Race Designation: Sirinde
Universal Range: Across the Kett Empire
Original Habitat: Ripley 7
Lifespan: 10 years
Sex: Hermaphroditic
Size: 7'0 – 7'6
Diet: Carnivorous
Communication: Vocal
Notes: For millions of years, the sirinde lived out their savage existence on the planet that would come to be known as Ripley 7. True hermaphroditic creatures, the concept of sex, or even partners, is foreign to them. Capable of asexual reproduction, their offspring begin development within them when they reach the age of eight. After a two and a half-year pregnancy, their young begin to eat them from inside out, slowly killing them until they finally burst out from their chest cavity, where they proceed to devour the rest of the body, their first meal. Within their rather primitive society, this act is seen as their most sacred of rituals; devouring the flesh of the one who gave them life will, supposedly, carry their essence to future generations. And on the dangerous planet of Ripley 7, inhabited by large, scorpion-like predators, as well as predatory dragonfly-like insects the size of pterosaurs, you need all the help you can get when it comes to survival. However, even this bizarre adaptation couldn't have prepared them for the arrival of the kett. When the strange aliens arrived on their planet, they quickly subdued the sirinde. When they learned of the kett's exaltation process, which they believed to be a form of sorcery, they all committed to drinking the juice of the doku fruit,a practice that originated as a way to kill those that they deemed too weak to reproduce, in a display of mass suicide, preferring to die with their pride intact than submit to the kett. However, due to the strange neuroscience of the kett, the alien visitors were able to keep the race alive, though they were still genetically poisoned and unable to undergo the exaltation. Unable to take their genes, the kett instead decided to enslave the race, making them vassals of the empire. They often use them as foot soldiers, transporting them to planets they hope to conquer in order to avoid casualties among their own species.
Character Notes: When the kett conquered its species, Sa 'Ccott was one of the few who managed to escape. Through its ravenous eating, often feasting on kett who tried to take it in, it was able to barely keep itself alive, though it wasn't sure why. Perhaps there was something in the ketts' biology allowed its bodily functions to continue? Eventually, it died, and its child, also called Sa 'Ccott, continued in its struggle to survive. This process continued countless times, until the result was an infertile sirinde, but it was also blessed with increased strength and intellect from the constant mutation and adaptation it's for bearers had to endure. Stealing a kett ship, it managed to finally escape Ripley 7, where it eventually became a well-known bounty hunter in the Andromeda Galaxy. Its job has placed it in conflict with both the Kett Empire, the Andromeda Initiative, and countless others, but it continues to survive, killing countless across the galaxy.