Basic factfileAverage Height | 6'0" |
Average Mass | 100kg |
Average Lifespan (In Earth terms) | 60 years |
Native habitat | Savannah and grassland |
Skin colour | Dark, chocolate brown with short, coarse, pale coloured hairs all over (hair colours & patterns varying depending on the individual) |
Reproductive CycleGruth have effectively two genders - repros and drones. As the names imply, repros can take an active role in reproduction, whereas drones have no capacity to do so. In traditional Gruth society the drones essentially took on "protector" roles (fighting, guarding young, caring for young, gathering food, building shelters), whilst repros occupied "creative" ones (pot making, weaving, cooking, herb gathering, metalworking, leadership roles). These roles varied between different Gruth societies, and in general tended to break down as Gruth culture became more global in the century or so preceding their development of space technology. Drones, being longer lived in general, increasingly started to take on more important tasks where practical knowledge was useful, engineering work in particular (though theoretical physics, for example was dominated by repros for much longer).
Gruth spawn in a symbiotic relationship with a species called the hrach. The hrach are slow moving, fat, eight-legged creatures around four feet long and three feet high; they grow glands on their lower back that eventually swell to form a tripartite bulbous growth - the necessary "egg" of food matter that the baby Gruth will grow in. Two repros then implant the bulbs with genetic material; two of the three will become drones, the third a repro, though oddities where multiple repros are born is not unknown. The hrach, in exchange for their services, are protected and pampered by each tribe/extended family's drones.