The Gruntuk Empire
| The Grun'Tuk Empire | |
| Founder: | |
| Basics | |
| Alignment(s): | Unknown |
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| Motto: | ' |
| Leader(s): | Unknown |
| Logo: | ' |
| Group Colours: | Predominantly Black and Gold |
| Playerbase | |
| Levels: | All |
| Play style: | Casual |
| Roleplay: | ' |
| Timezone(s): | ' |
| Recruiting: | No |
| Contact: | @Gruntuk / @Absitomen |
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The Grun'Tuk Empire
Overview
Article still a work in progress
The Grun’Tuk Empire are an interstellar species of creatures that have taken to the stars for a singular purpose. To conquer everything they set their eyes upon.
Looking similar to Earth’s mythological creature "the Minotaur" they are mostly humanoid with the visage of a bovine creature. Despite Earth's minotaur having its origin in myth and magic, the Grun'Tuk are creatures born of science and genetic engineering. There are subtle differences, but only those who have been able to study one of them under a knife would notice.
Highly advanced and capable of interstellar travel, the Grun’Tuk has spread to the stars to claim what they believe is rightfully theirs: everything the universe has to offer.
With this ability to travel the stars they strive to widen their dominion and bring more worlds under their control. Any potential planet seen as viable to support the Grun’Tuk people, be it as living space or for its raw materials will find the large fleets of the Empire darkening its skies.
The Grun’Tuk are pragmatic when it comes to selecting their potential targets for expansion. Early in their existence, they found themselves nearly wiped out trying to invade every single world they came across. This spread their forces out too thinly and resulted in the needless loss of many soldiers and ships. Sometimes it can take a few hard lessons to knock some sense into creatures with incredibly thick skulls.
Having learned from these early campaigns the Grun’Tuk took a much more measured approach to selecting planets to invade. They would find clusters of planets close by and send scouts out to these worlds to investigate their worth. Once a cluster is deemed worthy, scouts would be sent to each world to evaluate their worth. The scout's assigned task would be to infiltrate the planet and analyse the local flora and fauna. Intelligence would then be fed back to the fleets for the high command to decide upon the benefits and costs of beginning a campaign against the potential target planet and any inhabitants upon its surface.
A writer's note
Some of the stuff I have created would put these guys into the realm of "Empire too stupid to exist..." I am entirely aware of that. Its a comic book universe and I am having a little fun here. Some of the lore might change over time as I fine-tune the brutes
Some of the information given here might not be known by those upon Earth. So, if you wish to use it to your advantage please put the effort into thinking up a reasonable reason why you may know something that has not been voiced by one of the Grun'Tuk themselves. I will do my best to highlight that which has not yet been mentioned in public.
All the best from @Gruntuk, I hope you enjoy the read
Grun and Tuk
The name of the people, and by extension their Empire, is derived from a mixture of the genetic species and the home world they draw their origin from. Their language has a tendency to mix nouns and verbs together to spawn brand new words.
Not a people for colourful language, they like to keep things simple. Grun, in effect, is also the name of their language. They are Grun and they speak Grun. Their language will be discussed in more detail later in this article.
The species itself is called Grun. They have referred to themselves as Grun from the moment the first of them could write. They will forever be Grun, no matter how much they have been genetically altered. The Grun that first left their home system would look much different from the creatures you see today.
Tuk is the world that gave birth to their species. They honour their shattered home by weaving its name into that of their Empire so they can forever remember what they did to their world.
Physical Description
Physiology
For the smart-asses amongst the human population... some would describe them as Space Cows.
For the misunderstood amongst the human population... some would describe them as Space Minotaurs.
The species, Grun, physically have the visage of a Bovine creature and do, indeed look like "Sons and Daughters of Minos," (What the Grun'Tuk call Minotaurs). However, these looks only go skin deep. They are genetically engineered beings, each individual of their race is grown/bred for a specific purpose in their war machine. Some are incredibly large, having vast amounts of muscle mass to weather incredible punishment, while others can be leaner and agile for more delicate operations or surgical strikes.
Physically their height ranges from 6ft to 10ft in height. Their mass varies wildly depending on their purpose. Their natural fur colouring varies just as wildly as well. Unlike Minotaurs, they possess human-like feet. Some will possess horns of differing nature, others will have stumps where horns used to exist or have failed to grow. There are "cultural and societal" reasons why a Grun would not possess horns.
All are physically strong and incredibly quick, however, there are exceptional Grun who exceed their base strength and agility. They can suffer incredible punishment before they fall, being a warrior race they have bred fortitude and resilience into themselves. However, and this might not technically be a physical trait, some will have their mental facilities reduced so they can be better soldiers. Jar-Heads are indeed something the Grun'Tuk use.
When they bleed, they bleed red with what appear to be flecks of gold mixed in their blood. The Grun'Tuk see these flecks of gold as a sign of vitality and power so they choose to wear gold with pride. Only those who are censored are forbidden from wearing gold upon their bodies.
Armour and Clothing
They can be found adorned in the armour of their people. The armour is made of a heavy and dense material, alien in origin to earth. Where brute force is needed a Grun'Tuk soldier needs armour that can bear just as much punishment as they physically can. Armour plates cover the vital organs and reinforce defence over the areas that would need it most. Underneath these armoured plates, they would wear a form-fitting body suit for extreme environmental protection. This second skin is optional. Some Grun'Tuk prefer to only wear the plated protection as it gives them the most freedom to move.
Its colour has some indication of the soldier/citizens rank or unit assignment.