#infinity point

you wanna eat this alien food so bad. you don’t know what it is or where it came from but it looks so so good.

this is Tzat the Czak. they are an aspiring engineer, trying to overcome both dismissal of their accomplishments as well as the monopoly Grieb have on much of the technology market. they live on a caravan junker ship with many others of their species, using what scraps they collect to work on new inventions.

czak permeate almost every corner of Infinity Point, aiding significantly in the management of waste with their impressive abilities when it comes to repurposing old materials. their broad diets also mean they can eat things most others wouldn’t want anywhere near their mouth. despite being, essentially, the glue that holds most interplanetary infrastructure together, they don’t have the best reputation. think of how garbage collectors on earth are very important to our infrastructure, but still get dismissed by many.

this is Yugo the Slurg, a wealthy business mogul with a tendency towards philanthropy. an unusual case for his kind, which generally live much simpler lifestyles on their humid home planet and in tropical settlements across the galaxy. he spends much of his time finding better ways to utilize his assets, as being the sole manufacturer for a few very important space travel devices has accrued him more than he really knows what to do with

the last i’ll talk about is Giada here, also known as just Gigi. she’s a member of the Charmer’s Union, an interdimensional organization that provides unique protections for any and all ladies of the night. she and the rest of her kind were displaced after their homeworld was overtaken by a dangerous empire i will talk about at a later date. with her brother, who works as a bounty hunter, she travels the reaches of Infinity Point looking for opportunities to help her and her brother settle down somewhere.

all grieb births are performed via c-section. their heads have evolved to be too large and their hips have become too narrow for natural births

grieb aren’t really mammalian and don’t nurse their young, they’re usually well developed enough at birth to consume purées almost immediately

the home system of the grieb has been so thoroughly terraformed that not even a fully natural moon is left. the only celestial bodies untouched is their single gas giant and the star that serves as their sun

grieb saucer ships are some of the most sought after in the galaxy, but are extremely expensive to obtain and very hard to manage without a crew of grieb on board. think of grieb technology like Apple. the only reason you can’t drive it or repair it yourself is because it’s better for their empire if charge for that instead.

there are four sections of the grieb caste system. the ruling caste, generally notable for their height (the average grieb is close to around 5ft tall, but members of the ruling caste are closer to 6ft and over). the wealthy caste, notable for the fact certain careers are reserved for these caste members (scientists, philosophers, mathematics, and all other scholarly pursuits in general). then there’s the working caste, who are generally left with all the much less desirable career choices (maintenance, construction, most other physical or dirty jobs). finally, the lowest caste, which consists of rebels, prisoners, and all other outcasts (as deemed by the ruling and wealthy castes).

members of the lowest caste CAN have manual labor jobs similar to the working caste, but finding employment is harder due to their status.

despite being part of the infinity point federation, the corruption of the grieb upper classes is something they are very good at concealing. they manage damaging strip-mining operations all around the galaxy that they cleverly manage using hirees of other species with modest forms of technology to hide how wide their reach actually is

although the caste system is rigid, a grieb’s physical appearance may earn them favor from those above them. taller grieb with mostly gray skin resemble the ruling caste, and on occasion may be granted access to resources usually reserved for grieb in higher castes.

grieb have five opposable fingers and toes on each hand and foot, but three of these digits are in the center and the two on the sides are both positioned like thumbs. one of the things that makes their ships hard to pilot for those outside their species are because of the foot controls that require basically another set of hands on your feet