Florans

Florans are a tribal pre-FTL tribal civilisation that has spread across The Milky Way after spores made their way onto the human ship that first made contact with them.

Biology
Florans often have a lean and muscular build and a flower on the top of their head. Florans usually have green skin, but their skin and flowers can have colouration that ranges across the entire visual spectrum, and perhaps beyond. Other plants have been known to be on a floran's head, such as mushrooms and Venusivian flytraps (I bet you've never seen a fly from Venus before!). They also have black compound eyes and a mouth full of jagged shark-like teeth.

Culture
Florans are very violent, often having civil wars along with occasional hunting "parties" which almost always quickly devolve into lethal infighting with the intent to prevent more than one floran from actually hunting the prey. Tribal floran society also treats living animals of all sorts like a human might treat non-sentient plant life: as building materials, food, and decoration. Despite this, florans seem to have a knack for figuring out how to use technology with relatively little knowledge of how it might actually work. However, most technology that tribal florans use are either scavenged or pillaged from more civilised societies, and they rarely care to create their own tools more advanced than stone-age.

Though uncommon, it is not unheard of for a tribal-born floran to have a less barbaric mindset either by sheer intuition or through education from a parent who has such a mindset.

History
Florans live in a tribal society, so their history is likely conveyed by word-of-mouth and tradition. In the larger universe, floran society is usually looked upon as inferior or barbaric by other races, and florans are often treated as such regardless of their level of education. While there are many cases where non-barbaric florans have successfully integrated into society, some tribal florans have trouble adjusting. Literature written by one particularly troubled floran might involve successful "aggressive negotiations" as a form of diplomacy.

Floran Worlds

 * Ran

In-game

 * +1 BRA, +1 FIT, -1 SMA, -1 INF
 * Carbonic Respiration: Florans breathe in carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen. In situations of slow suffocation, a floran reduces the effective number of creatures consuming air by two, unless no oxygen-breathing creatures are present.
 * Photosynthesis: You can not only subsist off of sunlight, you can regenerate 1d4 hit points after bathing in the sun for one hour, once per day.
 * Flammable: Highly vulnerable to fire damage
 * Thorn Whip: You can do a melee attack that deals 1d6 damage. You may use it as a free action on your turn if you have an opponent grappked. In addition, you can jump twice as far as you normally could and gain +3 to all Jump checks.