The Classification System
   by Gary Louie

   James White's Sector General stories used a unique four letter
   classification system that helped describe the species quickly and
   effectivly, as one would require when the hospitol is a multi species
   enviroment.
   Gary Louie was working on a James White concordance. As part of that he
   completed a classification system, for the sector general series which
   covers all characters up to Final Diagnosis.
   This article appeared in the White Papers. Unfortunatly Gary Louie passed
   away, before the concordance was completed.

        Classification:AACL
       Planet:Unknown
        Species:Crepellian Pet No Individual Names Known
       A non-intelligent pet kept by AMSOs. It has six python-like ten-tacles which poke
though seals in the cloudy plastic of its suit. The tentacles are each at least twenty feet long
and tipped with a horny substance which must be steel-hard.

         Classification:AACP
        Planet:Unknown
        Species:Name Unknown No Individual Names Known
        A race whose remote ancestors were a species of mobile vegetable. They are slow
moving, but the carbon dioxide tanks which they wear seem to be the only protection they
need. AACPs do not eat in the normal manner but plant themselves in specially prepared
soil during their sleep period, and absorb nutriment in that way.

       Classification:AMSL
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Creppelian, Crepellian
       Individuals:Nurse Towan, Diagnostician Vosan
       A species of water breathing octopoids.

       Classification:AMSO
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       No Individual Names Known
       A larger life-form, in the habit of keeping non-intelligent AACL-type creatures as pets.

          Classification:AUGL
         Planet:Chalderescol IT
          Species:Chaldor, Chalder
          Individuals:Patient AUGL-1 13, Patient AUGL-1 16, Patient AUGL-122, Patient
AUGL-126, Patient AUGL-187, Patient AUGL-193, Patient AUGL-211, Patient AUGL-218,
Patient AUGL-22 1, Patient AUGL-233,
         Muromeshomon
          The denizens of Chalderescol, an armored fish-like species are water-breathers who
can not live in any other medium for more than a few seconds. A heavily plated and scaled
being, slightly re-sembling a forty-foot long armour-plated crocodile, except that instead of
legs there is an apparently haphazard arrangement of stubby fins, and a heavy knife-edged
tail. A fringe of ribbon-like tentacles encircles its middle, projecting through some of the only
openings visible in its organic armor. Chaldors have six rows of teeth in an over-large
mouth. The Chalders are one of the frw in-telligent species whose personal names are used
only between mates, members of the immediate family, or very special friends.

         Classification:BLSU
        Planet:Groalter
         Species:Groalterri
        Individual:Hellishomar the Cutter
         The Groalterri overall body configuration is that of a squat octopoid with short, thick
tentacular limbs. Its central torso and head seem disproportionately large. The eight limbs
terminate alternately in four sets of claws (that will with maturity evolve into manipula-tory
digits) and four flat, sharp-edged, osseous blades. The organ of speech and hearing is
centered above the four heavily lidded eye that are equally spaced around the cranium. A
macrospecies, there is an element of risk involved to any life-form of more or less nor-mal
body mass which approaches it too closely.

          Classification:BRLH
         Planet:Tarla
         Species:Tarlan
          Individuals:Surgeon-Captain/Trainee/Padre Lioren, Sedith and
         Wrethrin the Healers
         Tarlans are an erect quadrupedal life-form with its for short-legs supporting a
tapering, cone-shaped body. Four long, multi-jointed, medial arms for heavy lifting and
handling sprout from waist-level. Another four that are suited for more delicate work encircle
the base of the neck. Equally spaced around the head are four eyes whose stalks are
capable of independent motion. Tarlans have very large teeth. An adult Tarlan stands eight
feet tall.

       Classification:CLCH
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       No Individual Names Known
       Apparent typographical error for Classification CLHG.

         Classification:CLHG
         Planet:Drambo
         Species:Roller
         Individuals:Camsaug, Surreshun
         The Rollers resemble animated donuts rolling on their outer edge, with manipulatory
appendages in the form of a fringe ofshort ten-tacles sprouting from the inner circumference
between the series of gill mouths and eyes. Its visual equipment must operate like a
coeleostat since the contents of its field of vision are constantly rotating. The Rollers must
roll to stay alive-there is an ingenious method of shifting its center of gravity while keeping
itself upright by partially inflating the section of its body which is on top at any given moment.
The continual rolling causes blood to circulate-it uses a form of gravity feed system instead
of a muscular pump. The species reproduce hermaphroditically. Each parent after mating
grows twin offspring, one on each side of its bodies like continu-ous blisters encircling the
side walls of a tire. Injury, disease or the mental confusion immediately following birth could
cause the parent to lose balance, roll on to its side, stop and die. The points where the
children eventually detach themselves from their par-ents remain very sensitive areas to
both generations and their posi-tions are governed by hereditary factors. The result is that
any close blood relation trying to make mating contact causes itself and the other being
considerable pain. The rollers really do hate their fathers and every other relative. The
species is water-breathing with a warm-blooded oxygen-based metabolism. The lifesupport
mechanism for the species is physically complicated, to allow the occupant to roll naturally
within it. The concept of modesty is com-pletely alien to this race. This species does not
know the meaning of sleep. There is no such thing as sleeping, pretending to be dead or
unconsciousness. A Roller is either moving and alive or still and dead.

       Classification:CLSR
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       No Individual Names Known
       Apparent typographical error for Classification CPSD.

         Classification:CPSD
         Planet:Unknown
         Species:The Blind Ones
         No Individual Names Known
         These beings are roughly circular, just over a meter in diameter and, in cross section,
a slim oval flattened slightly on the under-side. In shape they very much resemble their ship,
except that the ship does not have a long, thin horn or sting projecting aft or a wide, narrow
slit on the opposite side which is obviously a mouth. The upper lip of the mouth is wider and
thicker than the lower, and can be curled over the lower lip, apparently sealing the mout shut.
The beings are covered, on their upper and lower surfaces and around the rim, by some
kind of organic stubble which varies in thickness from pin-size to the width of a small finger.
The stubble on the underside is much coarser than that on the upper surface, and it is plain
that parts of it are designed for ambulation. The Blind Ones evolved underground, and have
no organs for sight. They formed an alliance with the Protectors of the Unborn, each species
providing something that other lacked.

        Classification:CRLT
       Planet:Unknown
        Species:Name Unknown
        No Individual Names Known
        Senior Physician Conway was unable to classi~ this life-form with complete certainty.
The initial analysis was performed on a cadaver, an independent portion of a larger
composite being. The compos-ite is a warm-blooded oxygen breather with the type of basic
me-tabolism associated with the physiological grouping CRLT. Even a segment is massive,
measuring approximately twenty meters in length and three meters in diameter, excluding
projecting append-ages. Physically it resembles the DBLF Kelgian life-form, but it is many
times larger and possesses a leathery tegument rather than the silver fur of the Kelgians.
Like the DBLF's it is multipedal, but the manipulatory appendages are positioned in a single
row along the back. There are twenty-one of these dorsal limbs, all showing evidence of
early evolutionary specialization. Six of them are long, heavy, and claw-tipped and are
obviously evolved for defense since the being is a herbivore. The other fifteen are in five
groups of three, spaced between the six heavier tentacles, which terminate in four digits,
two of which are opposable. These thinner limbs are manipulatory appendages originally
evolved for gathering and trans-ferring food \to the mouths-three on each flank opening into
three stomachs. Two additional orifices on each side open into a very large and complex
lung. The structure inside these breathing ori-fices suggests that expelled air could be
interrupted and modulated to produce intelligence-bearing sounds. On the underside are
three openings used for the elimination of wastes. The mechanism of reproduction is
unclear and the specimen shows evidence of p05-sessing both male and female genitalia
on the forward and rear extremities respectively The brain, if it is a brain, takes the form of a
cable of nerve ganglia with localized swellings in three places, running longitudinally through
the cadaver like a central core. There is another and much thinner nerve cable running
parallel to the thicker core, but below it and about twenty-five centimeters from the
underside. Positioned close to each extremity are two sets of three eyes. Two are mounted
dorsally and two on each of the forward and rear flanks. They are recessed but capable of
limited extension; together they give the being complete and continuous vision vertically and
horizontally. The type and positioning of the visual equipment and appendages suggest that
it evolved on a very unfriendly world. The tentative Classification is an incomplete CRLT

         Classification:DBDG
        Planets:Earth, Gregory (Colony)
        Species:Earth-human, Gregorian
        Individuals:Theologian Augustine, Lieutenant Braithwaite,
         Sur-geon-Lieutenant Brenner, Corpsman Briggs, Lieutenant Briggs, Captain
Chaplain Bryson, Lieutenant Carrington, Lieutenant Chen, Major Chiang, Clarke, Lieutenant
Clifton, Junior Intern/Senior PhysicianlDiagnostician-in-Charge of Surgery Peter Conway,
Sergeant Davis, Major/Colonel Jonathan Dermod, Fleet Commander Dermod, Lieutenant
Dodds, Lieutenant Dowling, Major-Captain Fletcher, Fox, Trainee Hadley, Harmon,
Lieuten-ant Haslam, Patient Hewlitt, Tailor George L Hewlitt, Mrs. George L Hewlitt, Captain
Hokasuri, Major Holyrod, OR Nurse Hudson, Lieutenant-General Lister, MacEwan, Major
Madden, Captain Mallon, Senior Physician/Diagnostician/Patient Mannen/Man non,
Nurse/Pathologist Murchison, Major Nelson, Mister/Major/Chief Psychologist O'Mara,
Captain Sigvard Nyberg, Doctor Pelling, General Prentiss, Reviora, Lieutenant-Colonel
Simmons, Colonel Skempton, Surgeon-Lieutenant/Major Stillman, Lieutenant-Sur-geon
Sutherland, Corpsman Timmins, Lieutenant Wainright, Waring, Corpsman/Colonel-Captain
Williamson
         Probable Individuals:Lieutenant Carmody, Lieutenant Carson, Section Chief Caxton,
Major Colinson, Major Craythorne, Major Edwards, Doctor Hamilton, Dietician-in-ChiefKW
Hardin, Lieu-tenant Harrison, Lieutenant Hendricks, Kellerman, Colonel Okaussie, Captain
Stillson, Captain Summerfield, TrooperTeirnan, Surgeon-Captain Telford
        This species shows their teeth in a silent snarl when displaying amusement or
friendship and make an unpleasant barking sound that denotes amusement. The sound,
called laughing, in most cases a psychophysical mechanism for the release of minor
degrees of tension. An Earth-human laughs because of sudden relief from worry or fear, or
to express scorn or disbelief or sarcasm, or in response to words or a situation that is
ridiculous, illogical or funny, or out of politeness when the situation or words are not funny but
the person responsible is of high rank. The Earth-human voice is reputed to be one of the
most versatile instruments in the Galaxy. The Earth-human DBDGs are the only race in the
Galactic Federation with a nudity taboo, and one of the very few member species with an
aversion to making love in public. The Earth-human DBDGs make up the majority of the
Monitor Corps forces.

        Classification:DBDG
        Planets:Etlan Empire, Central World (Capital), Imperial Etla
        (Capital), Etla, Etla the Sick (Colony)
        Species:Etlan, Imperial
       Individuals:Heraltnor, Imperial Representative Teltrenn
        The physiology of the citizens of the Empire is the same as the population of their
colony Etla. The physiological resemblance is so close to Earth-human DBDGs that no
other disguise other than native language and dress is needed. There are theories about a
prehistoric colonization program by common, star-travelling an-cestors. Attempts at
procreation between Earth-human DBDGs and Etlans have been unsuccessful.

       Classification:DBDG
        Planet:Nidia
        Species:Nidian
        Individuals:Chief of Procurement Creon-Emesh, Senior Physi-cian and Tutor
Cresk-Sar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Dracht-Yur, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Dragh-Nin, Senior
Physician Lesk-Murog, Senior Food Technician Sarnyagh-Sa, Yoragh-Kar
        Probable Individual:Surgeon-Lieutenant Krack-Yar
        The Nidians have seven-fingered hands, stand only four feet tall. They have a thick
red fur coat, and look like a very cuddly teddy-bear.

      Classification:DBDG
      Planet:Orligia
      Species:Orlig, Orligian
      Individuals:Grawlya-Ki/Grulyaw~Ki, Surgeon-Lieutenant Krach-Yul,
      Major Sachan-Li, Colonel Shech-Rar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Turragh-Mar
      Like the neighboring Nidians, Orligians resemble an Earth-human child's first
non-adult friend's teddy bear.

         Classification:DBLF
        Planet:Ia
         Species:Ian (pre-adolescent)
         No Individual Narnes Known
         The being appears ring-shaped, rather like a large balloon tire. Overall diameter of
the ring is about nine feet, with the thickness between two and three feet. The tegument is
smooth, shiny and grey in color where it is not covered with a thick, brownish incrustation.
The brown stuff, which covers more than half of the total skin area, looks cancerous, but may
be some type of natural camouflage. There are five pairs of limbs, and no evidence
ofspecial-ization. No visual organs or means of ingestion can be seen. The being isn't a
doughnut, but possesses a fairly normal anatomy of the DBLF type~a cylindrical,
lightly-boned body with heavy musculature. The being is not ring-shaped, but gives that
impression because for some reason, known best to itself, it has been trying to swallow its
tail. Senior Physician Conway, convinced all along that the patient is undergoing a natural
metamorphosis, observes that the new patient, after the process is complete, is of
classification GKNM.

        Classification:DBLF
        Planet:Kelgia
        Species:Kelgian
        Individuals:Patient Henredth, Senior Physician Karthad, Charge Nurse Kursedd,
Diagnostician Kursedth, Patient Morredeth, Charge Nurse Naydrad, Fleet Commander
Roonardth, Charge Nurse Segroth, Diagnostician Suggrod, Student Nurse Tarsedth,
Diagnostician Towan, Senior Physician Yarrence
        Probable Individual:Charge Nurse Kursenneth
        Kelgians are warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing, multipedal, and with a long, flexible
cylindrical body covered overall by highly mobile, silvery fur. The Kelgian forelimbs have
three digits. There are twenty sets of short, thin, and not heavily muscled walking limbs. The
feet, which have no toenails or other terminations, are like small, hard sponges.The fur
moves continually in slow ripples from the conical head right down to the tail. These are
completely involuntary movements triggered by its emotional reactions to outside stimuli.
The evolutionary reasons for this mechanism are not clearly understood, not even by the
Kelgians themselves, but it is generally believed that the emotionally expressive fur
complements the Kelgian vocal equipment, which lacks emotional flex-ibility of tone.The
movements of the fur make it absolutely clear to another Kelgian-what a Kelgian feels about
the subject under discussion. As a result they always say exactly what they mean because
what they think is plainly obvious-at least to another Kelgian.They can not do otherwise.
Kelgians have an intense aver-sion towards any surgical procedure which would damage or
disfigure its most treasured possession, its furs. To a Kelgian the removal of a strip or patch
of fur, which in their species represents a means of communication equal to the spoken
word, is a personal tragedy which all too often results in permanent psychological damage.
A Kelgian's fur does not grow again and one whose pelt is damaged can rarely find a mate
because it is unable to fully display its feelings. Kelgians are very close to Earth-humans in
both basic metabolism and temperament. Except for the thinwalled, narrow casing which
houses the brain, the DBLF species has no boney structure. Their bodies are composed of
an outer cylinder of mus-culature which, in addition to be being its primary means of
loco-motion, serves to protect the vital organs within it. To the mind of a being more
generously reinforced with bones, this protection is far from adequate. Another severe
disadvantage in the event of in-jury is its complex and extremely vulnerable circulation
system; the blood-supply network which has to feed the tremendous bands of muscle
encircling its body runs close under the skin, as does the nerve network that controls the
mobile fur. The thick fur of the pelt gives some protection here, but not against chunks of
jagged-edged, flying metal. An injury which many other species would consider superficial
could cause a DBLF to bleed to death in minutes. Kelgians are herbivorous.

          Classification:DBPK
          Planet:Dwerla
          Species:Dwerlan
          No Individual Names Known
          A warm-blooded oxygen-breathing herbivore that does not walk upright. Judging by
the shape of the spacesuits, the beings are flattened 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 camouflage alone, or
by being nice and cuddly. The species has two sexes, male and female, and the
reproductive system seems relatively normal. 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 pigment 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 G's, 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 ridiculous stance with their forelimbs tightly folded,
their chins touching 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 straightened 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
pivots 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 elevated above the horizontal line of the spinal column.The back
and upper flanks are, therefore, the Wem's only body areas that are vulnerable to attack by
natural enemies, who must also possess the element of surprise if they are not to become
the victim.

        Classification:DRVJ
       Species:Name Unknown
       Individual:Doctor Yeppha
       Planet:Unknown
        A small, tripedal, fragile being. From the furry dome of its head there sprout singly
and in small clusters, at least twenty eyes.

        Classification:DTRC
        Species:Rhum
        Planet:Unknown
        Individual:Crelyarrel
        Flat, roughly circular beings, dark gray and wrinkled on one surface, and with a paler,
mottled appearance on the other, smooth, surface. The beings attach to their FGHJ hosts
with thick tendrils growing from the edge of the disk. The tendrils penetrate into their FGHJ
hosts' spinal columns and rear craniums. The DTRCs have their own special needs that in
no way resemble those of their hosts, whose animal habits and undirected behavior are
highly repugnant to them. It is vital to the DTRCs continued mental well-being that the
masters escape periodically from their hosts to lead their own lives~usually during the hours
of darkness when the tools are no longer in use and can be quartered where they can not
harm themselves.

       Classification:DTSB
       Planet:Traltha
       Species:Tralthan
       No Individual Names Known
       Apparent typographical error for Classification OTSB.

        Classification:EGCL
        Planet:Duwetz
        Species:Dewatti
        No Individual Names Known
        A warm-blooded, oyxgen-breathing lifeform of approximately twice the body weight
of an adult Earth-human. Visually it resembles an outsize snail with a high, conical shell
which is pierced around the tip where its four extensible eyes are located. Equally spaced
around the base of the shell are eight triangular slots from which project the manipulatory
appendages. The carapace rests on a thick, circular pad of muscle which is the locomotor
system. Around the circumference of the pad are a number of fleshy projections, hollows
and slits associated with its systems of ingestion, respiration, elimination, reproduction, and
nonvisual sensors. The EGCLs are organic empaths. They are organic transmitters,
reflectors and focusers and magnifiers of their own feelings and those of the beings around
them. The faculty has evolved to the stage where they have no conscious control over the
process.

        Classification:ELNT
        Planet:Melf Four
        Species:Melfan
        Individuals:Maintenance Technician Dremon, Senior Physician Edanelt,
Diagnostician Ergandhir, Patient Kennonalt, Patient KIetilt, Maintenance Technician
Kiedath, Nurse Lontallet, Senior Physician Medalont, Senreth
        Melfans are large, low slung crab-like crustaceans. The six thin, bony, tubular,
multi-jointed legs project from slits where the bony carapace and underside join. The legs
and all of the body are exoskeletal. The head has large, protruding, vertically-lidded eyes,
enormous mandibles, and pincers projecting forward from the place where ears should be.
Two long, thin and fragile feelers grow from the sides of the mouth. The species is
amphibious.

        Classification:EPLA
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       Individual:Lonvellin
        Apparent typographical error for Classification EPLH.

        Classification:EPLH
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       Individual:Lonvellin
       The being is large, about one thousand pounds mass, and resembles a giant, upright
pear. Five thick, tentacular appendages grow from the narrow head section and a heavy
apron of muscle at its base gives evidence of a snaillike, although not necessarily slow,
method of locomotion. The being is warm-blooded and has fairly normal gravity
requirements. Five large mouths are situated below the root of each tentacle, four being
plentifully supplied with teeth and the fifth housing the vocal apparatus. The tentacles
themselves show a high degree 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 acknowledged to be, physically,
strongest 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 pressure 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 lifeform that resembles
aTralthan, but is less massive with stubbier legs projecting from a hemispherical carapace
flared out slightly around the lower edges. The deployment of the legs and tentacles is
similar 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 tentacles. Two different types of tentacles have been observed on different
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, longitudinal fissure which opens into the birth canal. It will not open, however,
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
Physicians 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 nonintelligent. 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 faculties at birth.

       Classification:GKNM
       Planet:Ia
       Species:Ian (adult)
       Individual:Patient Makolli
        The metamorphosed form of the adolescent DBLF lifeform. The species created a
colony in this galaxy, coming from an adjoining one. The race is oxygen-breathing and
oviparous, having a long, rodlike but flexible body, and possessing four insectile legs,
ma-nipulators, the usual sense organs, and three tremendous sets of wings. The lifeform
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
       Planet:Euril
       Species:Eurils
       No Individual Names Known
       Fragile, bipedal, stork-like beings from a low gravity world. The MSVK environment
has dim lighting and a opaque fog for an atmosphere. The race is driven by an intense
curiosity and hampered by extreme caution. They are the galaxy's prime observers, and are
content to look and learn and record through their long-probes and sensors without making
their presence known. MSVKs have a low tolerance to radiation.

        Classification:OTSB
        Planet:Traltha
        Species:Tralthan
        No Individual Names Known
        Tralthan Surgeons are really two beings instead of one, a combination of FGLI and
OTSB.The OTSB is a nearly mindless symbiont which lives with its FGLI host. At first glance
the OTSB looks like a furry ball sprouting a long ponytail, but a closer look shows that the
ponytail is composed of scores of fine manipulators, most of which incorporate sensitive
visual organs. A cluster of wire-thin, eye and sucker tipped tentacles sends infinitely detailed
visual information to its giant host and receives instructions from the host. The Tralthan
combinations are the best surgeons the Galaxy has ever known. Not all Tralthans choose to
link up with a symbiote, but FGLI medics wear them like a badge of office.

       Classification:PVGJ
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       Individual:Doctor Fremvessith
       Apparent typographical error for Classification PVSJ.

         Classification:PVSJ
        Planet:Illensa
        Species:Illensan
        Individuals:Senior Physician Gilvesh, Charge Nurse Hredlichi, Diagnostician
Lachlichi, Charge Nurse Leethveeschi
        Probable Individual:Charge Nurse Lentilatsar
        Illensans are chlorine breathers with shapeless spiny bodies and dry, rustling
membranes joining the upper and lower appendages. The body resembles a haphazard
collection of oily, yellow-green, unhealthy vegetation. The two stubby legs are covered by
what look like oily blisters. Their loose protective suits are transparent except for the faint
yellow fog of chlorine contained within. The Illensans are generally held to be the most
visually repulsive beings in the Federation, as well as the most vain regarding their own
physical appearance. Illensans suffer digestive upsets if they exercise after meals. Contact
with water is instantly lethal to chlorine-breathers. PVSJs are not physiologically suited to the
use of stairs and have very sensitive hearing.

       Classification:QCQL
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       No Individual Names Known
       Apparent typographical error for Classification QLCL. Senior Physician Mannen did
not know there was any such beastie, but Major O'Mara had a tape. There were two
casualties of this classification at Sector General. The operations were suit jobs, since the
gunk that the QCQLs breath would kill anything that walks, crawls or flies, excluding them.

       Classification:QLCL
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
       No Individual Names Known
       Recent, and very enthusiastic, members of the Federation, this species had never
been to Sector General until the war with the Empire. Then a small ward was prepared to
receive possible QLCL casualties. The ward was filled with the horribly corrosive fog the
QLCLs used for an atmosphere, and the lighting was stepped up to the harsh, actinic blue
which the they consider restful.

        Classification:SNLU
        Planet:Unknown
        Species:Name: Vosan
        Individual:Diagnostician Semlic
        The SNLU life form requires a refrigerated life-support system for its
ultra-low-temperature environment while on the Chlorine and Oxygen levels. A frigid-blooded
methane-breather, it is most comfortable in an environment only a few degrees above
absolute zero. The SNLUs have a complex mineral and liquid crystalline structure. The
species evolved on the perpetually dark worlds which detached from their original solar
systems and now drift through the interstellar spaces. Physically they are quite small,
averaging one-third the body mass of a being like a Kelgian. In order to allow contact with
other, warmer, species, the SN LUs are required to wear a large, complex, highly
refrigerated life-support and sensor translation system, which requires frequent power
recharge. The scales covering the SNLU's eight-limbed, starfish-shaped body shine coldly
through the methane mist like multihued diamonds, mak-ing it resemble some wondrous,
heraldic beast. The SNLUs live and work in the almost total silence of beings with a
hypersensitivity to audible vibrations. These fragile, crystalline, methane-based lifeforms
would decompose at temperatures in excess of eighteen degrees above absolute zero and
be instantly cremated if the temperature rose above minus one-twenty on the temperature
scale in use in the Federation.

        Classification:SRJH
        Planet:Drambo
        Species:Healers or Physicians or Protectors
        No Individual Names Known
        The Drambon Physicians are glorified leucocytes to the Drambon Strata Creatures,
treating the many independent organisms living in and around those immense living carpets.
The stupid, slow moving Drambon Physicians stay close to the most active and dan-gerous
stretches of the Drambon shoreline. They resemble jelly-fish, so transparent that only their
internal organs are visible. A leech-like form of life, the SRJHs seem comfortable in either
air or water. Their reactions in the presence of severe illness or injury are instinctive. Using
their spines or stings, they practice their profession by withdrawing the blood of their
patients and pun fying it of any infection or toxic substances before returning it to the
patients' bodies. (The process repairs simple physical damage as well.) However, not all
the withdrawn blood is returned. It has not been established whether it is physiologically
impossible for the SRJH to return it all or whether the Physician retains a few ounces as
payment for services rendered. A Physicians can kill as well as cure. It can barely touch a
beast, causing a predator to go into a muscular spasm so violent that parts of its skeleton
pop through the skin. There is no evidence that they communicate verbally, visually, tactually,
telepathically, by smell or by any other system known to Sector General. The quality of their
emotional radiation suggests that they do not communicate at all in the accepted sense. The
Physicians are simply aware ofother beings and objects around them and, by using their
eyes and a mechanism similar to the empathic faculty, they are able to identi~ friend and
foe.

       Classification:SRTT
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Name Unknown
         No Individual Names Known
         This physiological type is amoebic, possessing the ability to extrude any limbs,
sensory organs or protective tegument necessary to the environment in which it finds itself. It
is so fantastically adaptable that it is difficult to imagine how one of these beings could ever
fall sick in the first place.

          Classification:TLTU
          Planet:Threcald 5
          Species:Name Unknown
          Individual:TLTU Diagnostician
          A TLTU doctor breathes superheated steam and has pressure and gravity
requirements three times greater than the environment of the oxygen levels. The local
protection needed by a TLTU doctor is a great, clanking juggernaut which hisses continually
as if it is about to spring a leak. The large protective suit resembles a spherical pressure
boiler bristling with remote handling devices and mounted on caterpillar treads, and has to
be avoided at all costs. The large size is needed to allow for heaters to render the occupant
comfortable, and surface insulation and refrigerators to keep the vicinity habitable by other
life-forms. The small TLTU lifeform inhabits a heavy-gravity, watery planet with edible
minerals, which circles very close to its parent sun. The TLTU's blood consists of
superheated liquid metal. TLTU patients are transported in their protective spheres
anchored to stretcher carriers. These spheres emit a high-pitched, shuddering whine as
their generators labor to main-tain the internal temperature at a comfortable, for their
occupants, five hundred degrees.

         Classification:TOBS
         Planet:Fotawn
         Species:Name Unknown
         Individual:Trainee/Doctor Danalta
         This being can extrude any limbs, sense organs, or protective tegument necessary to
the environment or situation in which it finds itself. It evolved on a planet with a highly
eccentric orbit, and with climatic changes so severe that an incredible degree of physical
adapt-ability was necessary for survival. It became dominant on its world, and developed
intelligence and a civilization, not by competing in the matter of natural weapons but by
refining and perfecting its adaptive capability. When it is faced by natural enemies, the
options are flight, protective mimicry, or the assumption of a shape frightening to the
attacker. The speed and accuracy of the mimicry, particularly in the almost perfect
reproduction ofbehavior patterns, suggests that the entity may be a receptive empath. The
empathic faculty is under voluntary control, so that the level of emotional radiation reaching
its receptors can be reduced, or even cut off at will, should it become too distressing. With
such effective means of self-protection available, the species is impervious to physical
damage other than by complete annihilation or application of ultrahigh temperatures.The
concept of curative surgery would be a strange one indeed to members of that race. They
do not require mechanisms for self-protection, so they are likely to be advanced in the
philosophical sciences but back-ward in developing technology. When not trying to look like
something 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. Another 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 forelimbs 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 advanced 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
radioactive 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 future 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 patient to the other. The creature is so vast that it has many independent 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 useful shape imagined.
At Sector General, one appeared as a Hudlar type six scalpel, a medium-sized box
spanner, a metallic sphere, a miniature bust of Beethoven, a set of Tralthan dentures, and a
Hudlar food sprayer, among other things. The tools belong to the only sentient Strata
Creature on Drambo, and were used to attack the medical and military forces attempting to
treat the Strata Crea-ture for radiation poisoning.

        Classification:Unknown
        Planet:Dutha
        Species:Duthan
        Individuals:Patient Bowab, His Excellency the Lord Scrennagle of
        Dutha
        Duthans have a centaur-like body. The torso from the waist up resembles that of an
Earth-human, but the musculature of the arms, shoulders and chest are subtly different. The
hands are five-digited, each comprised of three fingers and two opposable thumbs. The
head is carried erect above a very thick neck, which seems disproportionately small.The
face is dominated by two large, soft, brown eyes that somehow make the slits, pro tuberan
ces, and fleshy petals which comprise the other features visually acceptable.

       Classification:Unknowm
       Planet:Keran
       Species:Keranni
       No Individual Names Known
       No description given.

       Classification:Unknown
       Planet:Unknown
       Species:Kreglinni
       No Individual Names Known
       No description given.

       Classification:Various
       Planet:Meatball
       Species:CLCH/CLHG Drambon Rollers, Drambon Farmer Fish, Drambon Strata
Creatures, Drambon Thought Controlled Tools, SRJH Drambon Healers or Physicians or
Protectors
       The planet was originally named by the crew of Descartes, but the name was
considered derogatory by one of the native intelligent species. The planet is now referred to
as Drambo.