The Calix
The Calix are an ancient alien race living in a deep, unexplored part of the universe. Residing in their home planet, Foet, the Calix have lived a peaceful, secluded life; relatively untouched by foreigners. They are a passive people, deeply devoted to their religion and spirituality. Harmonious, care-free and productive, the Calix are a moral populace even if they're technologically primitive.
The biology of the Calix is quite unique. They posses no blood, organ system or skeletal structure of any sort. Their "bodies" are almost entirely made up of a single cell type: collig. The Calix have the ability to mold their colligic frames, twisting and shaping themselves into any form they choose. The Calix can even seperate masses of collig from their central composition and still maintain control of them at a distance.
Yet the methods by which the Calix survive remains to be the most important (and interesting) system of the alien anatomy. The Calix diet consists of only one food source: hormones. The Calix feed on the hormones of other creatures. When hungry, the collig cell will release the enzyme mollin, which in turn find a host to extract from. The mollin will gather the hormones it was directed to accumulate, leave the host and return to the central composition. The collig cell then breakes down the hormones into nutrient food substance for consumption.
Although the Calix have never understood the science behind their feeding methods (attributing the process to their religion instead), they do understand that they feed on “lesco” (the Calix word for “emotion”). For this reason, the Calix established a society built around peace, harmony and love, hoping to induce positive emotions throughout their race, thus producing the hormones they needed to live. Calix law strictly forbade anyone to feed on “Krolesco” (“twisted-emotion”), or in other words: the hormones released when an individual is experiencing negative emotion. They lived prosperously on their planet, leading simple, happy, self-sustaining lives.
The Atrocity Born
One Calix by the name of Viron, however, was not content existing in such a manner. Although honorable and pure of heart to every degree, he was possessed with a driving desire to explore and discover the universe around him. Unable to be understood by his brethren, he took to the beyond, traveling through space and becoming the first Calix ever to visit alien planets. He discovered, learned and quickly acquired great knowledge and understanding. But the innocent heart of Viron could only understand so much. As he traveled, he was exposed to the darkness of the universe. Witnessing firsthand sins he previously didn’t even know existed, Viron was exposed to pain, war, sorrow, poverty, disease and a myriad of other foul realities. Existence was not happy and joyous as he had supposed it to be. There was darkness…there was evil…perhaps even more so then there was good.
Realizing this drove him insane.
Battling with his consciousness, Viron did the only thing he could to save himself from destruction: he divided his mind. By focusing all his negative emotions and hormones in one center, he separated the feelings from his main body entirely, purging from it from his psyche permanently. It was from the bubbling mass of corrupted collig cells, lying before Viron’s feet in writhing fury, that would come the first and only abomination of the Calix race. Seething with dark energies…filled with concentrated emotion…the mass became a different entity entirely. It became aware. Alive. Sentient.
Constructed from all the evil of the universe, Kro was born.
Coming to terms with what he did, Viron attempted to destroy his accidental monster. Creator and creation dueled briefly, but Kro, fed by the corruption of sentient life; triumphed. Viron fled, leaving the monster to his own devices. Travelling the universe, Kro went from planet to planet in search of food. Like a virus he would incite all sorts of dark and delicious passions in the local inhabitants, then suck the feelings from them like a leech. It’s what he is: an eater. A hunter. A destroyer. It his only purpose to create negative emotion…to corrupt life for consumption.