Vaikan

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The Vaikan are an intelligent humanoid species from Ucharpli from the Twin Hearts Nebula. Vaikan evolved from monotreme mammals, and thus lay eggs rather than giving live birth.

Appearance

Originally, the Vaikan were stout humanoids with dark blue hair as well as tough, leathery cyan skin, while the amount of hair varied from region to region. However, their long term spacefaring lifestyle as well as the introduction of the sterility plague rendered them much taller and thinner.

Vaikan have binocular eyes in allowing for depth perception and stereoscopic vision; eye color often varies between blue, purple, orange and red. Both eyes are large and somewhat rectangular - 4 inches high and 2 inches wide. The inside of their mouth is lined with teeth designed to extract fluids from food. Vaikan have four fingers including an opposable thumb as well as three toes.

Vaikan also have pointed ears which vary in both length, thickness and orientation. Their acute sense of hearing compensates for their lack of trichromatic vision.

Vaikan skin varies between shades of dark blue and cyan. Combined with their thick skin, their blue colorings allow them to immunity to Szon's UV radiation. Ucharpli's thin ozone layer provides inadequate protection on its own, so most life including the Vaikan themselves evolved a resistance to it.