Sea Race

Biodata

Organization and Society

The Sea Race was unified through the Dragon Spirit Species royal family’s conquests. Its members have varied anatomies: some breathe through gills and others through lungs. Many identify themselves to outsiders by their family names rather than simply as Sea Race members 288.

• Dragon King — Ruler of the Sea Race, based in the Dragon Palace at the center of Chongming City 136.
• Royal factions — The three princes competed for the position of Crown Prince, with ministers and great families using the contest to pursue their own interests. The Dragon King ultimately appointed the third prince, Yuanli 205 208.
• Great families — Powerful families such as the Cheng Family shared interests with the Sea Race but were not necessarily loyal to the Dragon Spirit Species 288.
• Conquered species — Prisoners held beneath the Third Research Institute included members of species defeated during the unification of the ocean. The Sea Demon Species had once rivaled the Dragon Spirit Species for dominion 187 315.

Intelligent freshwater species closer to land-dwelling creatures were excluded when the Sea Race launched an earlier invasion of land. They later joined the Demon Race 129.

Territory and Facilities

The three great research institutes were the personal property of successive Dragon Kings, a fact known among the Sea Race’s upper ranks 156.

Military and Technology

Sea Beasts

The Sea Race bred and modified sea beasts for warfare, deploying them alongside soldiers and warships 131 164 167.

• Mass-bred sea beasts served as expendable troops, including suicide forces 131 135.
• Beasts more than 500 meters long attacked allied warships, while smaller barnacle-like beasts consumed Psychic Energy-containing metal and damaged ship defenses 151 152.
• Soldiers and beasts could form a battle formation that absorbed energy from enemy attacks and increased its strength 311 314.

Formations and Psychic Energy

Sea Race Psychic Energy technology developed around inherited techniques, innate gifts, formations and totems, rather than the Human Race’s machinery-oriented approach 183.

• Flooding runes — Soldiers prepared runes in Mao City to prevent seawater from receding, intending to preserve the ruling class’s control over two river mouths 126.
• Blood-fed formation — At Yin City, awakened members activated a formation with a captive villager’s blood; it absorbed remains from the battlefield 171.
• Psychic Energy shields — Sea Race shields emphasized blocking outside Psychic Energy and could contain signals emitted by Shisui’s Radiant Feathers 185.
• Warships — Sea Race vessels carried artillery and shield arrays. Some used translucent, snail-like structures to move across land 155 171 196.

Research and Captives

The Sea Race transported Human Race prisoners to its research facilities. Healthy captives were inspected and tagged before shipment; the Second Research Institute sought living subjects, while the Third could use material from the dead 158 186 199.

Cheng Wenjie drew blood from imprisoned Sea Race members at the Third Research Institute. Earlier research on the Basket-Tailed Snake Species improved Dragon Spirit body-shaping techniques, but the purebred snakes were eventually driven extinct 187 252.

Intelligence Network

The Sea Race maintained agents across land, including people connected to the Lou Family in Yin City. Some low-level informants did not know they were supplying information to the Sea Race 157 330.

History

Return to Land

After a failed landing a century earlier, Sea Race cities across the oceans lay dormant. The Sea Race later returned in force, joining the Dragon Spirit Species in a nighttime purge of Human Race leadership’s lackeys in Mao City 115 136.

Following the flooding of Mao City, Sea Race soldiers used sea beasts to demolish buildings and hunted surviving humans. The Human Race and Demon Race subsequently agreed to a temporary alliance against the Sea Race 126 127 145.

War Across the Coasts

After Mao City was recaptured, Third Prince Yuanli concealed its loss from Chongming City and ordered attacks on Mao City and Ringwater Continent. Sea Race forces struck settlements across Ringwater, while an allied fleet was recalled to fight the invasion 148.

Second Prince Yuan Yuan led a separate force toward southern Kaiyang. The Sea Race breached Yin City’s defenses and flooded it with a tsunami, but the Human Race’s Third Fleet retaliated with Low-Yield Chain Torpedoes, destroying most of the occupying fleet. Yuan Yuan survived, wounded, and became a host for Shisui’s talent, [Survival in Desperate Situations] 163 164 173 175.

Capital Attack and Internal Unrest

Yuanli became Crown Prince shortly before the Human Race attacked Chongming City with torpedoes and buried explosives. The Dragon King prevented the city from sinking, but the destruction delayed Sea Race reinforcements 208 209.

An assassination attempt by the Banshee Sea Demon failed when the Planetary Will intervened. During the Dragon King’s recovery, Yuanli took charge of Sea Race affairs. The Dragon King allowed enemy forces to destroy cities where traitors were concentrated, hoping to weaken the rebellion 319 329.

As the Dragon King weakened, powerful Sea Race nobles increasingly defied the capital and sought authority for themselves 379.

Key Members

• Dragon King — Ruler of the Sea Race and head of the Dragon Spirit Species’ royal power 136 288.
• Yuan Rong — Eldest prince; sought support from the Sima Family during the contest for Crown Prince 195 205.
• Yuan Yuan — Second prince; led the southern Kaiyang invasion and was secretly parasitized by Shisui’s talent 164 175.
• Yuanli — Third prince, appointed Crown Prince; later managed Sea Race affairs during the Dragon King’s recovery 208 329.
• Cheng Wenjie — Cheng Family patriarch associated with the Third Research Institute and its experiments on captives 187 288.
• Guan Xiangming — Former prime minister who held the Sea Race position on Ringwater Continent against Demon Race campaigns 329.
• Qing Wufei — Sea Race member who killed the Bound Captive Luo Sheng during the Mao City purge 115.

Relationships

• Human Race — A principal enemy during the invasions of Mao City and Kaiyang; its forces later attacked Chongming City and other Sea Race cities 145 175 209 329.
• Demon Race — Temporarily allied with the Human Race against the Sea Race and later attacked its cities and Ringwater forces 145 329.
• Beastfolk — Prepared to defend southern Kaiyang against the Second Prince’s invasion 163.
• Shisui — Infiltrated Chongming City and Sea Race research facilities, destroyed sea-beast reserves, and manipulated Yuan Yuan and Yuanli through his abilities 135 136 175 199 272.