NYaucto

The largest gathering of the nYaucto species is found in the "nYaucto Teyno". Also known as the "nYaucto empire" it is an advanced civilization in the radiant arm of the Imperial Galaxy from the planet Nothol. They are one of the most prevalent sapient species in the Quasar Edge Cluster.

Physiology
The nYaucto crawl around on four arms with four fingers per arm. They have two tail like structures one on either end about half the length of an arm, these tails branch into two distinct limbs about halfway down. Their head is in the middle of their body connected to the rest of the body, called the soulder, by six tendons, which can be raise and lower the head about a foot in either direction. On the other end of five of the six tendons is a bulge containing a ganglia. The ganglia specialize the manuevering of each mouth, After the death of a nYaucto, these bulges may continue to operate for some time even as long as a week, gradually growing weaker and dumber as the vital organs malfunction or cease all together. This phenomenon is reffered to as tugging.

The species have a series of mouths attached to five of the bulges, they are used to drop down and grasp any smaller creature unfortunate enough to get to close. They can be used individually or in unison as two or more mouths spring down, clamping shut upon contact, Injecting the prey with any one of various venoms or toxins. If a single mouth can swallow the prey, it will digest it whole. for larger prey two or three mouths clamp on and pull until something rips or breaks.

It has been noted that the nYaucto's physiology is similar to that of the Pfryamei’ox.

Digestion
Most nYaucto species have two stomachs with one holding H2SO4 which is a both byproduct and an ingredient of cellular reaction. and a 2nd with a compound or H2N2O2 and NH3. Predigestion can take place to a limited extent while the prey is being injected.

Reproduction & Life Cycle
A nYaucto is sexually mature by the age of nine to thirteen and stops growing both physically and mentally well before twenty. A nYaucto male/female will lay an "exowomb" with little core genetic material, before scenting the area with a pheromone. This individual is called the assentor, who will look after the exowomb until the arrival of a nYaucto male. Male nYaucto are attracted to this pheromone and will partly fertilize the womb, which by this stage is called an egg, the male will also spray down a pheromone. The two pheromones will mix and become repulsive to males, except the new guardian, and all females that are not in "heat". A female nYaucto that is in heat responds to this pheromonic compound preferably, being attracted to it, and itself becomes the final genetic donor and guardian to the egg, encapsulating it in an organ called an "Endowomb" that is located on one of the six shoulder bulges. Part of the developing nYaucto egg acts as the yoke to the growing nYaucto, the Endowomb will eat away at the hard shell and attach vessels to the nYaucto mother, supplementing and eventually replacing the egg as the nutritional source of the baby nYuacto.

The two adjacent ganglia bulges will be stimulated to grow toward the Endowomb, eventually reaching and breaching it with sprouting conjugation tubes. The two stems will fuse forming a new gangalia, which will develop into the baby's brain. After the formation of the brain, the womb will begin to grow, even sprouting a pair of legs to help balance the womb against the rest of the shoulder. Finally after around a year and a half, the mother will enter a coma, during the coma, the brain of the child will severe itself from the mother's neurosystem. The baby nYaucto will be born over the next few hours, as a nymph. The two legs of the endowomb will become the tails of the new nYacuto. A newborn nYaucto looks similar to a bulge with six legs, the points where the ganglia were severed will be at two of the maturing bulges. A nYaucto will gradually take on the appearance of an adult, finishing at around sixty to sixty-five months after separation.

Newly mothering nYaucto will attract other nYaucto in their group to help raise the young until they are around seven.

Cellular
nYaucto proteins are coded by PNA or Pyrinenucleic Acid & DNA Deoxypyrinenucleic Acid. The organelle named the Pyrinosomes uses the PNA in a similar fashion as a Ribosome uses RNA, nYaucto cells are particularly large at around 500 microns in diameter, but are not exactly spherical in shape rather elliptical which is disrupted by peculiar nodes every 50 microns or so as a result of sulfur chemistry. Each cell has several dozen smaller specialized nuclei coordinated by a particularly buffed cytoskeleton.