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Diet: Similar to most plants, they need to root themselves at intervals for water and nutrients, and they continually absorb solar radiation for photosynthesis.
History: Over four million years ago the Green were worshipped by the Jeica, whose worship the Green ignored.It wasn't until the Jeica were dying out from a plague that the Green realized their mistake and tried to help, but by then it was too late and the Jeica became extinct.Several hundred millenia later the Orpelle race grew to sentience, and they too worshipped the Green.Wishing to reconcile for their past mistake, the Green embraced the identity of being gods, and sought to serve their worshippers to the best of their ability.Sadly however, as different groups of Orpelle favored different Green gods a Holy War ensued and despite efforts by the Green, the Orpelle all died in the massacre.(In memory of the Jeica and Orpelle, the names taken by all Green are those used by their late worshippers.)Thus, when the third race of the Chirrok came to sentience and summarily took to worshipping the Green, their gods took the approach of maintaining some distance from their worshippers while at the same time striving to be worthy of their reverence.
Culture: Central to their culture is The Dreaming; whenever any of the Green root themselves, they enter into a deep sleep, during which all others of their race who are rooted share consciousness.(it's said that the spirits of all deceased Green dwell in this Dreaming as well.)This sharing of consciousness has no limit to it's range, and thus Green from across Known Space will join during their rooting.It's during The Dreaming that all decisions for the Green race (and thus potentially decisions regarding the Chirrok) are made.
Psychology: Very inquisitive.They are worshipped as gods by another of their world's inhabitants, the Chirrok.(see History regarding their reaction to the Chirrok's worshipping them.) For their interactions with other species other than the Chirrok and themselves, the Green are very informal, and will speak good humoredly of their being 'gods'- though never being disrespectful to their role as gods.In conversation, which they love, they have no interest in the finite affairs of day to day politics.Their passions are philosophy and purely theoretical sciences.(facts bore them.)
Trade: The Green like to explore other worlds, using their talents and services as payment for transportation. They are highly prized for their flesh, thus having high economic power. They're especially respected by the Maiia of the Veil, as their flesh is used for psionic amplification drugs.They need very little technology, as they can manufacture most of what they need from their own bodies.Mostly they trade for information, land to plant their young, and interstellar transport to seed the galaxy with their race.
Physiology: In their natural state, mature Green are immense "clumps" of vegetation, often several hundred feet in diameter! On their homeworld they are akin to islands of life in a desert sea, moving as needed to more fertile soil, areas with fewer herbivorous "predators" (-one of the stimuli that caused them to develop sentience), and new underground pockets of water.They can alter their mass, size and shape. (by converting their mass into energy and back again as need be.)The Green use their shifting of form for movement, which is a process they call The Wilding.Seemingly chaotic, this process consists of a flurry of shiftings, coiling and uncoiling various vines, roots and fronds, all of which is akin to an elaborate dance.The Wilding is the closest thing to a religious experience for the Green, as during this shifting they must tap into their very being, and in so doing, feel their most alive.For this reason, unless rooted, Green are seldom still.
Reproduction: Green are fertile once every 1,000 years or so, when their seeds can be fetilized.However, like in humon reproduction save in reverse, their mates spore can only fertilize one seed from the hundreds they bear.Fertilized seeds develop sentience and possess the characteristics of their Elders.(after several hundred years of rooting, wherein they grow physically into the immense islands of vegetation which is their parent's true form, and mentally via their education within The Dreaming..) Those unfertilized are identical to the Common Seeds produced continually by The Green.Common Seeds are nonetheless part of the Green species, and are still cherished by the Green, who seek to spread their seed throughout Known Space for the perpetuation of their species.The plants that spring from these are unlikely to grow to sentience (though it has been known to happen...) and thus their flesh possesses none of the psi-amplifying properties attributed to that of sentient Green.
Metaphysics: Due to their themselves being worshipped, the Green are in effect atheists.Since the scope of their abilities is in the range of what other species claim 'miraculous', the Green tend not to be impressed by displays of power.They deeply respect the Patrons, but are in no way in awe of them as other races tend to be.(since strictly in the area of psionics, it's unclear which of the two species is superior....) The only race that the Green tend to be semi reverential to is the Delphii, as their abilities are solely spiritual.
Habitat: the birthworld of the Green, and therefore of the Chirrok as well, falls within the Pan-Galactic Concordance, and it is for this reason that so many of the Chirrok can be found therein.