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Milky way galaxy, seconday outter spiral arm, sector Theta, Binary Star system Kov Vok, third planet from the sun Ogu.

The Ixionites are a highly highly intelligent race of beings something akin to elephants with legs and tail like a kangaroo. They evolved from a two trunked tree dweller and evolved the ability to sprint from one tree to another on the ground to evade predators. The forests on Ogu are so thinly spread and the trees are so remote to one another that running across the open plains in the tall grass meant having to be able to run like a kangaroo. All other predators on Ogu are also two legged or use their heads as a third leg and have eyes on elongated stalks to track prey.

The Ixionites, being tree dwellers, adapted their two trunks to grasp limbs where once it was used to shovel soil like the snout of a pig. The two highly dexterous trunks have precise muscle control with no bones. One the end of each trunk is a simple hand with two fingers and an opposable thumb. There is also a single nostril in the palm of each hand. It has a weak ability to sense smell, but they have excellent eye sight. They can see the whole of the white light spectrum but nothing else. They have a highly sophisticated ultrasonic/infrasonic set of organs on the front of their head. They can send out a sonic ping and listen to the echo and locate with pinpoint accuracy objects in the distance. They also use this as a method of communication.

Many other creatures on Ogu also make use of the dense atmosphere to communicate and some predators have actually evolved a clever method of "jamming the radio" by sending out random impulses of sound on all frequencies of the sound band in all directions to make long distance communication or sonar difficult. Some predators have actually evolved the ability to mimic the calls of other creatures to thwart communication signals among a herd.

Ixionites no longer rely on their sonar much the same way humans do not rely on their sense of smell. Ixionites can do without it, however, they've also evolved a highly sophisticated mouth and vocalization system that gives them a capacity for verbalization and spoken language comperable to our own, perhaps even more so since they decend from sound specialized beings as opposed to sight.

They have stereoscopic eyes that can see fine detail as well as a human can.

They are about the same height standing as a human standing although their legs can extend longer in mid stride.

Ixionites built exceedingly sophisticated weapons, tools, toys, musical instruments, jewelry, houses, animal traps, and they also domesticate some species of animals on their world, something like big fat herbavorial snakes. They raise them much the same way the Massai herdsmen of Kenya raise cows, keeping them penned in the center of a round village to protect them from wild predators.

All in all, Ixionites will have to achieve a technological status capable of engineering their local stars within the next 20,000 years or the orbits of their planetary system will become wildly unstable causing massive temperature extremes that will make life on Ogu inhospitable. Luckily they are already at a status of cultural and technological progress about 30 to 50 centuries until the invention of the first flying machine, in comparison to us, that's just a few centuries before the rise of the egyptian civilizations.
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littlegoblet's avatar
he has lovely eyes. I like how you have him balancing with his large tail