Menėr

Of all the minds that can be found dispersed across the galaxies, few are as complex or profound as those of the Menėr. The Menėr were born on the planet of Caz the fourth planet and fifth largest body from Qlac, A G yellow type star in the Varr Cluster, Near the bulge of the Imperial Galaxy. A Caz year is around 400 earth days. The rotation of the planet divides the year into roughly 320 days.

Physiology
The Menėr are a colony of insects acting as one mind. These creatures are composed of Carbon-Silicon base with an Aqua solvent.

Just as our minds are composed of many cells, so are the Menėr composed of many insect-like "mene", communicating with one another through electrically charged signals, and pheromones. This is not a hive mind but a true mind acting as a living force all on its own. Its emotions derived, felt, and lived by the whole colony.

Mene
An individual mene is between two to five centimeters, each having sixteen limbs divided into eight pairs of legs, with two limbs joining to form each. They each have four specialized organs for releasing and sensing pheromones and electric signals. A mene has three pairs of pincers on its head, one for each of their two mouths and the last encompassing both the smaller pairs. Another pair of pincers, is on top of its middle segment, This will grasp small items handed to it by the mouth. The mene were probably the first species to use catapults aided by the pincer set up.

Reproduction
Workers can lay eggs but cannot fertilize them, These eggs will grow up to become Workers, if fertilized by a Monarch the egg will grow up to become a "Petty Monarch" which are the largest form of Mene. Monarchs can also lay eggs that will grow up to become Workers but if fertilized by another Monarch they will become "Hereditary Monarchs" When hereditary monarchs between to different colonies exchange biology this will create a new Pheromone signature which will result in a new and distinct colony eventually becoming its own Menėr.

Nervous System
The actual nervous system of the Menėr exists in two places, one is in the Mene which are soft equivalents to neurons, and the second is in an aura surrounding the colony produced by the Mene. The consciousness of the Menėr operates on the order of seconds rather than milliseconds as Human minds do, As with Rei in the end their sheer intelligence is counterbalanced by their slow processing speed.

External
Mene can excrete a complex gel called "Fabris", this gel externally stores memories of thoughts, emotions, and, simple experience. Complex interconnecting architecture of this Farbis can be found in catacombs located at the innermost part of Mene colonies. When mene interact with the Fabris, it will recreate the memory. Series of different Fabris layouts and compositions can be used to store even lengthy and chaotic abstract thoughts and memory.

History
The species originated on Gyne Island with two beings Ancient and Archeus, the First Menėr. Ancient and Archeus were two colonies of Mene alone on Gẏne island, they met soon after their respective sapience, and luckily for their species, they got along.

Recently a collection of 67 Menėr have pooled resources, seeking to expand their civilization into the solar system and allocate resources towards solving the great cosmic riddles.

Mene Language Database
Work in progress

Consonants must alternate between R/L and W/Y, N and M are exceptions and may proceed or follow and consonant type


 * Example: "B"s: B/b, Bl/bl, Br/br, ȸ, ȸl, ȸr
 * "Q"s: Q/q uses r and l, alt is "ch"
 * "Z"s: Z/z, uses r and l, alt is "x"
 * "R"s: R/r, uses r and l, alt is "l"
 * "Dh"s: þ/ð, uses r and l, alt is "dh"
 * "C"s: C/c, uses w and y, alt is "k"
 * "G"s: G/g, uses w and y, alt is "j"
 * "S"s: S/s, uses w and y, alt is "ʃ"
 * "ʔ"s: ʔ/א, uses w and y, alt is "-"
 * "F"s: F/f, uses w and y, alt is "p"
 * N and M follow different rules
 * Vowels: Ẏẏ follows W/Y makes the ĩ sound, when proceeded by ʔ makes either "Why" or "Yigh" sound. Aa follows any,

= The Qlac/Caz System = Qlac is a heavy G-Type star, Caz orbits once every ~400 earth days and rotates once every ~30 hours resulting in a 319.X day calendar. Caz is itself a large colder water world with five Vestoid moons.