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The Kiorik (Latin: Ex Haud Terra, translated to "Of No Land") is a species of bipedal arthropodal creatures. As their Latin name implies, the Kiorik do not have a homeworld and are forced to be immigrants and nomads of the stars.

Anatomy
The Kiorik are immense arthropods, usually standing at around seven to eight feet in height and weighing around 450 pounds. Their bodies are split up into multiple segments which hold their many different organs. They have three hearts, all of which pumps hemocyanin through their bodies. They have an internal skeleton, though it is not made up of bone. Instead, it is made of dense cartilage with dense muscle fibers tightly wrapped around said cartilage. They are covered in a strong plating of chitinous material, the same material that makes up Human finger-nails and exoskeletons of arthropods.

Small hair-like fibers on their shells go down through the exoskeleton and make contact with nerves, allowing them to feel. Adding to this sense is long antennae on the tops of their heads which allow them to feel and see in the dark aswell as communicate through a series of antennae touches and movements. Their mouths are complex networks of tentacles, teeth, mandibles, and tongues aswell as acidic glands which allow them to turn anything they decide to eat into a mushy paste.

Located on various areas of their bodies are small glands which allow them to take in oxygen through their skin, similarly to the respiratory system of ants. They have two stomachs; one in their upper-body cavity and another in their mid-cavity, which digests and process food, absorbing every possible ounce of nutrients from it. They have highly-efficient metabolisms which can be adapted to suit their needs if their is a sudden lack of food and water.

Kiorik produce large clutches of eggs, usually twelve per pregnancy. In times of food scarcity, Kiorik females can produce large clutches of unfertilized eggs to feed themselves or others which is efficient due to the large amount of nutrients and fluids that are contained within these eggs. A normal pregnancy for a clutch of fertilized eggs takes around thirteen Earth months to complete and the eggs can be either laid in nests or kept in internal egg sacs for protection, though this slows down the egg-holder by a considerable amount. Females can have more than 72 offspring through the entirety of their lives.

Behavior
The Kiorik have become a race drive purely on instinct since the disastrous result of their first meeting with the Thanix. Most of them are under the oppression of the Thanix who have completely outlawed their customs and culture. They act as slaves now, working for their oppressors merely to survive, despite their hatred for the Thanix and the horrible living conditions that the Thanix granted them. Naturally, most would rise up against this oppression while others would have the decision of either following them or alerting the Thanix for a meager reward. In order to survive, they had to become opportunists and usually turn on each other. Many situations in which rebel plotters were turned in by their fellow Kiorik were abundant since the time the Thanix conquered them.

Those who managed to escape the hold of oppression learned to live on the move. These nomads travel throughout the galaxy and take as much resources as possible. When they aren't eating or working, Kiorik are busy reproducing, often up to nine times a day. This is considered to be a countermeasure to the drastic decrease in their population. Kiorik are also natural born scavengers and are able to find something useful from a pile of garbage. They also share a trait with they are capable of quickly learning the functionality of new technology, often seen dismantling and reassembling trashed technological devices into useful tools.