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Some more of the old 'lore' that I made for the Kig-Yar back on Yappas :) This time talking about the levels of their social structure and how the intermingling of the breeds may have worked. As we know they can interbreed but never really seen what that can result in. At least to my knowledge. So I tried to tackle that as well as try to expand on the low class thugs we saw in Hunt the Truth compared to the High Class tea drinkers we saw in Kilo-Five with Chol Von.
Time to have a little discussion on Kiggy class and chicks. Since we have thankfully had a good few looks into Kig-Yar culture through Kilo-Five and Hunt the Truth I think this will help people understand some of the info they may have read/heard about. Both to better understand the Kigs in general and to better write about a group if you wanted to have them show up in a thread or play as one.
For class I am meaning social class, and when I saw chicks I am specifically meaning what happens when two different breeds of Kig-Yar love each other and make a lovely little half-breed egg and then a little half-breed chick - since little fluffs are easy enough to understand if both parents were T'vaoan for example.
So here we go!
Class: Some general ideas that we've seen on the different types of Kig-Yar 'social class' as it were. Keep in mind that the types of people I list are just in general and how some of those people may be, you can have Low class Commodores and Captains as well as High class Pirates. Also keep in mind that these general descriptors are set up by the Kig-Yar High Class Elite, and so they think less of Pirates who often try to steal from their empires. Where as the Pirates often think they are the bees knees and believe the High Class to be a bunch of cowards. Such a closely knit and understanding species. As a general rule the further you go from the Kig-Yar home system the harder it will be to find the Middle and above classes, as many of them make their living at home, and the Pirates need to be further away to avoid the High Class security and to find targets.
But the main deciding factors in your placement on the Class table comes down to; your mannerisms and demeanor, your personal wealth, the connections you have to call on, and your influence on those around you and further out. Having an excess of one can make up for a deficit in another.
- High Class; Commodores of Nests, Merchant Queens and Kings. (Chol interacts with some of these in Kilo-Five, I would say Sav Fel is lower High Class.)
Shorthand: Proper, well dressed, lower amount of combat. Talks a lot instead. Has a large amount of influence and wealth. Loves fine food and drink. High class pirates would be well groomed and dressed as well as speak and eat properly whilst also having the wealth and influence needed, but often do quite a lot of stabbing as well.
These normally high in standing and influence Kig-Yar have mostly gone against their species normal violent behavior and have instead embraced a more quiet and cultured life. Often lovers of music, management, and enjoying the wealth they often worked hard to achieve or inherited from those who came before them. That's not to say that don't cause deaths though as what's the fun in having influence if you can't use it? They are just not the ones that are driving the blade into the unfortunate souls throat themselves. Probably watching as they sip on an expensive drink though.
These individuals often have a large company, crew, nest or an entire clan under their command as such often don't have much direct work they need to do themselves. Only managing on occasion and dealing with big issues that crop up for their organization. As such they are often plump space chickens that, if they ever had any to begin with, have much less combat skill than you would expect from a Kig-Yar. They hire others for those tasks instead. This is of course not a hard and fast rule as for example Gel's current Commodore, Zaat Gel, is near legendary for her combat skill - even greater than her daughter Kael. But if you were to talk to her you would find her very polite and proper. Just don't look at the guards beside her. Many merchant Queens and Kings also do shooting or melee practice as a hobby, so won't be completely helpless in a scrap. It is just that if you were going to find a useless fat Kig this is the class you would see it in.
All of them however share similar fashion, whatever the 'in' fashion is at the time; long coats, short coats, waist coats, robes, cloaks, carefully embroidered simple shirts, and countless other articles through the history of the Kig-Yar. All made of the finest quality material that they could personally afford and worn as often as possible to show off their power. There are of course those oddballs that wear the last main fashion, or several rotations back, or try to set the new trend, but most of the Elite stick to similar outfits.
The current 'in' outfit consists of a well made waistcoat, embroidered or not, often with a matching color shirt underneath that goes to just above the elbows. A belt with the crest of the individuals Clan or Business, and pretty simple but well made pants to just above the feet and simple coverings for the tops of the feet. Jewelry is up to the wearer but on the whole the current wealthy look is very muted compared to what it has been in the past. Perhaps the Elite were sick of taking so long to get ready?
Unlike the middle class these articles of clothing often don't even have armored inserts in them or have armor worn over them - the High class either confident in their guards or confident that they won't be shot at.
Many of the High Class are also gifted with quite the silver tongue which they use to do business and make deals that often have impacts on the entire Kig-Yar species. Alliances, Clan/Nest wars, trade embargos, galactic hit lists for nests and individuals, and the like are all made by these Kig-Yar Elite.
- Middle/Medium Class; Captains of ships, Business managers, Cell and Entourage leaders. Low Middle class would be law abiding working citizens as well as crewmen and warriors of respected ships and Cells/Entourage. (Kael would be around this level despite her social status because she is brash and impulsive. Nek is also here despite the fact that he tries to act High Class, he doesn't have the wealth or station to be considered High, but should he survive the war he will likely reach High Class post war.)
Shorthand: Dressed well but often rough around the edges. Generally eager for a scrap but know and utilize social rules. Or well mannered Kigs that may like or dislike combat but don't have enough wealth or influence to be considered High Class.
Where most decently raised Kig-Yar with a drive to succeed end up residing. These middle of the road individuals have done well enough in their lives to be in some position of power. Either through good work in the business world, careful maneuvering on a vessel, or through combat skill to lead a team or larger force of fighters. Or they are working under these managers of their chosen field, obeying the law or the rules of their group and not going against the flow. The prime examples of Kig-Yar of differing backgrounds and breeds working together to better the group, and hopefully lead that better group in time.
Most of this group would have had some type of education to know how to act in civilized company but will not have all the nuances to pass off as High Class. But the education would also provide them with the training they need to do their chosen profession well. Be that running fiancés or working with customers, maintaining and flying a craft, or combat.
The fashion of this group generally depends on what their job is; business Kigs often adopt a simpler version of the wealthy look if they can afford it or just wear comfortable clothes for working. Crewmen may have a ship uniform to wear or otherwise wear armor or working clothes depending on their job, and fighters would wear armor but also have some clothes for their off the battlefield relaxing. Most Kig-Yar you would meet in and around the Y'Deio system will be this Middle Class, and many would even talk to aliens before reaching for their blades or firearms.
- Low Class; Pirates, criminals, slaves, thieves, ruffians, and other lowlifes. (We see these in Hunt The Truth.)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/a7a2db275771311ee07dbc3fd2cc31d2/tumblr_nw67bvAXZV1uokpa1o1_1280.jpg
The slop we have seen them eat
Shorthand: Poorly dressed and educated, eager to stab, speaks with more grunts and hisses, eats slop. Higher classes of Kig-Yar often eat the same type of things, but the Pirates don't often take the time to cook the eyeballs, hearts, and other internals or have them prepared in any nice way besides slopped in a bowl or just on the ground.
Generally poor members of the Kig-Yar species that have very little influence on those around them and sometimes don't even control their own fates. Slaves, the nests that still use them (Spice Sisterhood for example) and criminals (as in convicted/captured and held by a Captain or Nest) by default fall into this category as most if not all of their previous wealth is stripped from them when they become a slave or criminal.
It is often because of this lack and wealth and lack of influence over others that drives these people to rob, murder, and steal from others to show that they do have some power. And that they can get wealth. This of course puts them on the wrong side of the law with most of the Kig-Yar Elite as lowlives are not good business partners and cannot be trusted, making them marked as targets for police and Mev-ut hunters. Because of this it often takes a very clever, lucky, or tenacious lowlife to make it far in their robbing and murdering ways. But those that make it have earned legendary reputations.
In fact this Low Class currently holds the record for the wealthiest Kig-Yar in the universe. That accolade belonging to the Ibie'Shan Pirate Overlord Zix, a male from an unknown Eyan nest that got involved with the wrong crowd when still a chick, but then took over that crowd, and all the other related crowds through determination and ferocity. Forging an empire with these Low Classes far from Eyan's grasp in the deeper reaches of space. Employing numerous Captains who just wanted to pillage under his banner or protection from his own raiding. He himself still does a lot of the death dealing as he revels in his crews taking captives so he can slowly bleed and torture them for his own enjoyment, for them daring to think that they were better than the Kig-Yar people and himself. He has gone on record in several of his broadcasts for saying that he enjoys killing those who work for him but fail even more than aliens and merchants - but Pirates and bloodthirsty mercenaries still flock to him for work. At least he seems to know his audience.
For fashion this group often just grabs whatever kind of armor they can scavenge or steal and wears it, uniforms are often not issued to the Pirate crews unless they are being bankrolled or have a Nest in their pocket. But as a general rule their equipment is often in poor condition, rusty, older, and not as pretty as the Hunters that may be chasing them down. But they love to use underhanded tactics to turn the tables on the better equipped and trained Elite - and get themselves some better equipment. But this doesn't work too often unless they are one of the rare tenacious survivors.
They are generally also poorly trained and educated, preferring to win through numbers or overwhelming the enemy with tackles and a flurry of rusty stabs or claw rakings. Because of their lack of education they also generally don't know how to repair or really fly a spaceship, and so capture those that have those skills and shove them into slave labor - as happened to the T'vaoan mechanic and trader Nek Dal.
Of course you can also be something like lower Low class, upper Middle class, or upper High Class - the big classes are just general descriptors that have bleedings of the other classes on their upper and lower rungs of their tiers. Except in the case of upper High class, these incredibly select few are ones known to nearly every chick and adult Kig-Yar in the galaxy, and are ones that are listened to in all matters should they have a direction they think the Kig-Yar should take. As well as lower Low class, where you are likely just a filthy disgusting dirty individual who can't even fight, steal, or work/choose not to work and many would wonder how you still live or work to end the misery - Nearly all Kig-Yar would not be for giving free rides.
Halfbreeds; Yes, you can hit that.
In ye olden days on Eyans past there were phases where half-breeds were both looked down upon and thought of as worse than the normal Pureblood Kig-Yar populace and times where they were thought to be elevated from the norm. These days they are just Kig-Yar with the other Kig-Yar, as the Kigs have actual aliens to dislike/like rather than their own species. Individuals may prefer half-breeds over others, and they can be seen as exotic nest mates, but they aren't any less or more now in a general societal sense.
The descriptions are also general ideas, not hard and fast rules. Individuals may have some of these traits but aren't required to have them. There is also a chance that even if two different breeds love each other and have a chick it may just look like the Mama or Papa as a single breed, not a mix.
* Ruuthian and Ibie'Shan mix (Ruu'Shan or Ibie'Tian)
Skinny Shan! Generally just looking like thicker Ruuthians with a squarer and thicker head. A stubbier beak but with a much stronger bite as well as slightly shorter spines. They thankfully often maintain the superior Ruuthian eyesight but loose some sense of smell because of their stubbier beaks and thicker skulls. This does however mean they are tougher than the normal Ruuthian whilst only being a little slower.
On the whole seen as one of the better breed mixes, as they gain toughness for mininal losses. Makes good spacers and general all arounders.
+ Ruuthian and T'vaoan mix (Ruuvan or T'hian)
Mini T'vaoans! As the T'vaoans are the largest breed and Ruuthians the smallest having a chick with both of their breeds together often just leads to a smaller, weaker, more fragile T'vaoan with less feathers. Their beak does not change too much but their skull becomes more narrow. They do however have one key advantage over the T'vaoan is that while their muscle mass is less that the larger breed so they cant lift or punch as hard they also weigh much less while still have more muscle than a Ruuthian, and so are even faster than the T'vaoan.
They are still seen as not as good however as they loose a large part of the T'vaoan toughness. They make fantastic athletes though.
~ Ibie'Shan and T'vaoan mix (Ibie'Voan or T'Shan)
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad213/Blargosaurusrex/IMG_1245_zpszebsisee.jpg
Example by a friend, BetaWolf, on the forum
Fatty Voans! As is the case with most Ibie'Shan mixes the main change comes in the skull and beak and as with T'vaoan mixes the darker scales and some feathers squeak through. So the two larger breeds having a chick often results in a dark scaled chick with feather pufts around their elbows and neck but with the blunted skull and thicker limbs of the 'Shans. This makes them slower than the normal T'vaoans but still have their great jumping ability. But are even tougher than normal T'vaoans and with the sneaky mindset of the Ibie'Shans. Their senses take a little hit but still far above Human.
The middle breed for general 'goodness', make great soldiers due to their extra toughness coupled with the extra agility.
It of course becomes more complicated when these half-breeds nest up with another half-breed (percent's on percent's of different traits), as the mixes often lead to very odd looking chicks that may have the black scales and arm feathers of the T'vaoan, the lighter and smaller structure of the Ruuthians, with an Ibie'Shan skull and beak, and a odd mix of all three for head crest. But as these mixes don't happen all too often they aren't really catalogued like normal half-breeds are. But if you wish to make a character or background Kiggle Tri-Breed just be sure to include some elements from each of the breeds we know of now. Or they could just look like one of their parents or like a normal single breed - genetics is weird.
Bonus:
Musings on Post War Kigs;
Just a little bit at the end for an idea I was thinking about for some Post-War stuff. I have the feeling that once the old guard of Kig-Yar who served in the Covenant or Remnant are dead their chicks would never have been forced to work with other species. And would only have the teachings of their perhaps racist parents that say Unggoy are useless. But never having worked with them before they would just have this mindset to then be proven wrong as they see that the Unggoy are hard workers as long as you treat them well.
Sangheili would hopefully get their act together post war and be good business partners to the new age of Kig-Yar too - and because of this I think that Post-War Kig-Yar as a whole would be more willing to work with the other species since they would be able to do it on their own time and not be forced.
Time to have a little discussion on Kiggy class and chicks. Since we have thankfully had a good few looks into Kig-Yar culture through Kilo-Five and Hunt the Truth I think this will help people understand some of the info they may have read/heard about. Both to better understand the Kigs in general and to better write about a group if you wanted to have them show up in a thread or play as one.
For class I am meaning social class, and when I saw chicks I am specifically meaning what happens when two different breeds of Kig-Yar love each other and make a lovely little half-breed egg and then a little half-breed chick - since little fluffs are easy enough to understand if both parents were T'vaoan for example.
So here we go!
Class: Some general ideas that we've seen on the different types of Kig-Yar 'social class' as it were. Keep in mind that the types of people I list are just in general and how some of those people may be, you can have Low class Commodores and Captains as well as High class Pirates. Also keep in mind that these general descriptors are set up by the Kig-Yar High Class Elite, and so they think less of Pirates who often try to steal from their empires. Where as the Pirates often think they are the bees knees and believe the High Class to be a bunch of cowards. Such a closely knit and understanding species. As a general rule the further you go from the Kig-Yar home system the harder it will be to find the Middle and above classes, as many of them make their living at home, and the Pirates need to be further away to avoid the High Class security and to find targets.
But the main deciding factors in your placement on the Class table comes down to; your mannerisms and demeanor, your personal wealth, the connections you have to call on, and your influence on those around you and further out. Having an excess of one can make up for a deficit in another.
- High Class; Commodores of Nests, Merchant Queens and Kings. (Chol interacts with some of these in Kilo-Five, I would say Sav Fel is lower High Class.)
Shorthand: Proper, well dressed, lower amount of combat. Talks a lot instead. Has a large amount of influence and wealth. Loves fine food and drink. High class pirates would be well groomed and dressed as well as speak and eat properly whilst also having the wealth and influence needed, but often do quite a lot of stabbing as well.
These normally high in standing and influence Kig-Yar have mostly gone against their species normal violent behavior and have instead embraced a more quiet and cultured life. Often lovers of music, management, and enjoying the wealth they often worked hard to achieve or inherited from those who came before them. That's not to say that don't cause deaths though as what's the fun in having influence if you can't use it? They are just not the ones that are driving the blade into the unfortunate souls throat themselves. Probably watching as they sip on an expensive drink though.
These individuals often have a large company, crew, nest or an entire clan under their command as such often don't have much direct work they need to do themselves. Only managing on occasion and dealing with big issues that crop up for their organization. As such they are often plump space chickens that, if they ever had any to begin with, have much less combat skill than you would expect from a Kig-Yar. They hire others for those tasks instead. This is of course not a hard and fast rule as for example Gel's current Commodore, Zaat Gel, is near legendary for her combat skill - even greater than her daughter Kael. But if you were to talk to her you would find her very polite and proper. Just don't look at the guards beside her. Many merchant Queens and Kings also do shooting or melee practice as a hobby, so won't be completely helpless in a scrap. It is just that if you were going to find a useless fat Kig this is the class you would see it in.
All of them however share similar fashion, whatever the 'in' fashion is at the time; long coats, short coats, waist coats, robes, cloaks, carefully embroidered simple shirts, and countless other articles through the history of the Kig-Yar. All made of the finest quality material that they could personally afford and worn as often as possible to show off their power. There are of course those oddballs that wear the last main fashion, or several rotations back, or try to set the new trend, but most of the Elite stick to similar outfits.
The current 'in' outfit consists of a well made waistcoat, embroidered or not, often with a matching color shirt underneath that goes to just above the elbows. A belt with the crest of the individuals Clan or Business, and pretty simple but well made pants to just above the feet and simple coverings for the tops of the feet. Jewelry is up to the wearer but on the whole the current wealthy look is very muted compared to what it has been in the past. Perhaps the Elite were sick of taking so long to get ready?
Unlike the middle class these articles of clothing often don't even have armored inserts in them or have armor worn over them - the High class either confident in their guards or confident that they won't be shot at.
Many of the High Class are also gifted with quite the silver tongue which they use to do business and make deals that often have impacts on the entire Kig-Yar species. Alliances, Clan/Nest wars, trade embargos, galactic hit lists for nests and individuals, and the like are all made by these Kig-Yar Elite.
- Middle/Medium Class; Captains of ships, Business managers, Cell and Entourage leaders. Low Middle class would be law abiding working citizens as well as crewmen and warriors of respected ships and Cells/Entourage. (Kael would be around this level despite her social status because she is brash and impulsive. Nek is also here despite the fact that he tries to act High Class, he doesn't have the wealth or station to be considered High, but should he survive the war he will likely reach High Class post war.)
Shorthand: Dressed well but often rough around the edges. Generally eager for a scrap but know and utilize social rules. Or well mannered Kigs that may like or dislike combat but don't have enough wealth or influence to be considered High Class.
Where most decently raised Kig-Yar with a drive to succeed end up residing. These middle of the road individuals have done well enough in their lives to be in some position of power. Either through good work in the business world, careful maneuvering on a vessel, or through combat skill to lead a team or larger force of fighters. Or they are working under these managers of their chosen field, obeying the law or the rules of their group and not going against the flow. The prime examples of Kig-Yar of differing backgrounds and breeds working together to better the group, and hopefully lead that better group in time.
Most of this group would have had some type of education to know how to act in civilized company but will not have all the nuances to pass off as High Class. But the education would also provide them with the training they need to do their chosen profession well. Be that running fiancés or working with customers, maintaining and flying a craft, or combat.
The fashion of this group generally depends on what their job is; business Kigs often adopt a simpler version of the wealthy look if they can afford it or just wear comfortable clothes for working. Crewmen may have a ship uniform to wear or otherwise wear armor or working clothes depending on their job, and fighters would wear armor but also have some clothes for their off the battlefield relaxing. Most Kig-Yar you would meet in and around the Y'Deio system will be this Middle Class, and many would even talk to aliens before reaching for their blades or firearms.
- Low Class; Pirates, criminals, slaves, thieves, ruffians, and other lowlifes. (We see these in Hunt The Truth.)
https://40.media.tumblr.com/a7a2db275771311ee07dbc3fd2cc31d2/tumblr_nw67bvAXZV1uokpa1o1_1280.jpg
The slop we have seen them eat
Shorthand: Poorly dressed and educated, eager to stab, speaks with more grunts and hisses, eats slop. Higher classes of Kig-Yar often eat the same type of things, but the Pirates don't often take the time to cook the eyeballs, hearts, and other internals or have them prepared in any nice way besides slopped in a bowl or just on the ground.
Generally poor members of the Kig-Yar species that have very little influence on those around them and sometimes don't even control their own fates. Slaves, the nests that still use them (Spice Sisterhood for example) and criminals (as in convicted/captured and held by a Captain or Nest) by default fall into this category as most if not all of their previous wealth is stripped from them when they become a slave or criminal.
It is often because of this lack and wealth and lack of influence over others that drives these people to rob, murder, and steal from others to show that they do have some power. And that they can get wealth. This of course puts them on the wrong side of the law with most of the Kig-Yar Elite as lowlives are not good business partners and cannot be trusted, making them marked as targets for police and Mev-ut hunters. Because of this it often takes a very clever, lucky, or tenacious lowlife to make it far in their robbing and murdering ways. But those that make it have earned legendary reputations.
In fact this Low Class currently holds the record for the wealthiest Kig-Yar in the universe. That accolade belonging to the Ibie'Shan Pirate Overlord Zix, a male from an unknown Eyan nest that got involved with the wrong crowd when still a chick, but then took over that crowd, and all the other related crowds through determination and ferocity. Forging an empire with these Low Classes far from Eyan's grasp in the deeper reaches of space. Employing numerous Captains who just wanted to pillage under his banner or protection from his own raiding. He himself still does a lot of the death dealing as he revels in his crews taking captives so he can slowly bleed and torture them for his own enjoyment, for them daring to think that they were better than the Kig-Yar people and himself. He has gone on record in several of his broadcasts for saying that he enjoys killing those who work for him but fail even more than aliens and merchants - but Pirates and bloodthirsty mercenaries still flock to him for work. At least he seems to know his audience.
For fashion this group often just grabs whatever kind of armor they can scavenge or steal and wears it, uniforms are often not issued to the Pirate crews unless they are being bankrolled or have a Nest in their pocket. But as a general rule their equipment is often in poor condition, rusty, older, and not as pretty as the Hunters that may be chasing them down. But they love to use underhanded tactics to turn the tables on the better equipped and trained Elite - and get themselves some better equipment. But this doesn't work too often unless they are one of the rare tenacious survivors.
They are generally also poorly trained and educated, preferring to win through numbers or overwhelming the enemy with tackles and a flurry of rusty stabs or claw rakings. Because of their lack of education they also generally don't know how to repair or really fly a spaceship, and so capture those that have those skills and shove them into slave labor - as happened to the T'vaoan mechanic and trader Nek Dal.
Of course you can also be something like lower Low class, upper Middle class, or upper High Class - the big classes are just general descriptors that have bleedings of the other classes on their upper and lower rungs of their tiers. Except in the case of upper High class, these incredibly select few are ones known to nearly every chick and adult Kig-Yar in the galaxy, and are ones that are listened to in all matters should they have a direction they think the Kig-Yar should take. As well as lower Low class, where you are likely just a filthy disgusting dirty individual who can't even fight, steal, or work/choose not to work and many would wonder how you still live or work to end the misery - Nearly all Kig-Yar would not be for giving free rides.
Halfbreeds; Yes, you can hit that.
In ye olden days on Eyans past there were phases where half-breeds were both looked down upon and thought of as worse than the normal Pureblood Kig-Yar populace and times where they were thought to be elevated from the norm. These days they are just Kig-Yar with the other Kig-Yar, as the Kigs have actual aliens to dislike/like rather than their own species. Individuals may prefer half-breeds over others, and they can be seen as exotic nest mates, but they aren't any less or more now in a general societal sense.
The descriptions are also general ideas, not hard and fast rules. Individuals may have some of these traits but aren't required to have them. There is also a chance that even if two different breeds love each other and have a chick it may just look like the Mama or Papa as a single breed, not a mix.
* Ruuthian and Ibie'Shan mix (Ruu'Shan or Ibie'Tian)
Skinny Shan! Generally just looking like thicker Ruuthians with a squarer and thicker head. A stubbier beak but with a much stronger bite as well as slightly shorter spines. They thankfully often maintain the superior Ruuthian eyesight but loose some sense of smell because of their stubbier beaks and thicker skulls. This does however mean they are tougher than the normal Ruuthian whilst only being a little slower.
On the whole seen as one of the better breed mixes, as they gain toughness for mininal losses. Makes good spacers and general all arounders.
+ Ruuthian and T'vaoan mix (Ruuvan or T'hian)
Mini T'vaoans! As the T'vaoans are the largest breed and Ruuthians the smallest having a chick with both of their breeds together often just leads to a smaller, weaker, more fragile T'vaoan with less feathers. Their beak does not change too much but their skull becomes more narrow. They do however have one key advantage over the T'vaoan is that while their muscle mass is less that the larger breed so they cant lift or punch as hard they also weigh much less while still have more muscle than a Ruuthian, and so are even faster than the T'vaoan.
They are still seen as not as good however as they loose a large part of the T'vaoan toughness. They make fantastic athletes though.
~ Ibie'Shan and T'vaoan mix (Ibie'Voan or T'Shan)
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad213/Blargosaurusrex/IMG_1245_zpszebsisee.jpg
Example by a friend, BetaWolf, on the forum
Fatty Voans! As is the case with most Ibie'Shan mixes the main change comes in the skull and beak and as with T'vaoan mixes the darker scales and some feathers squeak through. So the two larger breeds having a chick often results in a dark scaled chick with feather pufts around their elbows and neck but with the blunted skull and thicker limbs of the 'Shans. This makes them slower than the normal T'vaoans but still have their great jumping ability. But are even tougher than normal T'vaoans and with the sneaky mindset of the Ibie'Shans. Their senses take a little hit but still far above Human.
The middle breed for general 'goodness', make great soldiers due to their extra toughness coupled with the extra agility.
It of course becomes more complicated when these half-breeds nest up with another half-breed (percent's on percent's of different traits), as the mixes often lead to very odd looking chicks that may have the black scales and arm feathers of the T'vaoan, the lighter and smaller structure of the Ruuthians, with an Ibie'Shan skull and beak, and a odd mix of all three for head crest. But as these mixes don't happen all too often they aren't really catalogued like normal half-breeds are. But if you wish to make a character or background Kiggle Tri-Breed just be sure to include some elements from each of the breeds we know of now. Or they could just look like one of their parents or like a normal single breed - genetics is weird.
Bonus:
Musings on Post War Kigs;
Just a little bit at the end for an idea I was thinking about for some Post-War stuff. I have the feeling that once the old guard of Kig-Yar who served in the Covenant or Remnant are dead their chicks would never have been forced to work with other species. And would only have the teachings of their perhaps racist parents that say Unggoy are useless. But never having worked with them before they would just have this mindset to then be proven wrong as they see that the Unggoy are hard workers as long as you treat them well.
Sangheili would hopefully get their act together post war and be good business partners to the new age of Kig-Yar too - and because of this I think that Post-War Kig-Yar as a whole would be more willing to work with the other species since they would be able to do it on their own time and not be forced.
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