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=The Asaki=

The Asaki are genetic off-spring created by Binadamu Madora around M38, with the intention of replacing the Xai'athi as his followers, having grown disappointed by their actions in the past. The Asaki, being direct desendents of Binadamu, are superior to the Xai'athi in every possible way, and make no qualms in making sure they remember that. They reside near the inner core of the galaxy, and preside over a small empire of few dozen star systems, though some conservative estaimates place the figure at around fifty. The Asaki specialize in the usage of sythetic crystalline technology, and the application of nanotechnology and dark matter manipulation. Currently, what they plan to do is unknown, by their assaults on the Imperium of Man, and even on the Xai'athi themselves have been well documented by observors.

History
"I just can't look at them anymore. I spent the best years of my life, and almost my sanity and family, on a race of incompent morons. Now that I know better, I'm going to do better."

- Binadamu Madora

Creation
The Asaki appeared sometime around 675.M38, on the world of Maua on the edge of the galactic core. Binadamu had been residing there as a way to clear his head and escape the horrors of the galaxy around him. On the uninhabited paradise world of Maua, he had plenty of time to reflect on his actions, and the develop new ideas for the future. He had arrive there recently on the planet after the beginning of the Perseus Crusades just a decade earlier, a war which the Xai'athi started out of pride in their superior technology, which did little to turn the war in their favor near the end. He was displeased with the growing problems caused by the Xai'athi, such as the debaucle with the Sankari a few centuries before, the growing rift between the Xai'athi geno-factions, and the disturbing thoughts of a civil war erupting if the Xai'athi got too far out of hand. Binadamu could no longer stomach his creations, and was no longer willing to guide them in their corrupted state. Thus, he opted to create a new, superior species, that were free of all constraints provided by humanity, and capable of actually listening to their creator's warnings. This would herald the beginning of the Asaki species.

In 674.M38, Binadamu built a small labratory on his residence on Maua, and began work on his new race of followers. He did not like many of the traits he put into the Xai'athi, traits which during the creation of the Xai'athi nearly 30,000 years before, he thought were pretty useful. He cut out any problematic issues that would handicap the new species abilities, sure as the over-complicated genetic diversity and abilities, which made wielding them clumbersome and unnessessarily difficult. He insured that the species would obey him to the word, and do so without any questions of authority popping up, or thoughts of majesty influencing future decisions. He was making good progress, and the issues of the surrounding galaxy had been pushed out of his head by the work, somewhat easing the anger he felt toward the Xai'athi. As time passed, he felt it nessessary to ensure that the race he deemed the Asaki would be unique to him and him alone. He wanted to have a group of people whom he could form a attatchment to, not develop a seething hatred of as he had with many of the Xai'athi leaders in the past.

In the process of creating the Asaki, Binadamu used massive amounts of his own genetic material to create them. He wanted to have a personal attachment to them, not just because he made them, but because they were him. They were his children, and his alone. This would give him the proper motivation needed to keep them safe from the perils of the galaxy, and to ensure they prospered in the future. The first male Asaki created was Thamani, whom become the first Kaizari of the Asaki people, and Binadamu's most beloved child. The first female Asaki, Furaha, was to serve as Binadamu's favorite daughter, second only to Ibada, whom he still felt responsibilty toward. Binadamu was relatively pleased with his work, and saw fit to finally release the first group of Asaki in Maua to began building. The Asaki were to replace the Xai'athi in a near future, but until then, they had much work to do in developing their culture, traditions, and most importantly, develop their military forces, as in time, they would undoubtly run into the most destructive empire in the galaxy.

Biology
"By the Emperor...they're gorgeous!"

- Imperial Guardsman

Anatomy
The Asaki can effectively be considered transhumans, greatly due to the fact that they are better, faster and stronger than any normal human has a right to be. They are biologically superior to their older brothers and sisters of the Xai'athi in every concievable way and manner. While most of the Xai'athi's abilities are genetically modified, the Asaki's are naturally born, meaning they do not fear any genetic impurities that could run the possibility of irrepairablly damaging their genetic code. The Asaki are rather androgynous, with men and women looking rather identical save for a few parts of their body which are dead give aways. They are strangely feminity in appearance, with men being more attractive than any man, human or otherwise, should ever be. An interesting note is that an Asaki in a full suit of body armor will be impossible from of another sex in the same armor. One popular way of telling an Asaki male from a female are the glossing black lips which only the females are born with. The Asaki do not age nor do they produce waste, as Binadamu managed to expand upon many of the successful traits of the Xai'athi.

The optical systems of the Asaki are capable of percieving multiple spectrums of light, and are rather unique in the fact that they can see the auras of other beings. Their eyes are completely black, with the exception of the iris, which glows in hues of purple, blue, red, and silver, with the former being the most common. This unique eye development gives the Asaki glowing "ring eyes", in which the iris is the only visible part of their eyes. The blood of the Asaki is jet black, and solidifies into sharp, black crystals upon exposure to the air. Because of the colour of their blood (and many other factors), the organs of the Asaki are black as well. Asaki have sharp claws on their fingers, which are longer on women, but thicker and stronger on men. These serve as their default defensive weapons, and great importance on their proper usage observed. Asaki teeth are a brillant white, and sharp enough and strong enough to amputate the limbs of a poor human in their prime.

The Asaki are dark-skinned, and generally taller and slimmer than normal humans, usually hitting two meters by the age of 15. They possess two hearts like the older Xai'athi, but have a superior circulatory system, which allows them to survive wounds that would see a normal human death in minutes. Asaki are long-lived, even by Xai'athi standards, and the average Asaki will see a many of millennia, and as to date, there have been no records of Asaki dying of natural causes. Mentally speaking, the Asaki are best far one of the most mentally formidiable species in the galaxy. They are mentally incapable of being enslaved, though not because of any special conditioning or training on their part, but simply do to the fact that they're need to either serve Binadamu or die is practically encoded at the cellular level. This has made them very unpopular as slaves, and lobotomies are nearly impossible to perform, not because it's difficult to cut out parts of a brain, but because of the regeneration of vital organs, of which the brain is the foremost component.

Reproduction
Asaki reproduction is simplistic though poorly understood by outsiders, as both sexes within the species are capable of reproducing. Both carry soft, gel-like eggs within their bodies, filled with a glowing blue embronic fluid. The egg is released from the body by the parent (thus the reason female Asaki do not have a menstruation cycle), and placed within a nusery chamber where it will spend the next five months developing into a young Asaki child. During the first three months, the casing of the egg hardens to protect the growing Asaki within, and slowly widens to accomedate the child. In the final two months, the casing of the egg begins to thin, and becomes weaker as time passes. The child remains fully aware of the ongoings of outside world, and as the casing of the egg is transluscent, the child capable of seeing everything going on around it. At the end of this growth period, the casing rips, and the child is released either onto the rocky floors of the nusery, or into the pools of embronic fluid below. They inherit most of the basic skills needed to survive on their own, such as the ability to perform basic math, along with many other useful traits. The first people a newborn Asaki will see will be either their visiting parents, or the staff charged with ensuring the safety of the nusery.

Psykers
The Asaki are natural psykers, though there is a small group of them who are pariahs, a purposeful creation on Binadamu's part. The Asaki designed their technology and the practically all parts of their life to operate using Warp-based energy, and thus are very adept wielders of the power of the Ether. Corruption of Asaki is rare to say the least. As Chaos operates on corrupting those who harbor secret desires and covet power, they have since found it almost impossible to gain a foothold into Asaki culture, as the very core of their life is centered around Binadamu. They faith in him is so strong that they something of a collective psychic shield when in a large numbers, which genenally makes it harder for daemons to get close to them without feeling extreme pain. This was once again a manufactured trait developed by Binadamu, after having many millennia of unwanted experience in dealing with Chaos, a skill he did not possess when developing the Xai'athi in his hayday. He has grown aware of the dangers presented by Chaos, and this allowed him to develop a series of defenses against Chaos. What's more interesting is that Asaki suffer far fewer mental attacks from daemons in comparsion to many other species in the galaxy.

Technology
"We've spent the last thirty millennia collecting and reverse-engineering alien technology, only for these guys to pop up out of the freaking woodwork and make us look like a bunch of savages?!"

- Xai'athi scientist

The Asaki specialize in psychic and crystalline technology, excelling in the later to the point that it's usage has become second nature. All of their tech is atuned to their psychic frequency essentially preventing other species from utilizing it. They've exceeded and even outstripped the Xai'athi in sheer technological advancement, making the Asaki by far the most advanced recorded branch of the human species. They're technology is ill-understood by everyone around them, just as much as they themselves are ill-understood. Asaki do not share their technology with anyone, and will go out of their way to find and punish those that steal from them. Some of the Asaki's most important advancements have been in gravitational manipulation and implant technology.

Weapons
Asaki weaponry comes in many forms, the most important of these being dark matter, crystalline, psionic, and gravitonic weaponry. This gives them a vast edge over their more numerous enemies, undoubtly those such as the Orks and the Imperium of Man. Such weapons as the Sindano, and the Kyon Beam Cannon, are testoments to the technological superiority the Asaki maintain over many of their enemies.

Travel
The Asaki do not use Warp drive technology, for the simple reason that doing so is suicidial. They have, however, discovered a method of creating artificial wormholes, seemingly at will, allowing them to traverse the vast distances of the galaxy with ease. Like so much of their technology, the inner workings of their wormhole generators is unknown to the rest of the galaxy, and whether there are major weaknesses to it are unknown. The method used to create and restrict these wormholes is unknown by the rest of the galaxy, giving the Asaki a huge logistical advantage. The wormholes created vary greatly in size, depending much on the ship that created it. These wormholes allow only Asaki ships to pass through, though they can be disrupted by continued gravimetric jamming, the only known method of stopping one. Because of these wormholes, and the great distances they be used to travel, the Asaki have colonies spread across the galaxy, in areas that not even the Eldar themselves have discovered. The Asaki maintain colonies in both of the Milky Way's sattilite galaxies, though these are tiny research bases of little worth. Additionally, the Asaki have been about to use these wormholes to quickly move populations out of danger, and move troops into battle with fluid ease, making them dangerous to the extreme.