Database and Lore

The Yip’turin Clan

*Spoilers if you haven't read past Gabatrix: The First Peace arc* “So little is known about our history. Genocide has taken its toll as we barely remember the species that could have lived alongside us,” A Shal’rein historian. Species Currently Classified as Extinct Known History In the far ancient recorded histories of the Itreans, it was believed that there were numerous species. At the moment, nine of these species have survived written history enough to have a valid explanation of who they were and what they did. Sadly, almost little evidence exists of the oldest extinct clans, but there can be descriptions written about when it comes to clans such as the Yip’Turin. The clan species that persisted record the Yip’Turin as the tallest of all the Itreans, even taller than the Alara’jal. They were described as having long necks (hence their extreme height) and were the hardest to travel to other worlds. Yip’Turin translates to “Long Necked Walkers.” According to human scholars, it is most likely that the Yip’Turin might have evolved from a long-neck dinosaur such as the Brachiosaurus or a member of the Diplodocidae family. Other speculations have them considered more in the line of a two- legged walking dinosaur with elongated necks (With a possibility of a four-legged dinosaur evolving to walk on two legs). It was often mentioned that, for most cases, the Yip’Turin were the gentle giants of the Itreans. At the same time, they coexisted with the other clans. There were ongoing issues that pervaded the giants. For one, the resources needed to feed them were immense, just like the Alara’jal. This constantly led to conflicts in securing habitable worlds that could sustain them. In battle, the Yip’Turin fought well, except when fighting the Alara’jal in ground combat. From what is known, the Yip’Turin never focused much on ships. While they had their own space fleets, they were no match for the more inhospitable clans. This put them into major disadvantages at times when it came to their own expansions. For the most part, the clan species focused hard on negotiations to keep them alive. Despite this, the clan species did engage in some expansion programs that often led to conflicts. For example, the Yip’Turin were legendary for having to engage the Alara’jal and the Gesh’Ot clans. At times, they were victorious, and other times they suffered defeat after defeat. The mystery of how they died off was mostly due to the crowded territories that the Itreans had in the beginning years of their colonization. While the Itreans naturally spread out to the best of their abilities, the Yip’Turin’s fleets were simply ineffective in protecting their space and pushing outward. What ultimately led to the demise of the Yip’Turin was simply the overdominance of the other clans. While they had their own star systems, greedy advances by the other clans would corner the clan to remote sectors. While the Yip’Turin struggled to keep the peace, there were strong desires to wipe out the long-necked species altogether eventually. Another possibility was the fact that the clan race had the slowest technological progressions than that of the other species. By the time the Alara’jal launched an all- out assault on their capital, the Yip’Turin were using bolt action rifles on the ground to fight against space battleships from orbit with basic cannons. Needless to say, the Yip’Turin were doomed. By 411,000 years ago, the species was proclaimed to be extinct. Further efforts by their enemies were made to wipe out their history from existence. It is unknown if there were Yip’Turin survivors out in the fringes of space. With little ships near the end, they were trapped in their worlds when the shelling began. Sadly, there simply never were any further discoveries of the clan species beyond 411,000 years ago. If they were alive, then they would have been detected or found even hundreds of thousands of years later.