#✺⊰| filє αиd яєρσятร 〈 misha

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✺⊰| Headcanon | JahSepp Written text

The JahSepp did form a highly fluid writing system as they developed their language from tactile to verbal and it became necessity as they advanced technologically to develop it to a writing system.

The nature and structure of their text is primarily of a glyph which is central with each character, often depicting a objects or vague abstract motions, somewhat similar to the glyph Chinese symbols follow, but the fluidic nature some with other symbols around the central, that add motion and context to the nature of the text and altering text colours to empathises areas of stress. One glyph may have up to three colours so one colour is not exclusive.

The reflection of the ‘color’ in text are translated tonally in verbal speech by three coves, neutral, high-to-low and low-to high

The full stops and gramma are also placed typically on the top right side of any glyph to show an end or break to a sentence. Any new sentence's are placed on a new line.

The structure is not read from left to right the whole way through, On any start or paragraph, it starts from right to left, when on the next line of the same sentence, it goes to left to right, until the next one, right to left. Like a Zig-Zag.

There is also the rotation of a glyph that also can add deeper complexities to the written text. This aspect was introduced after technology and the ability to rotate holographic text. Rotating the texts opened up changes to contexts and tenses.

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After making first contacts, the JahSepp soon developed a separate and structured langue systems that would be accepted by alien translators than their core language, this was considered ‘formal’ variant in their eye as it wasn’t just them using it. This doesn’t stop them from switching when with their own people. Languages, such as Federation standard, was lost in the generations and only the jahSepp who were hatched on starfleet vessels know it well. Rest would need to be taught.

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✺⊰| Headcanon || JahSepp External Evolution

After gaining their bodies, JahSepp had always began to find ways to evolve their bodies to their needs. Externally, this was hardly seen and thus, they looked relatively human and this didn’t change for a while.

Changed to the external host was slowly bred in after the new host design was greatly praised

Most obviously, Ear shape were made to curled points and with facial markings of blue and green around the eyes and down the face. The markings carried down  the neck and followed the collar bone down the arms and ended near lines down the back of the hand to the middle finger.

Hidden by the hair, markings did go down the back of the skull and down their bone and along their legs to the top of their feet to their big toe. Eyes also turned from their host colours to different shades of blue and green.

Misha had a dark blue and Jayla went for a deep emerald green. The markings flickered with a glow when they move energy through their body.

Their hair colour also changed, varying to the taste of the JahSepp but was traditionally varying shades of blue ad green that they loved.

Jayla went for a dark teal, Misha opted for different shade of teal that was closer to blue.

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✺⊰| Headcanon || JahSepp Internal Evolution

Internally, The JahSepp drastically changed from their first original forms. heavily human based. They evolved more

Generations, and design, optimise the JahSepp’s host form, removing redundant organs such as intestines, liver, kidneys and bladder and replacing the space with muscle, energy-cells and the JahSepp’s new internal host they they developed, settled into a fluid sac un the abdomen, btw, the hearts are bigger than a human heart (not as big as the diagram shows)

Rather than residing in the host brain, the JahSepp built a vermiform to house their spore-form, akin to a trill symbiont, This form became a secondary (but primary) brain that’s much easier to retain muscle-memory, memory and other biological into their next host with much bigger mass. The host brain in the skull is there as means of processing the senses and organizing them like their old bodies but the jahSepp still ‘lives; though this brain just as well. Placement doesn’t affect how they live in this host.

Their spore form would need to have this extra layer of protection of the secondary form once out of the protection of both brain and skull. The host body is still utterly dependant on the JahSepp and would not be ‘active’ before the jahsepp in implanted and would die after a removal. This would also enable them to survive even if their vermiform is removed from the host body or the body dies with them still inside; protected in this secondary host until retrieved.

After the form was agreed, many JahSepp with host bodies opted to recreate their hosts with this new design. Those already born from their bodies, the JahSepps not able to leave body, opted to have some genetic tinkering for their offspring to inherit those desired traits as they weren’t able to change their looks so simply. Some did have their externals changed via tattoos and other surgical procedures.

With exposure to the network’s oxygen rich environment, they also grew in size.

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✺⊰| The KallaRar

In the Network, there are many species, JahSepp, Elachi, Tardigrades and SepPhri, almost all of these are either a plant-based life form or a function to the network. Elachi all but left the network at one point so few of them left in their natural habitat. 

Tardigrades are a more common species that’s worthy of being a prey species to the huge KallaRar. 

KallaRar are a hairless beast of muscle, teeth and claws that lives in small clusters within the network and have a keen sense of hearing and often use that to target prey. Six lims helps them travel fast, Their sight and smell aren’t as good, extremely photosensitive as a result and are often things prey use to escape the attention of the KallaRar. They’re there, in a way, to maintain the tardigrade and other animal species from their population from growing too large. They have huge areas of hunting grounds and territory which, is often next to fertile and needed land for other species to breed or birth on. 

They evolved to the height of 6′9 and have a incredibly tough skin though their Prey species, the Tardigrade also evolved to help combat that and also having tougher nails and skin. Making it harder for the Kalla’Rar to attack them openly. 

Often, to make an easy meal than going for a full grown, a Kalla’Rar may opten choose a baby Tardigrade as they’re easier to kill and their skin is easier to break through than an adults. Eggs better though battling a protected nest is often a 50/50 chance. 

After the jahSepp took on humanoid form and began to birth the next generation, this did attracted the attention of the KallaRar. As a result, the jahSepp were quick to evolve their offspring to no longer cry out after birth and to stay quiet. Even in their humanoid form, JahSepp knew they’re no match for a KallaRar and would go what they could to avoid them. They may not be ‘harmonious’ as most species but they’re necessary nonetheless to maintain a life-cycle in the network.

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✺⊰| JahSepp. The Final form

After gaining their bodies, JahSepp had always began to find ways to evolve their bodies to their needs. Externally, this was hardly seen and thus, they looked relatively human and this didn’t change for a while. 

Changed to the external host was slowly bred in after the new host design was greatly praised 

Most obviously, Ear shape were made to curled points and with facial markings of blue and green around the eyes and down the face. The markings carried down  the neck and followed the collar bone down the arms and ended near lines down the back of the hand to the middle finger.

Hidden by the hair, markings did go down the back of the skull and down their bone and along their legs to the top of their feet to their big toe. Eyes also turned from their host colours to different shades of blue and green. 

Misha had a dark blue and Jayla went for a deep emerald green. The marklings flickered with a glow when they move energy through their body.

Their hair colour also changed, varying to the taste of the JahSepp but was traditionally varying shades of blue ad green that they loved. 

Jayla went for a dark teal, Misha opted for different shade of teal that was closer to blue.

Internally, they’re drastically different then their first original forms. heavily human based. They evolved more

Generations, and design, optimise the JahSepp’s host form, removing redundant organs such as intestines, liver, kidneys and bladder and replacing the space with muscle, energy-cells and the JahSepp’s new internal host they they developed.

Rather than residing in the host brain, the JahSepp built a vermiform to house their spore-form, akin to a trill symbiont, This form became a secondary (but primary) brain that’s much easier to retain muscle-memory, memory and other biological into their next host with much bigger mass. The host brain in the skull is there as means of processing the senses and organizing them like their old bodies but the jahSepp still ‘lives; though this brain just as well. Placement doesn’t affect how they live in this host.

Their spore form would need to have this extra layer of protection of the secondary form once out of the protection of both brain and skull. The host body is still utterly dependant on the JahSepp and would not be ‘active’ before the jahsepp in implanted and would die after a removal. This would also enable them to survive even if their vermiform is removed from the host body or the body dies with them still inside; protected in this secondary host until retrieved. 

After the form was agreed, many JahSepp with host bodies opted to recreate their hosts with this new design. Those already born from their bodies, the JahSepps not able to leave body, opted to have some genetic tinkering for their offspring to inherit those desired traits as they weren’t able to change their looks so simply. Some did have their externals changed via tattoos and other surgical procedures. 

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✺⊰| Network Species, The SepPhri

A distant, cousin species of the JahSepp, The SepPhri play in the role of maintaining the mycelium barrier, while the JahSepp break down the foreign intruders. Their work is not seen by those who live either side of the network, thus miss their existence entirely. Their work is focused on ensuring the network isn’t infected from unhealthy network connections or from backwash of a collapsing universe or some other catastrophe that could happen to the network.

Once they sense either of those, they start to sipher off the network’s connections to the world. If an infection is too late, then they’re able to wither away the network pathway entirely, killing an entire network pathway and anything that didn’t leave the space in time, which is to no high cost in the grand scheme of things. This mercyless approach keeps the network healthy and keeps the worst out.

When a universe is collapsing, closing off the network from that stops the backwash, meaning matter of varying sized and states (eg, like radioactive debris) from being blasted into the network in huge waves from the widle wave of every that could breach the barrier.

The SepPhri are half the size of the JahSepp, and are blue, In mass, they’re near impssoble to see in the naked eye and can look like a blue cloud

JahSepp and SepPhri tend to not mix due to the nature of their roles though sometimes they annoy each other. If they’re too close or interfering with their roles. 

Both Misha and Jayla had to go through the SepPhri to get to the other side. Misha doesn’t care much about them as much as they’re no longer a problem. Jayla also shares that opinion. SepPhri to them are boring. 

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✺⊰| Headcanon | Technologically advanced JahSepp

After the creation of the first JahSepp Ship, this enabled them to create ways to monitor the network so they built a network -based hub as well that connects to the Shal’lor, enabling them to monitor in their ‘live’ and liniar time of events happening in the network and most particularly, of other universes.

Such as, the creation of new universes, the destruction of others, each universe had it’s own place along the thin and infinet webs of the network and how they move and respond to each other. Some collide, some get absorbed by another bigger but it’s something the JahSepp have come to understand.  They’re able to track certain universes of interest and label them to their quantum signature. They can observe them on monitors, like the image above if they’re looking at multi-verseal situations (such as creation of a new or a collision)

The JahSepp prefer to...observe than interfere. They’re also well aware that they cannot save a universe due to immense size vs their capabilities. They choose to keep emotion out of it and log everything effently. 

They also use this to track any jahSepp that have also left the network, such as Misha and May.

This technology also allows them to see and track wormholes that can lead from one universe to another and even time-travel strands but following the latter, is out of their range. Time travel they’ve learned creates new network threads from the changes that have occured. and rather than getting mixed up in that, they just settle observe safety in the network.

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✺⊰| Headcanon | JahSepp

Like most humanoid species, JahSepp in new humanoid forms do find things enjoyable to observe or touch, as they had the sensed to process everything and the brain responds to what appeals to them. Nature or natural-occurring things appeal most to the JahSepp.

Moss Balls are Misha’s favourite things. They absolutely love them. It triggers a cute-aggression response and overexcitement when faced with them. Green is their favourite colour, and combined with the spherical shapes and degree fuzziness of the moss and how many balls there are, this would easily lead to Misha getting into a tank with them all. If faced with a large (like a meter-sized one), they would hug it. They get that over excited with joy that they don’t understand what to do with it.

Jayla’s favourite object of enjoyment is different to Misha’s. Jayla’s drawn to more structure and bluer ranges of colours. So she’s attracted to more natural formed, crystal structures, like aqua aura quartz. This doesn’t give her overexcited but offers her a sense of relaxment if able to hold them. If wand-like, the straight structure is pleasant to feel and it’s durable in her hand. She’ll probably run a finger or thumb over in motions. She tends to keep one on her after her discovery on a planet of them in her trips

Here's a crappy sketch of Misha and a giant moss ball. Couldn't help myself lol.

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✺⊰| Spectral vision

Both Jayla and Misha’s appearance with them using their spectral visions. The irises turn a glowy-blue and there’s also slight glow around the skin of the eyes as the energy flow to stimulate the necessary ocular cones to see into such spectrums by will.

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✺⊰| Headcanon || JahSepp

JahSepp with humanoid form do have normal colour vision, at first, after their forms, they began to expand and make alterations to the biology of their hosts to help evolve themselves. JahSepp could always sense energy and it’s flow, also quantum signatures so they incorporated this into their vision, though to stop side effects, (headaches/migraines, hypersensitivity of the oculare regions, nose bleeds, loss of colour vision ) the ‘spectral vision’ was something they could willingly activate in their eyes.

JahSepp with photosensitivity use it the least, to spare the side effects as they’re more vulnerable for such effects than those not photosensitive.

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✺⊰| Headcanon | JEC Shal’lor Uniform

After the creation of the Jahsepp’s first ship, a uniform was devised as means of a work-formality when on duty. This was also inspired by the fact that it made them appear more professional and culturally prepared for first-contacts with outside species. 

They took to a chain of command similar to Starfleets as it allowed them to properly assign the correct JahSepp with appropriate skills and command level to their job and responsibilities. Higher rank crew wearers paler clothes, though the style stays the same and fabrics tend to have a floral design to them. 

Rank is shown by the amount of piercings/earrings that they have done to their right ear and what colour they are. Bronze are for the engineers, Silver for science and gold for tactical/command crew. The Captain wears Gold, lined with Silver to emphasise their rank.

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✺⊰| Headcanon | The JahSepps

As stated in a previous HC post, 6 JahSepp picked out their humanoid forms, 4 with male bodies, two with female bodies and chose new names for their new sense of identity that came with being more individual. they all drew from Human DNA as that was the easiest to draw from and to reconstruct with their new matter.

1. Jai

Female body and used she/her pronouns after adapting to the unique form, Jai found a talent with drawing and has found an interest to explore with art, and has been the lead on creating beautiful tattoos on her people. She took and used the DNA strand of Lieutenant Nilsson after A USS discovery crashed and she and the rest of the crew were killed and decomposed into the network. She was the first to be interested in reproduction via their humanoid form

2. Fen 

Male body, and used they/them pronouns for themselves. Fen is the main JahSepp that keeps a eye out to the other species to ensure their safety and has dabbled in music, they’re not fond of drama and almost considered returning to spore form before opting to remain multicellular after a visit from Jayla that encouraged them to protect their small colony. They used the DNA of Albert Kim, A starfleet officer in the CTP that had died with the rest of the crew after the ship crashed inside the network and his body was broken down by the JahSepp.

3. Dyla

Female body with the use of they/them pronouns, Dyla was the last to take humanoid form, though found an appreciation to it, they’re interested in exploring the network and species but not enough to leave the network, though they work closely with Jia, they took to creating their clothes to wear. Dyla opted to used the DNA sequence of Joanna Owosekun who had perished in a USS Discovery crash to build up their humanoid form.

4. Cal

Male body, used he/him pronouns. Cal was the first to take on a humanoid form after Jayla left and founded their first suitable area for their small colony that was close enough to the main influx of matter for them to contiue their job as JahSepps, and was close enough to an area that’d be their birthing grounds, despite how close it was to others. He enjoys the humanoid form and studies their plants for medicinal purposes after breaking a finger; he feels this would be important for their bodies to maintain good health and less discomfrot. this came in useful for dressing newly tattooed bodies with some of his creations to sooth and aid the healing process. He found an interest to reproduce with the humanoid form

Cal used the DNA of Captain Pike of a USS Discovery that crashed attempting to escape control, he and the rest of the crew died and his body was decomposed into the network. 

5. Gan

Male Body, uses they/them Pronouns. Gan took on a humanoid form after Fen and began to experiment with building and crafting, being the lead JaHSepp in the development of their home rock. They used the DNA strands of the Deceased starfleet officer, Gen Rhys, to build their form after the human male was killed in the crash.

6. Terian.

Male Body, used he/him pronouns. Terian was second to last to create his body though was saddened by the loss of the two who didn’t like the humanoid form. He helps Fen in keeping their colony safe and oversees the protection of their birthing ground. He’s often used to help Gan a lot with their projects and often helps model stuff for Dyla.

He used the DNA of R.A Bryce, a deceased starfleet officer who perished in the destruction of the USS Discovery that crash landed. 

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✺⊰| Headcanon | JahSepp

Despite using human DNA to build their human form, the JahSepp’s blood, however, is not human blood. While it has traces of iron, tainting a potentially turquoise, glowing blood more purple-blue. the purpose of the blood is more than just to carry oxygen and nutrients around the body but also to help the flow of mycelium energy and energy they absorb as they break down matter.

Both in a combination of energy residue and their unique physiology, the blood emits a bioluminescent glow that’s present when not in the dark. When it’s deoxygenated, it’s much bluer in colour and when oxygenated, it turns more purple.

The glow isn’t seen when the skin isn’t broken (it can be if they blush hard enough), however, when the jahSepp absorbs energy and breaks down matter, the glow of physical contact is shone through the skin and brightened enough to expose more of the internal bone structures that are much denser than biological flesh. 

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✺⊰| jahSepp Evolution: Height

One of the unforeseen effects of evolution within the network, from generation to generation of humanoid-JahSepp was the adaption to the environment and it’s increased and bountiful atmosphere and greater-intake and usage of energy. This caused them to get bigger and bigger.

The soon average heights of the female-bodied JahSepps were to about 6′3 to 6′5 and the male-bodied JahSepps were about 6′11 to 7′1 and  typically a foot difference to the hosted JahSepp and their original template. (see image above of comparative between the JahSepp and human)

This height change was subtle and with alien ships with shorter species, the JahSepp did develop some technology to shorten their height in the duration of wearing them, to make it easier to either blend in or use shorter doorways.

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✺⊰| headcanon || The Network

The Mycelium Network exists as pathways that sits in it’s own realm between and throughout the universe, but it’s vast connection grows and forms to new worlds and universes. 

But, internally, the network very different to planets and conventual physics. The network isn’t just one slab of land that’s elecongated, it’s in fact hundreds of millions of islands that vary from size to size. Some big as counties, some as small as a shuttlebay, depending on it’s location and uses. 

Larger the island, the more life it contains, like Tardigrades, KallaRar or JahSepp. Smaller islands are found closer to mycelium barriers but the islands are important to maintain the energy flow around it and plant spread. 

The network itself has to be adabale and moveable, so islands make that most convenient than a solid mass. Some species don’t realise this is the lay out until they find themselves at an edge. 

As there is no gravity like a planet. falling off the edge would not mean certain death or getting lost in the void, but could cause the one to hitch a ride down the energy undertow to another island. Plants, spores and animals use this as methods of traveling to island to island. This layout was the original cause for the evolution of the multicellular life, like Tardigrades and KallaRar, the slim diversity that the species relied on.

Plantlife, however did become so much more diverse than the Fauna, but the spread and patches are not confined to a single island like typical plants would in a normal planet of isolated plantlife. Carried by species or flow of energy, or even by the pink pools that carried and received organic information from other areas of the network like a nervous system. The network is far more contained and the jahSepp are the ones that help maintain the healthy atmosphere and biosphere from each one. SepPhri also use this energy for themselves to survive but otherwise don’t get involved. 

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✺⊰| Headcanon | JahSepp Ship

The JahSepp would eventually become technologically advanced with fungal bio-tech bases ship/weapons. Using inspiration from the Elachi, another mycelium network based species, and their experiences with crashed Discoverys/Glenns and other mycelium-drive ships, the JahSepp began to develop their own ship capable of not only leaving the network, but also using it as their propulsion system. 

(They’d have a ship similar to the image above)

Like their own bodies, they use matter of both worlds to create a stable and clean presense for when in the network and utilise a mycelium orb-core, akin to Stamets’s one in the terran universe but one that’s stable and not polluting the network. This core don’t just supply power to the ship, but it also powers, their life-support and systems. 

The ship, discovery-class, JEC Shal’lor, itself is not fully ‘manufactured’ but has an organic, plant-based touch to it’s internal infrastructure that incorporates elements of the network into it while retaining a distinct ship shape and side, it’s main size about the side of the USS Discovery from saucer to nacelles and twice as wide with it’s wing span. 

The wings are weres as a methods of stabilizing the main body, and to allow was maneuverability and help with the usage of their own ‘spore-drive’ technology to create Excess energy cavitation by the wings rotating and ‘flapping’ twice then until they wrap around the ship, left wing folding over the top, the left folding over the bottom. Once the jump is complete, the wings unfurl back into position; in quick series of jumps, the wings do not need to continually flap and curl, just remain around the ship as added protection. The flexibility of the wings are due to the organic side of the ship than mechanical. 

The ship is equipped with corridors, a bridge, shared quarters, labs and other facilities, such as a storage, Prototaxites stellaviatori, and other mycelium plants used to assist or help, a main computer is installed for data collection and processing. They used data retrieved from a Discovery as an initial data bank for their understanding on the world. Information is passed through organic tubing of a fluid native to the network; the fluid of pink protein-based fungal waters, that transmits both biological and electrical data across to any other parts of the network in an instant. On the ship, it allows for fast and easy use of their equipment. 

The ship isn’t capable of Warp, it doesn’t need to be with the drive, though it can run on impulse power via the mycelium core. As all of the JahSepp are from the network, are are capable of being the ship’s navigator, though there are few that became trained for their purpose

The JahSepp’s compliment would be approximately 180 humanoid JahSepps in total. One third of them, JahSepp spores using humanoid bodies, the two thirds are the offspring of the humanoid JahSepps. It’s considered a generational ship as young are raised on there after their birth in the network; they have to return to the network for breeding. Hundreds of JahSepp stay in the network but they receive the data collected from the ship to maintain linked with their kind and their experiences. 

The crew set up a ship system of required to the JahSepp to cover medical, science, engineering and tactical as with any starship. They have no official ‘rank’ like starfleet, but they go have a leader that runs the ship as a ‘Captain’.

 There are 9 large, circular rooms dedicated for sleeping communal in. A 10th strictly for those mating. Each of the 9 rooms can hold up to 20 full down JahSepps in at a single time. Most 5 to each of the beds that are curled along the floor, from one wall to the centre where it’s stationed around a glowing, orange crystal light that glows depending on how much light they want. the ceiling it decorated to simulate the ‘sky’ of the network. The main beds are a type of waterbed that have a spongy base that provide comfort to the sleeping JahSepp while the Mating beds are thick and spongy with a bounce to it with leather like- covering that makes it easier when it’s routinely cleaned after every use. Mating beds has been developed with types of hooks, pulls and other sexual purposes. 

The bridge is in the heart of the ship, with a view screen out via sensors. the lead JahSepp has a centre seat, like the captain’s chair, and the rest line the edges of the bridge, like most rooms, also circular.

Weapons, they’d have as they’re well aware of threats outside their home and that war and battle are part of other species culture so they cannot risk themselves by being under prepared. they use mycelium energy based weapons and shielding, these are typically blueish in hue when in use.