Editing Blue Giant:History (section)

==Cygnan Species==

The major Cygnan races consisted of;

[[Blue_Giant:Cygnans#Hogs|The Hogs]] - A race of semi-intelligent armadillos with prehensile hands.

[[Blue_Giant:Cygnans#Lattice|The Lattice]] – Creatures composed of silicon and radioactive materials. They grow like a giant fungal root system across the surface of whatever planet they inhabit. Their physiology acts, roughly speaking, like a giant semi-conducting computer chip. There is usually only one to a planet.

[[Blue_Giant:Cygnans#Rourkes|Rourke’s Spiders]] aka Rourkes - A bed-sized species looking roughly like “two headless tarantula spiders connected by a leather bag filled with bones”. Rourkes are a carbon-based species covered in a woody carapace. As you may imagine, first contact did not go well. (Especially not on [[Blue_Giant:Jack_Rourke|Jack Rourke’s]] farmstead.) Rourkes don’t do science, relying on the co-operation of other species for their technology. Rourkes compete with humans for territory and resources. Individual Rourkes commonly display phobias about Tumbleweeds (see below).

[[Blue_Giant:Cygnans#Slugs|Slugs]] – Giant slugs the size of a pickup truck with prehensile fronds at the front. A highly technological species, they also developed a subspace field drive. Slugs don’t communicate; they just do what Slugs do. The Rourkes hitch-hiked on Slug ships until they met the other species.

[[Blue_Giant:Cygnans#Tumbleweeds|Tumbleweeds]] – A perambulatory tangle of thorn covered wire with a central root-like stalk. Tumbleweeds are constrictors and are composed of shape memory metals that they can bend and flex at will. They are roughly the same size as tumbleweeds although on their home planet there are similarly formed non-sentient predators that can grow to the size of hippos. Tumbleweeds are most like humans in terms of psychology, reasoning and technological development. They obtained space flight technology from the Slugs and shared it with the Rourkes.

There were other races but they mostly stayed at home.