Welcome to an alien species supplemental for the Mission Compendium: Hurricane by ELH. This is a write-up of a species from a mission in the compendium,
Author: Tony Pi
I am a fantasy and science fiction writer, with a Ph.D. in Linguistics. Winner of the 2015 Aurora Award for Best English Poem/Song ("A Hex, With Bees").
A former finalist for the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, I was also a Second Place winner of the Writers of the Future Contest (volume XXIII). Finalist for the 2008, 2015 and 2016 Aurora Awards for Best English Short Fiction, and finalist for the 2015 and 2016 Parsec Awards for Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form).
(The preferred pronunciation of my last name is 'pie', like the Greek letter.)
Featured Foe: Eris
Eris was the first Vorta that the Federation ever encountered. She pretended to be a Kurillian when trying to fool Sisko and Quark, and had telekinetic
Featured Creature: Aldebaran Serpent
The Aldebaran serpent was one of the forms that Q took on in the TNG episode “Hide and Q” in 2364. Little is actually known about this
Oran’taku
The Oran’taku is a species introduced in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “Rajiin“, where they encountered an Oran’taku spy tasked by the Xindi to steal biometric data.
Featured Creature: Jackal Mastiff
The Jackal Mastiff was seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, as guard dogs on Rura Penthe. I’ve used additional information from Star Trek Online for
Cairn
The Cairn are a very advanced telepathic species who have lost the ability to communicate verbally. They send telepathic images instead of words, which allows