James White - SG 02 - Star Surgeon

STAR SURGEON

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Other BOOKS BY JAMES WHITE

The Secret Visitor (1957)

Second Ending (1962)

Deadly Litter (1964)

Escape Orbit (1965)

The Watch Below (1966)

All Judgement Fled (1968)

The Aliens Among Us (1969)

Tomorrow Is Too Far (1971)

Dark Inferno (1972)

The Dream Millennium (1974)

Monsters and Medics (1977)

Underkill (1979)

Future Past (1982)

Federation World (1988)

The Silent Stars Go By (1991)

The White Papers (1996)

Gene Rodden berry's Earth:

Final Conflict-The First Protector (Tor, 2000)

THE SECTOR GENERAL SERIES

Hospital Station (1962)

Star Surgeon (1963)

Major Operation (1971)

Ambulance Ship (1979)

Sector General (1983)

Star Healer (1985)

Code Blue-Emergency (1987)

The Genocidal Healer (1992)

The Galactic Gourmet (Tor, 1996)

Final Diagnosis (Tor, 1997)

Mind Changer (br, 1998)

Double Contact (br, 1999)

Species Classification

The Classification System

by Gary Louie

James White's Sector General stories used a unique four letter

classification system that helped describe the species quickly and

effectivly, as one would require when the hospitol is a multi species

enviroment.

Gary Louie was working on a James White concordance. As part of that he

completed a classification system, for the sector general series which

covers all characters up to Final Diagnosis.

This article appeared in the White Papers. Unfortunatly Gary Louie passed

away, before the concordance was completed.

Classification:AACL

Planet:Unknown

Species:Crepellian Pet No Individual Names Known

A non-intelligent pet kept by AMSOs. It has six python-like

ten-tacles which poke though seals in the cloudy plastic of its

suit. The tentacles are each at least twenty feet long and tipped

with a horny substance which must be steel-hard.

Classification:AACP

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown No Individual Names Known

A race whose remote ancestors were a species of mobile vegetable.

They are slow moving, but the carbon dioxide tanks which they wear

seem to be the only protection they need. AACPs do not eat in the

normal manner but plant themselves in specially prepared soil during

their sleep period, and absorb nutriment in that way.

Classification:AMSL

Planet:Unknown

Species:Creppelian, Crepellian

Individuals:Nurse Towan, Diagnostician Vosan

A species of water breathing octopoids.

Classification:AMSO

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

A larger life-form, in the habit of keeping non-intelligent

AACL-type creatures as pets.

Classification:AUGL

Planet:Chalderescol IT

Species:Chaldor, Chalder

Individuals:Patient AUGL-1 13, Patient AUGL-1 16, Patient AUGL-122,

Patient AUGL-126, Patient AUGL-187, Patient AUGL-193, Patient

AUGL-211, Patient AUGL-218, Patient AUGL-22 1, Patient AUGL-233,

Muromeshomon

The denizens of Chalderescol, an armored fish-like species are

water-breathers who can not live in any other medium for more than a

few seconds. A heavily plated and scaled being, slightly re-sembling

a forty-foot long armour-plated crocodile, except that instead of

legs there is an apparently haphazard arrangement of stubby fins,

and a heavy knife-edged tail. A fringe of ribbon-like tentacles

encircles its middle, projecting through some of the only openings

visible in its organic armor. Chaldors have six rows of teeth in an

over-large mouth. The Chalders are one of the frw in-telligent

species whose personal names are used only between mates, members of

the immediate family, or very special friends.

Classification:BLSU

Planet:Groalter

Species:Groalterri

Individual:Hellishomar the Cutter

The Groalterri overall body configuration is that of a squat

octopoid with short, thick tentacular limbs. Its central torso and

head seem disproportionately large. The eight limbs terminate

alternately in four sets of claws (that will with maturity evolve

into manipula-tory digits) and four flat, sharp-edged, osseous

blades. The organ of speech and hearing is centered above the four

heavily lidded eye that are equally spaced around the cranium. A

macrospecies, there is an element of risk involved to any life-form

of more or less nor-mal body mass which approaches it too closely.

Classification:BRLH

Planet:Tarla

Species:Tarlan

Individuals:Surgeon-Captain/Trainee/Padre Lioren, Sedith and

Wrethrin the Healers

Tarlans are an erect quadrupedal life-form with its for short-legs

supporting a tapering, cone-shaped body. Four long, multi-jointed,

medial arms for heavy lifting and handling sprout from waist-level.

Another four that are suited for more delicate work encircle the

base of the neck. Equally spaced around the head are four eyes whose

stalks are capable of independent motion. Tarlans have very large

teeth. An adult Tarlan stands eight feet tall.

Classification:CLCH

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

Apparent typographical error for Classification CLHG.

Classification:CLHG

Planet:Drambo

Species:Roller

Individuals:Camsaug, Surreshun

The Rollers resemble animated donuts rolling on their outer edge,

with manipulatory appendages in the form of a fringe ofshort

ten-tacles sprouting from the inner circumference between the series

of gill mouths and eyes. Its visual equipment must operate like a

coeleostat since the contents of its field of vision are constantly

rotating. The Rollers must roll to stay alive-there is an ingenious

method of shifting its center of gravity while keeping itself

upright by partially inflating the section of its body which is on

top at any given moment. The continual rolling causes blood to

circulate-it uses a form of gravity feed system instead of a

muscular pump. The species reproduce hermaphroditically. Each parent

after mating grows twin offspring, one on each side of its bodies

like continu-ous blisters encircling the side walls of a tire.

Injury, disease or the mental confusion immediately following birth

could cause the parent to lose balance, roll on to its side, stop

and die. The points where the children eventually detach themselves

from their par-ents remain very sensitive areas to both generations

and their posi-tions are governed by hereditary factors. The result

is that any close blood relation trying to make mating contact

causes itself and the other being considerable pain. The rollers

really do hate their fa-thers and every other relative. The species

is water-breathing with a warm-blooded oxygen-based metabolism. The

life-support mechanism for the species is physically complicated, to

allow the occupant to roll naturally within it. The concept of

modesty is com-pletely alien to this race. This species does not

know the meaning of sleep. There is no such thing as sleeping,

pretending to be dead or unconsciousness. A Roller is either moving

and alive or still and dead.

Classification:CLSR

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

Apparent typographical error for Classification CPSD.

Classification:CPSD

Planet:Unknown

Species:The Blind Ones

No Individual Names Known

These beings are roughly circular, just over a meter in diameter

and, in cross section, a slim oval flattened slightly on the

under-side. In shape they very much resemble their ship, except that

the ship does not have a long, thin horn or sting projecting aft or

a wide, narrow slit on the opposite side which is obviously a mouth.

The upper lip of the mouth is wider and thicker than the lower, and

can be curled over the lower lip, apparently sealing the mout shut.

The beings are covered, on their upper and lower surfaces and around

the rim, by some kind of organic stubble which varies in thickness

from pin-size to the width of a small finger. The stubble on the

underside is much coarser than that on the upper surface, and it is

plain that parts of it are designed for ambulation. The Blind Ones

evolved underground, and have no organs for sight. They formed an

alliance with the Protectors of the Unborn, each species providing

something that other lacked.

Classification:CRLT

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

Senior Physician Conway was unable to classi~ this life-form with

complete certainty. The initial analysis was performed on a cadaver,

an independent portion of a larger composite being. The compos-ite

is a warm-blooded oxygen breather with the type of basic me-tabolism

associated with the physiological grouping CRLT. Even a segment is

massive, measuring approximately twenty meters in length and three

meters in diameter, excluding projecting append-ages. Physically it

resembles the DBLF Kelgian life-form, but it is many times larger

and possesses a leathery tegument rather than the silver fur of the

Kelgians. Like the DBLF's it is multipedal, but the manipulatory

appendages are positioned in a single row along the back. There are

twenty-one of these dorsal limbs, all showing evidence of early

evolutionary specialization. Six of them are long, heavy, and

claw-tipped and are obviously evolved for defense since the being is

a herbivore. The other fifteen are in five groups of three, spaced

between the six heavier tentacles, which terminate in four digits,

two of which are opposable. These thinner limbs are ma-nipulatory

appendages originally evolved for gathering and trans-ferring food

to the mouths-three on each flank opening into three stomachs. Two

additional orifices on each side open into a very large and complex

lung. The structure inside these breathing ori-fices suggests that

expelled air could be interrupted and modulated to produce

intelligence-bearing sounds. On the underside are three openings

used for the elimination of wastes. The mechanism of reproduction is

unclear and the specimen shows evidence of p05-sessing both male and

female genitalia on the forward and rear extremities respectively

The brain, if it is a brain, takes the form of a cable of nerve

ganglia with localized swellings in three places, running

longitudinally through the cadaver like a central core. There is

another and much thinner nerve cable running parallel to the thicker

core, but below it and about twenty-five centimeters from the

underside. Positioned close to each extremity are two sets of three

eyes. Two are mounted dorsally and two on each of the forward and

rear flanks. They are recessed but capable of limited extension;

together they give the being complete and continuous vision

vertically and horizontally. The type and positioning of the visual

equipment and appendages suggest that it evolved on a very

unfriendly world. The tentative Classification is an incomplete CRLT

Classification:DBDG

Planets:Earth, Gregory (Colony)

Species:Earth-human, Gregorian

Individuals:Theologian Augustine, Lieutenant Braithwaite,

Sur-geon-Lieutenant Brenner, Corpsman Briggs, Lieutenant Briggs,

Captain Chaplain Bryson, Lieutenant Carrington, Lieutenant Chen,

Major Chiang, Clarke, Lieutenant Clifton, Junior Intern/Senior

PhysicianlDiagnostician-in-Charge of Surgery Peter Conway, Sergeant

Davis, Major/Colonel Jonathan Dermod, Fleet Commander Dermod,

Lieutenant Dodds, Lieutenant Dowling, Major-Captain Fletcher, Fox,

Trainee Hadley, Harmon, Lieuten-ant Haslam, Patient Hewlitt, Tailor

George L Hewlitt, Mrs. George L Hewlitt, Captain Hokasuri, Major

Holyrod, OR Nurse Hudson, Lieutenant-General Lister, MacEwan, Major

Madden, Captain Mallon, Senior Physician/Diagnostician/Patient

Mannen/Man non, Nurse/Pathologist Murchison, Major Nelson,

Mister/Major/Chief Psychologist O'Mara, Captain Sigvard Nyberg,

Doctor Pelling, General Prentiss, Reviora, Lieutenant-Colonel

Simmons, Colonel Skempton, Surgeon-Lieutenant/Major Stillman,

Lieutenant-Sur-geon Sutherland, Corpsman Timmins, Lieutenant

Wainright, Waring, Corpsman/Colonel-Captain Williamson

Probable Individuals:Lieutenant Carmody, Lieutenant Carson, Section

Chief Caxton, Major Colinson, Major Craythorne, Major Edwards,

Doctor Hamilton, Dietician-in-ChiefKW Hardin, Lieu-tenant Harrison,

Lieutenant Hendricks, Kellerman, Colonel Okaussie, Captain Stillson,

Captain Summerfield, TrooperTeirnan, Surgeon-Captain Telford

This species shows their teeth in a silent snarl when displaying

amusement or friendship and make an unpleasant barking sound that

denotes amusement. The sound, called laughing, in most cases a

psychophysical mechanism for the release of minor degrees of

tension. An Earth-human laughs because of sudden relief from worry

or fear, or to express scorn or disbelief or sarcasm, or in

re-sponse to words or a situation that is ridiculous, illogical or

funny, or out of politeness when the situation or words are not

funny but the person responsible is of high rank. The Earth-human

voice is reputed to be one of the most versatile instruments in the

Galaxy. The Earth-human DBDGs are the only race in the Galactic

Fed-eration with a nudity taboo, and one of the very few member

spe-cies with an aversion to making love in public. The Earth-human

DBDGs make up the majority of the Monitor Corps forces.

Classification:DBDG

Planets:Etlan Empire, Central World (Capital), Imperial Etla

(Capital), Etla, Etla the Sick (Colony)

Species:Etlan, Imperial

Individuals:Heraltnor, Imperial Representative Teltrenn

The physiology of the citizens of the Empire is the same as the

population of their colony Etla. The physiological resemblance is so

close to Earth-human DBDGs that no other disguise other than native

language and dress is needed. There are theories about a prehistoric

colonization program by common, star-travelling an-cestors. Attempts

at procreation between Earth-human DBDGs and Etlans have been

unsuccessful.

Classification:DBDG

Planet:Nidia

Species:Nidian

Individuals:Chief of Procurement Creon-Emesh, Senior Physi-cian and

Tutor Cresk-Sar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Dracht-Yur, Lieu-tenant-Colonel

Dragh-Nin, Senior Physician Lesk-Murog, Senior Food Technician

Sarnyagh-Sa, Yoragh-Kar

Probable Individual:Surgeon-Lieutenant Krack-Yar

The Nidians have seven-fingered hands, stand only four feet tall.

They have a thick red fur coat, and look like a very cuddly

teddy-bear.

Classification:DBDG

Planet:Orligia

Species:Orlig, Orligian

Individuals:Grawlya-Ki/Grulyaw~Ki, Surgeon-Lieutenant Krach-Yul,

Major Sachan-Li, Colonel Shech-Rar, Surgeon-Lieutenant Turragh-Mar

Like the neighboring Nidians, Orligians resemble an Earth-hu-man

child's first non-adult friend's teddy bear.

Classification:DBLF

Planet:Ia

Species:Ian (pre-adolescent)

No Individual Narnes Known

The being appears ring-shaped, rather like a large balloon tire.

Overall diameter of the ring is about nine feet, with the thickness

between two and three feet. The tegument is smooth, shiny and grey

in color where it is not covered with a thick, brownish

incrus-tation. The brown stuff, which covers more than half of the

total skin area, looks cancerous, but may be some type of natural

cam-ouflage. There are five pairs of limbs, and no evidence

ofspecial-ization. No visual organs or means of ingestion can be

seen. The being isn't a doughnut, but possesses a fairly normal

anatomy of the DBLF type~a cylindrical, lightly-boned body with

heavy musculature. The being is not ring-shaped, but gives that

impres-sion because for some reason, known best to itself, it has

been try-ing to swallow its tail. Senior Physician Conway, convinced

all along that the patient is undergoing a natural metamorphosis,

observes that the new patient, after the process is complete, is of

classifica-tion GKNM.

Classification:DBLF

Planet:Kelgia

Species:Kelgian

Individuals:Patient Henredth, Senior Physician Karthad, Charge Nurse

Kursedd, Diagnostician Kursedth, Patient Morredeth, Charge Nurse

Naydrad, Fleet Commander Roonardth, Charge Nurse Segroth,

Diagnostician Suggrod, Student Nurse Tarsedth, Diagnostician Towan,

Senior Physician Yarrence

Probable Individual:Charge Nurse Kursenneth

Kelgians are warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing, multipedal, and with a

long, flexible cylindrical body covered overall by highly mobile,

silvery fur. The Kelgian forelimbs have three digits. There are

twenty sets of short, thin, and not heavily muscled walking limbs.

The feet, which have no toe-nails or other terminations, are like

small, hard sponges.The fur moves continually in slow ripples from

the conical head right down to the tail. These are completely

involuntary movements triggered by its emotional reactions to

outside stimuli. The evolutionary reasons for this mechanism are not

clearly understood, not even by the Kelgians themselves, but it is

generally believed that the emotionally expressive fur comple-ments

the Kelgian vocal equipment, which lacks emotional flex-ibility of

tone.The movements of the fur make it absolutely clear to another

Kelgian-what a Kelgian feels about the subject under discussion. As

a result they always say exactly what they mean be-cause what they

think is plainly obvious-at least to another Kelgian.They can not do

otherwise. Kelgians have an intense aver-sion towards any surgical

procedure which would damage or dis-figure its most treasured

possession, its furs. To a Kelgian the re moval of a strip or patch

of fur, which in their species represents ~ means of communication

equal to the spoken word, is a personal tragedy which all too often

results in permanent psychological damage. A Kelgian's fur does not

grow again and one whose pelt is damaged can rarely find a mate

because it is unable to fully display its feelings. Kelgians are

very close to Earth-humans in both basic metabolism and temperament.

Except for the thin-walled, narrow casing which houses the brain,

the DBLF species has no boney structure. Their bodies are composed

of an outer cylinder of mus-culature which, in addition to be being

its primary means of loco-motion, serves to protect the vital organs

within it. To the mind of a being more generously reinforced with

bones, this protection is far from adequate. Another severe

disadvantage in the event of in-jury is its complex and extremely

vulnerable circulation system; the blood-supply network which has to

feed the tremendous bands of muscle encircling its body runs close

under the skin, as does the nerve network that controls the mobile

fur. The thick fur of the pelt gives some protection here, but not

against chunks ofjagged-edged, flying metal. An injury which many

other species would consider superficial could cause a DBLF to bleed

to death in min-utes. Kelgians are herbivorous.

Classification:DBPK

Planet:Dwerla

Species:Dwerlan

No Individual Names Known

A warm-blooded oxygen-breathing herbivore that does not walk

upright. Judging by the shape of the spacesuits, the beings are

flat-tened cylinders about six feet long with four sets of

manipulatory appendages behind a conical section which is probably

the head, and another four locomotor appendages. Apart from the

smaller size and number of appendages, the beings physically

resemble the Kelgian race. The pointed, fox-like head and the thick,

broad-striped coat make it look like a furry, short-legged zebra

with an enormous tail. These beings seem not to possess natural

weapons of offrnce or defense, or any signs of having had any in the

past. Even their limbs are not built for speed, so they can not run

from danger. The set used for walking are too short and are padded,

while the fotward set are more slender, less well-muscled and end in

four highly flexible digits which don't possess so much as a

fingernail among them. There are the fur markings, of course, but it

is rare that a life-form rises to the top of its evolutionary tree

by camou-flage alone, or by being nice and cuddly. The species has

two sexes, male and female, and the reproductive system seems

relatively nor-mal. Both sexes use a water soluble dye to enhance

artificially the bands of color on their body fur~clearly the dyes

are for cosmetic reasons. The immature do not use dyes, but use a

brownish pig-ment on a bare patch above the tail.

Classification:DCNF

Planet:Sommaradva

Species:Sommaradvan

Individual:Trainee Cha Th rat

Four Ambulatory limbs; Four waist-level heavy manipulators; and a

set of manipulators for food provisions and fine work encircling the

neck. This being has two stomachs. Sommaradvan society is stratified

into three levels~serviles, warriors, and rulers~which strictly

govern how an individual acts within the society.

Classification:DCSL

Planet:Cromsag

Species:Cromsaggar

No Individual Names Known

This species has three sets of limbs: two ambulators, two medial

heavy manipulators, and two more at neck level for eating and to

perform more delicate work. It has a cranium covered by thick, blue

fur that continues in a narrow strip along the spine to the

vestigial tail.

Classification:DHCG

Planet:Wemar

Species:Wem

Individuals:First Hunter Creethar, Hunter Druuth, Youth Evemth,

First Cook Remrath, First Teacher Tawsar

The Wem life-form is a warm-blooded, oxygen-breathing species with

an adult body mass just under three times that of an Earth-human

and, since Wermar's surface gravity is one point three eight

standard Gs, a healthy specimen is proportionately well-muscled. It

resembles the rare Earth beast called a kangaroo. The differences

are that the head is larger and fitted with a really ferocious set

of teeth; each of the two short forelimbs terminate in six-fingered

hands possessing two opposable thumbs, and the tail is more massive

and tapered to a wide, flat triangular tip composed of immobile

osseous material enclosed by a thick, muscular sheath. The

flattening at the end of tail serves a threefold purpose: as its

principal natural weapon, as an emergency method of fast locomotion

while hunting or being hunted, and as a means of transporting infant

Wem who are too small to walk. The Wem hunt by adopting an awkward,

almost ri-diculous stance with their forelimbs tightly folded, their

chins touch-ing the ground, and their long legs spread so as to

allow the tail to curve sharply downwards and forwards between the

limbs so that the flat tip is at their center of balance. When the

tail is straight-ened suddenly to full extension, it acts as a

powerful third leg ca-pable of hurling the Wem forward for a

distance of five or six body lengths. If the hunter does not land on

top of its prey, kicking the creature senseless with the feet before

disabling it with a deep bite through the cervical vertebrae and

underlying nerve trunks, it piv-ots rapidly on one leg so that the

flattened edge of the tail strikes its victim like a blunt, organic

axe. While the tail is highly flexible where downward and forward

movement is concerned, it cannot be el-evated above the horizontal

line of the spinal column.The back and upper flanks are, therefore,

the Wem's only body areas that are vul-nerable to attack by natural

enemies, who must also possess the el-ement of surprise if they are

not to become the victim.

Classification:DRVJ

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:Doctor Yeppha

Planet:Unknown

A small, tripedal, fragile being. From the furry dome of its head

there sprout singly and in small clusters, at least twenry eyes.

Classification:DTRC

Species:Rhum

Planet:Unknown

Individual:Crelyarrel

Flat, roughly circular beings, dark gray and wrinkled on one

sur-face, and with a paler, mottled appearance on the other, smooth,

surface. The beings attach to their FGHJ hosts with thick tendrils

growing from the edge of the disk. The tendrils penetrate into their

FGHJ hosts' spinal columns and rear craniums. The DTRCs have their

own special needs that in no way resemble those of their hosts,

whose animal habits and undirected behavior are highly repugnant to

them. It is vital to the DTRCs continued mental well-being that the

masters escape periodically from their hosts to lead their own

lives~usually during the hours of darkness when the tools are no

longer in use and can be quartered where they can not harm

them-selves.

Classification:DTSB

Planet:Traltha

Species:Tralthan

No Individual Names Known

Apparent typographical error for Classification OTSB.

Classification:EGCL

Planet:Duwetz

Species:Dewatti

No Individual Names Known

A warm-blooded, oyxgen-breathing life-form of approximately twice

the body weight of an adult Earth-human. Visually it re-sembles an

outsize snail with a high, conical shell which is pierced around the

tip where its four extensible eyes are located. Equally spaced

around the base of the shell are eight triangular slots from which

project the manipulatory appendages. The carapace rests on a thick,

circular pad of muscle which is the locomotor system. Around the

circumference of the pad are a number of fleshy pro-jections,

hollows and slits associated with its systems of ingestion,

respiration, elimination, reproduction, and nonvisual sensors. The

EGCLs are organic empaths. They are organic transmitters,

reflec-tors and focusers and magnifiers of their own feelings and

those of the beings around them. The faculty has evolved to the

stage where they have no conscious control over the process.

Classification:ELNT

Planet:Melf Four

Species:Melfan

Individuals:Maintenance Technician Dremon, Senior Physician Edanelt,

Diagnostician Ergandhir, Patient Kennonalt, Patient KIetilt,

Maintenance Technician Kiedath, Nurse Lontallet, Senior Physician

Medalont, Senreth

Melfans are large, low slung crab-like crustaceans. The six thin,

bony, tubular, multi-jointed legs project from slits where the bony

carapace and underside join. The legs and all of the body are

ex-oskeletal. The head has large, protruding, vertically-lidded

eyes, enormous mandibles, and pincers projecting forward from the

place where ears should be. Two long, thin and fragile feelers grow

from the sides of the mouth. The species is amphibious.

Classification:EPLA

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:Lonvellin

Apparent typographical error for Classification EPLH.

Classification:EPLH

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:Lonvellin

The being is large, about one thousand pounds mass, and resembles a

giant, upright pear. Five thick, tentacular appendages grow from the

narrow head section and a heavy apron of muscle at its base gives

evidence of a snail-like, although not necessarily slow, method of

locomotion. The being is warm-blooded and has fairly normal gravity

requirements. Five large mouths are situated below the root of each

tentacle, four being plentifully supplied with teeth and the fifth

housing the vocal apparatus. The tentacles themselves show a high

degree of specialization at their extremities: three of them are

plainly manipulatory, one bears the patient's visual equipment, and

the remaining member terminates in a horn-tipped, boney mace. The

head is featureless, being simply an osseous dome housing the brain.

The cranium is pierced at regular intervals for visual, aural and

olfactory sensors. Their life-span, lengthy to begin with, is

ar-tificially extended. Because they have tremendous minds, they

have plenty of time, but they constantly have to fight against

boredom. Because part of the price of such longevity is an

ever-growing fear of death, they need to have their own personal

physicians~no doubt the most efficient practitioners of medicine

known to them-constantly in attendance.

Classification:FGHJ

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

The being has six limbs, four legs and two arms, all very heavily

muscled, and is hairless except for a narrow band of stiff bristles

running from the top of the head along the spine to the tail, which

seems to have been surgically shortened at an early age. The body

configuration is a thick cylinder of uniform girth between the fore

and rear legs, but the forward torso narrows towards the shoulders

and is carried erect. The neck is very thick and the head small.

There are two eyes, recessed and looking forward, a mouth with very

large teeth, and other openings that are probably aural or olfactory

sense organs. The legs terminate in large, reddish-brown hooves.

Each hoof has four digits and does not appear particularly

dexterous. This creature serves as a host to beings of

Classification DTRC.

Classification:FGLI

Planet:Traltha

Species:Tralthan

Individuals:Patient Cossunallen, Crajarron, Chief Dietitian

Gurronsevas, Patient Horrantor, Senior Physician Hossantir,

Surriltor, Senior Diagnostician-in-Charge of Pathology Thorn-nastor

A massive entity with an osseous dome housing its brain, six

el-ephantine feet connected to its triple massive shoulders, and

four extensible eyes on an immobile head. Its six stubby legs

normally give the Tralthan species such a stable base they

frequently go to sleep standing up. Even healthy Tralthans have

great difficulty get-ting up again if they fall onto their sides.

Tralthans must not be rolled onto their backs under normal gravity

conditions since this causes organic displacement which would

increase their respira-tory difficulties. Standard gravity at Sector

General is just over half Tralthan normal. Tralthans are

vegetarians.

Classification:FOKT

Planet:Goglesk

Species:Gogleskan

Individuals:Healer '(hone and child

The Gogleskan FOKT resembles a large, dumpy cactuslike plant whose

spikes and hair are richly colored in a pattern which seems less

random the more you look at it. A faint smell comes from the entity,

a combination of musk and peppermint. The mass of un-ruly hair and

spikes covering its erect, ovoid body are less irregular in their

size and placing than is at first apparent. The body hair has

mobility, though not the high degree of flexibility and rapid

mo-bility of the Kelgian fur, and the spikes, some of which are

extremely flexible and grouped together to form a digital cluster,

give evi-dence of specialization. The other spikes are longer and

stiffer, and some of them seem to be partially atrophied, as if they

were evolved for natural defense, but the reason for their presence

has long since gone. There are also a number of long, pale tendrils

lying amid the multicolored hair covering the cranial area, used for

contact telepa-thy. Its voice seems to come from a number of small,

vertical breath-ing orifices which encircles its waist. The being

sits on a flat, mus-cular pad, and it has legs as well. These

members are stubby and concertina-like, and when the four of them

are in use they increase the height of the being by several inches.

The being al50 has two additional eyes at the back of its

head~obviously this species has had to be very watchful in

prehistoric times.

Classification:FROB

Planet:Hudlar

Species:Hudlar, Hudlarian

Individuals:Patient FROB-3, Patient FROB-lO, Patient FROB-18,

Patient FROB-43, Patient FROB-1 132, Trainee FROB-61, Trainee

FROB-73, Senior Physician Garoth, Infant Patient Metiglesh

Hudlars are blocky, pear-shaped beings whose home planet pulls four

Earth gravities and has a high-density atmosphere so rich in

suspended animal and vegetable nutrients that it resembles thick

soup. Although the FROB life-form is warm-blooded and techni-cally

an oxygen-breather, it can go for long periods without air if its

food supply, which it absorbs directly through its thick but highly

porous tegument, is adequate. Hudlars are massive six legged

be-ings. Each leg is an immensely strong tapering tentacle, which

ter-minates in a cluster of flexible digits, curled inward so that

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