Signon

The Signon are one of the many species that call Spectra home. They were the second species to join the Kugraw Hegemony, and the third to comprise it overall.

Biology
The Signon are an aquatic race with slick, muscular flesh that’s streamlined to move swiftly through water. They stand on six limbs, the front four of which act as large elongated legs that end in points. The hind legs are more traditional in their appearance, each of them following a digitigrade joint and bone structure with streamlined fins running from the outside of their thighs to their feet. Their torsos hunch over on land as they’ve evolved to swim and dwell near the bottom of the sea, and they have a fat, diamond-shaped tail on their rear to help with propulsion. Their heads are round with short necks, and they have a beak with mandibles adorning it rather than a traditional mouth of most sapient species in Spectra. They have gills near the base of their shirt neck, right where it meets the collar of their chest. They can breathe out of water, but their skin dries out and begins to crack unless they are in heavily humidified environments. They aren’t considered slow on land, but they are far more efficient at mobility in water; while they’ve learned to walk and run among us, the Signon can swim at speeds of up to fifty miles per hour (80 kilometers per hour) while underwater.

Despite their relatively unattractive appearance to races other than their own, the Signon have evolved multiple sets of vocal cords and associated muscles that can each tune themselves to a specific pitch and frequency for the purposes of echolocation. Due to this, they often sound like an entire chorus when they speak and have earned a reputation as phenomenal singers in the entertainment industry. Many employers will prefer a signon singer over any other race as their range is better on average and they perform the work of several for the price of only one. These sets of vocal cords have also helped the Signon to adapt in their level of communication with one another, meaning that they can hold multiple conversations with other members of their species simultaneously, something which baffles other races when trying to keep track of the topic at hand.

Society and Culture
Signon culture is difficult to observe, as the majority of their civilization on their homeworld of Decarro is underwater. It is known that they form strong attachments to their family members, and are fiercely protective of those close to them.