Thread:The Indomitable/@comment-25356210-20160430223217/@comment-25356210-20160501011423

The Ancients. The Forerunners. The Precursors. The First. Many names have been given to the Artuians, but even though their original name is "Artuians," they have taken up the first title; the Ancients.

The Ancients, as implied by the name, are an extremely old race. No one besides themselves know were they originate from, but a great few aspects of their technology is powered by a virtually unobtainable resource that only the ancient have hands on; Artuium. This grants them power over most other races. However, this chemical is in a slow rate of decay. To add to this problem, the Artuians are a dying race. While they have control over genetics, an unknown plague spites them; leaving the race with an inability to procreate. Each Artuian has immortality, but each one that dies cannot be replaced. As so, the wise and calculating race is looking for another species to inherit the truly awesome and powerful technology and knowledge; but a perfect species might not be found.

The Artuians are extremely wise, calculating, and rarely fight; but when they do, they are one of the strongest known due to the power of their technology. They consider helping other races destabilizing the balance of the universe, and as such, rarely intervene with military, or technological powers. The Artuians are so wise, that many think they have powers to see the future, or manipulate time, even.

Now, you might be interested in asthetics of ship and species, and I'll describe what I can. The Ancient's physical bodies contain and orange pigment, and their hair is straight and red. As they have power over genetics, most look alike, but they also are all clean-cut; in perfect muscle-fat condition. Their eyes have yellow iris', black pupils, and the rest is white as bleached paper, just like humans. To top it off, strange lines can be found on their skin from forehead to feet. One would think its a tribal tattoo form, but it's just how their bodies look. The patterns are generally curvy, and all of the lines are connected in one big shape. All ships and weapons are included below:

Ships: http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/thumb/e/ec/Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg/400px-Nemesis-Primepainting.jpg

Guns: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/63/73/7e/63737eeba3351d122f1b180d9b12946b.jpg

Diversity is small, and weapon types are few, but this is only because battles are fought mainly in space.