Tuesday 17 February 2015

Uthg-a-K'thaq

The USS Enterprise has a Scottish Engineer and a Vulcan Science Officer. The Star Fox II will have a Naqsan Chief Engineer because Gunnar Heim recruits Uthg-a-K'thaq, a distressed spaceman stranded in New York Welfare.

A Naqsan is like a tall, naked, chemosensor-tendrilled, three eyed, green, yellow spotted, two armed, swamp-smelling dolphin standing upright on two short legs, that is also a successful space merchant. (Human beings tend to dislike them.) Unfortunately, human beings and Naqsans will go to war in the sequel.

Aleriona and Naqsans play the same sorts of roles in Star...Time as Merseians and Ythrians do in the Technic History and, just as the Technic History features the quadrupedal Wodenites and Donarrians, Fire Time introduces an interesting race of quadrupeds. (See here.)

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