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White, James – Sector General 05 – Sector General

Classification:DBDG

Planet:Nidia

Species:Nidian

Individuals:Chief of Procurement Creon-Emesh, Senior Physi-cian and

Tutor Cresk-Sar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Dracht-Yur, Lieu-tenant-Colonel

Dragh-Nin, Senior Physician Lesk-Murog, Senior Food Technician

Sarnyagh-Sa, Yoragh-Kar

Probable Individual:Surgeon-Lieutenant Krack-Yar

The Nidians have seven-fingered hands, stand only four feet tall.

They have a thick red fur coat, and look like a very cuddly

teddy-bear.

Classification:DBDG

Planet:Orligia

Species:Orlig, Orligian

Individuals:Grawlya-Ki/Grulyaw~Ki, Surgeon-Lieutenant Krach-Yul,

Major Sachan-Li, Colonel Shech-Rar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Turragh-Mar

Like the neighboring Nidians, Orligians resemble an Earth-hu-man

child’s first non-adult friend’s teddy bear.

Classification:DBLF

Planet:Ia

Species:Ian (pre-adolescent)

No Individual Narnes Known

The being appears ring-shaped, rather like a large balloon tire.

Overall diameter of the ring is about nine feet, with the thickness

between two and three feet. The tegument is smooth, shiny and grey

in color where it is not covered with a thick, brownish

incrus-tation. The brown stuff, which covers more than half of the

total skin area, looks cancerous, but may be some type of natural

cam-ouflage. There are five pairs of limbs, and no evidence

ofspecial-ization. No visual organs or means of ingestion can be

seen. The being isn’t a doughnut, but possesses a fairly normal

anatomy of the DBLF type~a cylindrical, lightly-boned body with

heavy musculature. The being is not ring-shaped, but gives that

impres-sion because for some reason, known best to itself, it has

been try-ing to swallow its tail. Senior Physician Conway, convinced

all along that the patient is undergoing a natural metamorphosis,

observes that the new patient, after the process is complete, is of

classifica-tion GKNM.

Classification:DBLF

Planet:Kelgia

Species:Kelgian

Individuals:Patient Henredth, Senior Physician Karthad, Charge Nurse

Kursedd, Diagnostician Kursedth, Patient Morredeth, Charge Nurse

Naydrad, Fleet Commander Roonardth, Charge Nurse Segroth,

Diagnostician Suggrod, Student Nurse Tarsedth, Diagnostician Towan,

Senior Physician Yarrence

Probable Individual:Charge Nurse Kursenneth

Kelgians are warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing, multipedal, and with a

long, flexible cylindrical body covered overall by highly mobile,

silvery fur. The Kelgian forelimbs have three digits. There are

twenty sets of short, thin, and not heavily muscled walking limbs.

The feet, which have no toe-nails or other terminations, are like

small, hard sponges.The fur moves continually in slow ripples from

the conical head right down to the tail. These are completely

involuntary movements triggered by its emotional reactions to

outside stimuli. The evolutionary reasons for this mechanism are not

clearly understood, not even by the Kelgians themselves, but it is

generally believed that the emotionally expressive fur comple-ments

the Kelgian vocal equipment, which lacks emotional flex-ibility of

tone.The movements of the fur make it absolutely clear to another

Kelgian-what a Kelgian feels about the subject under discussion. As

a result they always say exactly what they mean be-cause what they

think is plainly obvious-at least to another Kelgian.They can not do

otherwise. Kelgians have an intense aver-sion towards any surgical

procedure which would damage or dis-figure its most treasured

possession, its furs. To a Kelgian the re moval of a strip or patch

of fur, which in their species represents ~ means of communication

equal to the spoken word, is a personal tragedy which all too often

results in permanent psychological damage. A Kelgian’s fur does not

grow again and one whose pelt is damaged can rarely find a mate

because it is unable to fully display its feelings. Kelgians are

very close to Earth-humans in both basic metabolism and temperament.

Except for the thin-walled, narrow casing which houses the brain,

the DBLF species has no boney structure. Their bodies are composed

of an outer cylinder of mus-culature which, in addition to be being

its primary means of loco-motion, serves to protect the vital organs

within it. To the mind of a being more generously reinforced with

bones, this protection is far from adequate. Another severe

disadvantage in the event of in-jury is its complex and extremely

vulnerable circulation system; the blood-supply network which has to

feed the tremendous bands of muscle encircling its body runs close

under the skin, as does the nerve network that controls the mobile

fur. The thick fur of the pelt gives some protection here, but not

against chunks ofjagged-edged, flying metal. An injury which many

other species would consider superficial could cause a DBLF to bleed

to death in min-utes. Kelgians are herbivorous.

Classification:DBPK

Planet:Dwerla

Species:Dwerlan

No Individual Names Known

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