill has lead the Bernand to becoming lucrative partners of the Cresh who have been able to find way to adapt their own organic technology to link with the more common mechanical tech around the galaxy.

Description

The Bernand are a spacefaring race that evolved on the planet Vermona. Though Vermona is a planet that managed to evolve vertebrate animal life, the dominate species is a sapient fungus. The Bernand have two distant forms in their lifestyle, their juvenile and adult form. It is the juvenile or sporeling that is seen mostly throughout the galaxy, and who are the main architects of their society. The first sixty years of a Bernand’s life they remain in this juvenile start exploring, learning, discovering, and other scholarly pursuits, an urge so great that it prompted their technological development. During this form they have very powerful regenerative abilities, able to regrow a limb within two weeks. After about sixty years a new hormone takes route inside them urging them to grow into their adult form. Some Sporeling however choose to continue their mobile existence longer however and have been known to take hormone blockers, at the cost of their regenerative abilities.
Adult Bernand are largely sessile, rooted in one spot, though they can uproot themselves on occasion and move slowly. They are formed when four or more sporelings merge together, combining their experiences and memories. The usually rooted adult Bernand do bend in order to feed on prey, and use the blue sticky net-like structure near the mouth to attract and catch flying creatures, which it then casts into its mouth. Unlike the Juveniles which have a single compound eye, the adult has its photoreceptive cells (or ommatidia) spread throughout the body. The adults are able to communicate and transfer information between one another by intwining their root-like tendrils, which it can then relay to the youth. Reproduction happens through budding after the Bernand has spent at least three years in their adult form, the buds break off and hatch open when they hit the ground, the juvenile already fully educated and able to move.
Bernand Technology is a combination of organic and inorganic materials. To communicate cross continents, they discovered ways to link their fungal internet to manufactured wires and machines. Their spaceships and buildings resembling metal shells on the outside while the inside looks alive. This unusual skill has lead the Bernand to becoming lucrative partners of the Cresh who have been able to find way to adapt their own organic technology to link with the more common mechanical tech around the galaxy.