Shesshran

• Appearance: Avian (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Winged species (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Iridescent skin (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Spindle-shaped heads (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Pronounced keelbone mid-chest (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Two forearms extending from each arm at the elbow (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Two forelegs extending from each leg at the knee (Ex Machina annotations)
  • Can reach heights of 2m (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Homeworld: Kachissat (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Historical notes
  • Had interstellar civilization c.8000 BCE (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Known as the Tishiki at the time (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Civilization collapsed following impact of Ganidra supernova wavefront (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Rebuilt to interstellar levels by 2270s (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
• Cultural notes
  • Descended from solo predators (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Being avian raptors, each individual requires extensive grounds to sustain themselves, making cooperative coexistence possible only through mutual self-interest (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Cooperation for collective good common, but intensely individualistic even within such cooperative bodies (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Self-autonomy a key philosophy within Shesshran culture and psyche (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Society maintained through mutual agreement, elaborate system of contracts (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
        • Importance of upholding contracts and promises fundamental to Shesshran society in order to allow it to persist (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Murder an accepted act as a means of settling conflicts where one acts against the interests of another by mutual contract (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Fairly matriarchal society (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Men seen as little use beyond breeding (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)