Jassikan

The Jassikan are one of the Historic Alien Races in The Long Journey Home. Their demise is the most recent.

Description
The Jassikan followed a similar pattern to humanity, but didn't stop their cold wars with the advent of their intragalactic space era. Instead they carried their rivalry to the stars. Unlike most other races in the Milky Way galaxy that lived to see the current galactic cycle, the Jassikan had several big cities on many planets. It is doubtful that all were united under one loose government like most major races are today, as many were rivaled and sought to possess the highest amount of weapons of mass destruction to deter a first strike. Very unlike humanity, someone finally pushed the button. Today their radioactive worlds are a long lasting memorial to deter intragalactic nuclear wars. The tomb worlds will be uninhabitable for several million years.

Due to the age of decadence in the galaxy and the slow crawl of sciences it is hard to pinpoint their exact age, but their expiration date was fairly recent. Their main energy source were mobile nuclear batteries and their weaponry relied on plasma weapons and nuclear bombs. Their culture was very diversified and the day to day lifes were similar to humans, aside of their main diet being insects and worms.

Figurines found in Tchansu ruins and other places show a worm- or snakelike race, not unlike the Reeve today. Based on the mutated rotting corpses on their world, this depiction seems fairly accurate for the Jassikan. At the time of their ultimate demise, the Jassikan might have been the oldest living organic race aside of the Avulco and K'schar, just without frostbite or cannibalism.

The Wolphax have great admiration for the warlike Jassikan culture, but hoped they would settle their battles in ceremonies. Their ultimate demise hit them hard, as genocide has no honor among them. Yet, the player can often see insectoids in the ruins and cities of the Jassikans and they even share some of it if engaged honorably. The Wolphax still value their legacy.

Very unlike the Wolphax, the Ilitza love to plunder the tomb worlds of the Jassikan to use their bones in a game they call "Jassikan's Teeth". If a player is seen by an Ilitza party, it will always attack them. Why this desecration takes place or the reason the Ilitza take so much pleasure in the Jassikans' humiliation is unknown. Maybe they felt insulted by the splendor of their civilization and laugh at their corpse... or they simply couldn't claim to be the older species during their prime as they do today.

Interaction
"Ah, a sad, sad people. (Their own fault). Make deals, not war! No device out there can cure a broken world." - Glukkt

"To have welcomed the Vine. To have raced to war. Nothing remains." - Vine Consensus

"Aye, a tragic tale, the Jassikans. There is no honour in genocide. Had they but fought their differences ceremonially, they may yet be with us." - Wolphax

"We cannot even venture into those ruins. Their energies and ours are incompatible." - Cueddhaest

"Poor children. They tore themselves apart over trivial differences and a thirst for resources. Now all that remains is the aftermath of their pointless war." - Logos

"If thou hast pity in thine heart, bestow it upon those poor creatures that burned themselves out before so much as meeting their true masters. We will not lower ourselves to scrabble in the radioactive dirt they left behind. That is what you lesser races art for." - Meorcl

"Ha. Those primitive Jassikan warmongers. Two pitiful nations so desperate for nuclear powered weapons to dispatch their hated rivals. Of course we happily sold to both. That is only fair, is it not?" - Ilitza

"Don't get us started on that lot, friend. All too often we find what'd be a perfect world for colonisation if the whole thing weren't still glowing from their mistakes. We've lost a lot of good Indentures trying to figure ways of cleaning up, but I reckon none's yet been worth the loss." - Reeve

"Two sides. Fought. Destroyed each other. Tragedy. So much science lost in nuclear exchanges. So little to be salvaged. So little of use. Had they only waited another century." - K'schar

Assessment of the Entrope
(only accessible with Admin-Device on Entrope Stations)

Once peaceful culture torn apart over non-resolvable differences including: colour of gelatinous membrane, favoured telecommunications product, optimum flavour of wormflesh and favoured side in televised drama. Radioactive half-life of known sites currently six million years.