Identification: a community of aliens in hiding who exist only so that protagonists can discover that their bizarre mutant powers are perfectly normal, for inhuman freaks (the “exobiological parents” plot)
Variants: a divergent subspecies of terrestrial humanoids – Neanderthal survivors, next‐evolutionary‐steppers, or Hungarians
Also Known As: Exo‐men, Space‐Carnies, or The Folk
Origin: the planet Cryptidon, which was long ago misplaced or repossessed or destroyed for the insurance
LOOKS: | utterly humanoid with one giveaway deformity | A− |
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BRAINS: |
home‐ |
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LETHALITY: | they have a taboo against killing, either to avoid exposure or because they're innately wimpish | 0 |
CULTURE: | exotic but corny, or vice versa | 68 |
HARDNESS: | on the SF Mohs scale, like gypsum (or at any rate space‐gypsum) | 2 |
TOKENISM: | count as illegal aliens rather than asylum‐seekers | 11 |
Religion: Space‐Amish, rejecting any form of technology developed after the seventieth millennium
Motto: not in front of the mundanes
Wardrobe: members of the Pantellurian Fraternity
Not To Be Confused With: they're more Romani than Romanoids
See Also: their cousins back in the old galaxy, the Telluroids