**First Appearance:** #book1 #### *AKA Skels* ![[LEONIDE.png]] A roughly humanoid species, not described in #book1 except to state that they need a mask and goggles to tolerate oxygen atmospheres. Further described in #book7: skeletal, with beef-jerky skin, they appear to have a cultural imperative to flout rules. They evolved on the same planet as the Gajur and appear to have just leached off the Gajur civilization without ever having formed one of their own. The Skels were a parasitic race of gaunt, angular humanoids who forever wore wheezy breathing apparatus like old Great War gas masks. They were a people for whom it was hard to find redeeming features, innovating or making little of their own, and instead leeching off other races. Fixtures in the underworld, you could almost set your watch by it—if there was a Skel involved, then something criminal was probably going on.