Identification: gas‐giant blimps full of something lighter‐than‐hydrogen
Variants: methane‐medusas, hydro‐hydras, and ethanol‐anemones
Also Known As: Floaters, Zeppelids, or Hfuhruhurrians
Origin: Jupiter, or equivalent (very occasionally spotted in the solar corona)
| LOOKS: | bouncy castles made entirely out of slime and nematocysts | D |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | deep, but grotesquely sluggish | 75 |
| LETHALITY: | cataclysmically deadly, but insular – if you don't go and bother them then nine times out of ten they won't exterminate your species | 0.4 |
| CULTURE: | a vast back catalogue of slow‐moving, inaccessible arthouse stuff – and it's poorly subtitled, too | 99 |
| HARDNESS: | an opportunity for some footnotes on gas‐giant physics | 8½ |
| TOKENISM: | non‐oxygen‐breather tokenism | 72 |
Diet: hydrazine cuisine
Religion: pastafarian
Affiliated With: honorary conveners of the Conciliary Ententicles
Not Affiliated With: the Union of Field Observers, since it would involve too much travel
Not To Be Confused With: the space‐jellyfish variant of Gigabacilloids
See Also: the Necropolypoids, the only oxygen‐breathers they'll take seriously