Biology: Osjaks have both fur and Feathers. Their fur and feather colours depend on their ancestry, but stem from environmental camouflage. Feathers are grow predominately on limbs, back and chest, with tight fur growing around joints, neck, face, lower torso. Osjaks have plantigrade legs (human like).
Osjaks are omnivores but require a sugar & Fat rich diet. This diet is sourced from native 'meaty' fruits and vegetable with overpowering aromas.
Osjaks have a standard arrangement of limbs, with 6 digit hands and 4 digit feet. The 6th digit being a additional thumb that sits on the opposite side of the palm to the baseline thumb. Their ring finger and 'outside' thumb are clawed digits. The 4 digits on the feet are clawed talons with a specialized structure for grappling onto branches, having a reversed grip muscle, meaning to unclench their feet a muscle must be contracted to open the foot.
Osjaks give birth to live young and always as twins. All Osjaks are Lambda class Psions, they are born in pairs and share a telepathic link. Osjaks have a shared, continues stream of consciousness with their twin. All thoughts, sensations and feelings are shared between the minds via their evolved, telepathic link.
Statistics: Osjaks gain a +2 to Wisdom. Osjaks have the innate ability to telepathically communicate with their twin. Any checks against frightened, being put to sleep or charmed also effect the twin not targeted. Each twin shares the same number of actions as a single creature, the player decides how these action are divided between the twins, if a movement action is chosen, both twins have their own movement.
Culture: Osjak society deeply values spiritual practice and family values. The close unity found between twins is also found in their society, leading to very few systematic problems on their homeworld. Osjaks though are very unified, are exceptionally suspicious of outsiders, not permitting permanent residency for non-Psionically linked people.
Names for Osjaks are typically a anagram of each twins name, for example, Roman and Norma, Aiden and Nadia, Kris and Frisk.
History: The Osjaks were first discovered by survey teams in the most recent era of the 3rd Imperial founding. They're home planet of Thorbjo. Due to their ability to psionically link with Lamba and above class Psions, the planet is almost a pro-Psion haven for those wanting a normal life with limited Psionic regulator intervention in their lives. As the Osjak home system has the blessings from the Stellarch to have very limited Office of Psionics regulation.