Primer: Humanity's Races

Preface: This Primer contains information on races whose homeworld, home system, and the vast majority of their number have been enslaves, conquered, and processed by the Alpherion Federation. However, there may still be individuals who roam free in the Core Galaxy, either in non-human controlled areas of the borderlands or in the central, Alliance-held systems of the Galaxy.

Ligreon
Natives of the Ligrii system. It is thought that the entirety of the race belong to humanity, as they rarely travelled outside of their home system. Humanity's first slaverace and such a common sight across the galaxy, that they can be found in great numbers on all Federation worlds.

Physical Description: Bipedal humanoid mammals with a resemblance to Earth-born felines. Physically a powerful and statuesque race, with average heights in the seven foot range. Heavily muscled. Limited dimorphism. Females tend to be slightly shorter and less muscular, with multiple teats and nipples that only protrude during pregnancy and feeding [these traits have been eradicated due to genetic editing]. Fur coats come in a variety of patterns (striped, spotted, solid) and colours (browns, yellows, reds, black, white) that vary from tribe to tribe depending upon the environments they inhabit [these traits can easily by altered via genetic editing]. Knowledge of the original, inferior lifestyle and culture of the Ligreon people is limited due to their longstanding status as humanity's first slaverace.

Further Notes: In addition to the standard feminine sexualization package, female Ligreon are given hair-like manes, often in colours contrasting the shades of their fur.

Mekanii
The most strange and unique slaverace in this primer. On the fringes of the Alpherion system, an unknown, unnamed world was discovered (later dubbed "Mekan" by colonizers) home to a motely assortment of biomechanical animals. It was eventually discovered that beneath the planet's surface lay a supercomputer which was responsible for constructing these machine beasts. Where it came from and what it's original purpose was, no one knows, but soon after the Ligrii conflict ended, and humanity becoming fully invested in their campaign of conquest, the supercomputer and it's artificial intelligence were hacked and reprogrammed to serve humanity. Dubbed "Mother", the machine happily served it's new masters in constructing the biomechanical slaverace soon known as the Mekanii.

Physical Description: Built in the image of their creators, the Mekanii were designed to be human-like in their proportion. However, while there is a "standard" model, there is much variety in the form of the Mekanii. This primer will describe the most common elements of the race. Their endoskeleton is a titanium-majority alloy. Typically, this skeleton and their circuitry and components are covered in synthetic skin, whose texture can resemble flesh, latex, or rubber, depending on preference. Typically, even if the arms and legs are exposed metal or covered in another nonorganic material, the torso is covered in synthetic skin. Artificial "padding" made to resemble adipose fat is layered to recreate breasts, hips, and butt, as the Mekanii's primary purpose is to be sexdolls and pleasure bots. To that end, artificial orifices are installed to simulate a vagina, anus, and mouth (in models whose face includes a mouth), with the vagina ending in a lab-grown womb, allowing for Mekanii to carry human children.

Heads and faces are usually the point of anatomy with the greatest range of variance. Some models have faces that are identical to a human's (complete with flesh-coloured synthetic skin). Most are more mechanical; some more human or less human; some have more robotic features; others have anthropomorphic features resembling Earth or Alpherion animals. Once Mekanii were revealed and their production ramped-up, they became a hot commodity, and the customization options were one of the reasons why Mekanii became so popular and are so ubiquitous.

Other Notes: With their differing origins, the Mekanii are more like a product than any other slaverace. There are numerous apps on data-tabs where anyone can custom design their own Mekani robobitch, modding it to their liking, before submitting their order to the Mekan Consortium, the Federation-backed corporation in charge of running Mekan and Mother, all without leaving the comfort of their home. However, due to high demand, there is no guarantee a customer will receive their order in a timely manner.

Mother still produces it's original cadre of machine beasts, as well, with them being used as pack animals, war beasts, and pets.

Due to the above mentioned demand, the moons of Mekanii have been colonized, with plants being developed and constructed that will be wirelessly collected to Mother, in order for her to have more production outlets.

Vyraxis
The homeworld of the Vyraxis race [original name redacted; renamed "Xibalba" after conquest] can best be described as a Darwinian nightmare. With an atmosphere toxic to even modified humans, the planet's lone supercontinent plays host to violent, chaotic weather patterns, highly poisonous and hazardous flora and fungi, and numerous species of megafauna and super predators. Even the prey species are particularly dangerous due to their size and ferocity, evolutionary necessities to survive total predation. The Vyraxis sit atop this hyper-aggressive food chain as the planet's absolute apex predator. To this day, there are no Federation settlements on the surface of Xibalba, just space stations in orbit, as **** labourers are sent down without a taskmaster to harvest resources.

Physical Description: Insectoid creatures capable of both bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion. Standing anywhere between six to eight feet, they are covered in an exoskeleton of shiny, black chitin. Despite their similarities to arthropods, their bodies are lithe and sinuous, often compared to feline or lupine forms. They possess great power and speed which belies these slinky forms. Eyeless heads are crowned with great headpieces made of the same black chitin as their body, and they also possess long, blade-tipped tails. Minor dimorphism between the two sexes. Females are slightly larger and possess a retractable ovipositor [this trait has been eradicated via genetic editing]. Following conversion and modification, the female exoskeleton is commonly modified to resemble soft latex rubber in it's texture, in addition to adding mammaries and other proper female sexual characteristics. The Vyraxis were sapient, but animalistic, possessing no culture or infrastructure. Whether this was due to an evolutionary focus on predation or a conscious choice not to build and settle due to Xibalba's harsh biosphere is unknown.

Other Notes: The original lifecycle of the Vyraxis was partly parasitic. Males and females would mate, the former fertilizing the female's eggs, and then the female would inject said eggs into a host creature via her ovipositor. When hatched, the young would eat their way out of the unwitting host, the broods so numerous there would be little remaining when the feeding frenzy ended.

Due to their status as apex predators on a hellish world, male Vyraxis are most commonly used a shocktroopers.

A frequent mod for female Vyraxis is to graft spurs onto their heels, giving them "natural" stiletto heels, a fitting choice considering their sensual, lithe physique and silhouette.

Amarlean
Natives of the Qaalia System, having settled all five planets in the system. Despite being capable of space travel, the Amarlean people were largely isolationist, rarely leaving their home system, likely due to their amphibious nature. The surface of all five Qaalian planets is dominated by water - anywhere between 90 to 100 percent - so while the Amarlean are capable of living in both land and water, they rarely surfaced onto the few landmasses that dotted their native worlds.

Physical Description: Piscine in nature, the Amarleans closely resemble mermaids of old Earth myths. Largely humanoid torso, but the waist ends and then transforms into a sleek, serpentine tail, allowing the Amarleans to propel themselves in water, crawl on land, and slither up and and through trees. Roundish faces with large eyes are framed with fins and growths of short tendrils extending from the back of their heads. Distinct and visible dimorphism. Males are larger, with shorter hair tendrils, and their scales tend towards more muted colours of blues, greys, and greens. They also possess bifurcated penises. Females have slightly longer tendrils, but their scales are a vibrant panoply of colours and patterns with an abundance of variation. They also possess bioluminescence in their skin; both the light and colours are meant to attract mates. Due to living underneath the ocean, the Amarleans naturally possess great strength. Roughly ten percent of the population possess psi powers, primarily hydrokinetic and/or pyro kinetic. Federation sponsored breeding regimes are aimed at increasing the number of Amarlean psionics.

Other Notes: The most common modification for Amarleans is, obviously, shortening their tails and growing legs so that they can better function on land. It took several decades of research after conquest to perfect this aspect of genetic modification. The second most common is to replace the hair tendrils with actual hair, though this not nearly as ubiquitous.

Symix
Another native lifeform of the Qaalia System, though at first glance they bear no resemblance to any other slaverace. The Symix (also referred to as Symbiotes, Slimes, Suits, Symsuits, Slimesuits, Symbiote Slimes, and dozens of other names and variations on said names) are sentient slime mold colonies hailing from the deepest regions of the Qaalian oceans. Already known to the native Amarleans, they are also a symbiotic entity, covering other organisms in their moldable, stretchy, pliable bodies, forming an organic endosuit (hence the colloquial name "Suits") around the host organism. These endosuits enhance the capabilities of the wearer while also "feeding" the Symix via sharing the impulses and stimuli of it's host. As these were known entities to the Amarleans, following their enslavement, they worked in tandem with their human masters to properly subvert and control the strange neurological systems of the Symix.

Physical Description: Before processing, Symix existed as large blobs of slime, but they possess ultra-fine control of their molecular structure, capable of shapeshifting. Now, understanding the desires of humanity, they almost always default to a form resembling a busty, curvaceous human female. Like the Mekanii, there is a great variety in the Symix's height, colour, and features, usually tuned to the preference of their owner. Symix were genderless and sexless before humanity instilled the concepts into them and reproduce through a long process of asexual budding. Attempts to further understand their reproductive process and alter it to humanity's liking have so far proven futile.

Other Notes: Without breeding, the Symix population is still limited. They are usually owned by elite soldiers, who use their endosuit form as a combat suit. As a bonus, after combat, they immediately have a pleasure **** on hand to relieve themselves and rewards themselves for a job well done.

Zee-Rai
A technologically advanced race with a surprising secret to their biology and society. The Zee-Rai were actually the first contact race for humanity in the Core Galaxy, having established a sizable domain in the borderlands, and even offering the nascent humanity assistance in their development. Still, their beauty and technology always inspired lust and jealousy, and as humanity geared up for their crusade, they became a natural target for humanity's hunger.

Physical Description: Bipedal mammalian humanoids that share a stark resemblance to humans... at least, the female do. Dimorphism is heavily pronounced between the two sexes. All Zee-Rai possess red skin stripped with black or white, four arms, and two sets of horns atop their heads. Females are short and lithe, usually around the five-foot range and are remarkably intelligent. Male Zee-Rai are far more bestial and hulking, standing over seven-feet, seemingly of limited sapience, and capable of extruding tentacles from their horned ridges. Males are also nocturnal while female (seemingly) do not sleep, and because of the lopsided nature of their world's day-night cycle (36 hour cycle, with day lasting 24 to 30 hours depending on the season), females are active and seemingly in charge of the society. However, the truth is, male Zee-Rai exude a powerful neurotoxin, mixed in their saliva, semen, and the mucus produced by their tendrils. The neurotoxin is highly addicted to the female and also rewrites their neural pathways to make them subservient to males, sexual thralldom **** by their own biology.

Thus, on the surface, Zee-Rai females apparently dominate their society (there is also a 3-to-1 gender ratio in favour of the females), working tirelessly in the day, only to retreat to their homes to sexually serve their hulking, brutish masters. During the evening, as they are repeatedly fucked by cock and tentacles, the Zee-Rai female actually "trances out" from the sheer pleasure caused by these orgies, minds going blank and empty, which serves as their sleep cycle. With their neurotoxin addiction and their brains already rewired to subservience, the Zee-Rai were easily conquered despite their advanced technology.

Dranza
The great power of the borderlands region and, perhaps almost fittingly, the Federations diametric opposite. An all-female race of militaristic, dogmatic, misandrist, sex-negative, genocidal warmongers, the Dranza were born from a radical anti-male uprising, which saw them eradicate their male population... and now they wish to do the same to other species, waging a reign of terror and extermination against all others. The war with the Dranza was fierce, but even they could not fight off humanity's yoke forever.

Physical Description: Bipedal humanoid, vaguely reptilian, with angular, pointed snouts, elongated necks, and bedecked in scales. Scale colouration varies along the spectrum, but almost always with a white underbelly. Due to the sex-negative nature of their culture, their physical sexual characteristics had largely atrophied. The Dranza had both modified their genome to allow them to conduct parthenogenesis and also had developed advanced cloning technology. However, in the culture purge following their enslavement, such tech was seen as heretical, so the hardware was destroyed, though the blueprints and data are safely stored away by the Federation. The Dranza had Amazonian physiques, equivalent to the Ligreon in both height and muscle mass, but post-processing, it is common to find svelte, petite Dranza, a living mockery to what they once were. As of publishing of this Primer, they are the newest slaverace to be inducted into humanity's glorious reign.