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Greaseheart Culture
Morals
What is the culture's common moral traits? How do they treat others who aren't in their immediate family?
Style
What's their aesthetic? What's the general impression left on the viewer? How do they go about doing this?
Greasehearts are renowned for playing tough or and cool. Ranging from cultivating a gritty and aloof appearance to remaining cool headed and slick. They often wear hair in slick quiffs, mullets, and long, while facial hair ranges from bushy beards to
Fashion
The way to be fashionable is to look cool. Hard-wearing materials such as denim, canvas, and leather are common materials, worn as jeans, jackets, alongside metal for accents and decoration. For accessories, Greasehearts always have a nice pair of shades on them, and often wear them indoors. Earrings and fingerless gloves are also common.
Piloting and racing suits are also considered proper good looking attire, covered with embroidered patterns and patches from spaceports all over the galaxy. Above all else in Greaseheart looks, colours must be bold. Pastels, tertiaries, and gentle shades are rare, but neon gradients are frequent.
Architecture & Aesthetics
How do they construct things? What do they construct them like?
There are two things above all else that matter to a Greaseheart's house: Their garage, and their workbench. Occupying the same space, many Greaseheart households are built around storing vehicles. Most of their houses are often built from prefabricated and artificial materials or steel, the presence of neon lights on commercial windows give businesses a distinctly gaudy vibe. In less wealthy areas, they are known to live out of the hulls of wrecked starships, building in and around them while reactivating systems to the best of their ability.
Technology
What is the culture's main draw? What do they like using?
Greaseheart made items are easy to spot: They have metallic paints or coatings, contrasting racing stripes, chequered patterns, or painted pin-up artworks when possible. Equipment omits unnecessary features, and operation is fairly straightforward. Handheld items are often heavy and hefty feeling, put power over subtlety, and are built to outlast and survive the competition. Its also likely for items to make noises for user feedback, even if they're meant to be quiet.
Tech Focus
What the society's main focus in technology is. It could be that they heavily invest in ballistic weaponry, argricultural growth in an underground plane, or magitek construction, and so on. Essentially, what they're interested in developing towards.
“If its moving and it shouldn't, repair tape. If it isn't moving and it should, solvent.” |
In general, Greasehearts are drawn to finding new ways to go fast: They enjoy using combustion engines where possible, but are not impartial to using antimatter or plasma. Their love of all things mechanical also extends into designing ballistic and energy small arms, and powered suits. In addition, Greasehearts are responsible for pushing aerospace and spaceflight research and development into new horizons.
In general, they enjoy coming up with practical solutions to problems, and are renowned for being able to improvise repairs wherever they come across.
Magic
Does the society encourage magic use? How does it usually manifest? How does it affect their daily life? Are there common spellcasting traditions?
Psionics
Does the society use psionics? How does it usually manifest? How does it affect their daily life?
Agriculture
Do they farm? What do they farm? How do they farm?
Horticulture
Do they have any sort of gardening/landscaping habits? Terraforming?
Fauna
Do they keep animals? For food? For play? What kind?
Cooking
What are common cooking traditions? What is a likely flavour profile?
Religion
What is the commonly shared belief system through the species?
Core Tenets
The main focus of the religion.
Ceremony
Are there any sort of rituals the culture goes through to celebrate the advancement of one through life and religion?
Traditions
What are common traditions the culture holds? Is it annual, or based on some celestial alignment, or based on weather conditions, and so on.
Birth and Death
How do they celebrate birth? Do they mourn the dead? Etc.