Rigel III

Facts

• Primary: Raij
• Class M
• Inhabitants: Chelons
• Nation
  • c.16th century - Present: United Worlds and Colonies of Rigel (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Sovereign planet under the economic and political union of this body (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Most Chelon settlements along coastlines or on smaller landmasses, due to their preference for semi-aquatic environments (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Hainali tribes largely the only settlements within the depths of the larger continents (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • While most Chelon locals have integrated with and accepted the general Rigelian nation, these isolationist tribes still hold a radical nationalist view, seeing Chelons as still treated as a backwards minority (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Leaders of these tribes have the title of "velom" (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Locations

• Hainali Basin
  • Site of the Hainali rainforest, home of above-mentioned isolationist Chelon tribes (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Janxor
  • Largely-barren volcanic island nearly the size of Greenland (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Major spaceport at the eastern tip of the island (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)

Indigenous Life

Animal

• Hypnoid (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel; TAS: "Mudd's Passion")
  • Six-legged reptile, with a bright-pink body and a frilled neck, nearly two meters long when adult
  • Projects hypnotic illusions as a form of defense
    • Can be trained to project specific illusions, though only basic imagery given non-sapience of the animal (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Only certain inland Chelon tribes adept at capturing and training a hypnoid (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Native to the Hainali rainforest (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Keesa beetle (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
  • Relatively large insect (VAN Novel: Harbinger)
    • Large enough to be a bite of food on its own
• Kreeyitch
  • Massive river creature fulfilling a similar niche as a river dolphin (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Leathery, bright-green head ending in an elongated beak
    • Plesiosaur-like neck
    • Many meters long
  • Native to Hainali rainforest (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Feeds on plants, insects, and small fish (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
  • Many river villages keep tame kreeyitch to ward off predators (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
• Tukhanthik
  • River predator native to Hainali rainforest (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
    • Scale-armored head
    • Sharp, serrated teeth
    • Larger than a kreeyitch