Torrn

"With two great extinction events in their history, the Torrn are incredibly fortunate to still exist."

- Antenocte

The Torrn are a race of aliens residing on their homeworld of Planet Cooler 202 (formerly Planet Mirocus). They are considered LC, or least concerned on the endangered species scale.

Origin
Primitive Torrn were first observed around 23 Million Before Age, marking them as one of the oldest extant species. Being a very vengeful race, the Torrn spent much of their early years in massive inter-species wars, often over petty disagreements. Despite having massive, sprawling cities across their planet, most of them were near-ruined due to the constant battles. As the years progressed, the Torrn continuously built new civilizations over their old ones, and continued warring.

Especially important to their early history was when arrived on Planet Mirocus, and decimated over 75% of the population within seconds. Before he could destroy the planet, however, Buu was called away by, who had found the world of the. In the coming years, the different Torrn cities still battled one another, but in a much smaller capacity.

Intergalactic Usage
Around the 600 Age, a massive plague hit the Torrn species, and served as their second great decimation. Over 95% of the species was killed, and much of the planet's cities were fully abandoned. Those who remained mostly lived in isolated communities in the wilderness thereafter.

Several years later, some of forces found Mirocus. Initially thinking the planet desolate, they went planet-side and began setting up a outpost. Only after a few weeks, did they notice that there was a sentient and strong species living there. A few skirmishers occurred between the PTO and the Torrn, with each side having victories. Finding that the Torrn could use energy (which was rare for potential servile species), Cooler's soldiers stopped the fighting, and attempted to recruit the creatures.

However, finding them so few in number from the recent plague, the emissaries set up breeding stations, to let the Torrn breed safely, and protect their young until adulthood. This proved a marvelous success, and the population re-grew rapidly. However, as almost all newly bred Torrn were sent off as soldiers when of proper age, the planet remained rather empty, and was slowly depopulated.

At the apex of Cooler's reign, the Torrn represented around 2% of his soldiers. When the Planet Trade Organization collapsed, most surviving soldiers did not return to their homeworld, and started populating other, new planets. Their population, after Cooler's death, was 25,466,751. Even with the population on their homeworld decreasing, the fact that off-world, on other new planets, various Torrn were repopulating, they are no longer considered a threatened species.

Appearance
A Torrnan is yellow, with sparse, darker fur around its upper arms, legs, and back. Their chests are hairless. On their torso, they have four arms, aside from their normal two coming from their shoulders. They have only three fingers on each arm, one of which is a thumb. Down the back of their spine, they have two tails sprouting out (similar to what a fork looks like), which are small and boney, with points on the end. Their faces are flat and wide, and have two tusks jutting around from behind their jawbones. They have three, narrow eyes spread across their face. Their knees bend backwards, and their legs are slightly bent at all times. Because of this, when they stand at full height, they are much taller than normal, at around 10 feet. Females are distinguished from males by the lack of two tails - they have only one - and a more muscular build.

Mental Traits
The Torrn are a proud race, who do not take slights lightly. This leads to many wrongs being righted by hostility. Otherwise, the Torrn are not a brutal race. They have much wisdom and intellect, and many were used by Cooler as transmission officers or pilots. Those in combat often work up strategies and tactics for their teams to use, even if they are not in charge. Torrn are also extremely loyal creatures; and after being conscripted by Cooler, they considered him their true leader. Whereas many other races were simply annexed and grudgingly served the tyrant, Torrn were legitimately loyal. Once he was killed, this loyalty reverted to each Torrn's commanding officer.

Lifespan
Male Torrn live, for average, 118-124 years. Female Torrn live for about the same, at 117-127 years. Notably, males reach adulthood at around the age of 15 years, and sexual maturity at around 7 years. Females reach adulthood at around 14 years, and sexual maturity at 7 years.

Technology
Torrn, even though they are an intellectual and wise race, do not have cutting-edge technology. All of their cities were built out of stone or wood, which, while lending itself to the creation of vast, esoteric ruins, did little to show for the species. Much of their cities were built on top of the old cities until Majin Buu destroyed most of them. After that, the species never really recovered in terms of expansion, and the ruins that remained, stayed where they were. New cities were mostly built in new regions from then on. Their only forms of transportation were slave-driven carriages, or wooden boats. Torrn preferred not to use weaponry, as having six hands, with sharp claws proved well enough. In addition, many Torrn could harness the power of ki, and opted to use that most often.