Rulara

"How in the Creator's name do you kill that thing?"

- Unidenified Awali warrior

The Rulara are a race of warrior women from the world of Khojarho in the Kordan Sub-Sector of Xyon. They were originally created by Anjini Daruka in 4,506 XE to serve the Xai Ascendancy as their corps of super-soldiers to defend the Imperial Xai in the event the Creator turned his back on them for their treatment of their fellow Xai. They ultimately rebelled, and in the Rulara Crisis, were forced into the outer reaches of the Kordan sub-sector where the remain to this day. They are lead by their supreme ruler, Mahindra, who has vowed to do whatever it takes to return to the core and defeat the Ascendancy. Her threats are taken extremely seriously by the only powers in Xyon.

A violent and brutish race, the Rulara fight as it was their sole purpose of created, and despise the Ascendancy for their attempts to prevent them from expanding, such as refusing to give them ships, and placing a law like that against the Kordanians which bars them from settling new worlds under threat of destruction. The Rulara remain a powerful threat to the rest of the Xyon Sector, for in their infancy, they killed millions of Xai soldiers during the crisis when they numbered only a couple hundred thousand. They now number in the tens of millions.

Biology & Appearance
The Rulara are of dark brown complextion, and have long black hair. Their strength is four times that of a regular Xai, given that were created to serve as super-soldiers, and their strength reflects that purpose. Their hair itself is actually stronger than steel and usually used as thread for their clothing. They typically stand between 2.7 to 3.2 meters in height, and tower over all other Xai subraces. Their leaders are generally 3.9 meters in height, and are twice as strong as a regular Rulara. They have blue brown eyes (usually depending on status), and are best known for their stare which has given many the impression that they are insane (most usually correct). Their blood is similar to that of the Xai in that it is black and corrosive.

The Rulara were created by Anjini Daruka for the sole purpose of waging war, and to that end, their biology and physiology complement them perfectly. They are naturally agressive, and mercy and compassion are traits considered alien to the Rulara emotionally. Their bones are made out of nullium, allowing them avoid injuries that would shatter their skeleton. Their muscles are ultra-dense, giving them unnatural strength disproportionate to their size and weight. Their skin was designed to be soft to the touch, but harder than any body armor avaliable, so much so that they can survive a direct shot from a main battle tank. They are also capable of lifting many times their own bodyweight beyond their level of strength by shifting their center of mass.

Their eyesight, hearing, and smell are extremely keen, allowing them track a target for miles without so much as a mistake of direction. They can eye every color in the light spectrum, and hear practically every wave of sound. Radiowaves and microwaves can be tracked to their destination or source, allowing the Rulara to pick up on a possible ambush, retreat, or call for reinforcements, and act on that information quickly. Fighting a single, unarmed and unarmored Rulara takes the force of five or more heavily-armed Novus, which in itself is a task deemed to dangerous for even the most hardened of Novus warriors.

Reproductively-wise, the Rulara are aesexual, and reproduce by collecting genetic material from a fellow Rulara, or devouring an individual of another species. The average gestation period for a Rulara is typically between ten months to a year. Their ability to reproduce effectively was purposefully linked to their level of agression by Anjini as a safety measure. It was to ensure that not too many Rulara existed at any given time lest they overrun all of Xyon. Many armies have tried to counter this failsafe unsuccessfully, believing fighting them was making them stronger. In many ways, they were correct, but the failed to understand the actually process behind Rulara reproduction, which is far more simplictic than their enemies believed.

The Rulara can reproduce building up their anger and hatred, usually through wrestling (their favority pass-time), or even more simplier ways such as punching a tree, screaming into a pillow, are just being angry for no reason at all. Though these methods are not as effective as actually killing and fighting in the middle of a battle, they allow the Rulara to reach the level of anger needed to reproduce. A suffiently agressive Rulara can birth upwards of four children a year, while a less agressive Rulara with be gifted with a single child once every five years tops. This allows their numbers to remain under practical control, and ensure that they fight when needed to.