Gaim
From The Babylon Project
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The Gaim are an insectoid race and must wear an encounter suit in order to survive in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere.[1]
They were a member-race of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds and are members of the Interstellar Alliance.
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[edit] Social Structure
At the apex of Gaim social order is the Queen. Since a given Gaim is obedient to its Queen on a Genetic level, rebellion and disobedience are physical impossibilities unless induced chemically. Lower level Gaim can be influenced to alter their allegiance from one Queen to another when exposed to certain airborne chemicals. As such, pheromone warfare is a standard component of Gaim cold war tactics. Each Gaim within their society is Genetically designed for a specific task oriented purpose, even the Queens themselves are designed by their progenitors. Individuals in Gaim society ranges from very intelligent, completely autonomous and multi-talented advisors to the Queen to non-intelligent bio-mechanical worker drones. Since the function of Gaim workers and drones does not change, there is no possibility for social advancement in Gaim society. Rewards for a task well done is given in the form of chemical enhancements and Gaim are designed to feel pleasure when a task is done well while a failure triggers fear.
[edit] Drone Classes
- Queen: Ruling monarch over the nest and a master geneticist, designed herself by her immediate predecessor.
- Advisor Drones: Highly intelligent, completely autonomous and multi talented. Designed to advise the Queens and are often loaned out to alien worlds along with warrior drones as mercenaries.
- Explorer Drone: Bipedal ambassador Drones used for interacting with alien races. A relatively new class.
- Warrior Drones: Extremely tough and ferocious in battle, designed only to fight and kill for their Queen.
- Kah'un'zom: Hunters gatherers.
- Balloon Drones: Large drones that use buoyancy to fly through N'chak'fah's thick atmosphere. Used to transport drones from one nest to another.
- Worker Drones: Non-intelligent bio-mechanical drones, designed to be the Nest's labourers.
[edit] Religions
The Gaim have no religion, reasoning that since the existence of a God cannot be proven, it does not exist. A nestling once attempted to prove the existence of a God, but the Queen ate him. They are loyal only to the Queens.
[edit] Trivia
- The Gaim have a natural aversion to the colour green, to them green means "danger".
- Being subterranean nest dwellers, the Gaim are naturally agoraphobic and the sight of open space instils great fear in them.
- The Gaim have never evolved natural Telepaths, or as they call them, "mind-talkers", nor apparantly have they or others been able to engineer the ability in any of their drones.
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[edit] Other Sources
| Major Races | ||
| Ancient Races: | First Ones • First Born • Vorlon • Shadow • Walkers of Sigma-957 • Thirdspace Aliens • The Hand | |
| Major Races: | Minbari • Centauri • Human • Narn • Dilgar • Drakh | |
| League/Alliance Races: | Drazi • Brakiri • Gaim • pak'ma'ra • Abbai • Yolu • Hyach/Hyach-do • Markab • Llort • Grome • Hurr • Cascor • Balosian • Onteen • Iksha • Vree | |
