Editing Aleerian (section)

==Roleplaying==

Technology pervades aleerian life.  They are connected to each other and their creations by thought, and their bodies are as much machine as flesh.  This combined with their history of militarized society gives them a very precise, regimented lifestyle somewhat resembling the early Spartans.  Even their speech tends to be laconic.  While intelligent and meticulous, their thinking tends to be unimaginative and predictable, lacking the flair for sudden creativity found in humans and [[T'sa]].  

Within aleerian society, the community comes before the individual.  Children are raised collectively, and there is no significant attachment between parents and children, nor between genders; reproduction is seen as a duty to sustain the community.  While aleerians can and do form friendships, these tend to take the form of camaraderie with their teammates, rather than affectionate pair bonds.

Since the cultural awakening that followed their first contact incident, the aleerians have subscribed to a philosophy of nonviolence.  It is uncommon to see a mechalus respond to provocation, and exceedingly rare that they would instigate a conflict, though they will fight (quite competently) when there is no alternative.  But when there is cause for celebration, their exuberance can surprise those who believed them to be unfeeling machines.  

There are some peculiar aspects to aleerian pacifism: even the most saintly mechalus does not regard gridcombat to be violence, nor hacking to be a transgression.  Raised as they are, connected to their community by data from birth to death, the aleerians do not share the ideas of privacy and propriety found in most human societies.  Shame is a concept they comprehend only in terms of unjust harm (and they only awakened to this concept after annihilating another species); indeed some human idiosyncrasies such as embarrassment or selfishness are downright confusing to mechalus.  

In addition, the human concept of computerized currency and banking is a joke to mechalus.  They comprehend the idea well enough to function in human society, but they themselves would never be so naive as to trust something as intangible and mutable as ''data in a computer''.  This also extends into their spending behavior; unlike Rigunmor humans, mechalus save and invest very little, preferring to spend their earnings on things that are more real.  They're not wastefully materialistic or frivolous, but what weapons and tools they have will be the best they can buy.

In an odd case of convergent evolution, aleerians are almost universally attractive by human standards, with chiseled features and athletic builds.  From a distance or in dark conditions they can pass as human, although up close their alien features become clear: carbonate fiber skin woven with circuitry and synthetic hair made of wire and fibers reveal a level of augmentation far beyond what the human body could naturally endure.