Zin

Biology
The Zin are a highly advanced race of sentient, humanoid bipeds originating from the planet Zin, located in the Crab Nebula. The zin breed and have a birth rate similar to Earth's rabbits, but don't suffer from overpopulation. Females able to produce and give birth to approximately 3-5 at once. The average zin is in equal in strength to a standard human and are usually the same height, but they are not as flexible or agile. They have two hands with four fingers each, two opposite each other, their feet are similar to a human but with massive nails on each toe and they have entirely black, forward facing eyes. They also have spikes protruding their body, mostly their head, arms and back. Unlike humans, males and females almost have the same physical appearance. Males are more muscular, taller, have more spikes on their head and arms and have a more olive colored skin. Females have less spikes and have a more slim shape to their body much like female humans with almost pink colored skin.

Jolters are taller than standard zin and have massive, bone shoulder guards on their forearms, legs and shoulders. Their head is shaped completely different and they have sharp teeth in their mouth with almost bone crushing force. The breed of zin isn't born naturally however, they are genetically engineered from the DNA of the average zin and are entirely male.

Culture
The Zin have a government and lifestyle similar to humans. They have a single leader, an emperor usually referred to as their overlord who rules over the entire Zin empire and commands it's military. The zin are typically known to spend their days doing what humans do and often count how many spikes one another has. Some even acquire a celebrity-like status for within a community for having the most spikes, unlike humans who have actors, models or other higher up people acquire celebrity status. While not mandatory, zin are recommended to enlist into the army as part of the zin fleet.

The Zin Empire has expanded into other systems as well, conquering other planets home to other alien races. While the other races are usually oppressed, others are given the chance to serve the Zin Empire if Zinyak is impressed by their military prowess, though none have ever accepted Zin rule, resulting in execution and the complete genocide of that race.

History
Not as old as humans, the zin have existed since around 1800 BC. The zin evolved relatively quicker than humans though, achieving technology equivalent to human technology in the 2020s by 680 CE. The first ever civilization in zin history was finished in 1000 BC. From there, the Zin rapidly expanded their entire planet before advancing their technology under the leadership of their first leader, Overlord Zinvargh, who lead the zin through their advancement and evolution of their culture of society.

Zinmar took other and promised to finish what the previous overlord had started. By the time humans entered the medieval era, the zin had already achieved basic spaceflight, conducting research of the space around them as the humans did with their first landing on the moon. With the mantle of overlord handed over to Zinrej, the zin empire almost fell apart and returned to their primitive ways under his leadership, almost destroying the legacy of Zinvargh and Zinmar.

Zinrej attempted to alter zin genetics to make them better in everyway, but this resulted in a mutation in some newborn zin, sparking the Warden Outbreak. The Wardens became a predator to the zin and had an almost uncontrollable birthrate. Zinrej did little to help, focusing on altering his own genes to make himself stand out as emperor and overlord of his empire, this genetic modification made him taller than any of the other zin, even the wardens.

Over the next seven centuries, the zin empire was constantly at war with the wardens, desperate to achieve peace like they had before. It wasn't until Zinrej's son, Zinyak, overthrew his father, murdering him and took over as emperor. Zinyak's immediate course of action was to combat and partially sterilize the wardens then contain them. By 1969, the warden outbreak was over and all remaining wardens were captured. In order to restore Zin (their homeworld) to it's former glory, Zinyak and his zin invasion fleet departed across the galaxy, conquering worlds and placing their inhabitants into simulations based on their worst fears to mentally break them and use them as a hard labor work force to rebuild his planet.

Leaders
Zinyak (1966 CE-Present) (Earth-87469)

Emma/Chris Maddleton (2019 CE-Present) (Earth-76)

Zinyak (1966 CE-2019 CE) (Earth-76)

Zinrej (1256 CE-1966 CE)

Zinmar (1154 CE-1256 CE

Zinvargh (154 BC-1154 CE)