**First Appearance:** #book4 Alien race, vaguely platypus-like, with thick, coarse fur and the mouth and jaw that were drawn forward, extended and flattened until they resembled a duck bill. It has short, stumpy arms ending in six stubby fingers each, all of them apparently opposable. It also has two sets of eyes, one set forward like humans, a second set on the sides of it's head, more like an herbivore. Their homeworld is one of two planets in the [[Gliese 876]] system. They have colonized both. They are renowned for twisting agreements in ways that were never intended. They tend to be small and goofy.