White, James – Sector General 05 – Sector General

stron-gest life-forms of the Galactic Federation and to have the

least-pervious body tegument. Contact with chlorine is instantly

lethal to them. Hudlar blood is yellow and circulates under great

pres-sure and pulse rate. Hudlars consider their names to be their

most private and personal possession, and do not give or use their

names in the presence of anyone who is not a member of the family or

a close friend.

Classification:FSOJ

Planet:Unknown

Species:Protectors of the Unborn

No Individual Names Known

The Protector of the Unborn is a large, immensely strong life-form

that resembles aTralthan, but is less massive with stubbier legs

pro-jecting from a hemispherical carapace flared out slightly around

the lower edges. The deployment of the legs and tentacles is

simi-lar to the Hudlar FROB life-form, but the carapace is a thicker

ELNT Melfan shell without markings, and the FSOJ is plainly not

herbivorous. From openings high on the carapace sprout four

ten-tacles. Two different types of tentacles have been observed on

dif-ferent beings: long and particularly thin tentacles which

terminate in flat, spear-like tips with serrated boney edges, and

thick tentacles terminating in a cluster ofsharp, bony projections

which make them resemble spiked clubs. The four stubby legs also

have osseous pro-jections which enable them to be used as weapons as

well. Midway between two of the tentacle openings there is a larger

gap in the carapace from which protrudes a head, all mouth and

teeth. The large upper and lower mandibles are capable of deforming

all but the strongest metal alloys. A little space is reserved for

two well-protected eyes at the bottom of deep, boney craters. A

serrated tail also protrudes from the heavily slitted carapace.

While the under-side is not armored, as is the carapace, this area

is rarely open to attack, and it is covered by a thick tegument

which apparently gives sufficient protection. In the center of this

area is a thin, longitudi-nal fissure which opens into the birth

canal. It will not open, how-ever, until a few minutes before giving

birth. The FSOJ brain is not in its skull, but deep inside the torso

with the rest of the other vital organs. It is positioned just under

the womb and surrounding the beginning of the birth canal. As a

result, the brain is compressed as the embryo grows. If it is a

difficult birth, the parent’s brain is destroyed and junior comes

out fighting, with a convenient food supply available until it can

kill something for itself Senior Physi-cians Conway’s first

impression was that the entity was little more than an organic

killing machine. Considering the fact that it is warm-blooded and

oxygen-breathing, and its appendages show no evidence of the ability

to manipulate tools or materials, Patholo-gist Murchison tentatively

classified it as FSOJ and probably non-intelligent. The Unborn young

of the bisexual FSOJ is retained in the womb until it is well-grown

and fully equipped to survive. The Unborn is an intelligent and

telepathic being, but loses these fac-ulties at birth.

Classification:GKNM

Planet:Ia

Species:Ian (adult)

Individual:Patient Makolli

The metamorphosed form of the adolescent DBLF life-form. The species

created a colony in this galaxy, coming from an adjoining one. The

race is oxygen-breathing and oviparous, having a long, rod-like but

flexible body, and possessing four insectile legs, ma-nipulators,

the usual sense organs, and three tremendous sets of wings. The

life-form looks something like a large dragonfly.

Classification:GLNO

Planet:Cinruss

Species:Cinrusskin

Individual:Senior Physician Prilicla

Cinrusskins are enormous, incredibly fragile flying insects, with a

tubular exoskeletal body. Six sucker-tipped pencil-thin legs, four

even more delicately fashioned, tiny, precise manipulators, and four

sets ofwide, iridescent, and almost transparent wings project form

the body. The head is a convoluted eggshell, so finely structured

that the sensory and manipulatory organs that it supports seem ready

to fall off at the first sudden movement. The eyes are large and

triple-lidded. The Cinrusskin are the Federation’s only empathic

race. Cinruss has a dense atmosphere and one-eighth gravity.

Cinrusskins are sexless.

Classification:LSVO

Planet:Nallaji

Species:Nallajim

Individuals:Kytili, Senior Physician Seldal

The species has a birdlike, fragile, low-gravity physiology, with

three legs, two not-quite-atrophied wings, and no hands at all. When

LSVOs eat, they are sickened by anything which doesn’t look like

bird seed.

Classification:MSVK