Species Name: Krav'ohq
Species Adjective: Krav'ohq
Empire Name: The Krav Heavenly Dominion
Empire Adjective: Krav
Phenotype: Fungoid (see avatar)
Traits: Resilient, Venerable, Weak
Ethos: Fanatic Spiritualist, Colectivist
Government: Divine Mandate
Homeworld: Hoithea
Planet type: Tropical
Short Description of Species: The Krav'ohq are a humanoid species, from the Fungi Kingdom, inhabiting the world of Hoithea. Their height is around 1.7 meters. Though their body is frail, they posses a chitinous carapace around the upper parts of their bodies to protect the vital organs and the spores which are developed in the neck regions. They are extremely resilient, managing to survive in the harshest environments. The species doesn't have any differentiated genders, male of female, but each individual possesses both types of reproduction organs.
Short Description of Empire and History:
The Krav'ohq passed through a rapid industrial development after the discovery of steam power, which was quickly followed by the discovery of electricity and atomic power. This also brought a great change in the mentality of the people, bringing liberal ideas which contested the divine mandate of the Prophet. About 300 years before the discovery of FTL, a civil war took place between the secularists and the ones supporting the theocracy. Before the war, the Krav'ohq were living in an organic system, as parasites to another fungoid species similar to mold and using it's mycelium for building purpose. During the war, many of the mycelium "cities" have been destroyed and the species creating them has gone extinct. The war, which lasted close to 100 Hoithean years (about 70 earth years), was won by the Spiritualist faction. In the aftermath one of the most extensive hunts were organized to make sure that the supporters of the secular movement were utterly annihilated. The disappearance of the mycelium cities made way for the development of anorganic cities, which brought a new industrial revolution.
90 years before FTL, the Krav'ohq managed to send a ship with a crew outside the Ithuay System (where Hoithea is located) to a neighboring system on which it was observed that one of it's planets could sustain life. When they arrived after a trip that took more than a Hoithean Century, they found that the planed was inhabited by a sentient species that has long disappeared. They found remains of starships, of cities and began studying their technology. At the edge of that solar system, they found a giant abandoned space station. It took 90 years to studying the remains from that planet and the space station to be able to master their technology. The station seemed to be a wormhole station. When another one was built on the edges of the Ithuay system, it was clear to everyone, that the Krav'ohq have reached FTL. The discovery brought great changes on Hoithea, as the instutution of the Archprophet was created, which brought under it's rule all the polities from the planet, thus effectively creating a world government.