Chikoya
First appears in Book 3: The Evolutionary Void, chapter 10 (SIX)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 10The Chikoya have lived in the Spike longest, around 4,500 years; the Ba'rine sect there, over a million strong, were expelled from their homeworld.
- Ch 10Armored Chikoya teleport into Octoron within about seventeen minutes of the landing and demand that Inigo, the human messiah, come with them.
- Ch 10The Chikoya blame Inigo for starting a devourment phase in the Void and say he must stop it.
- Ch 12The Chikoya are armored, dinosaur-like aliens with vestigial wings, radiating paranoia and aggression; they believe the Spike belongs to them.
- Ch 12The Chikoya want to find Inigo and force him to stop the Void, and used mindspace to track him.
- Ch 14The Chikoya are an avian species who worship their ancestors and see mindspace as a doorway to ancestral thoughts; they cannot locate the group.
- Ch 16Forty Chikoya in heavy armor teleported around Ozzie's house, apparently to seize the Dreamer, under a T-sphere.
- Ch 16The Chikoya are armored aliens who can teleport and use T-spheres, but human biononics are meaner than their weapons.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 10Chikoya attack
Armored Chikoya teleport in demanding Inigo; Aaron fights them, retreats through buildings, then sedates Inigo and Corrie-Lyn to hide them from telepathic tracking.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Ozzie calms the Chikoya
Ozzie arrives at the battered plaza, bluffs the angry Chikoya with talk of superweapons, and persuades them to holster weapons and promise to inform him of Inigo.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Chikoya attack Ozzie's house
Forty armored Chikoya teleport in, surrounding the house; Ozzie vanishes, and Oscar and the Knights Guardian fight them back while Aaron guards the Dreamers.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Myraian slaughters the Chikoya
Myraian dances untouched through Chikoya fire and kills one with a kiss. The Knights' combatbots arrive and the Chikoya flee or teleport out.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Cheriton teleported away
Chikoya establish a T-sphere around Cheriton, who cannot counterprogram it, and teleport him to the Farloy compartment. Tomansio forbids pursuit and the team evacuates the Dreamers.