Catian

''"The Flowers of Castus will bloom again, the Trees of Castus will rise again, the Fruits of Castus will bear again, We, the Catians of Castus will go back home again." A popular verse of a Catian Poem.''The Catians of Castus are a near extinct race of sapient humanoid-like plants who were forced off their planet by the mysterious ever expanding Pallid.

Biology
The Catian race are genetically plantoids with humanoid qualities. Catians don't form like most plantoids do, they actually form from a "origin tree". Each Catian family have an "origin tree" a sapient non-mobile tree used in Catian procreation sometimes also referred to as a third gender. Male and female catians enter the porous tree and the tree takes genetic material from both individuals and combines it with its own to form a new Catian. The baby will then begin branching out from the tree and will break off after a year. Catians receive most of their nutrients from sunlight but can also eat solids and drink water if none is available but still require at least some sunlight once a month. If they don't receive sunlight in the allotted time they could go insane with visible degradation. They are a weak species and can not physically fight off an opponent without serious technological assistance.

Culture
Catian culture is observed to be peaceful and somewhat religious in nature. Their peaceful way actually stems from their species inherent physical weakness. Instead of focusing ways of war the Catians had always been on the intellectual side, preferably on advances in biology. After The Grasp and fleeing their homeworld, The Catian survivors reminiscent of home through sorrowful media. Younger generation born in the Imperium began making media signaling a triumphant return to their homeworld.