User:HouseMech/sandbox

A Quarian is a fictional species from the video game series Mass Effect by Canadian company BioWare.

Biology
A Quarian is generally similar to a human. They are usually shorter and slighter of build but have the same physical features as a human, such as an endoskeleton, lips, teeth, hair as well as eyes with eyelids and tear ducts. Their hands have three fingers composed of an opposable thumb, a pointer-finger and a middle finger that is longer in length similar to a human's. Their legs are also bowed backwards and their feet have three toes. Also similar to a human, their blood is red.

The most notable feature of a Quarian is their cripplingly weak immune system. As Pathogenic microbes have been noted as being rare in their homeworld's biosphere, this, coupled with the fact that they were forced to abandon their homeworld and live in sterile environments in their fleet after escaping the Geth have caused their immune systems to deteriorate even further. Most Quarians nowadays live inside protective suits which limit the risk of being exposed to unknown pathogens and other diseases.

A Quarian is dextro-protein based species of reverse chirality from Humans. Ingesting the food of the levo-protein races is either inedible or worse, poisonous.

Culture
The most important thing to a Quarian the survival of their home, The Migrant Fleet. A coming of age ritual that all Quarians follow is the pilgrimage, where a Quarian leaves the fleet and does not return until they have found something of ample value to bring back. This can be something like supplies, money or information.

Quarian names are comprised of four parts - their given name and clan name separated by an apostrophe followed by the ship they were born on as denoted by "Nar" where "Nar" means "Child of" in the Quarian language "Khelish".

Society
The majority of Quarians live aboard "The Migrant Fleet". It is a flotilla of 50 000 ships carrying a payload of over 17 million Quarians. Life aboard the fleet is extremely cramped as the Quarians have very scarce resources and cannot afford much. The ships that the fleet is composed of are old and repaired extensively. Some of the ships have been noted to be over 300 years old, coming from the dawn of the Morning war where the Quarians were driven off their home planet.

The Migrant fleet leadership is composed of four different admirals, each directing a different portion of the fleet. These portions are, the patrol fleet, the heavy fleet, the civilian fleet and special projects fleet.