Xyrillian

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  • Appearance: Mammalian/reptilian, dark-amber scaled skin, three ridges running along scalp front to back
  • Strong bio-electricity, allows low-level telepathy with technological assistance (ENT: "Unexpected")
  • Metabolism not based on water, high-pressure atmosphere (slightly hallucinogenic to humans, possibly others) (ENT: "Unexpected")
  • Mothers provide all genetic material for reproduction, fathers carry to term a la seahorses (ENT: "Unexpected")
  • Advanced biotech; food grown on ship walls, ship possibly partially-biological (ENT: "Unexpected")
  • Advanced holography tech (ENT: "Unexpected")
    • Trading partners with Kantare
    • Restricted trading otherwise after revelation of Klingons applying technology to torture prisoners (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
    • Courted for Federation membership early-2160s
      • Efforts failed after collapse of Partnership of Civilizations due to Federation interference, leading Xyrillians to pull out of negotiations, sign on to Vissian technology trade embargo
    • Trading restrictions lessen with Federation by 2260s; holodeck/rec room tech possibly based on Xyrillian tech (TOS Novel: The Case of the Colonist's Corpse)