Ogron
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Template:Doctorwhorace Ogrons are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Ogrons are low-intelligence, ape-like hominids who live in scattered communities on an unnamed planet on the outer fringes of the Milky Way, far from the central spaceways. The dominant lifeform on their home planet is a giant slug-like lizard named the Eater, and the Ogrons both pray to and are preyed on by it.
Ogrons are hired mercenaries. Those who have employed their services include the Master and the Daleks. On some human planets, Ogrons are employed as police officers, usually led by a mentally augmented leader.
They appear in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Romance of Crime by Gareth Roberts and the BBC Books novels Mission: Impractical by David A. McIntee and Interference by Lawrence Miles. In these books, it is explained that the Ogrons are only able to fly spacecraft via their powerful sense of mimicry. Interference shows that Ogron speech also uses subsonic frequencies and that they are more intelligent than they appear to be from their audible speech alone.
In The Romance of Crime and Mission: Impractical, the Ogron homeworld is given the name Braah. Because of rapid changes in Braah's climate, the evolutionary path the Ogrons were on got confused, resulting in them being a mixture of primate and carnivore instincts. The Virgin New Adventure So Vile a Sin named it as Orestes.
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In Emotional Chemistry by Simon A. Forward, ОГРОН (OGRON) (Оперативная Группа Разведкой Объединённых Наций, or, Operativnaya Gruppa Rasvedkoy Obyedinyonnih Natsiy, which roughly translates to "United Nations Reconnaissance Operations Group") is the Russian division of the alien defense organisation UNIT.