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** Iridescent skin (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ** Iridescent skin (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
** Spindle-shaped heads (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ** Spindle-shaped heads (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
** Pronounced keelbone mid-chest (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
** Two forearms extending from each arm at the elbow (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
** Two forelegs extending from each leg at the knee (''Ex Machina'' annotations) | |||
** Can reach heights of 2m (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
* Homeworld: [[Kachissat]] (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | * Homeworld: [[Kachissat]] (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
* Historical notes | * Historical notes | ||
** Had interstellar civilization c.8000 BCE (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ** Had interstellar civilization c.8000 BCE (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
*** Known as the Tishiki at the time (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
*** Civilization collapsed following impact of [[Ganidra]] supernova wavefront (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | *** Civilization collapsed following impact of [[Ganidra]] supernova wavefront (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
*** Rebuilt to interstellar levels by 2270s (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | *** Rebuilt to interstellar levels by 2270s (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | ||
* Cultural notes | |||
** Descended from solo predators (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
*** Being avian raptors, each individual requires extensive grounds to sustain themselves, making cooperative coexistence possible only through mutual self-interest (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
*** Cooperation for collective good common, but intensely individualistic even within such cooperative bodies (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
**** Self-autonomy a key philosophy within Shesshran culture and psyche (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
**** Society maintained through mutual agreement, elaborate system of contracts (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
***** Importance of upholding contracts and promises fundamental to Shesshran society in order to allow it to persist (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
*** Murder an accepted act as a means of settling conflicts where one acts against the interests of another by mutual contract (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
** Fairly matriarchal society (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
*** Men seen as little use beyond breeding (TOS Novel: ''Ex Machina'') | |||
[[Category:Intelligent Species]] | [[Category:Intelligent Species]] |
Latest revision as of 12:07, 9 May 2019
- Appearance: Avian (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Winged species (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Iridescent skin (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Spindle-shaped heads (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Pronounced keelbone mid-chest (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Two forearms extending from each arm at the elbow (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Two forelegs extending from each leg at the knee (Ex Machina annotations)
- Can reach heights of 2m (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Homeworld: Kachissat (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Historical notes
- Had interstellar civilization c.8000 BCE (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Known as the Tishiki at the time (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Civilization collapsed following impact of Ganidra supernova wavefront (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Rebuilt to interstellar levels by 2270s (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Had interstellar civilization c.8000 BCE (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Cultural notes
- Descended from solo predators (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Being avian raptors, each individual requires extensive grounds to sustain themselves, making cooperative coexistence possible only through mutual self-interest (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Cooperation for collective good common, but intensely individualistic even within such cooperative bodies (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Self-autonomy a key philosophy within Shesshran culture and psyche (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Society maintained through mutual agreement, elaborate system of contracts (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Importance of upholding contracts and promises fundamental to Shesshran society in order to allow it to persist (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Murder an accepted act as a means of settling conflicts where one acts against the interests of another by mutual contract (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Fairly matriarchal society (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Men seen as little use beyond breeding (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
- Descended from solo predators (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)