[RP] Phoronoids

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[RP] Phoronoids

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# Phoronoid Rework:

## What they are:
Phoronoids are currently a never played, useless race that takes more damage from everything, and have no unique abilities, and are only whitelisted to prevent meme griefers.

## What I wanna make them:
Genetically diseased humanoids that turned to bodymodding to prevent their race from dying out.
They dont breath phoron, instead their suits require gasious(?) phoron to function
They all wear battle frame style modifications that make them over all more resiliant and give them access to a series of utility modules, as well as a couple job linked modules.

## Their suits
Their Suits(name pending) are highly complex systems of Biotechnical integrations that assist by stabilising the Phoronoids genetics and giving a framework to expand upon for utility and efficency.

These suits arent fullbody coverage, but can be, and can be sealed to be vacuum proof.
Depending on the model, head, face, parts of arms and legs, and the belly can be exposed. During standard operation, following parts can't/shouldn't be exposed: Hands, feet, groin/hips, upper chest, upper back, shoulders.
The suits in its entirety can be taken off, but that takes a long time, (and requires a special machine) and makes the genetic healing inaccessable to the now exposed Phoronoid.

Each suit has space for one job module and at least one utility module, depending on the job module, as well as one armor module, which will mostly be unused.
Some Utility modules don't need a slot to be fitted.

## Lore
First draft for the lore
### Backstory
Before disaster struck, Phoronoids were a humanoid species that was on its way to become a Class 1 civilisation, on the brink of realising Nuclear fusion for electrical energy production.
Their homeplanet was/is a superearth with about 1.8 times earth gravity, and a surface area about 1.2 times as large.
They were already unified under one goverment and had a series of smaller space habitats, with a few million people living in space, rather than on the ground.
Due to strict anti-bribery laws and successful enforcement of those, the society was a well functional social capitalism.
Total population is estimated to be near the 25 Billion mark. (Error margin below one million)
The average Phoronoid lived a life of compareative luxery and had little to worry about, they werent quite post scarecity, yet, but energy was the biggest factor in that, and about to be solved.

### The disaster
A major planetoid, roughly 60% of earths moons mass has entered their solar system, spectral analysis, long range and gravitational observation suggest that it has a density similar to iron, but has thick layers of an unknown crystal on its surface. Its trajectory suggested that it would enter a very close orbit around the sun, and likely burn up/break apart. The scientific society mourned the loss of such a interesting object for study, but any probing missions would have been unfeasable due to the path it was taking.
Near the star, the astroid began to shed its outer crystaline layer much faster than anticipated before vansishing behind the star to never appear again. it was assumed that it simply melted away and merged with the star, the only trace of its existance left being the dark purple cloud near its entry location on the star.
A few months go by, with intense study of the gas cloud that slowly sank into the star, yielding little to no results about the properties of the gas, or even what element it was.
Then, one day, a solar flare was detected, a rather intensive one, it has already been expected so precautions have been taken and the orbital habitats evacuated their inhabitats into the prepared saferooms, while sensitive systems shut down.
As the flare lit up the sky all over the planet, making aurorae being visible all over the planet, turning even the night bright as day, the radiation counters inside the saferoom screamed in panic as lethal doses of radiation managed to pass even the thick layers of insulation both the outerhull and the saferoom walls possessed. Even on the ground, those outside on the dayside of the planet recieved unhealthy amounts of radiation.
With almost the entire population in orbit dying to radiation sickness, and huge parts of the habitats and infrastructure being either shut down, or damaged, the Orbit was abandond until repairs planet side were finished.

But the worst was yet to come.

With observatory equipment deactivated and disassembled to prevent damage from the intense radiation of the flare it took to long to identify and recognize the remains of the rouge moon, that was thought burned up, to be on a collision course with the planet. The countermeasures that could be mobilised were, and aimed at the now a bit more than half its original mass.
Most countermeasures hit its target, but lacked the effect. Instead of completely deflecting the object, all that was managed was to alter its course and to slow it down that it wouldnt crash into the planet in an extingshion level event.
Instead the now bruised and battered planetoid broke apart during its grazing flyby. Spreading Phoron crystals all over the surface and trace amounts of phoron gas through the atmosphere.
To add to the catastrophy that was the toxic element suddenly spread all over the planet, the core of the moon was a supermatter crystal, which detonated in the upper atmosphere, after loosing its protective Phoron shell, creating a nuclear winter.

The Phoronoid population went from 25 Billion to 4 Million within a year and another Million would die in the following years.

### After the storm
The majority of survivers were sheltered in apocalypse bunkers, prepared for such a scenario. Faced with imminent extinction, a majority of the population suffering from genetic damage from the flare, the phoronoids turned to their sciences yet again.
Developing their suits that helped them stabilise their genetic degradation. Due to the now limited production capacity, due to the surface being unpleasant and deadly to be around for longer than a few hours at a time, the population dropped further, with infant fatality near the 50% mark and life expectantcy dropping by multiple centuries.
By the time first contact was made the population was shrunk to a stable 1.5 Million, with the majority living in three close to each other major shelter complexes, and almost everyone having a suit.

### Past first contact
With assistance from the Orion Confed the Phoronoids began to slowly grow, and rehabilitate their planet, the former Orbital habitats turned into a debris belt around the planet. Filtration plants and particle traps filtering the phoron out of the atmosphere as well as the nuclear waste the Supermatter left behind. Even tho most living Phoronoids did not witness the disasters they remain to proud to accept major aid from foreigners. They happily engage in academic conversation, exchanging technological Informations for blueprints and exotic materials they dont have in sufficent quantities.

### Those that leave
The Phoronoids that decided to leave their home behind do this for two reasons:
1. To earn money from their new found trading partners, to help with repaying the debt that is occured by importing technology
2. To not be a burden to the already limited resources their home has.
3. To not live on a toxic hellhole

Those that leave for the third reason are oftentimes banished, to never return. While those that leave for the first two reasons make frequent returns to get updates for the latest tech for their suits.

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