MAD

Culture

They are very nomadic and naturalized to different environments quickly. So culturally, they are extremely varied and diverse culture with many different languages and religions. they would have localized names if they've been on a certain planet or moon for long enough! Once they have someplace they like they tend to stick around

Things they may have kept from their original culture from their home planet!!!

Ancestor worship or worship of the “The Many Dead”

A preference for a hunter gatherer society over farming.

Extreme cultural significance in sewing, weaving, fiber and textile crafts.

Big body’s of Water are EVIL.

Home planet

Their planet is gone! Their sun went supernova and the whole solar system is basically dead.

Space travel

They don't have their own technology instead borrowing from other species. Because of their brains elasticity when it comes to learning new things, they can figure out most alien technology if given time, and if the technology interfaces well with their senses! Their homeworld didn't have advanced technology So they were basically picked up and then spread around by accident by other spacefaring species! NOW YOU CANT GET RID OF THEM.

Strength in comparison to others and how they deal with conflicts.

if they ever did get into a conflict with anybody, it's basically the emu war of 1932. The Jabberwocky aliens are the emus.


And with tyrants there are a lot like orks. They can't get tricked by genestealers because of the tendrils! They can smell it on them. And will fucking book it for the Hills. they'll find the closest space station stowaway on the nearest ship and stuff themselves into the vents. And get the hell out of Dodge.

Biology

The jabberwockys are diurnal, preferring hunting and existing in daylight hours with plenty of light. They have three sets of eyes , the big set with the X pupils and two sets of compound eyes , one set on the back of the head and the other on the underside of their chin , and the holes beside their eyes are nostrils! Their compound eyes are very good at catching movement; they can also see a much wider light spectrum, including harmful radiation, but they can’t see detail very well. They’re large forward facing non-compound eyes are very powerful, being able to focus and see highly detailed objects from very far away very well in motion without difficulty.

Their nostrils are not for smelling, the tendrils on their head does the smelling!

They're not very good at smelling things in the air. Their ability to sense smells within the air is about as strong as ours, but they're ability to find trace smells on objects and surfaces is stellar; they can even tell who is related to them, from scent alone! It is very common for individuals who have never met each other to do a gentle head bump and allow their tendrils to intertwine to introduce one another, similarly to dogs and cat sniffing and touching noses. This can be rather disturbing for individuals who do not share the same anatomy!

They're covered in soft hairs that can sense electrical fields and vibrations, so their whole body is an ear. Because of this, they are extremely fastidious in keeping themselves clean using specialized skin inside their lip to clean even the smallest particles from their fur. Their lips are very dexterous; much like a horse’s it is capable of moving and gripping things like an extra hand.

The jabberwockys have no bones! Their skeletal structure is more like a sharks; it's made out of a sort of cartilage. when they die, most everything just rots away, all that's left usually is the teeth and the hook claws on their arms and legs. 

The claws on their arms and legs are curved hooks meant for gripping and hooking onto trees and other surfaces to aid in climbing; because of this, they can be used with devastating effect against their enemies, slicing through most armors. The finger pads of the smaller set of arms and hind legs are covered in soft incredibly fine hairs that are in a hook like shape, which allow the Jabberwocky aliens to climb on smooth surfaces much as spiders do. Each of their secondary arms have two hook-like claws protruding from the tip.

Their teeth are black and shiny like obsidian. They are meant to puncture and slice, each individual tooth is attached in the mouth similar to a snake’s fang, with a muscle to allow them to flex and stretch for gripping and pulling food into the gullet. They shed these every 10 years and grow a new set. Their gums are black , turning sort of blue down the throat

The jabberwocky’s natural biome was very forested: think temperate rainforest! So climbing, leaping, swinging and general running around in vertical spaces. Tall dense forest cityscapes and hive cities are excellent environments for them. Imagine combining Spider-Man with a jaguar and that’s basically how these guys move and hunt. They can run pretty well on the ground, but they weren't designed for long flat surfaces; it’s like watching a giraffe run, but the legs in the back are much shorter! When running on their shorter arms it’s very similar to a weasel or ferret; quick loping strides with a curved spine.

They have an intense natural fear of water!! It's nearly hydrophobia, they can swim, but they will freak the fuck out If you try to put them in water unless it's life or death. And even then, once they hit the water, their frontal brain just shuts off and it’s pure fear. This is most likely a genetic fear left over from their home planet.

They also have a symbiotic relationship with a fungus. This fungus acts like a rebreather; It's how they manage to spread so far, and to so many different atmospheres. It lives in their fur, lungs, digestive system and stomach and makes it so that they can adapt to most atmospheres and breathe it naturally.

They're omnivorous and the fungus helps there too. It lives in the gut and helps them digest food that is not something they’ve evolved to digest and gain energy from. Their digestive system is extremely efficient, capable of digesting most organic matter. The intestines are efficient enough that they do not urinate instead only passing solid waste matter.

They do not have those individuals who are cut off from the warp such as blanks but, the fungus that they are symbiotic with Sometimes has it equivalent of pariah gene. Psychers are also rather rare amongst their ranks (even rarer than they are amongst humans) their minds are very stable and magic is difficult to wake in them.

4 primary lungs in the chest with 17 Proto lungs, 4 along the neck and three along their thigh.

4 Hearts got to keep that blood pumping! Not to mention if one fails or becomes damaged, it can be removed in a new will grow in its place. The other three will handle the strain as one is regrowing.

The 2 secondary brains in the chest are to help with reaction time when they hear something or an electrical impulse hits at a lower section of their body. If the brain in the head is destroyed , it can grow back eventually , but any information that was stored in that organ is gone basically forever. Their DNA is extremely durable and capable of reactivating to regenerate limbs or organs. on their home world They were very susceptible to parasites, and one of the only ways to remove them was to simply cut the affected flash away. This doesn’t mean that they can take damage with impunity. They still suffer from shock and if enough damage is done, they will die. If damage repeatedly, forcing them to regrow the same limb or organ over and over, they become highly susceptible to cancer, and the horrors that that would entail for such a species.

When hunting or fighting one of these guys it is very important to get rid of the two lower brains first before chopping the head off, which is one of the most reliable ways to kill them. If you do not kill the two lower brains before chopping the head off, the whole body goes into a spasmodic flailing. Imagine an earthworm when you touch it when it’s in a puddle, frantic and uncoordinated wiggling with all of its strength, dangerous if you think of it on the scale of a giraffe. Eventually this fling will cease, and the shock kills the lower brains, it will stop, but the damage is done. It’s quite possible this reaction is happens because sometimes the lower brains do not die of shock and the individual survives and continues to pass on this genetic reaction to its offspring.

They don't need to move their mouths to talk, Most of the noise they make comes from the neck holes on the sides of their neck or from their chest. So if they're moving their lips, it's because they were raised or live close by to humans or other species of sentient people who use mouths for communication!

They're really good mimics! It takes the awhile , but they can sound pretty damn human! they have very soft buzzy voices, With an bug droning quality. When they're happier or content , they make a sound similar to a cicada. When not mimicking, they sound very similar to a pipe organ with an underlaying buzz as they grow larger and older the sound becomes much deeper and powerful.

BLOOD IS BLUE like true blue cerulean when dry it darkens to an indigo.

Their fur color varies greatly, when they first hatch jabberwocky are a eggshell white, changing to their adult colors as they age depending upon the natural biome that they grew up in, though they tend to get darker in color as they age some of the oldest individuals of their species are pitch black.

they keep on growing As they age and don’t stop, But when they hit adulthood that growth slows down to a crawl. When they hit physical adulthood (55 years old ) they're about as big as a giraffe so around 18 feet in height. Like a lobster they could probably just keep on living if they don’t get killed.

They can fit into any hole as long as they can get their head through! This does become difficult if the jabberwocky caring eggs or has too much fat to compress. and if you do run into a fat Jabberwocky never underestimate them they may be much slower than their slimmer counterparts, but they have enough strength to rip the spine out of a ork war boss without breaking a sweat. (yes I was inspired by the gourmand from rain world.) it’s kind of like fighting a giant hippopotamus on super heroin with the intelligence of a human and the ability to climb.