Vaah Yip

documentation regarding species evolution and war involvement of the Vaah yip

Whinndex — 01/19/2022

The veep were chosen for the last war, for two reasons. 1. Among the lightest and smallest of the species on the homeworld, the small stature of a common veep makes them harder to shoot. 2. Any homeworld dentist can attest to this, a veep's teeth are the scariest thing you will ever see.

Rasor sharp, and stronger than some of the worlds densest alloys, a veeps dentition is the stuff of nightmares and horror films. When the creatures of the world were augmented for war, the Precursors didn't have to do much to them, before they were a formidable living weapon. Once they had finished uplifting the veep, the Precursors learned quickly that their bite could be used for much more than simply gnawing through dense foliage. So instead of giving the veep a neural driver like they did to the vaeu, the Precursors simply played with the brain chemistry of the fluffy little death balls. Tweaking the already volatile minds of the veep proved simple enough, so the creatures were simply given a fiery temper and a hair trigger, Increasing their epinephrine output ten fold. The veep were also modified to produce a greatly reduced amount of oxytocin, dropping their empathy to almost zero. When deployed on the battlefield, the veep were used as more of a splash damage "explosive", than as actual soldiers. An armored pod full of as many veep as they could stuff inside, would be dropped on the field, cracking open and spilling its four legged, fluffy contents on the ground. Enraged and completely at the mercy of the "fight" side of their fight or flight response, the veep would scramble up to, and sink their teeth into anything with a pulse. Clouded as their judgement had been made, the veep would simply keep removing throats, until someone put them down, making them a terrifying and effective "zergling rush" of sorts

After the final shots of the war, the veep were no different than they had been during the time of conflict. Without the drugs that the precursors had been dosing them with, they became slightly less violent... but not by very much. During the first weeks of freedom, the veep killed over 600 vaeu, 90 Lo enn, and 32 vae raffes, not to mention in-fighting, which resulted in the deaths of nine veep within their own herds. It became apparent that the veep could not be reasoned with, and so, they were quickly exiled. Many of the worlds continents consist of single enormous mountains that have emerged from the sea. It is on one such island that the veep were eventually herded onto, and abandoned on. A truly herculean effort, It took 2000 volunteers 2 full days to complete this daunting task, and fifteen of these volunteers lost their lives during the endeavor. They surrounded the veep, who had a tendency to gather in large herds, and forcefully guided them across a precursor hardlight bridge that connected the mainland to this island across a narrow yet turbulent strait. As soon as the veep had been pushed across, the islands entrance to the bridge was destroyed and the volunteers retreated. As soon as they returned to the mainland, the bridges hard light generator was destroyed so that the veep had no viable route of escape from their newfound prison.


 * 1) From that day, it took 20 years before the surviving species finally found a solution for the veep.  On one of the mainland continents, the creatures discovered a tough and nutrient deficient plant that has become known as "twig".  Twig produces a psychoactive chemical that when ingested, acts to calm the mind for 8 to 14 hours, depending on the size of the dose.  So potent were its effects, that veep test subjects administered a dose of twig for the first time, stopped straining against their bonds mere seconds after it touched their mouth.  When let free of their restraints, the test subjects broke down and wept as if waking from a nightmare, often attempting to nuzzle or hug the orderly left in charge of their treatment. As soon as regular crops of twig could be established, the veep were delivered crate loads full of the stuff, to the beach of their island.  Unwilling to accept supplies from a mainlander, the veep simply burned the crates.  Little did they know, the active chemical in twig is just as effective when inhaled as a smoke, and many veep discovered peace of mind for the very first time, instantly understanding the value of what they had been given. Soon enough, the veep had been granted enough of the plant, to develop their own supply of it, on the island.  Over the course of the next hundred years, the cultivation and consumption of twig would become an art form, slowly developing more potent plants, and more creative uses for its mind calming sap.  Some progress has been made on repairing the neurological damage that the Precursors did to the veep, but that progress has been slow, and is of yet, incomplete.  Even now, 300 years after the end of the war, over 90% of the veep populace still use twig to some degree, every single day.