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* 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]]
* Homeworld: [[Idran IV]]
* Incorrectly known as Eav-oq by modern [[Gamma Quadrant]] civilizations until their return (DS9 Novel: ''Rising Son'')
* Incorrectly known as Eav-oq by modern [[Gamma Quadrant]] civilizations until their return (DS9 Novel: ''Rising Son'')
* Historical notes
* Historical notes
** Entered a state of hibernation c.50,000 years ago, including a shift of space and subspace that shifted the [[Idran]] system away from the [[Bajoran Wormhole]] (DS9 Novel: ''Rising Son'')
** 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
* 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'')
** Possessed "memory crystals" capable of storing information in a format that could be transferred to others of seemingly any species (DS9 Novel: ''Rising Son'')

Latest revision as of 22:51, 3 May 2021

  • 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)