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This is my Elloom civilization. I was inspired by several sources including jellyfish...

The Ellom race is approximatly 6 billion years old. Their star along with their planet died 2 billion years ago. They are incredibly tough and durable. This is due to their uniqe body covering: the mantle. The elloom's mantle is a thick layer of dead tissue which is constantly being produced and recycled. Their mantle also keeps them warm. It is known that their homeplanet had a thin, cold, and dry atmosphere. Beneath the mantle is a layer of cealed air, which is replenished by the single nostril at the top of the body. This air is warm and moist to be absorbed by the spiracles on the inner walls. Their bodies acually require much less air and food because of their highly eficient metabolisms. Elloom are carnivores which take small game live. Once a month, the feast begins with the releasing of various small animals (reascued from their homeworld) all over the place, and each elloom catches two or three meals which they devower on the spot. They manipulate tools with eight retractable tentacles around their midsection. Due to low gravity on their homeworld, they walk on eight tentacles on their lower body. The elloom pocess four eyes on stalks, each of which has 360 degree vision. The eyes, arms, and legs can all be retracted within the body cavity for protection. The holes for the nostril, eyes, legs, and mouth can all form tight ceals so they may be fully protected. The arms also pocess a row of dangerous stings which carry a veanom as toxic as a rattlesnake to their homeplanet's fauna. Their stings acually produce a phycoactive effect on some other beings. They have high senses of magnetic disturbances, sight, hearing, and gaah. The elloom have a very interesting sexaul dimorphism and practice. What appears to be one individual is actually the male and female bonded together. Males and females are bonded from birth to the extent of being considered a single entity. The male makes up the top have of the body: upper torso, brain, nostril, eyes, and arms all belong to him. The female is the lower half of the body: lower torso, legs, mouth, and genitals are her's. Their fused bodies exchange bodily requirements the other needs, including eggs and sperm. The male's sperm constantly finds its way to newly produced eggs of the female. This is when the sex of the embryos is determined. When two individuals (or pairs of individuals) find each other acceptable, they will mate and inciminate each other with fertilized eggs. Useing tiny magnets within them (males negative, females positive), the eggs form pairs with opposite genders from the foreign body. This process stimulates growth and development into fused male/female bodies. The elloom are unique in that they are the only naturally immortal sophonts. They go through cycles as juviniles, adults, ancients, then back to adults, then to juviniles in a transdiffrentiated cellular process. This ability allowed them to develop a true interstellar empire B.Z. without faster than light travel. They created many transapient races, and gave other sophonts they encountered technology (if they deserved it) like the ikhan. In their stone age, they still needed to reproduce to fight off diseases, predators, natural disasters, and wars. They now live in peace among themselves, and have eradicated diseases through genetic manipulation. They have become quite strong with genetics, altering themselves so that their mantles are so strong, they can even survive in the vacume of space, or the depths of the abyss with partial clothing. Mating to produce offspring is highly restricted to when census shows that an elloom has died through some accident. Some cultures of elloom prefer to keep to themseves with as little danger as possible, living alongside dk'dks, siir, and puppeteers. Others see that they are willing to put themselves at the risk of death for a good cause. The elloom race as a whole is very logical and emotionless, although they are capable of understanding the emotions of other species through logical observation, and they are respectful of all.

Description
This is my Elloom civilization. I was inspired by several sources including jellyfish...

The Ellom race is approximatly 6 billion years old. Their star along with their planet died 2 billion years ago. They are incredibly tough and durable. This is due to their uniqe body covering: the mantle. The elloom's mantle is a thick layer of dead tissue which is constantly being produced and recycled. Their mantle also keeps them warm. It is known that their homeplanet had a thin, cold, and dry atmosphere. Beneath the mantle is a layer of cealed air, which is replenished by the single nostril at the top of the body. This air is warm and moist to be absorbed by the spiracles on the inner walls. Their bodies acually require much less air and food because of their highly eficient metabolisms. Elloom are carnivores which take small game live. Once a month, the feast begins with the releasing of various small animals (reascued from their homeworld) all over the place, and each elloom catches two or three meals which they devower on the spot. They manipulate tools with eight retractable tentacles around their midsection. Due to low gravity on their homeworld, they walk on eight tentacles on their lower body. The elloom pocess four eyes on stalks, each of which has 360 degree vision. The eyes, arms, and legs can all be retracted within the body cavity for protection. The holes for the nostril, eyes, legs, and mouth can all form tight ceals so they may be fully protected. The arms also pocess a row of dangerous stings which carry a veanom as toxic as a rattlesnake to their homeplanet's fauna. Their stings acually produce a phycoactive effect on some other beings. They have high senses of magnetic disturbances, sight, hearing, and gaah. The elloom have a very interesting sexaul dimorphism and practice. What appears to be one individual is actually the male and female bonded together. Males and females are bonded from birth to the extent of being considered a single entity. The male makes up the top have of the body: upper torso, brain, nostril, eyes, and arms all belong to him. The female is the lower half of the body: lower torso, legs, mouth, and genitals are her's. Their fused bodies exchange bodily requirements the other needs, including eggs and sperm. The male's sperm constantly finds its way to newly produced eggs of the female. This is when the sex of the embryos is determined. When two individuals (or pairs of individuals) find each other acceptable, they will mate and inciminate each other with fertilized eggs. Useing tiny magnets within them (males negative, females positive), the eggs form pairs with opposite genders from the foreign body. This process stimulates growth and development into fused male/female bodies. The elloom are unique in that they are the only naturally immortal sophonts. They go through cycles as juviniles, adults, ancients, then back to adults, then to juviniles in a transdiffrentiated cellular process. This ability allowed them to develop a true interstellar empire B.Z. without faster than light travel. They created many transapient races, and gave other sophonts they encountered technology (if they deserved it) like the ikhan. In their stone age, they still needed to reproduce to fight off diseases, predators, natural disasters, and wars. They now live in peace among themselves, and have eradicated diseases through genetic manipulation. They have become quite strong with genetics, altering themselves so that their mantles are so strong, they can even survive in the vacume of space, or the depths of the abyss with partial clothing. Mating to produce offspring is highly restricted to when census shows that an elloom has died through some accident. Some cultures of elloom prefer to keep to themseves with as little danger as possible, living alongside dk'dks, siir, and puppeteers. Others see that they are willing to put themselves at the risk of death for a good cause. The elloom race as a whole is very logical and emotionless, although they are capable of understanding the emotions of other species through logical observation, and they are respectful of all.