The most scientifically advanced and technically-minded Votan race, they value science above all else. The Indogenes evolved in a desert region of the planet Daribo, filled with crystalline rock formations. They have bright white skin and no visible hair follicles. Their heads are hairless and smooth; their external ears don't really protrude, smoothly merging with the rest of the head.
They have hexagonal shaped irises, and their skin is covered in faint hexagon-shaped scales; even their written language is based on hexagon shapes. Despite having scales their skin is surprisingly soft, like human skin, and their blood is silver-colored. As the most scientifically advanced Votan race, they upgrade their own bodies with numerous genetic and cybernetic implants (which are often not externally visible).
Some parts of the cybernetic implants are often visible as faint dark lines running under the skin of their heads. The specific implants vary from one individual to the next, as they serve to augment the specific profession that an Indogene chooses to pursue as an adult.
Indogenes can smoke tobacco cigarettes and receive the same mild sense of short-term euphoria that humans do when they smoke tobacco. At the same time, however, Indogenes who smoke tobacco are stated to also suffer the same negative long-term health consequences as humans do. This is evidenced when Dr. Yewll complains that "these things will kill you" before herself taking a drag from a cigarette.
Culturally, the Indogenes tend to be technical geniuses, scientists, and doctors. Indogenes receive one short name at birth, and take on a second name as an adult based on what profession and implants they have chosen (the different implants they can receive are given to enhance their abilities at the profession they have chosen).
Due to their insurmountable belief in science, Indogenes are typically atheists. They cremate their dead, and store the ashes in hexagon-shaped boxes. Due to their technical expertise, most Indogenes remained on the Ark fleet in orbit when the Votans first arrived at Earth. Thus the Indogenes' numbers were devastated when the Ark fleet was destroyed at the end of the Pale Wars.
After the wars, the surviving Indogenes have one of the smallest populations of all Votan races, usually concentrated in cities and towns. While the Votans' terraforming technology normally created haphazard and monstrous changes in Earth's environment after Arkfall, some of the terraforming nanites in Central Canada managed to function more or less as intended.
The result is that a swath of the Canadian Great Plains from Alberta to Saskatchewan was transformed into one of the most accurate replications of a Votan ecosystem on Earth (outside of the controlled terraforming conducted in the Votan capital region of Sulos in Brazil).
This new landscape is a recreation of the environment of the Indogenes' home territories on the planet Daribo: an arid region of crystalline rock formations, now known as the Canadian Desert. Numerous Indogene scientists flocked to the Canadian Desert, and discovered a nearly intact Ark ship which crashed near the city of Edmonton, Alberta.
No one knows what they found, but they subsequently erected a quarantine zone for miles around Edmonton, threatening to kill anyone who comes inside. The rogue Indogene-controlled state centered in Edmonton is one of the largest concentrations of their specious outside of the Votan capital of Sulos.
Highly analytic and adaptable, the Indogenes tend to get along well with all other Votan races. The Castithans, however, are something of an exception, as both races evolved on the planet Daribo and each feels they are superior. However, Indogene-Castithan tensions are more along the lines of petty bickering than a deep-seated blood feud.
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