Species

Blink-catsCreature

Tank-sized cat kaiju that teleport in short hops and peel armour with metallic claws.

Cay-OpuSpecies

Four- and six-armed gorilla people of Tra Sakinig, made by Franklin Bio-industrial as a psychic-controlled labour force; at war with the colonists until the control machine was shut down.

Cone wormsCreature

Ice-burrowing creatures of Ocula Porta, like a long kiwi or maggot with a sharp cone on the front that splits in three around a whirl of thorny teeth.

CryptlingCreature

Leathery flying pack predator of Tra Sakinig.

Crystal collectiveSpecies

Telepathic silicon-bacteria crystal colony on an airless moon of the Atlas system's gas giant; agreed to a trade-based coexistence.

CyberillasCreature

Cybernetic gorillas ("Roborillas") among Franklin Bio-industrial's experiments on Tra Sakinig; the biggest, BUBBLES, carried a vortex cannon and a nuclear dead-man's switch.

Farsi plant-beastsCreature

Carnivorous, mobile plant-beasts overgrowing Farsi, the only habitable world of its system.

Giant Dolphin MonsterCreature

Sea kaiju woken by the 9/13/3200 release; attacked a major Speghti settlement, was subdued by the Shock Cavalry and the Starship at Fortress Trulia (3/14/3200) and kept captive by the Trulianui.

Giant monitor lizardsCreature

Cargo-van-sized monitor lizards among the kaiju woken under the ziggurat.

IbuiCreature

Blue-marlin-like sea creature of Tra Sakinig, ridden by the Speghti cavalry.

IchinoiCreature

Apex octopus-like creature of Tra Sakinig; the basis of Speghti biological computers.

Ichuoi coralCreature

Living coral of Tra Sakinig from which the Speghti grow their fortresses and mechs.

Ininedo werewolvesSpecies

Big, hairy, canine humanoids of the Ininedo system, about nine feet tall; some work out of Kos as the Werewolves of London.

Kaiju dragonsCreature

Bus-sized, fire- and diesel-breathing flying kaiju of Tra Sakinig that hunt in flocks.

KameejansSpecies

The human people of Kameeja, descended from refugees who arrived by generation ship and living under the Kameejan Central Authority.

LithoidsSpecies

Slow, rock- and crystal-bodied people who live on minerals and shrug off frozen, burning and airless worlds; Thumno Unkrux is one.

Lundvollr peopleSpecies

The human people of Lundvollr, a tribal agri-world in the Titan sector saved by Atlas from the Vehendrix, whose Huscarl warrior caste fought as Atlesian auxiliaries.

M'lakSpecies

Tough, regenerating, mandibled humanoids, one-sexed and amphibian-born, who made up much of Atlas's non-human ground troops and treat war as a hobby rather than an event.

MinervansSpecies

Grey-skinned, big-brained technopaths from frozen Minerva Prime who feed on vibrations, talk to machines without a word, and joined Atlas near the end of the Vehendrix war.

Muddy moundsCreature

Strange mud mounds in the swamps of Tra Sakinig, met by the When the Trees patrol.

Nanite dead of Fort FranklinCreature

Several hundred nanite-infused humanoids standing in ranks around Fort Franklin on the Dead World.

Palolli SkagCreature

Large six-legged predator met on the road in Into the Past; its name is distinct from the world Papolli.

Purple-green space devourerCreature

A vacuum-surviving, mobile carnivorous plant (herbadentata devoratis purpuraviridis) drawn to technology; met on a Ragnhil derelict, in the Cradle and on a crashed ship.

Scaled panthersCreature

Green-eyed, scaled panther kaiju of the Tra Sakinig canopy.

Six-tusked boarsCreature

Wheelbarrow-sized, scarred, six-tusked beasts of the Dead World that nanite swarms bring back to their feet.

Sliding rocksCreature

Large boulders along Tra Sakinig's coast with drag marks behind them, though no one has seen them move.

Space roachCreature

Isopod-like vermin up to 1.5 m long that bite through metal; a colony can regrow from one egg pairing; infested the Hercules' Agri-Deck.

SpeghtiSpecies

Six-limbed amphibious reptilian natives of Tra Sakinig, living in fortresses of living coral under their Houses, with mostly organic technology.

Thalate allovoresSpecies

Silicon-based, acid-using, metal-eating creatures of Thalate, from insect-sized to a one-metre predator; repelled by low-frequency sound.

Tra Sakinig kaijuCreature

Franklin Bio-industrial's engineered super-beasts, kept dormant for a century by the gorilla control unit and released across Tra Sakinig when it was shut down on 9/13/3200.

Uymon'eaSpecies

Rare, starry, shape-shifting amoeboids of asteroids and deep space, natural psychics with their own organic psitech, brought to the brink of extinction by the Scream.

ValrickSpecies

A sapient ooze, alien to the sector, that latches onto machines and rides them; it took the town of Praka on Vari and was wiped out by a cryo explosion.

Willow vinesCreature

Large Tra Sakinig trees whose motile hanging vines try to strangle anyone passing; kill the tree and the vines die.