Races aliens of Tschaï

the Cycle of Tschaï (original title Planet off Adventure ) is a novel of Science-fiction in four volumes, written by the American author Jack Vance between 1968 and 1970. The cycle is composed of four following volumes: Chasch, Wankh, Dirdir, Pnume.

Population of Tschaï

The population of Tschaï is divided into two: the races aliens on the one hand and humanoïdes on the other hand. Each race alien took with its service humanoïdes which, by changes and genetic engineering, ended up more or less resembling to them. Their least level of civilization makes than the Men are always called the “submen” during the account. Adam Reith, according to the explanations of his Anacho companion, is persuaded that the Men were brought back planet Ground on Tschaï by Dirdirs and that all the races humanoïdes of Tschaï go down from these first men.

To consult the description of the human ones which populates Tschaï, to see the dedicated article: human Population of Tschaï.

Chasch

the Vieux Chaschs appeared on Tschaï 100.000 years ago. It is people now declining which live the area of the needles of Jang. They live in small white domes with half covered with vegetation and spend their time cultivating large planted gardens of adaraks, large trees odorifères. The perfumes and the scents are very important in the culture of the Chasch Old men. If they are not malicious, the Chaschs Old men are untiring jokers, preparing without slackening of the often cruel jokes and sometimes mortals for the human ones.

the blue Chaschs came on Tschaï 90.000 years ago. They are originating in another planet in the past colonized by the Chaschs Old men, even if they do not like much the voyages in space. They have a thick and powerful body, massive and short legs and are covered with scales corneas. Their chitinous shoulders bend to form a broad dorsal carapace, their cranium is completed by a prominent osseous edge. Their nasal opening is very complex and their sense of smell is developed so much that they are able to distinguish the people thanks to their odor, they feels the olfactive nuances caused by the fear, the disease, dirtiness, the ointments, the hunger, anger and can easily determine the age, the sex and the skin color of an individual. Their slide blocks are also equipped with olfactive sensors. They were established in the province of Kotan and their principal cities are called Pera and Dadiche. They fought the Chaschs Old men a long time to secure the Tschaï domination. Like the Chaschs Old men, Chaschs blue live in white domes with half covered with vegetation. They like to invent jokes, sometimes cruel, because they hate the trouble. From a strategic point of view, they have sufficient missiles to destroy all the Dirdir cities.

the Chaschs greens are of Chasch nomads which square the Dead Steppe. They are the blue sworn enemies of Chaschs and the Chaschs Old men. They make between two meters ten and two meters forty height and are very massive. Their green scales have like a metal reflection. They are the telepathic ones which communicates by cerebral waves. When of Chaschs Verts are captured, they always turn themselves in the direction of their clan, with whom they are in permanent telepathic contact. They carry leather aprons and roughcast cross-belts of swords, spades and catapults. In the beginning, they were used by Chasch blue and the Chasch Old men during their fratricidal confrontations, but were then insulated. It is a wild race and bloodthirsty man who raises yellow and black streamers at the time of an attack. They handle without any difficulty of the long swords of 2,40 m or 3 Mr.

Wankh

the Wankhs arrived on Tschaï 10.000 years ago, following a space war against Dirdir. They settled in Rakh and southernmost Kachan. They are creatures with the dark skin, larger than a man, equipped with a massive chest, of a reduced head, short legs finished by webbed feet, because Wankhs are amphibious. They have a rolling gait and never assoient themselves. They not very sociable, indifferent and are detached. Wankhs wear any clothing nor no apparent instrument, only the individuals of high ranking carry gilded leggings and a medallion. Their larger scientists are called the “Original Masters”. Wankhs live high towers of black glass bored of windows round and connected between them by engraved crystal footbridges. They communicate using harmonics which leave a body located at the base of their cranium, because their brain emits formed sonorities of a great number of vibrations. The writing of Wankhs consists of rectangular ideograms of various sizes which represent harmonics, i.e. units of significance. Each ideogram translates a complete element meaning very difficult to seize. They make use of the Men-Wankhs like intermediaries between them and the other races of Tschaï. They never wanted to cease their war against Dirdirs.

Dirdir

the Dirdirs are originating in the Sibol planet. They colonized Tschaï 50.000 years ago, because for a certain period of their History, the “Expansionist ones” were majority, which led Dirdirs to explore many foreign planets. They are beings of high size, thin, glabrous and their skin is color of parchment and their long legs enable them to move by jumps. Their maintenance is severe, but elegant. They wear complex clothing, facts of ribbons, wheels and bubbles. Their smooth craniums are surmounted by a peak which gives rise to a nimbus luminescent which resembles long phosphorescent antennas. Dirdirs prefer the cold climates and live consequently on the peninsula of Haulk, in the south-west of Kislovan, and on the north-western littoral of Charchan. The Dirdirs young people are as wild beasts which must be overcome, drawn up, then educated, because the Dirdir spirit remains extremely wild and preserves throughout its life the taste of the hunting and its insctincts of predator. Dirdirs are anthropophagous, they eat the men whom they drove out like game. Their huntings can last from three to six days, a little less for huntings of competition. During hunting, Dirdirs mobilize a part distinct from their spirit which they call the “Old state”. Before beginning their meetings of hunting, each Dirdir clan pushes hululement strident. A tsau' gsh indicates a group of hunters which asserts the right to carry out a forwarding or to carry out a task in order to acquire a higher hierarchical statute in order to affirm its h' so (its “marvellous predominance”). At Dirdirs the individual initiative always precedes the interest of the group, because Dirdir has responsibilities only towards its own pride. Moreover, one of the virtues of Dirdirs is called the zs' hanh , which means “indifference scornful towards the activities of others”. Their company is not founded on the mutual aid or solidarity and thus does not answer any particular organization. However, Dirdirs remain dependant by the force of the tradition and the system of supremacy of the castes. Dirdirs are organized as clans and 28 hierarchical castes. To pass from a caste lower than a higher caste, Dirdir must be accepted by the members of the caste to which he aspires. The applicant must have been the proof of his courage and his value by bright actions to pass in a higher caste. Dirdir of high caste is called a “Excellence”. When Dirdir needs assistance, he shouts “ hs' have hs' have hs' have ” and when he claims an arbitration, he exclaims “dr' its dr' its dr' its”. The sexuality of Dirdirs is very complex, because there exist 12 varieties of male sexual organs and 14 varieties of female sexual organs which do not agree all between them. Dirdirs must thus find the good partner to procreate. But Dirdirs generally prefer to maintain the secrecy in connection with their sexual attributes in order to escape the constraints imposed by the habit. But this secrecy complicates the research of the adapted partner, this is why Dirdirs have recourse to the marriage of test, the “assemblies of darkness” or the anonymous notices. Dirdirs do not have a religion. From a strategic point of view, Dirdirs have sufficient missiles to destroy all the Chaschs cities and all the Wankhs cities.

Pnume

the Pnumes are the first inhabitants of Tschaï and the origin of their race goes back to more than 7 million years. Pnumes have the stature of a man, are vêtus of broad a houppelande black and give an impression of slenderness and brittleness. Their face with the cutting and the color of a cranium of horse, without much expression, and their mouth is surrounded by a complicated whole of bodies of crushing and chewing. Their legs are articulated contrary to the human legs and their barefeet are mouchetés marblings black and red and end in three very mobile curved toes. Pnumes live under the surface of the Tschaï planet. Their world is made galleries, undergrounds and well with the complex connections which all are indexed on a Master-plan. The corridors and access are classified by level of confidentiality. Thus, certain accesses or secret galleries are known the only of Pnumes of most rank. The Guards are charged with the charts, Listening to them the comings and goings in the galleries of Pnumes supervise. The walls of their many galleries are covered with crystals of all the colors which can be used as mechanisms of opening with secrete ways. In the language of Pnumes, “ ghaun ” means “surface” and “ ghian ” “inhabitant of surface”. Pnume are the alive memory of the Tschaï planet which they regard as a living organism. They know all its history and the invaluable files keep some. Pnumes preserve in their museum of Perpetuation a statifué specimen of each race which pressed the ground of the Tschaï planet. Pnumes are not coupled to reproduce, their method of procreation is a enigma.

the Phung are strange beings, similar to Pnumes, but larger. They measure more than 2,30 m and carry caps and black capes. They are solitary and dangerous.

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