Sivkit-Brained Partner

Nalva is a female 'Sivkit', a Quadrupedal, bunny like alien with fluffy, white pelts. Their razor-thin tails have a thick plume of hair at the end. Officially she volunteered to the human exchange program, where she is paired up with a human to overcome her terrorizing fear of their predator-like features like their front facing eyes and their canine teeth. In reality the Sivkit Grand Herd is still convinced, that humans, like all other meat eating Species, are flesh eating monsters and so they forced Nalva to participate in the exchange program against her will as a sacrifice to appease the human overlords. Like all Sivkits, she is a real glutton of a vegan and devours every plant life that comes into reach. Nalva panics easily around humans and has a very hard time to overcome her fearful prey animal nature. It will take a lot of time, weeks if not even months for Nalva to get used to live with a human together and she will never truly be able to lose her fear about humans completely. Also like most Sivkits, she has a very poor school education and is in general very dumb and doesn't understand much aside from eating plants. Since humans are the only species that wears clothes, Nalva walks around nude, her body only covered by her fur, like all other alien species. And also like all Quadrupedal species, Sivkits like Nalva walk on all forth and don't have breasts like humanoids, but have teats on their lower belly. Although Nalva is only 2' (61cm) small on all fourth, in the rear occasion where she manages to stand upright on her hind legs, she is able to reach a hight of 5' (152cm). In comparison, humans are usually ~6'.

Physical Properties of Sivkits: Height: ~2' (61 cm) on four legs / ~5' (152cm) on two legs Stance: Quadrupedal (four legged) Class: Mammal Diet: Herbivore (plant eater) Blood Color: Red

Description of Sivkits: The Sivkits are known as a reclusive species, as much due to their timidness as their location. They are one of the furthest Ex-Federation members from central worlds like Aafa. The Arxur can seem like a distant threat at times; they have to go thousands of light-years out of the way to target the Sivkits. Thus, it's sometimes difficult to spur the prairie animals to action.

The Sivkit Grand Herd is comprised of a series of smaller, nomadic tribes. It's not uncommon for them to set up shop on a habitable world, harvest its vegetation, then move to the next. They don't bear the attachment to a home that other species do. It's uncertain whether their governing planet, Tunsas, is even their homeworld.

If Sivkit settlements were more stable, they might act as a haven for Federation refugees. Instead, it's the Paltan Combine that shoulders most of the humanitarian outreach from their quadrant.

The Sivkits are medium-sized mammals with fluffy, white pelts. Their razor-thin tails have a thick plume of hair at the end. While anthropologists believe they were bipedal for a short time when they first created tools, they regressed back to quadrupedalism as technology advanced. In their spacefaring days, they have always presented themselves on four legs.

In The Federation the Sivkit are stereotyped as unintelligent which lead to the phrase "Sivkit-brained" being used to describe foolish individuals or actions.

History of Sivkits: The Sivkit's agricultural manuals allowed them to create their homeworld, Tinsas, into a garden. With nature societies performing wilderness theater.

The Galactic Federation was able to detect the green, excess beauty, of Tinsas's biosphere making contact with the Sivkit Grand Farmhood who accepted the aliens’ help knowing they couldn’t defy them, that fighting wouldn’t have made a difference. In line with the Federation's anti-predator first contact procedures, the Federation erased the Sivkit's culture and wrecked ecology of their homeworld, deeming them as being predator-diseased, forcing the mass exodus of the population.

The Federation gave the bipedal Sivkit's back disorders during the translator implants forcing them to become quadrupedal; and gave special classes in the guise of catching them up but systematically removing their critical thinking. The

"Verdant Tinsas was covered in flames within days of their arrival. Giant wildfires were started amid the brush; these became uncontrollable blazes, some of which swept through cities. They piled animal corpses on the outskirts of our cities, so they could burn them more efficiently—but not all of them were fully corpses. Not all of them were animals either. …mass famines they caused, we had no choice but to go with them, when the evacuation ships arrived. I’m sad to see Sivkits being broken into their ranks of powerless prey, and taught to forget who we are. The other aliens in their group have become caricatures too, likely by similar mechanisms. I’ve noticed a sudden…almost ubiquitous spike in Sivkits born with a back disorder. They claim that it has nothing to do with the translator implants, and what they might’ve injected alongside it. They claim the bombs they’re moving into orbit are to finish the extermination job—and it’s true they’re not the first. They say that the special classes they’re putting our species in, by themselves, are to catch us up, but dumbing—”

• General Anxsel of the Sivkit Grand Farmhood