F'tral

A large water-covered world orbiting the blue-white star F'la Ren, F'tral is home to the tentacled cephalopods known as the Iyra. The few volcanic islands on F'tral are home to fisher plants, seducer plants, and cannibal plants. The Iyra inhabit large undersea cities and have developed many valuable technologies, including corrosion-resistant alloys and gravity-field and inertial devices for starships. Iyra society is based on a caste system, with the number of tentacles an individual has corresponding to his or her own caste. The more tentacles an Iyra grows, the higher the caste, and since Iyra tend to grow more tentacles as they grow older an individual can move through several castes in a lifetime. Iyra look down on those in lower castes, and are especially contemptuous of most four-limbed alien species. [GG4]