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of specialization at their extremities: three of them are plainly manipulatory,
one bears the patient's visual equipment, and the remaining member terminates in
a horn-tipped, boney mace. The head is featureless, being simply an osseous dome
housing the brain. The cranium is pierced at regular intervals for visual, aural
and olfactory sensors. Their life-span, lengthy to begin with, is artificially
extended. Because they have tremendous minds, they have plenty of time, but they
constantly have to fight against boredom. Because part of the price of such
longevity is an evergrowing fear of death, they need to have their own personal
physicians no doubt the most efficient practitioners of medicine known to them-
constantly in attendance.
Classification:FGHJ
Planet:Unknown
Species:Name Unknown
No Individual Names Known
The being has six limbs, four legs and two arms, all very heavily
muscled, and is hairless except for a narrow band of stiff bristles running from
the top of the head along the spine to the tail, which seems to have been
surgically shortened at an early age. The body configuration is a thick cylinder
of uniform girth between the fore and rear legs, but the forward torso narrows
towards the shoulders and is carried erect. The neck is very thick and the head
small. There are two eyes, recessed and looking forward, a mouth with very large
teeth, and other openings that are probably aural or olfactory sense organs. The
legs terminate in large, reddish-brown hooves. Each hoof has four digits and
does not appear particularly dexterous. This creature serves as a host to beings
of Classification DTRC.
Classification:FGLI
Planet:Traltha
Species:Tralthan
Individuals:Patient Cossunallen, Crajarron, Chief Dietitian
Gurronsevas, Patient Horrantor, Senior Physician Hossantir, Surriltor, Senior
Diagnostician-in-Charge of Pathology Thorn-nastor
A massive entity with an osseous dome housing its brain, six
elephantine feet connected to its triple massive shoulders, and four extensible
eyes on an immobile head. Its six stubby legs normally give the Tralthan species
such a stable base they frequently go to sleep standing up. Even healthy
Tralthans have great difficulty getting up again if they fall onto their sides.
Tralthans must not be rolled onto their backs under normal gravity conditions
since this causes organic displacement which would increase their respira-tory
difficulties. Standard gravity at Sector General is just over half Tralthan
normal. Tralthans are vegetarians.
Classification:FOKT
Planet:Goglesk
Species:Gogleskan
 Individuals:Healer '(hone and child
The Gogleskan FOKT resembles a large, dumpy cactuslike plant whose
spikes and hair are richly colored in a pattern which seems less random the more
you look at it. A faint smell comes from the entity, a combination of musk and
peppermint. The mass of un-ruly hair and spikes covering its erect, ovoid body
are less irregular in their size and placing than is at first apparent. The body
hair has mobility, though not the high degree of flexibility and rapid mobility
of the Kelgian fur, and the spikes, some of which are extremely flexible and
grouped together to form a digital cluster, give evidence of specialization. The
other spikes are longer and stiffer, and some of them seem to be partially
atrophied, as if they were evolved for natural defense, but the reason for their
presence has long since gone. There are also a number of long, pale tendrils
lying amid the multicolored hair covering the cranial area, used for contact
telepathy. Its voice seems to come from a number of small, vertical breathing
orifices which encircles its waist. The being sits on a flat, muscular pad, and
it has legs as well. These members are stubby and concertina-like, and when the
four of them are in use they increase the height of the being by several inches.
The being al50 has two additional eyes at the back of its head~obviously this
species has had to be very watchful in prehistoric times.
Classification:FROB
Planet:Hudlar
Species:Hudlar, Hudlarian
Individuals:Patient FROB-3, Patient FROB-lO, Patient FROB-18,
Patient FROB-43, Patient FROB-1 132, Trainee FROB-61, Trainee FROB-73, Senior
Physician Garoth, Infant Patient Metiglesh
Hudlars are blocky, pear-shaped beings whose home planet pulls four
Earth gravities and has a high-density atmosphere so rich in suspended animal
and vegetable nutrients that it resembles thick soup. Although the FROB lifeform
is warm-blooded and techni-cally an oxygen-breather, it can go for long periods
without air if its food supply, which it absorbs directly through its thick but
highly porous tegument, is adequate. Hudlars are massive six legged beings. Each
leg is an immensely strong tapering tentacle, which terminates in a cluster of
flexible digits, curled inward so that the weight is born on heavy knuckles and
the fingers remain clear of the floor. The two lidless, recessed eyes are
protected by hard, transparent and featureless casings. Hudlars communicate
using a speaking membrane, which grows like a cock's comb from the top of the
head. The speaking membrane also serves as a sound sensor. The skin resembles a
seamless covering of flexible armor in appearance and texture. Food is ingested
through organs of absorption that cover both flanks and the wastes are
eliminated by a similar mechanism on the underside. Both systems are under
voluntary control. Because of the physiological necessity for avoiding further
sexual contact with its life-mate, a gravid Hudlar female changes gradually into
male mode and, concurrently, its life-mate slowly becomes female. A Hudlar year
after partuition the changes to both are complete.The Hudlar FROBs are [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]