Sky Jellies

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While Sky Jellies are aberrations they do not share the complex life cycle of most other aberrations. 

Able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sky Jellies  also seem to have total control over how many offspring to have and how long to spend on gestation. 

While I'm quite sure that there are practical limits on size and number of offspring, there are credible reports of Sky Jellies giving birth to swarms of several hundred, each only a few inches across. And equally valid reports of a single offspring, that was close to 20inches across. Which is essentially a young adult. 

Both of these events involved a generation period of approximately one year. There are other reports of Sky Jellies giving birth to a dozen or so offspring of about an inch in size in as little as a month.

It is unclear how long these creatures live or how big they can get. There are reports, (of questionable veracity, and so far unconfirmed) of specimens that are over 500 years old and over 5 yards across.

More credible reports put the average age at around 100 years with a cross section of around 6 feet with  a matching tentacle length. 

Sky Jellies are able to photosynthesize but are also known to eat pretty much anything they can find or catch. So it is unclear how much of their energy needs are provided by sunlight and how much from what they eat. 

In any event Sky Jellies are generally peaceful beings mostly interested in going about their lives and studying whatever happens to catch their interest. 

They are a psionic race, displaying telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. As the most common abilities. With various other psionic abilities being reported in some individuals. 

Expect for a very basic form of teleempathy Most Sky Jellies don't start showing abilities until they are close to young adulthood. 

The rate of development in a given individual seems to depend upon how developed they were at birth and on available food. 

A newborn only a couple of inches across is known to have reached young adult size,(about 3 feet across) in as little as 6 months. As Sky Jellies, like all Aberrations, have genetic memories, There was no evidence of any lack of mental development in the individual noted above.

 

Edited July 26, 2021 by TLDunn213