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Combat Tentacles: Well, I believe I mentioned the dar-cúlno already. The uplifted octopodes specialize in this sort of thing, combat exoskeletons and all. They’re also quite common as combination manipulators, motivators, and doers of violence on combat robots used both underwater and in microgravity.
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(Alternate words: Tear, terms, thinking, tutorial. Actually, I have a pretty good idea for tutorial, but the darn thing just won’t gel. So you get this bit of silliness instead.) The music was pounding again – not that it ever stopped – on the main floor of Polythalience, enough so that
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Uplifted Animal: Quite a few, in the interests of adding people with different points of view and abilities to the population (see: Intelligent Gerbil). Of the greenlife – and therefore recognizable to Terrans – animals, most prominent are the dogs (dar-bandal), cetaceans (dar-ííche), octopi (dar-cúlnó), rat kings (dar-celmek), and ravens (dar-vorac). Averted