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The [[Devi Intelligence]] of [[Ghnema (world)|Ghnema]] is an unusual [[K'kree]] subject race, consisting of the sedentary [[Intellect]]s, who resemble colonies of giant fungi, and their mobile spores, the ''[[Shiverbat]]s''. In other words, the Devi Intelligence is a sessile [[psionics|psionic]] "plant" with a mobile immature form.
  
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The squid mothers and the messengers are two distinct races who exist in a symbiotic relationship.
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== Physiology & Environment (Ecology) ==
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Two different forms of a metamorphic species work cooperatively in order to sustain the Devi Intelligence, the [[Intellect]]s and the [[Shiverbat]]s.
  
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'''Squid Mothers'''
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== [[Astrography]] ==
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This race can primarily be found in the following areas:
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* [[Crucis Margin Sector]]
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** [[NewSun Subsector]]
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*** [[Devi (Crucis Margin) (world)|Devi]] is a secondary world of [[Ghnema (world)|Ghnema]].
  
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A Squid Mother is a spherical creature, 1.4 miles in diameter. Twenty feeding tentacles dangle from beneath this vast body, each one half a mile long and 30 yards wide. A Squid Mother has a coarse, ropy hide, covered in pock-marks, mouths, and gas vents. Beneath its skin is a complex serious of intestinal passages, stomachs, valves and bladders. Much of the Squid Mother's interior is hollow, filled with heated gas. Living balloons, the Squid Mothers float serenely through the ammonia clouds, tentacles questing in search of living prey.
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=== World Listing: 1105 ===
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The following [[system]]s and [[world]]s are associated with this [[sophont]] species:
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{{ClusterWorlds2}}
  
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Squid mothers can alter their internal chemical balances to create exotic com¬pounds inside their own bodies. By careful control of this process, they can "wall off' one or more internal stomachs, creating a sealed laboratory where organic molecules can be combined to build complex living organisms.
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== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}
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{{Sources
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|S1= {{Ludography cite|name=Alien Races 2|page=127-134}}
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Adult squid mothers live for an estimated 600 years.
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[[Category: Fungus]]
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[[Category: GURPS Traveller races]]
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'''Messengers'''
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[[Category: Two Thousand Worlds races]]
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{{LE|Races}}
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Messengers are a fully sentient race living in partnership with the giant squid mothers. Although in some ways subservient to the squid mothers, the messengers are intelligent beings in their own right. Because the messengers are much closer to [[Human]]s in size and outlook, it is they who are commonly entrusted with the responsibility of dealing directly with other races.
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[[Category: Guidebook to Crucis Margin Sector]]
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Xenologists consider it likely that the squid mothers deliberately bred the present species of messengers from less intelligent ancestors, perhaps beginning with a simple process of domestication in prehistoric times, and continuing until the present form of the species was developed. It is also apparent that this process continues: although the so-called adaptives are the most often encountered race, several other sub-species of messenger have been observed, some showing signs of deliberate biological engineering.
 

Latest revision as of 04:26, 31 July 2025

Devi Intelligence
Imperial-Sunburst-Green-wiki.png
Base Information
Classification Autotroph
Status Minor Race
Locomotion Sessile
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid Alien
Size
Weight 35 kg
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch TL:0-3
Psionic potential Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location Devi, Crucis Margin 1015
UWP
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Atmosphere
Off-world presence No
Zoetic individuals Yes
Source
Reference Alien Races 2 127-134.
Canon Yes
Also see

The Devi Intelligence of Ghnema is an unusual K'kree subject race, consisting of the sedentary Intellects, who resemble colonies of giant fungi, and their mobile spores, the Shiverbats. In other words, the Devi Intelligence is a sessile psionic "plant" with a mobile immature form.

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)[edit]

Two different forms of a metamorphic species work cooperatively in order to sustain the Devi Intelligence, the Intellects and the Shiverbats.

Astrography[edit]

This race can primarily be found in the following areas:

World Listing: 1105[edit]

The following systems and worlds are associated with this sophont species:

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References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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