What If

by DracoTitan

How would everything change if, instead of large apes, we had evolved from rhinoceros and bisons. Watch as they go through first contact against the Turians. Lo and behold, the power of the Ungulate Union. WARNING: Mention of sex, rape and torture, cursing and death. I do not own Mass Effect, only the concept of this story

4. Uxitaur

The uxitaur are a species of large mammalian bipeds native to Gaia.

Biology

Standing at least seven feet tall, these anthromorphic bison can weigh over 190 kilos. When they are born, the horns above their earsaren't their. Around the age of eight, the horns grows at a small pace. The two side horns can grow up to three inches. It has three toes and four fingers including an opposable thumb on each.

Uxitaurs live long lives although not as long as a rhiman. Their hide can take ammo rounds of most fire arms, with exception of anti-armor rounds. The horns of a rhiman were documented to be sharp enough to stab a salarian without armor on and they could run at a constant 40 miles per hour. A strong immune system can allow for them to eventually heal even from strong radioactive substances.

The current lifespan of the average uxitaur reach into the nine hundred. Their diet consist of fruits, vegetables, and grains. The last thing is that they're capable to use biotics as well as have an immunity to biotic attacks. No one knows why one specie with biotic developed on the same planet as one that didn't.

Culture

The uxitaur specie are deeply spiritual. More down to gaia than the warrior race of rhiman, uxitaur maintain a belief of tolerance and unity. All members of this race constantly tend the world around them in order to better understand the view of the gods. Upon discovering the prothean ruins, they attempted to use their specie's biotic to gaze into the realm of the gods to see of their safety. Around seventeen years of age, they'll leave their parent's home to travel the wilds in search of enlightenment. They would return once they have found something that allow for better understand their gods.

Unlike the rhiman, the bison like race have a different picture of the afterlife. The uxitaur believe that when they die, they'll be chosen by the diety that had guided them in life. They would gather any an all information for them until the end days where they'll then take to the battlefield along with the warrior rhiman.

These guys look like the minotaur from Chronicles of Narnia.