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Rikchiks
The rikchiks are a race of
intelligent creatures from the 2nd planet of Alpha Centauri A.
There is more information about rikchik physiology on another page. Some highlights:
The rikchik body consists of a large (~2 ft. diameter) sphere,
which contains almost all the rikchik's organs, supported by 49
long (~6 ft.) tentacles.
In the front of the sphere is a single eye with a circular eyelid.
The 7 tentacles immediately below the eye are shorter and lighter,
and are used for talking and fine manipulation.
Non-talking tentacles are used both for locomotion and
for manipulation.
Rikchiks have no sense of hearing.
Their skin requires moisture to stay healthy.
Skin color and eye color are both a medium green.
A mouth-equivalent is at the bottom of the sphere, at the center
of the tentacles.
The rikchiks' language is covered on
another page.
Briefly, they use their tentacles to communicate in a sign language.
Their grammatical structure is very versatile, and their vocabulary
is logographic.
Rikchik homeworld
A small, warm planet, with one main continent. See the
planet and system information
page.
Rikchik culture
More here as I write it. So far information is available on
mating practices and
religion.
Rikchik technology
More here as I write it. For now, suffice it to say that when they
came in contact with humanity, human and rikchik tech levels were
more or less equivalent.
Rikchik history
More here as I write it.
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Browser note
Rikchik is an logographic language, so you won't get much out
of this site with a non-graphical browser. Graphics-wise, I've
used the align
attribute of the <img>
tag often, and made some use of tables. I've switched to PNGs for the
assembled words. I think everything should
look all right on most every browser, but if something breaks your
browser, please let me know at
dmm@suberic.net. Thanks!
Last modified Sun-day, 5 Chaos 20, 1-Block 19, Dark 6:5:42
(2019-01-13) by Denis Moskowitz.
Rikchik culture and language also
by Denis.
Word assembly program utilizes
gd, a graphics library, and
GD.pm,
a perl interface to gd. gd is © 1994, 1995, Quest Protein Database
Center, Cold Spring Harbor Labs. GD.pm is © 1995, Lincoln D. Stein.
Both are used with permission.