>>5908887>>5908888>Describe your nation. Their name, personality, culture, homeworld, and the one or more species within it.The Crith are a species of hulking, armoured crustaceans shockingly similar to horseshoe crabs from a physiological standpoint. They originally
evolved on an oceanic paradise of a planet, where conditions were life to thrive. Life thrived perhaps too well. By the end of a mere billion years of evolution, the entire ecosystem was in an endless ouroboros of consumption and the Crith were near the bottom. Their march to sapience came on the shells of trillions of ancestors, and the subjugation of their homeworld was a war waged before their mouth-parts were capable of speech.
The Crith do not have a conception of friendship or charity, only of fear and mutual gain. They are deeply terrified of most life-forms, including themselves, and are held together by the Crith Concordat, a totalitarian state which subjugates the Crith and keeps them united through constant propaganda. The Crith aren’t intrinsically violent but they are at their core, a prey species traumatized by long eons of strife, and view peaceful coexistence as impossible. To them, there can only be subjugation or extermination.
>Describe how your Faster Than Light technology works.Found by a confused Crith astrologer mashing particles together at laser-point, the C-Rift Sequence (They are less than creative) tears a jagged hole in reality. In the brief time before it closes, the Crith are able to enter and be transported… Anywhere. The C-Rift Sequence is unmatched in the volume of cargo and distance it can be transferred, however, they lack any control of the destination. This has led to some awkwardness in keeping the Crith Concordat cohesive.
Fortunately for them, and less so for other, saner species, the Crith intrinsically trust other Crith to help them take advantage of each other. This keeps them close-knit and is the reason the Crith Concordat has endured, for better or worse. They lack this instinct with non-Crift and are largely too terrified of them for equal relations.
