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==Efrosian Culture:==

Although not widely known throughout the Federation,many Efrosians live and work as teachers and philosophers on other worlds as part of cultural exchanges. Efrosians serve in Starfleet as well, especially many of the lower grade warrior priests. Navigation, Helm and Medicine are their most popular choices in Star Fleet. The warrior-priests perform excellently in medicine because of their innate, almost instinctive ability to intuitively diagnose a patient’s problem and treat them with the minimal amount of medicine or equipment. Efrosians who do not choose to join Star Fleet are often pressured to join the Merchant Academy.

Efrosian culture is the result of living on the harsh, frozen world of Efros for generations. Both technological and social development were minimal during the millennia-long ice age that ravaged the planet. Close-knit tribes formed out of a need for survival. Once the immense glaciers began to break up, the planet eventually united. 

The Efrosians do not have a written language. Although introduced to the concept by other civilisations, the Efrosian culture is still based on memorising oral history, with libraries resembling other worlds' music archives. Furthermore, the Efrosian language is music-based, which is more common among aquatic species than mammalian humanoids.  

Perhaps as a result of the strains placed upon social groups in their early histories, Efrosians lack the concept of monogamy found in many other humanoid cultures. The are not known to create social family groups, similar to the Parent-Spouse_Offspring Model found in most cultures. Instead Efrosians form a higher-level social bond of clans, adopting entire groups and even crews of ship's that they serve with as serrogate clan groups.

Efrosians prefer to specialize in one area of expertise. This is a result of social specialization that dominated most of Efrosian early history. This allows greater overall expertise in a chosen field of study which is believed to increase ones value to the clan as a whole.

*Other races are known to refer to Efrosians as Ateniods or Atenids, the same way some races call humans "Earthers" or "Terrans". 

Efrosian music is very unique among all the known species of the quadrants. It is composed entirely of chimes and stringed instruments. Efrosians do not use wind instruments or precussion as they consider them to be garish and unsophisticated. many Efrosian stringed instruments are comprised of multiple staged necks each bearing strings tuned to different octaves. The most complicated instruments are said to have a range of 8 octaves or more.