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| - They are a tall race, with few below 1.6 meters. Their natural environment was a thin atmosphere, made of gasses that were toxic to most other species, as well as being able to survive in a vaccuum for brief periods. Living deep in tunnels and caverns had affected their eyesight and left them sensitive to most light spectrums. In order to live off of their homeworld, Benzenite have to wear a special breather mask that supplies them with the mix of gasses they need to survive, goggles to save their delicate eyesight from harsh lighting, and must undergo a series of treatments designed to strengthen their skeletal structure and musculature (so as to remain upright in standard M Class gravity). These treatments can only be undertaken when they reach the age of 21 and require a full year to complete, they are also painful and uncomfortable, which was why not many undertook them. Their skin was thick and varied in colour from lilac to sky-blue to teal, though there was no racial or regional explanations for the different colouring. They weren’t considered an attractive race (by any other species) and with the breather in place their facial expressions were hard to read. They have bulbous cranial formations on the sides and backs of their heads (which allow them to navigate by a form or sonar, like a dolphin’s melon), these formations were slightly smaller on females (the only physical difference between the two sexes) though no less effective. They also have four fleshy breathing tubes that come from their chin; two go to roughly where a human's ears were located, whilst the other two were connected to their sternum.
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