Codex: Gabilani/zh-hans

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名称（单数与复数）：Gabilani

Sexes: Male and female, equal split.

Height: 2’8” to 3’6”, with females averaging an inch or two taller than males.

Weight: 40lbs to 55lbs.

Hair: Black (naturally), many choose to dye their hair more unusual colors. As gabilani age, their hair greys and eventually turns white. Males can grow beards, however the species as a whole lack body hair.

Eyes: Two eyes, similar to humans, save that the pigmentation of their irises is black, making them virtually indistinguishable from their pupils to the naked eye. Gabilani have poor eyesight synonymous with a subterranean evolution. Glasses and ocular cybernetic enhancements are common.

Ears: Gabilani have large, pointed, flexible ears. These provide them with ausar-like hearing and a pronounced sensitivity to vibration.

Features

Gabilani are humanoid in structure, but are smaller in size to the galactic norm. They look not unlike scaled down humans, or more like the fantasy “goblin”, as they are commonly known by some terrans. This may be due to the fact that their skin has a green pigmentation in most cases, but can vary between yellowish and aquamarine. They have nearly identical facial features to human ones, aside from a tendency towards slightly larger noses and a more triangular visage.

Gabilani females are on average slightly larger than their male counterparts. This is matched with a higher level of natural strength and aggression in females over males.

繁殖

Gabilani 是性欲旺盛的种族。它们没有发情周期，可生育的雌性似乎随时都能生育。妊娠通常持续三个月，母亲每胎产下 3 至 5 名幼儿。更大或更小的胎数也有可能，但非常罕见。雌性 Gabilani 每经历一次怀孕，臀部和屁股都会变大；其尺寸通常是判断某名雌性生育过多少孩子的良好指标。除没有发情周期和体毛外，Gabilani 具有许多哺乳动物特征，雌性会以母乳哺育幼体。两种性别的 Gabilani 都颇能与多个种族杂交。

Gabilani 的阴道天生宽松，但有一组专门肌肉，能让内部通道扭转和旋动。雌性能完全自主控制这些肌肉。这两项特征使它们能容纳并紧紧收束住几乎任何尺寸与类型的勃起物。雄性 Gabilani 若阴茎没有受到一些扭动刺激，往往很难高潮。这使雄性 Gabilani 比银河标准拥有更强的性耐力；与非 Gabilani 做爱时，需要很长时间才会高潮。

尽管身材矮小，雄性 Gabilani 的阴茎平均长 4 至 6 英寸、直径 1.5 英寸。它呈球根状，尖端具有两个彼此分明、依次排列的“龟头”，中间以一道脊状结构分隔。

社会

Gabilani 是高度社会性的种族，比多数物种更快因孤立而产生压力。它们演化出一种竞争性的阶级制度，据称围绕着谁在任一时刻最积极参与、最活跃于社会而运转。出于这两个原因，流放被视为 Gabilani 最严酷的惩罚，甚至超过死亡；因为处决至少还能在短时间内成为注意力中心。

Gabilani 对机械发明有强烈热爱。尽管它们对生物学和医学的兴趣有限，但如今大多数种族成员居住的大型空间站显示出非凡的空气动力学与工程学造诣，尤其考虑到其中许多是在多么短的时间内建成。它们与同样务实的raskvel不同之处，在于偏好发明新事物，而不是修复或回收旧物。这被视为 Tarkus 环境枯竭的关键原因之一。

Outside, cultural historians theorize that many gabilani societal traits suggest an overall veneration of “bigness”, possibly related to the generousness of a female’s frame displaying how many children they have had. How long a gabilani’s name is, for instance, displays how important they are considered to be, and the more spectacular an individual’s invention - or the more spectacularly said invention goes wrong - the more cultural cache is attached to him or her, above and beyond what an engineer or scientist of a different race might expect. Similarly to the raskvel, then, most gabilani view larger offworlders as profoundly sexually attractive, and aim to breed with them wherever possible.

Gabilani can interbreed with raskvel, however the progeny is always raskvel. The only race on Tarkus capable of outbreeding them, gabilani express a cultural fear and dislike of the raskvel, viewing their reckless approach to reproduction as the primary reason for Tarkus’s ruin. Higher ranking gabilani sometimes “adopt” raskvel as menial workers and sex slaves aboard their space stations. The gabilani High Command is currently locked in negotiations with the U.G.C. for full membership; one of the key provisos is that it explicitly wipes the practice of raskvel slavery out.

Cybernetics and Health

The passion for mechanical invention, lack of interest in medicine, and the frequency of industrial accidents in gabilani culture led to the species evolving the love of and reliance on cybernetics that they are remarkable for today. The gabilani developed physical cybernetic enhancements before microbe theory and blood transfusion, and a great majority employ significant mechanical bodily enhancement during their lifetime.

Replacement limbs and ocular enhancement are the most common procedures, however the gabilani are also capable of sophisticated internal adaptations, often aimed at combating the health problems they face as a result of spending most of their lives in orbit above their home planet. All gabilani are required by law to spend at least three weeks in a year on the surface of Tarkus to boost their skeletal and immune system strength, however some wealthier gabilani disdain this edict by having all or most of their bones replaced with alloy metal, and augmenting their respiratory systems with antiviral micro-bot plants.

This ability to easily replace defective organs and limbs with effective cybernetic replacements has greatly boosted the possible lifespan of the average gabilani, however their population has remained stable as a result of the scourge of industrial accidents in their frenetic society, and the likelihood of newer models of replacement organs going catastrophically wrong.