The pure gobi race, produced by a GoGo chromosome pair. Unlike kor, sord or drake, pure goblins are a naturally unstable race engineered as an extinction vector created by a rogue flesh engineer Ghobthul and preserved in hidden blueprints.
Appearance and Anatomy
Base: Humanoid
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Small and wiry: Pure goblins usually stand from 1.2m to 1.6m. Their bodies are lean, coarse and built for quick bursts of movement rather than endurance elegance.
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Skin: The vault-born template commonly has mottled green, grey or brown skin. It is often rough and quick to scar.
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Head: Their faces are dominated by wide mouths, sharp teeth and large mobile ears.
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Eyes: Their eyes are large and alert, adapted to low light. The exact color can vary, but the vault-born template tends toward yellow, pale green or dull red.
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Limbs: They have long fingers with sharp nails or short claws. Their legs are suited to running, crouching and climbing.
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Maturation: Pure goblins mature quickly. A decanted or newborn goblin can become dangerous within a few years.
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Lifespan: In good conditions they can live 25-50 years, though violent death is common.
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Sex: All pure goblins are male. Natural goblin females are not known to exist.
Character Tendencies
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Aggressive: Pure goblins are quick to violence and have a low threshold for conflict.
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Pack-oriented: They function best in packs, nests or war-bands. Isolation weakens their morale and coordination.
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Short-term cunning: They are capable of ambushes, traps and crude tactics, but they rarely plan far into the future.
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Hostility to non-Go life: Their engineered temperament makes them distrustful, predatory or hateful toward non-gobi lineages.
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Erasure drive: They show a strong instinct to attack not only individuals, but family structures, records and symbols of other lineages.
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Vault-seeking: Pure goblins show an instinctive attraction to hidden laboratories and blueprint caches.
Production
Pure goblins are almost never born through natural reproduction. They are decanted from hidden Chrysalis Brood-Vaults as clones or near-clones of the Go template.
The vaults provide:
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gene-seed,
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artificial womb cysts,
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behavioral imprinting,
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basic language,
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pack instincts.
This makes pure goblins far more uniform than raid-born gobis.
Reproduction
Pure goblins cannot reproduce among themselves because they have no natural females. Their seed carries the engineered Y-Go complex.
When a pure goblin impregnates a woman of another race, the child is normally male and expresses the Go chromosome, but it is usually not GoGo. Instead it takes the mother's second chromosome, producing mixed gobis such as Gobai, Gobshak, Gobgar or Gobdrak.
Burnout
The pure goblin template is intentionally unsustainable. Pure goblins are made to spread rapidly, erase other lineages and then collapse when their host population is gone. Hidden vaults preserve the blueprint and can restart the cycle later.