Verezi

The Verezi are a race of triclops who wear heavy hoods and gasmasks. They are a scavenging race who operate in Scryve space and just beyond, trying to find whatever technology they can to survive. They evolved on a dangerous world with extremely durable predators, forcing the Verezi to scavenge from the remains of these beasts and their dinners in order to survive. This led to a largely nomadic and cautious lifestyle that slowly developed over the millennia, at a glacial pace compared to other species.

Culture

Verezi culture is completely centred around scavenging, so much so that their religion is based around it. The Verezi believe that they are the creations of a god who made them out of spare parts. This, combined with their history, led to a relatively stagnant culture that merely picks from the scraps left over from other races.

Various rituals and customs are held by the Verezi as pinnacles of their culture and deviating from them will leave the offending Verezi banished from the larger fleet the race travels on, the Arogsy. One of these customs prevents Verezi from scavenging intact ships, only wrecks. This may be done to avoid attention, as the Verezi value stealth and staying out of trouble above all else.

This rigid culture even prevents technological development. As all Verezi are expected to scavenge, their entire technological base is made from spares and scraps. This extends to Verezi ships, which are made from a multitude of different spare parts they have scavenged during their trips away from the Argosy.

Verezi conservatism is largely defined by one idea, that a bold Verezi is a dead Verezi. As such, any more liberally minded of their kind are forced to keep quiet for fear of retribution and banishment and in turn, seek to slowly increase the speed of Verezi development. One captain offers Humanity access to hybrid ships, if the humans provide them in turn with a series of ships from the Federation of Allied Species.

Technology

All Verezi technology is scavenged from the various warzones within the Scryve Empire and beyond. Even their ability to fly in space was scavenged from a crashed alien vessel on their homeworld. As a result, their technological development is slow and they are behind the other races in their area of space.

However, this doesn’t mean that Verezi technology isn’t to be feared. Their ships are dangerous and have the ability to pick cleanly through most wrecks in minutes. They have access to a wide range of exotic weaponry they have gathered from other species and the knowledge on how to use it.

The most important discovery the Verezi have salvaged was from an ancient drone that had  repaired itself from hundreds of different ships on its voyage across the stars. The Verezi were able to adopt this technology on a large scale and are the only source of hybrid ships in the sector, something that is more dangerous than the original two ships they use to hybridise.