Igua

The igua race is about 19 million years old, the willawons are 37 million. The iguas were the first civilization contacted by the Gravital, and since both species are logical super computers, they have lived in peace.

Iguas evolved on the brown dwarf Liese. They stand about three feet tall. Their main sense is thermoreception which is absorbed by the CTIPU (central thermic image processing unit). This structure is held above the body with high magnetic forces and is protected by the cube of silicate glass which surrounds it. Information is passed between the CTIPU and the main body via microwave signals. Iguas move about with 22 wheel-like legs underneath the flap of skin which covers them. The bottom of this flap also contains heat receptors as well as taste buds. Iguas can detect minute chemical patterns as they roll around. The textured skin on their upper torsos contain slight photoreceptors, but these can only make out basic shapes in the infrared spectrum. They are very sensitive to bright light above infrared and must wear blindfolds when in the precense of light. Iguas also possess a highly sophisticated lateral line sense which surrounds their bodies.

Along their midlines, iguas sport a stiff, antenae-like rod which is used to communicate and manipulate. The rod can spin all around the body and point in any direction up, down, or sideways. The rod contains a seris of electromagnets which can be very powerful, and can be rotated within the rod and controlled by electric currents. This allows an igua to manipulate various metallic objects as tools. The rod communicates by transmitting and detecting signals ranging from microwaves to radiowaves. They already had the ability to communicate over long distances by radios, but when iguas developed transmitter satilites, they now could communicate over their entire homeworld.

Iguas themselves are very quick and logical thinkers with scientific senses of humor. Social dancing is an intricate part of their phycology, however, with each igua expressing details while conforming to the crowd. Iguas technically pocess three genders, but have seven sexes. The genders include males, females, and semales. There are three variations of semales, and two varitions of both males and females. Although each variation preformes the same sexual job of their respective genders, each variation differs slighty in their hormonal and physical sexual apparatus. Iguas of differing genders have many choices for their specific type of mate. Iguas may appear to others as tidy, uptight, or perfectionists because they believe in precision measurments of any given medium. Since they perceive radio signals as speech, they say the universe "sings" with all its pulsars, quasars, and raido broadcasts.