Betelgeusian

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  • Appearance: Avian
    • Blue skin (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Brown muzzle (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Two mouths (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Beak-like speaking mouth (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Lower eating mouth (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Taloned, bird-like feet (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
  • Homeworld: Unnamed planet near Betelgeuse (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
    • Departed homeworld upon discovery of Betelgeuse's coming supernova in the near future, residing instead on interstellar argosies (TOS Novel: The Face of the Unknown, Ex Machina; TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
  • Cultural notes
    • Language
      • Tonal language (TNG Short Story: "Friends with the Sparrows")
    • Pack hunters (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Generally suspicious of members of other packs, though this can be overcome with exposure and effort (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
      • Intense hunting drive often difficult to overcome or ignore (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
        • Some Betelgeusian stations hold hunting preserves to satisfy it, but only the largest are capable of it (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
        • Occasionally a pack will go planetside on a world with advanced animal life and no sentient life, but such are rare (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)
        • Thus Betelgeusians usually sublimate hunting drive into intense and aggressive forms of sports, games, wagers, or challenges (TOS Novel: Ex Machina)