- "We are of the skies! We do not crawl. We do not walk. We are born to a life in the skies!"
- ―Aguella
The Ketrans were a race of small, winged aliens almost completely wiped out by Capasins.
Physiology[]
The Ketrans were an avian race of winged beings. Ketrans have four eyes, four wings, two arms, docking talons, and two pod-like feet. Ketrans also have four eyes that range in colors such as pink, magenta, aqua and black. Ketrans have 'quills' rather than hair. They are highly intelligent. The description provided by the author indicated they may appear as angels, which would fit in with their God-like powers over their games.
Ket's surface is volcanic terrain. Ketrans themselves, actually lived on giant crystal structures that floated above this surface. Each Ketran was stationed at a particular location of each crystal and these thousands of flapping wings allowed for the crystals to fly. Each crystal is similar to a city/state with specific customs and culture, acting as a home to several thousand Ketrans.
Due to their lives of flight, Ketrans are instinctively claustrophobic, to the point where they are absolutely terrified of closed space, even when windows and such allow the illusion of open air. This is a fear that they must conquer after they become a nomadic, space-faring race.
History[]
- "The evolution of my people is obscure. (Interesting how it is often easy to understand the evolution of an entirely different species, and yet be confused by one's own) Our scientists are confident that at one time we did inhabit the surface of our world, or at least its less sulphurous seas, but at some point the symbiosis of Ketran and crystal was formed and we simply grew together. Now of course, and for at least the last two million years, we have maintained our symbiosis with the crystals. [...] Certainly the seventy-nine mile circumference of the Seed Crystal is a result of Ketran symbiosis. How would the great crystals continue to float if not for the lift supplied by hundreds of thousands of Ketran wings?"
- ―Toomin
Ketran society is composed of many occupations such as biologists, technicians, analysts, physicists, astronomers, and theoreticians. Numerous Ketrans were involved in video games. In one particular game, the player would choose a species and make small changes to the planet and to the genetic structure, biology, etc. of the species and see what the outcome was in centuries or eons. Two opponents could each make respective changes and see which species survived and which did not, and why.
Eventually a race called the Capasins came and killed nearly all the Ketrans. This was because the game was broadcast throughout space, much in the same way that humans broadcast messages about their society via radio waves. The Capasins, who had no concept of games, believed that the Ketrans callously played with the lives of real species and needed to be stopped.
The last Ketrans escaped in an experimental spacecraft. While in space they spent the next several decades searching for a planet to call their new home. The Ketrans eventually came to a moon covered almost entirely with water, which they believed could have been favourable save for some vital characteristics that needed to be discerned. As they came closer to the surface of the water in an effort to probe the moon, their craft was seized by the tentacle of a creature whose tentacled body covered the entire surface of the moon. It pulled the ship into the water, and all aboard the ship perished, save one Ketran named Toomin.
Known Ketrans[]
See also List of Ketrans.
- Toomin/Ellimist
- Aguella
- Lackofa
- Jicklet
- Menno
- Deeved
- Farsight
- Jardbrass
- Oxagast
- Inidar
- Wormar
Ketran terminology[]
- The Crate: The name the Ketrans gave the Capasin ship they captured.
- Dam: The Ketran word for "mother".
- Dance By: An event which occurs whenever two crystals on Ket float near each other. Ketrans from each crystal fly out and meet Ketrans from the other crystal.
- EmCee: A Ketran space exploration ship.
- Memm: To "memm" someone is to send them a message via the planetary uninet; comparable to sending someone an e-mail or a private message, though the uninet is accessed through the minds of the Ketrans and not technologically. Essentially a slower form of thought-speak.
- Deep worms: A general curse-like invocation.
- Sire: The Ketran word for "father".
- Face-Face: Ketran slang similar to "hitting on" or "flirting".
- Mones: The Ketran term for the phenomenon that is described very similarly to pheromones emitted by females to attract a male. Ketran females appear to have an ability to pick and choose which male they want to 'mone' and subsequently drive him into state of delirious euphoria.
- Juvie: The Ketran word for "child" or "offspring".