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Source: GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 2

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-The squid mothers and the messengers are two distinct races who exist in a symbiotic relationship.
-'''Squid Mothers'''
-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.
-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.
-Adult squid mothers live for an estimated 600 years.
-'''Messengers'''
-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.
-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.

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