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Date Posted: 13:49:40 09/19/03 Fri
Author: Squeak
Subject: Critter

Name - In his language, it is a variety of squeaks. Translated directly into English, it is approximately 380 characters long, 180 of which are 's'. He has simplified it to be merely 'Squeak'
Age - Unmeasureable.
Gender - Male
Species - Critter (no, that's not his race's real title... That's what they translate to...)

Description - Squeak's race, on a whole, is very technologically advanced. They make their creations small and they like looking like they are not technologically advanced to suprise their enemies. They are inventors, plain and simple. They are prosperous because they are flexible about careers, and they don't really mind doing dangerous work.
His entire race are vegetarians, living mainly on fruit. They are able go for long spans without food or water. They are fast, and have powerful kicks and painful bites. They are clever, and are perfectly happy with acting as an ignorant pet to glean information.
They worship the sun, and have strange religious beliefs and corresponding views and speech. They have a strange attraction to shiny things, fast things, and to very powerful things.

Appearance - He is a unique beast, sort of a kangaroo-mouse. His body is shaped like a teardrop, with the smallest part of the teardrop being his neck. He has a kangaroo tail and paws.
On his front paws, he has three fingers and a 'thumb'. On the rear ones, more or less just regular kangaroo feet.
His noggin is also a teardrop, but this time the thinnest part is his nose. His nose is a small little ball on the tip of his teardrop-shaped head, and he has whiskers.
His ears are mouselike (round in shape) and rather large for his head, settled on top/sides of his head, where they ought to be.
He has a kangaroo-esque pouch on his stomach, and is only about the size of a large dog. The top of his ears would only reach to about the hip of a regular-sized human, and his head would reach mid-thigh.
His fur is tan/gold, in order to blend in with the sand of his natural habitat.

Personality - There really is no personality to speak of--Squeak, like all of his race, thinks he is high and mighty. They cannot solely use translators--they must also simplify their words, as their squeaks are very complex in nature and cannot be fully translated by machines--or by any other race. So the mightier-than-thou attitude is not helped much.
He has an ego, yes, but is very serious and eloquent in his speech, making him occasionally hard to understand.

Comments - Squeak is the ambassador of a far-off planet (actually, he's the son of the leader of the Critters, and his underling staff made a critical error in space which sent them far off course on their journey to various different planets). He carries lots of mix-matched electronics in his pouch, and plenty in his little ship for trade in order to solidify friendships between races and governments to his own home planet, race, and government(but he wasn't planning on going this far out of the way...)

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