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)
- c.16th century - Present: United Worlds and Colonies of Rigel (ENT Novel: Tower of Babel)
- While most Chelon locals have integrated with and accepted the general Rigelian nation, some isolationist tribes still hold a radical nationalist view, seeing Chelons as still treated as a backwards minority (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)