So. First of all. The boglodite species isn't mine. They belong to whoever created them for the "Men in Black 3" movie.

However, everything below is developed by me.

Let's start.

BASICS:

- Boglodite year = 25 human years. Arcanian year = 50 boglodite years.

- Average lifespan of a boglodite is 250-300 years. Some die in sacrifices to the Holy Mother Boglodosia.

- Boglodites have black blood and very fast regeneration.

- They are a much older race than humans, and they only have hair on their heads. Only complete males can have beards.

- They are still quite animalistic. Development and age: 0-5 - a pup. Runs on all fours mostly, barely talks. 5-12 - still a pup, but regarded more often as "kid" or "child". Talks, walks on two legs, but still has to learn a lot. These start going to schools. 12 - 21 - still a pup, but now regarded as a "teen" mostly. The personality forms, the alien grows into their normal size. 21-100 - young adult. 100-200 - adult. 200-and up - senior.

- Size - from 1,75 to 2,3m , so Maria is very small for a boglodite. Boris is ~1,9-something and Yazz is a little more than 2m.

- Very fast regeneration. Small scratches disappear without a trace in a few minutes.

- Each alien has two symbionts of the same gender. They can communicate via telepathy or talk normally.

- Instead of getting white with age they are getting black.

- Each age has their own binocular size, however the color varies. Boris has blue binoculars, Yazz has plain black, Maria has "chameleon" ones, but more on the greenish side. As the pup grows the binoculars change every year.

- They mostly have Russian-sounding names (for some reason). Well, at least in the transcription. In written form their names would look like something akin to a combination of numbers and letters. For example, something like 80R1S.

- They have two languages - the official one that sounds like a lot of clicks, grinds and other machine-like sounds and the one that's individual and is used to communicate with symbionts. Plus the growls and other animalistic noises.

- Five sexes. Or actually a spectrum of sorts. Male, something male-ish, null (can't have kids), something female-ish, female. Yazz is regarded as a male, but is actually closer to the second option. Maria is regarded as female, is technically the third.

- Mating season every 7 years + 1 year for the embryo to develop. Everything happens outside of the body for centuries. Apart from the mating season they have no interest in sex, but there's a trick - if you don't find your mate during the age of 12-21, your organs don't really develop, as the organism thinks that there's nothing to do with them. Neither of the two brothers actually can mate (nor wants). Also the seasons explain their age difference of 8 years - Boris is 24 and Yazz is 32. Maria also fits, since she's 16, but she's not their actual sister.

- As you can see, there's a lot done to control the population. There's a lot of them, ~140-145 billions, but comparing to other sapient races living in space that's nothing. They live in clans, each clan is like a gigantic space megapolis. No planet. No resources. That's why they have to go hunting and destroying other planets. And they need to control their population or they are going to starve.

How biology influences culture

- Their usual outfits are boiler suits that are of various shades of grey. Some formal suits are black. Nothing is white or very bright, even Maria's usual hoodie would be considered too bright and eye-hurting (she's used to it by now). Why?

You see, they have binoculars, since they are two-layered aliens. Initially the full form was used to fence off predators by looking bigger, and fighting for a mating partner. The one who's bigger, or the one with the biggest fingers, longest fingers, the biggest number of them were the ones that were getting chosen and thus reproducing, having their offspring carry on these qualities. The species originated in deep caves of Boglodosia, and when they were starting to get out, the light was hurting their sensitive eye receptors that were on the second layer - the soft and sensitive one. So they started using crystals that were helping them to see, serving as sunglasses of sorts. The binoculars are made from a glass-like substance, and so they often break - but they are replaceable.

The binocular itself serves as a pupil, so you can imagine the amount of light that gets to the receptors. That's why the boglodites mostly have dark binoculars. With that type of eye they also don't have a selected "focus point", unlike humans. Have you noticed that the only thing that is focused is where you look, and everything else is blurred? Well, the boglodites don't have that. Everything is focused and clear. To add up, with the binocular vision (literally) they have a much wider field of view, and can see even what's at the side and close to the back - nearly 270 degrees. The amounts of information their brain has to sort are enormous.

They rely on their vision a lot, and losing sight is a terrible loss that affects the mental condition of such an alien much more than the one of a human. Sure, they have excellent sense of smell (like a dog or better), hearing is on point as well, but vision is the most important, yet even with binoculars that still serve as sunglasses at some point they see much brighter and in much more color than humans. That's why they hate bright light (in Yazz's apartment there's no place with bright lamps or anything like that. Humans don't get that, the aliens, however, do.) and bright vibrant colors. Their favorite time of the day is dusk, because at night the contrast between the darkness of the world comes in huge contrast with the dots of bright light and that hurts their eyes. They do go out either way, they just don't like that at all.

- Another point is food. Back to their life on Boglodosia they had relatively normal digestive system, similar to one of the Earth beings. They could get fat. They could get skinny and underweight.

Then the Great Exodus happened after their Holy Mother threw a rage fit and destroyed over 90% of the population. They had to survive in very harsh conditions, with little to no previous food, and in a few centuries they have adapted their bodies to surviving there. Very little weight differences. No fat, no skinny ones. Can't throw up (a funny moment. Well, evolution-wise it's funny. The throw up reflex disappeared before they became resistent to most of the poisons, and quite a few aliens died because they can't get the poison off and out. The Boglodosia corrected their DNA code herself.) Resistent to most poisons of the universe. Can eat literally anything - rocks, metals, stuff like that. The thing is - since they don't have their own resource base anymore, they have to hijack planets and feed off their resources. So they live like that:

- The group of warriors trained especcially for the resource hunt goes there and disassembles a planet.

- They bring back resources.

- The resources are either taken right as they are, or traded for food. Manpower is also traded, or the inhabitants of the hijacked planet are just eaten.

- A few years pass with no problem, ~500gr a day per each adult alien.

- Food gets scarce

- Time to hijack another planet.

The warriors are exclusive force that gets fed better than the others, but they have to work far more than others as well. A lot of them either retire or die off themselves from working too hard. Still, a lot of young pups dream of becoming a warrior like that.

Either way, the boglodites can live on just 500gr of something (all the food comes in brickets or purees or something like glue, but with hard bits.) per day (boglodite day, of course), but they always feel hungry, and can eat much more than just that. They are very prone to food coma and when they first go to a real inhabited planets they have an official "sick leave" for a day or two to recover from eating so much. Literally Chorums of the alien world.

And to add up, living in such conditions literally everything is digested. There's no real waste at all, just some things take longer than the others to digest.

Boglodosia. Where theology meets science.

Their sapient home planet. She was mentioned in MIB3, but very briefly, so the concepts are mine and mine alone.

Boglodosia is a big planet, sometime ago was a rock one, now more of a metallic, to be honest. She lives in a system of three stars, so no matter where she is the whole planet is always lit up by one star or another. The aliens suffered greatly, and in the end created the rings that were rotating and giving shadow to the surface.

The planet created the boglodites, because "This planet has life. This planet has life. That planet has life. Even this dumbass a few light years away already has life too! Time for me to act." The first cell created, however, died in the ...uh...boglodsiaquake, which she threw when realized that life is created. She became depressed and it took her a few thousands of years to get to it again. This time she tested the cell created by another quake, but the cell started to divide and multiply instead of dying.

She was the happiest planet in the universe.

She was their only god, and everyone who tried to worship any other force got punished severely.

But then they started to develop a proper civilization, and dug out her resources, replacing them with metallic machines. Boglodosia felt powerful. She liked that.

They emptied the mantles, turning everything into a machine with only the core still untouched. The core is also a soul generator at some point, and they don't just believe in reincarnation - they know it exists. She can't just create newer souls all the time, she has to recycle the old ones at some point. They are stripped of their memories and are up to new ones. Like a flash drive - the information gets downloaded into the core and the soul is clear and free to go. A new soul is extremely hard to find (Boris and Yazz actually are.) To add up, with their biology their equivalent of Hell is bright light all over and Heaven is darkness, soft and all absorbing. They still debate whether Heaven is inside of the core or outside.

The priests of Boglodosia are the highest citizens, for they can communicate with her directly and ask questions and get answers to them.

But then they started to forget about respecting her. They were building more and more cities, turning the planet into one giant megapolis. Draining her resources and energy. In the end she was just TIRED.

And so she threw a huge fit, with quakes up to 15 degrees, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, etc. Basically wiping the species off, yet some still managed to get off and became the "boglodites v.2.0". As they fleed, mostly the average ones survived, for the heavy ones (not just fat, muscular, etc.) didn't fit into the ships and the thin ones died down themselves for they couldn't withstand the hardships. The aliens fleed from the planet to several space stations that became their homes, and also started the clans. Now they live in these clans as well, but they grew much, much wider. Such a space city can support up to 10 billion aliens. But they still are connected to Boglodosia and they regret their ancestors' bad decisions. It took her a while to accept them back, but that just strenghtened the bond.

However, now she demands sacrifices, like in the ancient times. But if back then it was happening because...just for the heck of it, cults and shit like that, now that serves a purpose. Life in the space cities is hard as fuck, and they can't feed the members of society that don't help it. Some sacrifices are voluntary, some are criminals that are dangerous even for the boglodites themselves. Each clan has a special place with displays like we have in the airports, but that are filled with names of the ones that will be sacrificed the next time. Every 25 years they send the ships to their planet. They give the sacrified ones a lot of food and drink, and then they go to Boglodosia and are either fused into the rings or into the core. very few of them come back, and nobody comes back the same - their symbionts die in the process and as they have a very strong connection the alien may survive but will suffer for the entire life and be considred less of a boglodite, let alone the fact that survived one couldn't breed.

This was Boglodosia (who controls the displays herself) monitors the population numbers and gets rid of the ones that can't find their place or don't want to do it. Another strict rule is that they can't have more than 6 family members.

During the rage fit she cracked in half, and the core shines through the crack. Everything on the surface is grey and covered in ashes and dust. No water anymore. No rain. No life. Nothing.

The only things moving are her cords and cables that can reach the rings and go further at times. They are huge, and just imagine the electricity that they can produce.

She is regarded as The Great Machine of the Holy Mother Boglodosia now, and all (well, "all", except for Maria and Cassandra, which turned back human and left) the boglodites are regarded as her children.

As you can see Chub and Boglodosia are good enough friends, even though the being usually keeps its form and thus uusually is much smaller than Boglodosia. Once in a game of cards Chub won the souls of the boglodite brothers and made them immortal. They just don't know yet.

Now... hmmm...what have I forgotten about...

Let's see.

- The boglodites are extremely agoraphobic. They were so before leaving their planet, for living in caves and then after a period almost agoraphobia-free they started living in cities that were very crowded so they lived in small apartments or just rooms. Then the Great Exodus happened and they started living in space cities where everything is just corridors, corridors, corridors. So going to cape Canaveral was quite an adventure for the young alien.

- Their language is still the same, but the dialects vary from clan to clan. They also change very fast, and so the boglodite brothers are trying not to talk on bogloditish when somebody else can hear for the other aliens of their race could guess exactly when did they leave the clan. And with that it would be relatively easy to find who they actually are. They don't want it.

- Each clan is leaded by a member of a highblood family. They are not appointed, but choosen by the people of the clan from a list of the ones that want to compete for power. These are trusted families that want the best for their clan, for if the alien just wants power for his or her interests Boglodosia may just kill them off. Once a clan was nearly starved to death, so another clan helped them, and in the end the bigger fusion was lead by a girl that was the leader of the Starved Clan, because the leader of the other one was killed in a meteor blast. He managed to push her out of the ship before the hatch closed and killed him, she was the best leader they could find, even though the aliens that were from the helping clan at first rejected her, until Boglodosia had to verify that yes, this thin little fragile female is the leader. 100%. Obey her. She knows best.

Then go the priests, which are pretty much as powerful are the leader, so they all have to work together.

Then the members of these families that are considerd trustworthy and may compete for power the next time they will be choosing a leader.

Then warriors. They also have a subcategory - the ones that don't directly hijack planets, but help other ways, pilot the sorting stations, sort the resorces, medics, etc.

Then traders.

Then everyone else.

The higher you are on the social pyramid the more you have to work. The high ones very often die from excaustion, heart attacks, other health problems, and the ones with the longest lifespan are the plain workers, because all they have to worry about is where to find more food.

- They had money, but in the end everything got tied to resorces and the coins and bills became unnecessary. The aliens get paid in resources, including water, which they use for trade with e-cards. Like our debit cards, pretty much.

- Water is the most important resource. No water - no life. They wash with a special substance that looks like lightly blue transparent gel, no actual water is used. That's why they are fascinated by water and its role in many other cultures. And that's why they don't know how to swim at all. They just have no practice in that and can't have it.

- The priests of Boglodosia are virtually immortal. Until she decides to kill them off they live. It hurts. They accept.

The prisests are selected by the planet herself, and often they realise that they are selected when they feel like dying or sacrificing themselves to her.

- There are very few species of animals that survived the Great Exodus. Most common are "cats" - thin creatures that can be as big as Chub at times and very dangerous when rabid, faceted eyes, no fur, and "rabbits" ("gnabbits", "nlabbits") the ones featured below. They eat metal and rock, are hunted by the "cats" and sometimes the boglodites themselves for they damage the corridors.

- Boglodites can breathe with lungs or cells, what allows them to work outside for a bit, in space and with no atmosphere at all.

- Their heart is long and is located in the middle of the ribcage, hidden under the sternum bone.

- The zippers cover the whole body. One at the front, two at the back. When they open you can see the second, sensitive layer of the skin, which can be easily damaged and it will hurt enough for the alien to wail and faint.

- When a boglodite sneezes the face temporarily opens the full form and the binoculars fall out. (see the GIF. It's old as fuck, from 2012, but still kinda valid)

- The symbionts evolved with the boglodites. Each alien has two, usually of the same sex as their host, so Maria is an exception. The connection establishes with the first touch, and lasts a lifetime. A boglodite can go blind, but if the symbionts still can see the alien will be okay. They can communicate either with telepathy or a proper language, and feel the emotions of each other. Symbionts can be sent off, but they are bound to come back sometime when thir hosts symbiont may die, but the boglodite's mental health will be greatly affected. That's like losing a part of your soul. The pockets for the symbionts go nearly to the elbow, and for some reason I called the place on the hand where the symbiont disappears "a symbiont connecting gem".

- The aliens have many, many toes all over the perimeter of the foot. Finding proper shoes is a problem, and they find slippers and flip-flops very these were used for climbing up rock walls, and even now the aliens use them for extra grip sometimes. That ruins shoes, but better to have ruined shoes yet stay alive than being dead with your footwear intact, isn't it?

- Usually their life cycle goes like that:

Pups are "born" in their nests at home of the family, are given their first binoculars and symbionts.

They walk on all fours around the ship/apartment for the first few years, then they go outside to play with other kids properly.

Then they go to the kindergarten, then slowly transition into school and then they choose their major and goals in live and go for them. The college slowly transitions to a full-time job. Then they separate from their parents and move together (or more than just together, they can form a polyamorous relationships as well, as nobody really cares about stuff like that when everything is about survival.) Perfect.

Then they retire at the age of 230-245, and have their pensions and may just say "well fuck it" and travel the universe. We have "globe trotters" on Earth, they have "universe trotters".

- The breeding age is usually over 45. Before thet they can try, but most likely nothing will happen. As the breeding doesn't really involve pleasure or anything like that only the ones that really want to mess with the DNAs (human DNA is a double helix, their is triple helix) and stuff like that do it. Pups are trasure, and even though an adult may snap at one for misbehaving they will never hurt or kill one. If they do, they get sentensed to death penalty most of the time.