☂ ( r e f e r e n c e ➠ o r i o n s )
☂physiology:
- all: verdant skin and blood ( ♡ ), physically more assuming than humans ( ♡ ), heart located low center of ribcage; varying skin, hair and lip colorations depending on region
- females: pheromones ( ♡ ), heightened sensitivity when aroused, extremely low chance of conception with disparate biologies
- males: typically bald ( ♡ )
☂culture:
- pantheon: one thousand gods ( ♥ )
- sworn to (and with) but not worshiped
- goddesses outnumber gods - afterlife: nine hells ( ♥ )
- society: differs regionally, trade- and business-centric, blood class system
- family: practically nonexistent, no close bonds, "clans" at best
- language: sibilant quality, soft consonants ( ♥ )
- regional dialects [yrevish, etc] ( ♥ )
- high orion + low orion( ♥ )
- trader's tongue + trader's script + trader's measure ( ♥ ) - colonies: varying customs across colonies + planets, increased black market trade relative to distance from federation space + planets and proximity to rigel system
☂mirrorverse:
- subjugated ( empire + alliance ) ( ♡ ), patriarchal ( ♥ )
- sub-caste: wild orions ( ♥ )
- larger
- more hirsute
- less intelligent
- uncommon
- females sold as slave women
- illegal genetic alterations ( normal to counterfeit wild ) - organisations: ( ♥ )
- the orion cabal: 10% of all orions, q worshippers, high-caste assassins
- the procurer's guild: responsible for the training, selling, and occasionally counterfeiting of wild orion slave women
* regular culture section does not apply to mirrorverse
* regular physiology section applies to mirrorverse with supplementary ( wild orions ) data
♡ ( canon: information from memory alpha )
♥ ( noncanon: information from memory beta )
unmarked ( personal canon/conclusions )