White, James – Sector General 05 – Sector General

not trying to look like some-thing else, TOBSs take the

configuration of a large, dark-green, uneven ball.

Classification:TRLH

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

The TRLH casualty was an ally of the Empire during that war.

Classification was aided by the fact that the patient’s spacesuit

was transparent as well as flexible. The atmosphere the being

breathes is as exotic as that of the QCQLs, but can be reproduced.

The TRLH has a thin carapace which covers its back and curves down

and inwards to protect the central area of its underside. Four

thick, single-jointed legs project from the uncovered sections. It

has a large but lightly boned head, four manipulatory appendages,

two recessed but extensible eyes, and two mouths.

Classification:VTXM

Planet:Telf

Species:Telfi, Telphi

Individual:Astrogator-part Cheixic

A group-mind species whose small beetle-like bodies live by the

direct conversion of various combinations and intensities of hard

radiation. Mthough individually the beings are quite stupid, the

gestalt entities are highly intelligent. The Telfi operate in groups

as contact telepaths to pool their mental and physical abilities.

The Telfi have a spoken language as well as the telepathic faculty

used between individuals, especially members of a family gestalt.

An-other variant of the species resembles a large, terrestrial

lizard, just under five feet long from the bulbous head to vestigial

tail, with an extra set of fore-limbs growing from the base of the

neck. The only visible features are two tiny, lidless eyes and the

mouth. The four stubby walking limbs can be bent double to lie flat

against the body while the two, longer forward manipulators can

stretch forward and cross so as to allow the chin to rest on the

crossover point. The skin of a dead Telfi is pale gray with a

mottled and veined effect that resembles unpolished marble. The

color is a symptom of ad-vanced radiation starvation and a lethal

failure of the absorption mechanism. A healthy Telfi reflects no

light at all, looking like liz-ard-shaped black holes. A

healthyTelfi’s temperature is below room temperature. Investigating

their ultra-hot metabolism closely is to risk radiation poisoning.

There is a fallacy among non-medics that the Telfi cannot be closely

approached or touched without the use of remotely controlled

manipulators. To live they must absorb the radiation normally

provided by their natural environment but when, for clinical

reasons, the radiation is withdrawn for several days and they are

week from their equivalent of hunger, their ra-dioactive emissions

drop to a harmless level.

Classification:VUXG

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:Dr. Arretapec

The VUXG resembles nothing so much as a withered prune float-mg in a

spherical gob of syrup. The species has telepathic, teleportive,

and~sort of~precognitive abilities. The precognitive ability does

not appear to be of much use because it does not work with

individuals but only with populations, and so far in the fu-ture and

in such a haphazard manner that it is practically useless.

Classification:Unknown

Planet:Drambo

Species:Farmer Fish

No Individual Names Known

The large-headed Farmer Fish are responsible for cultivating and

protecting benign growth and destroying all other growth in the

Drambon Strata Creature. Farmer Fish have stubby arms sprout-ing

from the base of their enlarged heads.

Classification:Unknown

Planet:Drambo

Species:Strata Creatures

No Individual Names Known

The largest creature on the planet Drambo~so large that at a

scoutship’s suborbital velocity of six thousand plus miles per hour

it takes just over nine minutes to travel from one side of the

pa-tient to the other. The creature is so vast that it has many

indepen-dent parts performing specialized functions, such as the eye

plants, air renewal plants, Farmer Fish, Thought Controlled Tools,

and vegetable teeth. The parts can communicate via a mineral-rich

sap. The creature uses water instead of blood as its working fluid.

It is not clear if the entire creature is an animal or a plant,

there being components of both in its immense expanse. There is only

one intelligent Strata Creature on Drambo, and it is being treated

for radiation poisoning.

Classification:Unknown

Planet:Drambo

Species:Thought Controlled Tools

No Individual Names Known

Under the mental control of its user, a “tool” can assume any

use-ful shape imagined. At Sector General, one appeared as a Hudlar

type six scalpel, a medium-sized box spanner, a metallic sphere, a