[tsabszy]

Zoian

- Zoians are a dying race of humanoid, diplomatic, noble aliens with about an equal level of technological developement as the human race at the time human found the first mass relay.
Although Zoians are intelligent species and could be a potential Council Race, they are threatened with extinction.

Biology
- Though zoians are humanoid species with human-level intelligence, feelings and thinking, they can only reproduce with their own race through the transmission of spores.
They have an avarage lifespan of 500 galactic standard years and become mature after no more than 100 years when they become male or female incidentally. Until puberty their gender is neutral. Their species also have strong biotic capabilities.
- Only a few hundered female individuals are still remain of their race as the birth of a male zoian has a slim chance, no more than 1 out of 1000 descendants become a male.

History
- About 1 CE zoian found a one-way exit relay at the border of their solar system after discovering all the planets they could reach using their spaceships of an early mass effect field technology, only capable of interplanetary travelling.
- After few years of studying the relay, they confronted the Rachni which event almost led to their extention. During the Rachni Wars rachni expanded to their system, which was the first contact for the zoian with an exterrestrial intelligent life form.
With the unexpected hostility of the rachni, it was only the matter of days before the full zoian space fleet fall to the overwhelming swarm of the enemy. Zoians realizing this could mean the perishing of their species, in their last desparation they managed to stop the rachni reinforcement by destroying the relay.
However by that time some of the remaining rachni were already roaming their home planet causing devastating destruction to their economy and population. After centuries of war with the last rachni vanished and only 1% zoian population remaining, they started to rebuild their civilization from it's ashes.

- In 2184 CE a volus scouting team discovered their home planet while searching for element zero in the area. They found their society with not being capable of interstellar travelling. Only few hundred female zoians were left, with the youngest being 120 years of age. Zoians claimed that their last male died out two decades before the volus contact, thus they had became a dying race of not being able to reproduce.
- The volus requested to be offered a seat on the Council for discovering a highly intelligent race, but theiy have been denied.

- Salarians stated that they might be able to recreate male zoians with a slight chance. Salarian scientist theorize that zoian's own body can hold the key for the missing gender as it is only decided after such long time later in their lifetime. By decades of genetic engineering research on the remaining individuals they could be able to develop a way to save the zoian from extinction.

[tsabszy]

I hope you enjoy the story, c&c are welcome!

I'm going for a next-gen in-game character.
The Inspiration pictures are only for showing what I roughly have in mind. I would like this new species to be able to fit into the ME universe. And I would like this race to have human facial features, but not just being a human, so kinda like asari race
Concept is coming as soon as i'll have time for it.

I hope the back story is not too long, sorry for it but I just loved the descriptions in every ME's codex

Good Luck for Everyone!

Inspiration Sheet:

[Scythe_SSH]

Cool backstory man ! Happy to see you in the comp

[Cybrinsanity]

I like your style Can't wait to see more... Subd.

[Slava_Gedich]

hey man, it is really great story! I'm waiting concept or 3d from you!)

[CorderoStorm]

Awww yeah great to see you enter and I hope you will be able to finish!

can't wait for what you have in mind

[xxxcubanxxx]

Really looking forward to your entry dude and based on that background story and info it already sounds awesome.

Originally Posted by CorderoStorm

Awww yeah great to see you enter and I hope you will be able to finish!

can't wait for what you have in mind

How bout you get that sweet little booty over here an join as well punk

[tsabszy]

Scythe_SSH - i'm glad you like it! your character is coming along swwetly!
Cybrinsanity - thanky! i hope i won't disappoint your expectations..
Slava_Gedich thx! concept is comeing soon
CorderoStorm - thanks mate! agreeing here with Cuban
xxxcubanxxx thank you!! i'm really curious what you'll come up with!

[tsabszy]

concept update..
i'm not too good at drawing so i'm not going to do a fully detailed concept, but i'm planning to lay down main proportions.



i changed my mind about giving her tentacles at the back of her head, coz it didn't really suit to the backstory and i couldn't come up with a satisfying result. i feel like this new look is kinda suits to mass effect at least i hope so

[thestrom]

drawing looks good to me. I like it better than the avatar style you looked like you wanted originally.

[TheBigBrush]

i love how you did the tentacles nice concept

[xxxcubanxxx]

Liking the face so far

[tsabszy]

thestrom thanks! yeah, i drieved away from my original idea. but i'm ok with it so far. thanks for commenting
TheBigBrush thank you! glad you like it!
xxxcubanxxx thanks mate!

concept update.
some tweaking on the face (bigger eyes, different nose structure, slightly improved profile, tentacles tweaked to match the profile view more)
body proportions might change a bit, it's basically a Quarian silhouette now, slightly altered, but just to check if the head looks too terrible or not. it seems ok for me.

[galloPinto]

The face is interesting, it does look like it would fit mass effect. The silhouette of the body looks cool.

[tsabszy]

galloPinto thank you! i'm glad you feel that way.
the body however is basically a rip-off of the Quarrian silhouette

made slight changes to the face, but i'll only upload it together with the outfit..