Fierri

Overview
When mentioning races that worship the Asgard, humans come to mind with Norse legend having been affected by Earth's former ally. However, due to their presence in Caldwell 70, many non-human races have been influenced not only by Asgard culture but their technology as well, the most notable of which is the Fierri

Short, stocky, extremely strong, and each of them possessing a shocking level of intellect, fierri may not have been a result of Alliance meddling but the course of their planet has been.

Biology

Fierri are all short compared to humans with an average of 1.5 meters in height. Their bodies are humanoid but disproportionate with their heads being noticably large for their bodies, their necks near nonexistent, and their arms and legs being unusually thick for their length. Fierri skin color ranges from a light tan to a dark brown and their hair ranges from brown to black. Fierri have a life expectancy of approximately 60 years.

Like Earth, the hair styles vary from culture to culture. In the country Valken, many fierri have thick beards or mustaches covering their mouths. The fierri that are not bald sport very long hair often tied into braids or dreadlocks.

Fierri are very physical in spite of their size with immense strength and stamina, the average fierri being comparable to Olympic athletes in terms of strength and stamina.

Fierri are also extremely intelligent. Despite being younger than the Tau'ri, the fierri have advanced further in spite of a harsher planet thanks not only to their resilience but to their ability to engineer a solution.

Technology

From an evolutionary standpoint, humans on Earth have existed slightly longer than the fierri have, the first fierri having evolved approximately three million years ago as opposed to humanity's five to seven million. However, a combination of the resources on the planet and their natural intelligence has resulted in the fierri rapidly becoming more technologically advanced than Earth.

While capapble of building them, the fierri feel that energy weapons are extremely overrated and still use projectiles. However, rather than using a chemical reaction to launch their projectiles, they use an electrical current traveling through a helical pair of rails. Their entire arsenal is comprised of helical rail guns and cannons. The projectiles launched by their cannons move so fast they they do not have any chemical explosives. And the projectiles from their small arms require special measures to make sure they do not over penetrate their target such as fragmenting or expanding projectiles. However the energy from the sheer speeds creates damage as if the target were hit by a grenade. Even their pistols have impacts equivalent to getting hit by a .50 cal round while their rifles have the stopping power equivalent to a 20 mm round.

The trazer is a fierri stun weapon. It fires a capsule containing a series of chemicals. When the capsule hits a target, it shatters and the combining chemicals cause a reaction that releases a massive quantity of electricity that stuns the target. Depending on how many times the target is shot, it can simply lose their motor control, be rendered unconscious, or killed.

History

The fierri evolved on a harsh and unforgiving world. Even the most passive wildlife was dangerous, and the climate was harsh and unforgiving with winters comparable to ice ages and summers that can turn a forest into a desert. 6 million years ago the Asgard came to this planet long before the fierri evolved. They were aware of life forms dwelling in deep cave networks. But seeing the inhospitable environment, they thought no intelligent life could evolve there, so they began setting up research stations throughout the solar system. These research stations would later be abandoned and the advanced technology would be left behind.

However, the Asgard were wrong and 3 million years ago the fierri evolved and finally came out of the caves where they once dwelled, using not only their toughened physique and heightened intelligence, they had begun carving out a civilization in spite of the elements.

However, the touch of the Asgard had been left behind. The elements had ground the abandoned Asgard buildings on the planet to dust and left behind valuable materials and resources to be found. Combined with the fierri's heightened intelligence, the fierri began advancing at a rate that would ultimately prove detrimental to their culture.

In record time, the fierri went from a race using stone hammers to the industrial age and beyond. The fierri had entered the nuclear age 700 years ago. The current fierri level of technology surpasses even that of Earth pre-Alliance technology.

One nation in particular, Valken, had both expanded and evolved too fast for its own good. It was unprepared for a series of natural disasters to ravage their country and devastate the economy 120 years ago. Valken had also recently discovered the stargate and had begun pouring resources into using it. They had successfully amassed a number of alien technologies that they incorporated into their own, but the disproportionate spending only further worsened the economy. The country would have descended into chaos, but extremists began to unite the people, declaring themselves to be superior to the rest of the planet. The fact that Valken was the largest and most prosperous (at least before the disasters) country and the most technologically advanced served as proof for the Purist cause. The final nail in the coffin was the stargate. With alien technology they've acquired over the years, they were certain victory was in their grasp.

It was then Valken began to plan for the demise of the rest of the world. Even before the stargate, Valken was more advanced than the rest of the planet and as far as they were concerned the stargate assured their victory. This act was called the Genesis War. It was meant to bring a new era to the planet where the 'superior' fierri would dominate. 100 years ago they closed off their boarders, set up countless defenses, even began purging outsiders from their own country. The Genesis War began with a surprise world-wide attack on every major country that could pose a threat to Valken. Nuclear, chemical, biological, every type of weapon of mass destruction was used. Quarium-enhanced warheads turned entire countries into nuclear wastelands.

Even though technology gave them an edge, it was not the one sided slaughter they had hoped for. Many countries fought back with equal aggression and the war dragged on for decades. As it continued, Valken began using different styles of weaponry. They used missiles and bombers to deploy combat drones and randomly drop mines on locations. They loaded missiles with waste and not just toxic or radioactive waste but even garbage from their landfills in the hopes of polluting the foreign countries. As the war waged on, favor for the war began to diminish. Support for the Purist ideology began to fall. But it was too late. Valken had won the Genesis War and was left the only country standing.

But the entire planet had felt its impact. The climate of the planet had been affected, wild life had mutated, and even Valken did not come out unscathed as the Purists had hoped. The boarder was left in ruins, for several years after seasonal winds carried radioactive ash into the country, the rivers soon became polluted as the dust and debris began to contaminate waters nearby. But perhaps the most notable impact was on the Valken population. Admist the chaos, countless chemicals were launched by all parties. An uknown combination of chemicals has resulted in a genetic mutation in the fierri race that has infected every fierri cell. Female fierri were most impacted by this and began falling ill. Still recovering from the affects of the war, by the time the Valken government realized what was happening, it was too late. All female fierri were falling ill and they could not find a cure. Not lon after, the female population had fallen to zero and the genetic mutation made was lethal to any that tried to undergo reassociation. Unable to reproduce, Valken has resorted to cloning to keep their people alive but the fierri are a dying race.

Valken considers the Genesis War to be a very dark part of their history. Purists are dealt with harshly with many exiled from the country and left to die in the barren wastelands. While there are some lingering traces of the Purists, the vast majority of the country looks down upon them with extreme disdain. However, no amount of punishment can undo their actions.

Development

The fierri are a tale of me trying to salvage an idiotic idea I had. Back when I started I tried making a trailer of SGM on youtube. Now the trailer was far from good (though I do have to complain about the idiots complaining about it being fake even thought I have !FANFICTION! written in all caps and surrounded by exclamation points. Seriously, are you blind?). I was trying to say that if it showed up in the trailer something similar would show up in the story. And you know what I put in the trailer? Sontarans! Ultimately as I went deeper into the series I would come to regret including a race inspired by Sontarans. I was fortunate though. The only two Sontaran-esque things I had were the physical description and the all-male jokes. In changing it I found a surprising amount of similarities between the Sontarans and dwarves if you can imagine it. So I began aiming the fierri in that direction. A race of all male master engineers.

This actually brings up my second failure with this race. The fun of making alien races is to introduce how crazy they are, introduce their cultures and biology. And it was something I forgot to do at the introduction of the fierri. Well, at least this let me fix the Great Sontaran Screw Up.