Horta

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Horta
IMAGE GHERE
Four Letter Code
Federation Status	Member
Planet of Origin	Janus VI
Encountered	By the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (TOS: "The Devil In The Dark")
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	C-
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A highly intelligent silicon-based species capable of tunneling through solid rock like humans are able to walk through air. Horta are silicon based 'blobs' that live underground. They move through the rocks using powerful acids secreted from their glands. The Horta is female and lives below the Federation mining facility, she can only be contacted telepathically. Around stardate 3196.1, the Janus VI miners are suddenly attacked repeatedly by this creature, who as it turns out, is merely trying to protect her young. They are unaware that by mining, they were destroying her children, and in fact, the future of the Horta species entirely.