Just nicked some template pieces from the SCA template to make it easier for myself~
Species: Alraune.
As it's meant to be like a "template" kind of thing, for people who want to play Dryad, Alraune/mandrake, humanoid Treant, or any other kind of species, the name isn't really that important... But Alraune is my personal favorite name. (It's german for mandrake apparently, and seems to be often for humanoid plant creatures, often the kind buried into the ground in a plant bulb.)
Some example names of the species:
Lavender, Rosania, Rosemary, Mapelis, anything plant-ish, I suppose.
Summarize what you know about the species:
I'd imagine the base form of this species to perhaps be a xenobotanical creation, similarly to how Prometheans are a xenobiological/sciencey creation (Unless I got things completely wrong there.)
Perhaps, created in xenobotanical research facility by splicing Diona DNA/matter with human/humanoid DNA, or just have them be a sub-species of diona, that instead of being a mass of several consciousnesses(diona nymphs) are more of a singular entity.
Orr, just a completely different species from somewhere completely different.
Why do you want to play this species?:
I really, really love Alraune/plant creature species, and put bluntly, I want to violate people as a plant-being. However, I'm also the kind of person who needs the mechanical ingame things to match atleast a little, and the idea of bleeding red blood, drowning in water, or other human-like problems occuring throws me off... It doesn't take all that much to temporarily shut down my ability to roleplay when it comes to immersion-shattering things.
(Also I really hate the diona sprite but shhh, don't tell them that!)
What do you expect them to bring to the station's RP by this species being allowed?:
People would be more inclined to play plant-creatures. I know there are dryads and plant-like being present on the station occasionally, and some of them seemed quite positive to the idea of an actual species for it existing.
As for how they would be implemented... My idea would be copying Diona, and slapping on a human body form. As it will be whitelisted, and plant people being a little bit of a rarer fetish thing (I think?) there's bound to be few of them, and easily regulated and stopped should they be abused.
(Not that I think that'd be a problem... I mean, I don't even hear about Prometheans being abused, and they're not even whitelisted, which this should be.)
Criticism, feedback and suggestions are VERY welcome.