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* Appearance: Extremely thin, long-limbed humanoids; translucent heads; infrared-sensitive organs in place of eyes (ENT: "Silent Enemy"; ENT Novel: ''A Choice of Futures'') | * Appearance: Extremely thin, long-limbed humanoids; translucent heads; infrared-sensitive organs in place of eyes (ENT: "Silent Enemy"; ENT Novel: ''A Choice of Futures'') | ||
* Homeworld: [[Gamma Vertis IV]] | * Homeworld: [[Gamma Vertis IV]] | ||
* Incapable of speech; individuals communicate via sensation of bioelectric fields | * Able to sense local EM fields to a high degree of sensitivity, including fluctuations in bioelectric fields | ||
* Incapable of speech; individuals communicate via sensation of one another's bioelectric fields | |||
** As a result, individuals of the species originally associated intelligence with ability to communicate via modulation of personal bioelectric fields, treated most humanoid life as especially clever animals as a result | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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* 2151: First contact with [[Human]]s (ENT: "Silent Enemy") | * 2151: First contact with [[Human]]s (ENT: "Silent Enemy") | ||
* 2160: First contact with [[Andorian]]s | * 2160: First contact with [[Andorian]]s | ||
* March 2163: "Vertian crisis"; [[Federation]]/neutral power task force assembles to fend off Vertian attacks, leading to opening of diplomatic relations | * March-April 2163: "Vertian crisis"; [[Federation]]/neutral power task force assembles to fend off Vertian attacks, leading to opening of diplomatic relations (ENT Novel: ''A Choice of Futures'') | ||
[[Category:Intelligent Species]] | [[Category:Intelligent Species]] | ||
Revision as of 14:45, 11 September 2017
- Appearance: Extremely thin, long-limbed humanoids; translucent heads; infrared-sensitive organs in place of eyes (ENT: "Silent Enemy"; ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
- Homeworld: Gamma Vertis IV
- Able to sense local EM fields to a high degree of sensitivity, including fluctuations in bioelectric fields
- Incapable of speech; individuals communicate via sensation of one another's bioelectric fields
- As a result, individuals of the species originally associated intelligence with ability to communicate via modulation of personal bioelectric fields, treated most humanoid life as especially clever animals as a result
History
- Repeated but rare encounters with varying species over the early-22nd century in Kandari sector; usually negative due to lack of realization of sapience of other species
- 2151: First contact with Humans (ENT: "Silent Enemy")
- 2160: First contact with Andorians
- March-April 2163: "Vertian crisis"; Federation/neutral power task force assembles to fend off Vertian attacks, leading to opening of diplomatic relations (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)