Khambalia 5, the planet the cyborgs explore in Doc’s Orders, is home to some interesting and dangerous alien creatures.
Pahas
Stock art crafted by Likozor
The pahas are wolf-like creatures. They run in packs, see anything that moves as prey, sport sharp claws and teeth. Their coloring allows them to blend into the grayness of the planet’s landscape.
They aren’t the most intelligent creatures, however. Eating and breeding is about all they know and their language is primitive, consisting of barks and growls. They can’t be reasoned with.
Miljoonasuuts
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The most dangerous creature on Khambalia 5 is the miljoonasuut, a creature that from the top or side looks like a giant pill bug (also known as a roly-poly, doodle bug or wood shrimp). The miljoonasuut’s exoskeleton is extremely tough. The cyborgs believe it can repel projectiles.
Miljoonasuuts have more in common with pill bugs than merely their appearance. Pill bugs, like miljoonasuuts, eat almost everything, including heavy metals.
Pill bugs can also thrive in places where other Earth species can’t. Miljoonasuuts live on Khambalia 5, a planet barely suitable for sustaining life.
Miljoonasuuts, however, have a few other adaptations. They’re large, bad-tempered, and fairly intelligent. They have multiple mouths with extremely sharp teeth on their undersides.
Miljoonasuuts have evolved to be some of the most dangerous predators in the universe. No one, excluding the cyborgs, mess with them.
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Doc’s Orders
She wants both sides of her cyborg—the medic AND the beast.
A fully functional cyborg is balanced. His machine half and his organic half work together to produce the perfect warrior.
Doc isn’t fully functional.
The G Model operates at the two extremes. When his machine is in complete control, he’s the logic-driven medic, saving lifespans. Once his organics take charge, he becomes the savage beast…and beings die.
Both sides of Doc want to be the first to claim his female.
Allinen is one of the few beings in her small settlement who wasn’t born with a fated mate. Determined to belong somewhere, she has crafted a plan to leave the planet.
That plan doesn’t involve a huge stormy-eyed male who alternates between cool seduction and out-of-control ravishment. Doc isn’t her fated mate. Allinen knows that. But his dual nature and forbidden embraces tempt her to forget forever and indulge in more immediate delights.
Neither side of Doc views their relationship as being temporary. Her conflicted cyborg is prepared to battle her family, her planet and death itself to keep her.
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