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|colspan="2"|[[File:Bora-Kai.png|300px]]
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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="2" | '''Characteristics'''
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|Average Size || 2.1 meters male 2.0 meters female
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|Average Mass || 125kg male 95kg female
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|Average Lifespan || 80 years male 120 years female.
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|Reproductive System || heterosexual, viviparous
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|Body Temperature || 31 degrees Celsius
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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="2" | '''Ability Scores'''
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|STR/STA || +10
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|DEX/RS || -5
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|INT/LOG || -5
|- style="background: #eeeeee;"
|PER/LDR || +0
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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="2" | '''Movement'''
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|Walking || 5 meters per turn
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|Running || 20 meters per turn
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|Hourly || 4 kilometers/hour
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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="2" | '''Special Abilities'''
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|Nightvision
|Can see equally well in all but complete dark.
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|Durability
|Current Stamina maximum is +5 higher than STA score would normally allow.
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by [[Bill Logan]]

==Physical Structure==
The Bora-kai are bipedal, with two arms, similar in
external shape to humans. Their skin is leathery,
grey, dense and covered with fine bristly hairs
(much like the skin of an elephant). They grow no
larger thicknesses of hair anywhere on their bodies.

Their heads have a single row of ridges that begin at
the front of their foreheads and trail down the back
of their necks, then all the way down to their
tailbone. These ridges are bony protrusions that
have no known function.

Although their bodies are not meant for speed, they
are strong and durable, able to carry heavy loads
and do so for a very long time.

On the inside, they are very different from humans.
The bora-kai possess a complex web-like network of
interconnecting bones and cartilage that serves as a
powerful protective layer against outside harm.
They have two hearts, one that takes over for the
other at even intervals (a monthly cycle), though if
one fails they can operate off the other indefinitely.
Several other organs are redundant as well.

Bora-kai females have four breasts, and men have
four nipples. They often produce two or more
children per birth and the mother requires this level
of nutrient provision to care for her young.

==Senses==
The Bora-kai have poor senses of touch; their dense
skin lacks any decent level of tactile feedback. This
also increases their tolerance for pain. The fine
hairs on their bodies can sense slight changes in air
current and pressure, however.

The Bora-kai have narrow eyes with all-black
cornea, retina, and pupil. These dark pools of ink
see well in the dark, yet have very little trouble in
full daylight. Even by starlight, the Bora-kai can see
as well as in the daytime. They cannot see in total
darkness.

Their senses of hearing, smell, and taste are
virtually the equal of humans.

==Speech==
These beings have a traditional larynx and vocal
system capable of producing normal ranges of
sound, but their voices tend to be extremely low in
frequency. Their deep baritones make incredible
melodies when they choose to sing the songs of
their homeland. Their speech is slow and carefulsounding,
giving the impression of wisdom.

==Society and Customs==
During the second Sathar war, several Sathar ships
and outposts were destroyed, many of which
crashed on various worlds. In order to prevent their
technology or the mysteries of their existence from
being known, they all self-destructed... except one.

On 87PF during the siege of Sathar Outpost #1 (a
fortified space station with its own moons), Strike
Force Nova noted two large escape pods that
jettisoned. They sent detachments to eliminate the
escape vessel but were surprised to find not Sathar
inside, but something else entirely.

The Bora-kai were a captive race, used for a
hundred generations as slave labor by the dreaded
Sathar. These bora-kai were all that remained, and
they wanted to live. Strike Force Nova took them
captive and tried in vain to learn some secrets about
the Sathar from them.

The Bora-kai were never a star faring race, and their
understanding of space and its physics is limited.
They come from a world long destroyed by the
Sathar (no remaining Bora-kai has any memory of
his homeland). Their society was feudal, and their
king and queen are long dead. The living remnants
of this once proud if primitive society are all
descendants of knights once in the employ of their
queen.

The Bora-kai of today were raised in tyranny and
treated poorly for ten years by UPF, before political
pressure encouraged their release. They all agreed
to split up and explore the Frontier, learn from these
people who have conquered their enemy the Sathar
and secured their rescue. They hope to find a place
for their people to thrive, and seek any evidence
that others of their species survived the destruction
and captivity of the dreaded worms.

Bora-kai are honorable and intelligent. They are
primitive only in their political views. Bora-kai of
today have learned to get along in a Frontier
society, even if they still think Void space is a
magical place.

They prefer the use of melee weapons over anything
else, and tend to shun technology in preference to
simpler things. Battling with a great sword (modifier
+0, damage 4d10, Initiative Modifier -1) is a matter
of personal expression and strength, and the Borakai
knights make their own (a craft passed on
through the generations, even in captivity).

==Attitudes==
The Bora-kai get along well enough with all races
they encounter. Because of their antiquated
viewpoint, they often draw parallels to ancient
wisdoms that modern people would miss. Because
of this, many people consider them more warrior
poets or scholars than military assets.

Vrusk have taken a special interest in the Bora-kai,
and there is a non-profit organization called the
VBO, Vrusks for Bora-kai Organization, dedicated to
the understanding of this ancient people and aiding
them in their pursuit to seek roots or plant new
ones.

==Special Abilities==
'''Night Vision.''' The Bora-kai can see well in the dark,
like a Yazirian. Unlike a Yazirian, though, they are
not penalized for bright lights. Their eyes adapt too
quickly to be flash-blinded and their dark eyes
absorb errant light and keep it out of their pupils.

'''Durability.''' Probably the main reason the Sathar
used them for slave labor is their incredible
durability. Their redundant organs and advanced
network of bones and cartilage result in being able
to sustain more damage than their Stamina score
would normally allow.

In game terms, they can take 5 more points of
damage than their actual Stamina score. This racial
ability can be increased just as other race’s abilities,
up to 100. A very powerful Bora-kai with this racial
ability maxed-out and a Stamina score of 70 would
be able to take 170 points of damage before dying.

When asked to make Current Stamina checks,
players of Bora-kai characters must use their
Stamina score or their current stamina, whichever is
lowest.

''For example: a Bora-kai has Stamina of 55 and this special ability at starting level (+5). This means his Current Stamina is 60. If he had to make a Current Stamina check, he would roll against 55. If he took ten points of damage and then had to make another Stamina check, they would roll against whichever is lowest (in this case, their current stamina of 50).''

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Terl obar at 20:06, 10 March 2010