Avatar Roleplay

Fauna of Pandora pt3

This will cover the omnivores of Pandora
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Avatars

Na'vi name: Uniltìrantokx or "Dreamwalker"

Skin: Striped blue with bioluminescent spots

Height: 8 to 10 ft {2.5-3 m}

Eye color: Yellow

Hair color: Black

Anatomy: Genetically engineered human/Na'vi-hybrid body, designed to serve as a remotely controlled vessel for a human mind. Selected human candidates from the RDA-funded Avatar Program, known as drivers, can psionically connect with their avatar bodies, which use their human DNA as part of the genetic templates and greatly resemble the drivers' own facial features. The fully grown avatar is much closer in appearance to the long-limbed Na'vi than to a human. faithfully reproduced to be nearly identical to those of the Na'vi. Respiration, musculo-skeletal structure, internal organ function and arrangement are comparable to those of the Na'vi, enabling sustained precision operation in the hostile Pandoran atmosphere and jungle environment. The avatar also possesses reproductive organs but further data has not been released.

The avatar body possesses greater strength and resilience than the body of its human driver, owing this to the carbon fibers reinforcing its bones. This quality greatly improves resistance to accidental damage, such as impacts from falls and other mishaps, especially as a new operator is getting used to driving his or her avatar.

An avatar cannot function independently of its operator - if the operator is not actively linked, an avatar remains inactive in a state of restful sleep. Its autonomic body functions (breathing, digestion, metabolism and other stem-brain processes) operate normally. Scientists took DNA from a Na'vi and from a selected human volunteer. On Earth, in genetics labs, they create an in-vitro embryo, which is a genetic composite of the alien and human donors. The recombinant embryo is grown in-vitro during the flight to Pandora, which takes 3 years ship-time (5 years Earth time due to relativistic effects from the light-speed). In that time it reaches near-adult size, since avatars mature much more rapidly than humans.
Some known differences between the avatars and Na'vi are due to the influence of human DNA.

Critically, the avatar brain and nervous system are modeled to precisely match those of its human operator while still maintaining appropriate Na'vi cellular biology. The avatar also possesses the necessary nervous system pathways required for the control interface.

Avatars retain the human configuration of five digits on each hand and foot, as opposed to the native Na'vi who possess four digits on each limb.

Avatars possess eyebrows, while the Na'vi are hairless apart from their scalp and a small tuft of hair on the tips of their tails.

Avatars display somewhat more human-like body musculature and structure than the Na'vi.

The Na'vi have large lemur-like eyes, while an avatar's eyes are usually smaller and more human-like.