Oafa

The Oafa are a very old sentient race from a metal-rich water world, appearing as flying or floating monochromatic hydrogen-filled ellipsoids with dorsal tentacles. They apparently developed an extremely efficient method of producing PTU's, a method apparently "thousands of times more efficient" than current means.

History[]

Known Ancient History[]

Ancient Oafas were galactic archeologists in their later years. Their disappearance was induced by a fear of relics of ancient civilizations. They discovered history of ancient galactic civilizations rising then disappearing, to nearly 100% extinction.^[1]

After their disappearance, Oafans left assets and weapons across the galaxy. Some of their technology would fall into the hands of others, such as the Ob'enn; it would through time be revealed that ancient Oafans could use gravity and other technologies to manipulate objects such as stars, consuming them for resources.^[2]

Rise of the Neofans[]

The Oafa went extinct millions of years ago, but were reengineered about five hundred years ago as the Neoafa, and now populate the Neoafan Stronghold. They communicate with each other using a combination of sign language and ballast; and with other species using a translator: a small device visible on their faces where a humanoid nose would be. Neoafa originally seemed to be intelligent, but had a child-like like mentality. After interactions with Tagon's Toughs, they received implants that raised their intelligence to that of normal adult.^[3]

The Neoafan Freehold/Stronghold would end up being allied with the Plenipotent Dominion.^[4]

Neoafans would work with the Toughs to try recover more of their ancient Oafan memories by manufacturing millions of robot Crypt Spiders to read the "Scrolls" of dead Oafan bodies.^[5] Among these scrolls of the dead, they would discover one who was essentially a librarian and directly involved in the creation of Eina-Afa. This massive being, named, Yaeyoefui, would soon be the key to finding out what happened to the ancient Oafans.^[6]

Neofree Freehold & Jumpstar City[]

In UNS year 3099, Neoafans would publish information on how to indefinitely extend the lives of people in the galaxy.^[7] This was partially to counter issues raised by the weaponized version of their technology called the Project Laz'R'Us by the Humans.

Biology[]

Oafa and Neoafa have a hive like mind: they are linked to one another but they do have their own personalities. After coming into contact with the Toughs, Neoafans absorbed parts of the memories of ancient Oafas, sharing their memories in a way that has been described like "a journal I recall reading:.^[8] Oafa memories are embedded into their skin and can be read after their death. These corpses resemble paper scrolls once used by ancient humans.^[9] Their floating bodies are not unlike balloons filled with very explosive hydrogen gas.^[10]

Notable Characters of the Race[]

Hioefua Far-Wanders - Hioefau is a representative of the Neoafa who contacted Tagon's Toughs to clear out their ancient space station of unwanted predators.

Maiamula Well-Flesher, Meld-Minister - Maia was the ambassador assigned to go to Earth as part of the Neoafa's delegation to sell warships to the UNS. Maia has a connection to the Hive-Mind of Utchi-Skafatka, who listens to conversations Maia has. However, whether Maia has free will apart from the hive-mind connection is not understood.^[11]

Yaeyoefui, the Librarian - Ancient oafa resurrected by the Toughs and Neoafans. He would have the knowledge of the past surpassing all others. Yaeyoefui relayed the distressing news of mass extinctions prior to his race's disappearance.^[12] His appearance in human's 31st Century would be his fourth revival.^[13] He sometimes referred to by human friends as Yaeyo.

Assets & Fleet[]

The Oafa once was a wide-spread race. Once the Oafa were resurrected from the dead of their digital crypt, they reclaimed much that once was theirs but remained on good terms with Tagon's Toughs, continuing to employ them.

Notable Places[]

Eina-Afa - Mega-sized large space habitat, built by the original Oafas. Eina-Afa has survived millions of years, and was reclaimed by the Neoafans, engineered successors to the Oafans, and later the original race.

Fleet[]

The following are types of ships that have been and still are in service with the Oafa. All starships of the Oafa, like other ships, are piloted by AI.

Oafa Corvette - Smallest known Warship, these golden jelly bean-shaped vessels are typically larger than most vehicles designated as "Frigate" or "Destroyer". These ships are notable for being designed to be hollow, due to the Oafans' floating nature. These ships can be armed with Gravy Guns and Long Guns. Prior to the race's resurrection, a number these ships fell into the hands of the Tagon's Toughs. Ships in service of the Toughs would be modified with Teraguns before the war with the Pa'anuri.

Oafa Carrier - While not officially designated by name or type of ship, these large Acorn-shaped ships typically play the roles of main combatant and spacecraft carriers. Smaller ships, including dozens of Corvettes, are undocked from its midsection, while smaller craft are deployed from launch bays. These ships, however, typically do not come equipped with Long Guns. Other navies, such as the UNS, have referred to the ship as the Breath-Class, due to the notoriety of the Tagon's Toughs own Carrier, Breath Weapon.

Mega-Freighter / Tera-Cage Ship - Easily the largest type ship of the Oafan fleet. They are spherical in shape, and its entire hull splits in half to unload the contents of the ship's massive cargo hold. These vessels were thought of as mega-freighters by the people of the 31st Century. These ships soon to proved to be massive mobile Teraport Cages, to allow for teraporting massive objects to a destination.