HAZIRI

Physical Appearance And Structure

Haziri devolved from the Anazazi.

They are shorter and stockier than Anazazi, with leathery flaps of skin in the place of wings, these flaps only allowing them to glide short distances.

They are incapable of intrabreeding, requiring Human, Anazazi or Neveleim captives in order to reproduce their own kind, with only one in one hundred captive births resulting in a purebred Haziri.

Haziri have low sloping foreheads and pronounced muzzles, with thick, coarse hair in the place of feathers, this hair invariably a glossy black, even though some Haziri in Human society choose to color their hair blonde.

They are carnivorous, preferring their meat raw. If no other meat exists, Haziri will cheerfully kill and eat one another.

Their hands are thick, hairy paws, terminating in short, stubby fingers.

Senses

Haziri have narrow close-set eyes which are a dull black, though Haziri in Human society wear blue-tinted contact lenses.

Their eyes are also adapted to seeing in dim light(though not in complete darkness) and they must wear dark glasses when in areas where the light levels are more Earth-normal. Haziri without dark glasses in Earth-normal light are blinded and suffer a -15 penalty to their DEX/RS.

Speech

Haziri speak all other languages than theirs with great difficulty and thick accents. Since assimilation by the New America, they have abandoned their own native language in favor of a pidgin English, punctuated by grunts, growls, howls and other body noises, the Haziri insisting this has always been their native language.

Society And Customs

Before the War of Purification, the Haziri were the voluntary outcasts of Anazazi society, choosing to live apart from them until the day they could plot to take over, while at the same time, aping the Anazazi's clan culture and styling themselves as the master race.

When they used fear of the Neveleim and the Divine Plague to take over, they plunged their own people, the Anazazi and the Neveleim into a war which nearly destroyed all three races, the surviving Haziri relocating to worlds over which they had firm control, taking Anazazi and Neveleim captive to serve as breeding stock, at the same time carrying out constant offensives aimed at the destruction of the Confederation of Two Races.

Defeats during the Eleven-Day War made the Haziri vunerable to conquest by the New America, the Haziri leadership choosing to subject their race to assimilation to the winning society's culture and mores, wholly dismantling their own parody of a society, choosing instead to ape the ways of their new masters.

The Haziri embrace the victim-state mentality they accuse their victims of embracing, constantly claiming they are being discriminated, persecuted, harassed by the police(even though they make up 49% of both the National Police and the TSID), and the like.

They are also almost pathologically addicted to violence, the more graphic, the better, favoring chainblades for hand-to-hand combat and rapid-firing massdriver weapons for ranged combat.

They are extremely patriarchial and misogynistic, with an exaggerated sense of their own masculinity and an insane need to make other men appear less masculine.

Attitudes

Haziri are as bloodthirsty, ruthless, power-hungry, hateful and treacherous as the Terranovans who have assimilated them.

Terranovan Human males-especially younger males-are almost worshipful of the Haziri(as the embodiment of the masculine idea), aping them as they ape their superiors.

The Neveleim and the Anazazi loathe, detest and will attack without hesitation any Haziri they stumble onto.

Humans in the Commonwealth also have more than sufficent reason to hate Haziri.

Special Abilities

Gliding. Similar to the Yazirian ability to glide, with the following exception.

Haziri cannot glide on planets with gravities lighter than 0.5 G or heavier than 1.0 G.

Battle Rage: This is similar to the Yazirian ability of the same name.