White, James – Sector General 05 – Sector General

A warm-blooded oxygen-breathing herbivore that does not walk

upright. Judging by the shape of the spacesuits, the beings are

flat-tened cylinders about six feet long with four sets of

manipulatory appendages behind a conical section which is probably

the head, and another four locomotor appendages. Apart from the

smaller size and number of appendages, the beings physically

resemble the Kelgian race. The pointed, fox-like head and the thick,

broad-striped coat make it look like a furry, short-legged zebra

with an enormous tail. These beings seem not to possess natural

weapons of offrnce or defense, or any signs of having had any in the

past. Even their limbs are not built for speed, so they can not run

from danger. The set used for walking are too short and are padded,

while the fotward set are more slender, less well-muscled and end in

four highly flexible digits which don’t possess so much as a

fingernail among them. There are the fur markings, of course, but it

is rare that a life-form rises to the top of its evolutionary tree

by camou-flage alone, or by being nice and cuddly. The species has

two sexes, male and female, and the reproductive system seems

relatively nor-mal. Both sexes use a water soluble dye to enhance

artificially the bands of color on their body fur~clearly the dyes

are for cosmetic reasons. The immature do not use dyes, but use a

brownish pig-ment on a bare patch above the tail.

Classification:DCNF

Planet:Sommaradva

Species:Sommaradvan

Individual:Trainee Cha Th rat

Four Ambulatory limbs; Four waist-level heavy manipulators; and a

set of manipulators for food provisions and fine work encircling the

neck. This being has two stomachs. Sommaradvan society is stratified

into three levels~serviles, warriors, and rulers~which strictly

govern how an individual acts within the society.

Classification:DCSL

Planet:Cromsag

Species:Cromsaggar

No Individual Names Known

This species has three sets of limbs: two ambulators, two medial

heavy manipulators, and two more at neck level for eating and to

perform more delicate work. It has a cranium covered by thick, blue

fur that continues in a narrow strip along the spine to the

vestigial tail.

Classification:DHCG

Planet:Wemar

Species:Wem

Individuals:First Hunter Creethar, Hunter Druuth, Youth Evemth,

First Cook Remrath, First Teacher Tawsar

The Wem life-form is a warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing species with

an adult body mass just under three times that of an Earth-human

and, since Wermar’s surface gravity is one point three eight

standard Gs, a healthy specimen is proportionately well-muscled. It

resembles the rare Earth beast called a kangaroo. The differences

are that the head is larger and fitted with a really ferocious set

of teeth; each of the two short forelimbs terminate in six-fingered

hands possessing two opposable thumbs, and the tail is more massive

and tapered to a wide, flat triangular tip composed of immobile

osseous material enclosed by a thick, muscular sheath. The

flattening at the end of tail serves a threefold purpose: as its

principal natural weapon, as an emergency method of fast locomotion

while hunting or being hunted, and as a means of transporting infant

Wem who are too small to walk. The Wem hunt by adopting an awkward,

almost ri-diculous stance with their forelimbs tightly folded, their

chins touch-ing the ground, and their long legs spread so as to

allow the tail to curve sharply downwards and forwards between the

limbs so that the flat tip is at their center of balance. When the

tail is straight-ened suddenly to full extension, it acts as a

powerful third leg ca-pable of hurling the Wem forward for a

distance of five or six body lengths. If the hunter does not land on

top of its prey, kicking the creature senseless with the feet before

disabling it with a deep bite through the cervical vertebrae and

underlying nerve trunks, it piv-ots rapidly on one leg so that the

flattened edge of the tail strikes its victim like a blunt, organic

axe. While the tail is highly flexible where downward and forward

movement is concerned, it cannot be el-evated above the horizontal

line of the spinal column.The back and upper flanks are, therefore,

the Wem’s only body areas that are vul-nerable to attack by natural

enemies, who must also possess the el-ement of surprise if they are