Darjee
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Confederacy Race Darjee
The Darjee are the member race of the Confederacy assigned duties as the liaison between the human race and the Confederacy. They are tasked with providing the resources which are limited those of the Darjee and the AIs as the rest of the Confederacy cannot stomach participation in anything so vulgar as combat -- even in the face of certain extinction. This limits the available resources in support of Earth's - and, ultimately, the Confederacy's - defense.
Please note that the Darjee were chosen because they have not had all of their profit motive bled out of them before they joined the Confederacy. It was hoped that this would help them deal with a race who haven't done the gengineering to remove the drive to compete.
Also of interest is the information that there was a movement in place to expel the Darjee from the Confederacy, purely in an effort to distance the rest of Confederacy from the implications of their actions.
Physiology
- Flexible four-clawed 'hands' similar to chicken feet but larger and independent of the vestigial wings
- Wide rounded beak
- Females lay soft-shelled eggs which are incubated for 60 days
- Various feathered areas can be ruffled and rearranged. The neck area feathers are part of the Darjee's 'facial expression' and body language equivalents.
- They can sense the 'aura' of other Darjee and it is an important part of their mate selection process. It is unknown if they can sense or understand Human auras.
- The above is per 'Average Joes' by Thinking Horndog
- Per Thinker in E-mail conversations, they are also approximately 2 meters tall.
Family
One male to two females with a drone 'mother' who raises the next generation
Story Usage
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-23 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.08 (9/21/2019) identified the following top ten usage counts for Darjee:
- Tufts Family Anthology by Doc Tufferson 140 instances.
- The First Command by Zen Master 75 instances.
- THE Harem Tales 4 We Gotta Get Outta This Place! by Omachuck 37 instances.
- Average Joes by Thinking Horndog 35 instances.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by lordshipmayhem 30 instances.
- Destination Azahar by deGaffer 25 instances.
- In Loco Parentis by Justin Radically 22 instances.
- Family Letters by Allan Joyal 19 instances.
- In the Name of the Prophet by Duke of Ramus 18 instances.
- It's a Helluva Job by Anne N. Mouse 18 instances.
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