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==Family== | ==Family== | ||
* '''Pod''': 3 other males in the cetacean tank onboard the [[Eagle]]. | * '''Pod''': 3 other males in the cetacean tank onboard the [[Eagle]]. One is named Crtaka, and | ||
==Backstory== | ==Backstory== | ||
Ekkridai was born to a pod in the South Pacific. He first encountered humans while still at his mother's side, and was fascinated by the way they used so many tools to aid them. This fascination, once he left his mother's pod, led him to the Cetacean Center at the big island of Hawaii. It was there that Ekkridai learned to communicate with humans, through the use of translation machines. | Ekkridai was born to a pod in the South Pacific. He first encountered humans while still at his mother's side, and was fascinated by the way they used so many tools to aid them. This fascination, once he left his mother's pod, led him to the Cetacean Center at the big island of Hawaii. It was there that Ekkridai learned to communicate with humans, through the use of translation machines. | ||
By a happy coincidence, not long after Ekkridai arrived there was a call for a group of cetaceans to join a Federation research project, and Ekkridai jumped at the chance. Thus began his Starfleet career. Since then, he has done many projects, and has taught himself as much science as he could. Currently his pod (himself and 3 other anthrophilic fen) is conducting a long-term study onboard the Eagle, and he has several side projects of his own as well. | By a happy coincidence, not long after Ekkridai arrived there was a call for a group of cetaceans to join a Federation research project, and Ekkridai jumped at the chance. Thus began his Starfleet career. Since then, he has done many projects, and has taught himself as much science as he could. Currently his pod (himself and 3 other anthrophilic fen) is conducting a long-term study onboard the Eagle, and he has several side projects of his own as well. | ||
==Senses== | |||
Sight: Like other dolphins, he has 20/20 vision both in and out of the water, but less refined colour vision than humans. He sees better in dim light than a human, and can adjust very quickly to changes of light level. | |||
Smell: Ekkridai has no sense of smell whatever. | |||
Taste: He can distinguish tastes, but his pallate is far less complex than a human's. | |||
Tactile: Equivalent to most humans. | |||
Sound: Imagine perfect vision in 360 degrees, plus x-ray imaging, plus hearing even the tiniest noises, plus hearing in a range far beyond what you know, plus knowing the details of every structure around you for a hundred yards, and you'll begin to have a glimpse of what a dolphin's hearing is like. A few details: Their ears are not attatched to their skull, which allows for far greater sound location. Their normal hearing range is from 1 to 160 kHz (a human's is .02 to 20), and they can hear sounds below 1 kHz if they are loud. They can recognise even tiny objects at a range of 120 yards. In short, their sense of sound is so much more advanced than a humanoid race's as to be a different sense altogether. | |||
==Linguistics== | |||
Ekkridai speaks Delphin, which overlaps somewhat with most other cetacean languages. Cetacean languages are incomprehensible to humans (and indeed any lifeform that isn't naturally aquatic, sonar-focused, or more realistically, both). Even if a humanoid could hear or reproduce the necessary range of sounds, the conceptual basis and perspective are more foreign than any humanoid language--including Tamarian. | |||
He also speaks Finglish and its offshoot Finfon, which are essentially a (word and phonic based, respectively) mapping of specific cetacean sounds into English. Using Finglisn and Finfon a dolphin may whistle inaudibly at a specially designed translator and in so doing 'speak' English. | |||
He can understand English reasonably well (exceptionally well, for a cetacean--cetaceans are able to understand humanoid concepts, but often have trouble with the perspectives), but lacks the ability to speak it directly. | |||
==Important notes== | ==Important notes== | ||