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+====== Svathlan, Kalderash Ambassador to the New Byzantine Empire ======
+One of the rare non-humanoid, non-Oxybreathing species in Known Space
+[subject, of course, to debate] and often argued by more reactionary
+philosophers as being the only truly sentient species in the Quadrant, the
+Kalderash rarely leave their watery home planet, and even more rarely
+engage in direct communication with other species.
+One of the exceptions to this rule was Svathlan, Tabloid clan, who many
+years ago gained a reputation as a gifted information broker, journalist,
+adventurer-weird and pianist, despite its major physiological differences
+and mildly disquieting appearance. After the publication of its
+ground-breaking novel, "Attalthan in Mildly Fallinon Loving in the
+Timourousness of Martickle", the Kalderash authorities tracked it down, and
+following the 'if you can't beat them, make them join you' dictum first
+espoused by Salathin those many millenia ago, [although some recent
+scholars have claimed it was originally meant to refer to the gladiatorial
+conflicts and the dismemberment of uncooperative opponents] forced it to
+become an ambassadorial aide. Over the years, it has risen through the
+ranks, partially due to eccentric yet unusually successful methodology to
+the rank of Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Empire, for which role it
+prepared by learning as many as possible of the dirty jokes in-appropriate
+to the job. It is still studying, trying to understand the humanoid notion
+of humour.
+Svathlan appears, in its native oceanic environment not entirely dissimilar
+to some of the deep sea Terran jellyfish, with primarily transparent flesh
+making visible the gorgeously colourful glow of life's processes deep
+within its four foot high body, and a number of long, delicate tentacles.
+In such environment as is generally met upon Delta-5, Svathlan dons a
+complex and high-tech environment suit that includes a translator device,
+anti-grav, a certain degree of armoured opacity, generally in a delicate
+jade green, and a host of other labor-saving devices. The Kalderash are
+rumoured to be fractally-dimensioned in their physiology and vaguely
+telepathic although they of course deny both, and submit they hold to the
+Telepathic Communications Decency Act of Megalodon12-13 anyway.
+===== Stories =====
+  * [[Laxx Mining]]
+===== Digressions =====
+====== ======
+Go back to [[Science Fiction Characters]]