Eav'oq

• Appearance: Nonhumanoid
  • Base form resembles a pink, slender tube (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Significantly taller than average humanoids, averaging 2.4m (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Two long, tentacle-like arms (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • No features but for a single eye spanning the front face (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Eye capable of emoting (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
  • Very little gender dimorphism, noted only in eye color (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Males have a grey eye (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Homeworld: Idran IV
• Incorrectly known as Eav-oq by modern Gamma Quadrant civilizations until their return (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Historical notes
  • c.50,000 years ago, the Eav'oq were the target of the Ascendant crusade for nearly a century
  • The surviving Eav'oq, through devoted meditation inspired by the Siblings, sent themselves into a pocket of folded space in which they had constructed a new capital city
    • As a part of this effort, the space holding the Idran system was shifted 4.7 ly away from the Bajoran Wormhole (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Cultural notes
  • Eav'oq faith
  • Strictly pacifistic towards sentient life (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
• Technological notes
  • Possessed "memory crystals" capable of storing information in a format that could be transferred to others of seemingly any species (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Said crystals disintegrated upon transferring their data (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
    • Known in the modern era as "Eav'oq vanishing crystals" (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
      • Common subject of myths and claims among retrievers in the Gamma Quadrant (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)
      • Considered extremely valuable if found intact (DS9 Novel: Rising Son)