Identification: inhabitants of bizarre environments, usually high‐gravity
Variants: low or high temperature or pressure, extreme pH, or too much pepper
Also Known As: Maksimulites, Chiliax, or Humans (because obviously that's what they call themselves)
Origin: the very edge
| LOOKS: | half the time they turn out to look like woodlice | D |
|---|---|---|
| BRAINS: | they have neutrons for neurons, which turns out to be an advantage | 140 |
| LETHALITY: | they can stand back and watch you disintegrate, but that doesn't really count | 0.11 |
| CULTURE: | an advanced civilisation based on super‐dense exposition | 84 |
| HARDNESS: | the equivalent of diamond on the SF Mohs scale, pretty much endemic to written SF | 10 |
| TOKENISM: | completely off the scale, which means it should have just been a logarithmic scale in the first place | — |
Hobbies: extreme sports (such as, in their environment, hopscotch)
Favourite Colour: 100 petahertz
Motto: [see appendix]
Affiliated With: accidentally granted Pantellurian Fraternity membership due to a mix‐up over string‐theory trouser diagrams
Not To Be Confused With: the Enigmoids, who can leave home without exploding
See Also: the much more moderately extreme Macropygmoids