In addition to the original Type A races, a new race has been added to the Terraverse lore as part of a story arc that takes place in a new galaxy, known as "Faraway". The Lii are a light blue skinned humanoid race, very similar in size and shape to Terrans.
The Lii are originally encountered by the expedition to Faraway as a hostile force with a similar technology level, that quickly overwhelms and nearly destroys them.
The Lii Race
The Lii are born of the world Lii'una, they are a humanoid race with light blueish skin and naturally red hair. They have small brightly coloured frills in place of ears that both allow them to hear slightly better than Terrans and breath under water. On average they live a similar length of time to the Terrans (around 200 Terran years).
Lii'una
The Lii's homeworld, Lii'una is a world covered entirely by a single huge jungle of mega-fauna, with trees reaching nearly half a kilometer high. Accessible only by a few massive sinkholes the entire jungle is sitting atop a massive cave system, forming a giant cavernous area in which most of the Lii's cities both hang from the roof and protrude from the floors. The caves are covered in bio luminescent plants that light up the vast majority of the huge supports that hold up the cave. With water coming mostly from the surface in huge waterfalls, that then converge into the many rivers and lakes, that fill the cave system. The native creatures that live in the "undersystem" are able to see perfectly in the near pitch dark, although the Lii do have an affinity for the dark, their dark-vision is not on par with many of the creatures that call the undersystem home, many of them more than capable of consuming a Lii whole.
The Lii Government
The Lii control a large portion of Faraway, due both to the very few other native races and their large military force. The Lii's government, ruled from Lii'una is a bizarre mixture of an empire and a democracy, in which the people vote, sometimes on a daily basis, on topics for the more imperial side of the government to judge the public's opinion on. They are able to vote from most computers, allowing one vote on each topic, once logged in with a person's user. The votes are each categorized based upon a person's standing in society, adding move value to the votes of those with higher levels of education. Imperials are unable to vote. The imperial side of the government makes all the decisions within the Lii's system. The imperials are based upon bloodline, however, they avoid inbreeding and new bloodlines are regularly introduced to the imperial lines. The Lii government is regarded widely as a fair system by both those inside and outside of it. They do not enslave other races but welcome them into their system, sometimes forcefully, although any resistance rarely lasts long. The imperials regarded the Faraway expedition as a severe threat to their rule as their technology is on par and in a rare occurrence go against the popular vote in initiating a preemptive strike.
Main military ships
The Lii's military force primarily uses two main ship classes and a multitude of other support ships.
Their primary fast attack ship is a destroyer class, equipped with 4 large gun turrets. Like the majority of Lii ships they have 3 large wide engines stacked atop each other upon their rear, white armour plates and multiple large antenna on their fore faces.
The Lii's Heavier attack ship is a Battleship class, equipped with 7 large gun turrets. The battleship class has a similar architecture to the Destroyer, including a similar style of 3 rear engines and multiple white armour plates. The Battleship also has a greatly increased sensor range thanks to the additional antenna.
The Lii ships are technologically similar in strength to the Alliance ships that took part in the Faraway expedition giving their large numerical advantage an additional edge.
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