Inchok

Inchok
Base Information
Classification	Autotroph/chemotroph
Status	Minor race
Locomotion
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence
Bio-Identenoid
Size
Weight
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Nafud (Dagudashaag 1418)
UWP	X000000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
Primary Star
Atmosphere
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals
Source
Reference	"Library Data: Ushra." Signal-GK 03 52.
Canon	No
Also see

The Inchok are a semi-intelligent species native to Nafud (Dagudashaag 1418), who live in complex, communal burrows under the sandy surface of Nafud.

Physiology and ecology

The Inchok are deaf - they sense each other (and more importantly their prey) through vibrations set up my movements in the sand. Basic communications between the Inchok is achieved through ‘drumming’ signals onto compact sand using a spade-like tail; vibrations are picked up by special sensitive pads found on the underside of the limbs.

Diet and trophics

They extract oxygen and water directly from the sand. The sand is taken into a special gut and chemically broken down to release the O2 and the water which are reabsorbed into the bloodstream. Water is then reabsorbed by kidney-like structures. These organs are so efficient that virtually no water is lost during normal metabolism.

References and contributors

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell, Leighton Piper. "Library Data: Ushra." Signal-GK 03 (1989): 52.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 162.