Ketran

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The Ketran are a fictional race from the Animorphs book series; they lived on giant crystals hovering above a lava-covered surface. The Ellimist was once a member of this race. The Ketran were later wiped out by the Capasins.

The Ketrans kept the floating crystals afloat by having a lot of people flapping their wings while attached to the crystal.

A large amount of the Ketran society was based around a game, akin somewhat to God sims of our video games. In this game, the player would choose a species and make small changes to the planet and to genetic structure, etc. of the species, then see what the outcome was.

It was this game (broadcast throughout space, much in the same way that humans broadcast messages about their society via radio waves) that caused the Capasins to come and wipe them out. The Capasins believed that the Ketrans played with the lives of real species, they didn't realise it was a game (indeed, they couldn't grasp the concept of games.)

The last of the species escaped with an experimental spacecraft made from crystal, onboard was the one who would become the Ellimist.

Ketrans are winged creatures who have 'quills' rather than hair. They have 4 arms, 4 eyes, docking talons, 'pods' of some sorts (possibly the Ketran equivalent of feet), and are highly intelligent. The description provided by the author indicated they may appear as angels, which would fit in with their God-like powers over their games.

Due to their lives of flight, Ketrans are instinctively claustrophobic, to the point where they are absolutely terrified of closed space, even when windows and such allow the illusion of open air. This is a fear that they must conquer after they become a nomadic, space-faring race.