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Author's Note: None of you guessed the mythology for the Olma, so none of you get the internet hug.
also, the wiki was completely unhelpful for finding out the name of the Hanar home system (also where most of the Drell live). Time to make $hit up again.
Codex: Olma
The Olma are a species native to the world of Olm, Tanew system, New Frontier Cluster, Milky Way galaxy. They have 4 legs and 2 arms, with feathers on their head and other parts of their body, though the head feathers are biggest. In terms of reproduction, they are Iteroparous egg layers with tendency towards K-selection and reach sexual maturity at [12 years] of age. Olma are herbivores with Dextro biochemistry.
Olm itself is a death world, not due to its biosphere, but due to the fact that its orbit crosses that of a group of rather large asteroids every 20 years. This results in large portions of the planet being covered in nigh uninhabitable 'glasslands' and a high enough level of particulate matter in the atmosphere that merely inhaling there without a specially designed filter is a death sentence for most species (Krogan and Olma excluded, and it's still extremely painful for the Krogan). This has also led to the local plantlife adapting to re-terraform said Glasslands in under 5 years once sunlight comes back after the last asteroid storm. Yes, this means the local plantlife can eat through glass, and can hibernate for up to 15 years without sunlight.
Notably, all permanent Olma settlements have a complex beneath them resembling a fallout shelter, it is capable of accommodating up to twice the settlement's population and can hold enough supplies to sustain said population for up to 12 years. The Olma themselves also try to stretch these supplies as far as they can by hibernating in 3 month increments. The Olma, being in the bronze age until recently (the Outsiders decided to uplift them for some inscrutable reason) attributed the 'fireballs' as they called them to malicious or careless deities. This led to their first contact with the Outsiders going a bit roughly, due to the re-entry flares of the landers used for the job greatly resembling the 'fireballs'.
Codex: Mirtan
The Mirtan are somewhat similar to the Outsiders in that they are a group of uploaded post-organics/synthetics. The similarities end there. While the Outsiders move around constantly in over-sized Hab Ships and leave the status quo shattered in their wake, the Mirtan are bottled up in their home system, which they are rapidly converting to a Matrioshka Brain. They are 78% completed.
Though they are generally polite to 'guests' as they call them, The Mirtan are rather insistent that visitors anounce their arrival ahead of time in some way, saying "it's polite to knock". As their introduction to galactic society was the Point of Contact opening a wormhole into their system with no warning, this obviously gave them something of a rocky start. They presently have a deal with the STG to simulate scenarios for them, such as Outside Context Problems, and other such things in exchange for excessively detailed information about the galaxy in general.
Codex: Dir'et
The Dir'et are amphibians with 8 limbs, any of which they are capable of using for either movement or manipulating objects as necessary. They have a natural lifespan of roughly 340 years on average, with moving to a new colony being one of the easiest ways to get out of an entry level job. They also developed the Conduit drive, but got 'lucky' in that their part of the galaxy had 23 easily terraformed worlds within only a few dozen light years.
In terms of government the Dir'et are unified under a socialist regime. Despite this, the average life for a Dir'et is rather comfortable. This is at least partially due to the fact that Dir'et are highly empathetic and when they deliberately make things worse for another Dir'et they suffer significant psychological trauma.
Militarily and economically, the Dir'et are about 60% as powerful as the entire Council COMBINED. The reason they were not previously contacted is due to the relative slowness of pure Conduit travel, them being far more sedentary than the Outsiders, and the fact that the only Relay in their space was encased in a rather large comet until the Outsider's probe entered through it.
Worth noting is that the Dir'et wound up in a horrible war with another unknown species roughly 120 years ago, which they can only claim to have one by the complete extermination of their enemy. Even then they wound up suffering a severe genetic bottleneck. Estimates project that the total number of survivors from that war were under 2,000,000 with a pre-war population in the low tens of trillions. The only way they've even managed to recover as far as they have is through mass-production of vat-grown children.
Turn: 5 (Point of Contact) | Time to arrival of Reapers: ~17 years | POV characters: Varies, and I'm not really sure
[X] Build something awesome for: Drell
Can't be bothered to write story segment. Couldn't do it convincingly. The Drell/Hanar get an Uber-tier battleship 40 km long, though the FTL is eezo-based.
[X] Upgrade Point Of Contact: Bigger is better
What to do?
[]Screw over (locked until the Point of Contact is fully upgraded)
[]Troll
[]Talk to
[]Assist (may also be interpreted as 'attempt to reform', 'uplift', or 'screw over' as appropriate)(locked until the Point of Contact is fully upgraded)
[]Build something awesome for (locked until the Point of Contact is fully upgraded)
[]Explore (incompatible with part 2 of vote)(locked until the Point of Contact is fully upgraded)
[]Make the Point of Contact bigger (IN PROGRESS, 1 TURN REMAINING)
Who to do it to?
(Council races)
[]Asari
[]Turian
[]Salarian
(Non-council races)
[]Elcor
[]Hanar
[]Drell
[]Volus
[]Krogans
[]Batarians
[]Vorcha
[]Quarians ('screw over' not available)
[]Geth
[]Mirtan (OC race, converting home system into giant computer)
[]Dir'et (OC race, somehow made socialism actually work [with a decent standard of living for the average citizen] without hitting post-scarcity)
(pre-interstellar)
[]Yahg
[]Raloi
[]Olma (OC race, still in the Bronze age,very kind people, liable to be attacked/enslaved by Batarians if no preventative measures are taken)
(others)
[]Collectors (extinct)
[]Reapers (screw over/troll only)(Javik told you, remember?)
[]Leviathans (screw over/troll only)(stop metagaming please)
[]Protheans ('screw over' not available)(why are you picking on Javik?)
[]Rachni (Huh? alright...)
Current 'recipe' for the Point of Contact (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Shape: spherical
Diameter: 600 km
Mass: 226,000,000,000,000,000 tons
[5%] power plant/engine (singularity)
[30%] fuel
[4%] FTL drive (hybrid wormhole engine)(effective travel speed: 11,458,412 light years per second)
[5%] heat management
[15%] Hardened Space-time Armor (updated to needing 2 gigatons per cubic meter to destroy)
[20%] Industry
[15%] Habitation Space (includes computing and agriculture)
[1%] docking facilities for civilian craft
[3%] military fleet
(current load-out: 250,000 Juggernauts, 9,000,000 Direct Combat Units, and 98,125,000 Scouts) (Updated to singularity-conversion lasers/bombs)
[insignificant] sensors (GRAVDAR)(detection range of 1 light week)
[2%] weapons (Updated to singularity-conversion lasers)(mass of weapons load: 4,520,000,000,000,000,000 tons)
current load-out:(8,000,000,000,000) 40,000 ton singularity lasers (point defense)(yield: 247.25 gigatons)
(100,000,000,000) 10,000,000 ton singularity lasers (energy delivered in TNT equivalent: 61.8 teratons)
(2,000,000,000) 1,000,000,000 ton singularity lasers (energy delivered in TNT equivalent: 6.18 petatons)
(1) 1,200,000,000,000,000, ton singularity laser (energy delivered in TNT equivalent: 7.3 Exatons)(multi-targeting if ship to ship)(spinal)
Note: the Point of Contact is now capable of exploding planets, though it takes the assistance of its secondary battteries in addition to the UBERLASER.
Turn:5 (Outsiders in general) | Time to arrival of Reapers: ~17 years | POV characters: Militarized Hab Ship Normandy
Militarized Hab Ship count: 102,400
[X] SCREW OVER
[X] BLOOD FLEET
Sorry there isn't more, but my muse just isn't cooperataing