Nasat (species)

• Appearance: Insectile
  • Resembling 2 meter pill bug (TAS: "The Jihad"; SCE)
  • Shells colored one of five base hues, indicating equivalent of race or caste (SCE)
    • Blue, Brown, Red, Green, Yellow
• Homeworld: Nasat
• Biological notes
  • Reaches maturity by eight years (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
  • In "Balance of Nature", a Nasat shell is described as being made of "chorion", but as the chorion is an insect egg's outer shell and an embryonic membrane in other species, perhaps this was a typo for "chitin"?
• Cultural notes
  • Nasat calendar
  • Nasat food
  • Individual names translate from the Nasat language into a string of alphanumerics coupled with shell color (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • e.g., "P8 BlueTS27Q6" (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")
    • First two characters always a letter followed by a digit (TAS: "The Jihad"; SCE)
    • In conversation with other species, the first two characters and shell color are used as ones name (TAS: "The Jihad"; SCE)
      • Nasat who commonly work alongside and converse with other species will often adopt a nickname as well (SCE)
  • Non-chitinous species lightheartedly referred to as "softs" (SCE Short Story: "Balance of Nature")