However, Novakid will become familiar very fast, and typically end up becoming too familiar, often making inappropriate jokes or observations. But when they DO meet, they are very excited and personable and ask a lot of questions. For the most part, they don't know where anybody lives and nobody knows where they live either, so a given Novakid community is not likely to ever meet another space-traveler. Any 'space-age' technology introduced to them would be forgotten within 3-4 generations, and a 'stone-age' community of Novakid can be expected to catch up to the rest of the population within 10 generations. The Novakid as a race have reached a technological equilibrium centered around steel and combustion. As a result, only a small fraction of each generation’s knowledge is passed on to the next - the rest of it constantly being re-discovered or re-invented. Though they have a high intuition and aptitude for learning, they are extremely lacking in patience and attention span to the point of making them terrible students and teachers. Speculation is that they came from either a gas giant or an exploding star. In addition, their being so spread out makes it difficult to even guess what system they may have come from, making independent investigation impossible even for the curious. The Novakid have no known history, since none of them were interested in keeping any sort of record. All that remains after a Novakid explosion is an inert chunk of smoldering metal that was once its brand. Novakid tend to explode violently when they die, so deathbeds are typically outdoors and at high elevations (with friends and family below). The plasma is more loosely contained, and the elderly Novakid takes on a larger, duller appearance and a reddish hue (derogatory term: 'red giants'). Towards the end of its life, the Novakid’s brand loses potency and the magnetic membrane grows weaker. The new brand then claims the plasma mixture as its own and a protokid (which hardly resembles a mature Novakid) is born. It can be styled by running a low electric current through the Novakid’s brand.Ī new Novakid is born when its parents mix their plasma together in a high temperature, high pressure condition and enough elements fuse into denser materials that form a new brand. This serves no function other than to be pretty and impress other Novakid. The least important part of a Novakid is the corona - the hair-like emissions that emanate from the head. Breaking the 'skin' results in plasma venting / bleed-out, which if left untended leads to fuel depletion and inevitably death.

The brand is responsible for metabolizing fuels and producing a magnetic field/membrane that defines the shape of the body, keeping the precious plasmas from dispersing. The most important part of a Novakid is the brand - the dense metal symbol situated in the middle of their face.

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