[Jinumon]

Hey all!

Me and a friend are putting together a Space Opera setting for all the Sci-Fi shenanigans we want to play out. We're putting together a playable alien race with a unique life-cycle and I'm curious as to how we'd model it as an advantage.

So basically, this race matures into a teenage state in 10-12 years, at which point they cease aging. After that, they can voluntarily induce a metamorphosis and, after a short period of hibernation, emerge in a later life-stage. There are probably 4 or 5 stages (childhood/early teen, young adult, mature adult, middle age, and old), and all have their own pros and cons. All stages, save for the last one, do not age on their own. Those in the last stage of life age and die like any other species. An important distinction is that while this race must choose to advance forward, they cannot reverse the aging process to revert to previous stages: once they move forward, there's no going back.

I figure each stage will essentially be its own racial template, with all but the last stage having the Unaging advantage. That being said, I don't know how to model the ability to effectively be able to switch racial templates, but only a limited number of times and only in a specific sequence. I also figured that transitioning into the final stage would essentially start at age 70, and am unsure how this might be modeled or how much that would be worth.

I've thought about heavily limited Alternate Forms or simply as perks or perhaps 0-point features, but I'm curious as to what other people think.

Jinumon