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Aveyka

Hailing from the distant, largely unknown world of Gixadi, the aveyka are an unusual race of pale, blue skinned humanoids with iridescent, feathered "hair". They are tall and lanky, with four arms, and four digits on each extremity. Their slender faces are notable for their large, completely black eyes, and vaguely beak shaped nose and mouth. Their speech is bubbly sounding, yet halting and filled with excessively emphasized sharp consonants.

Very little is known about the aveyka homeworld, or about native aveyka culture. Those who have ventured into civilized space are invariably secretive and often quite intensely focused on whatever objective brought them into civilized space to begin with. There is no formal effort to make contact with the aveyka homeworld, nor is there any plan to, owing to its excessive distance from the outer borders of the civilized frontiers.

The aveyka are best known for their interstellar traveling carnivals that feature entertainments both alien and extraordinary. These carnivals are have a reputation for collecting all sorts of alien technologies in their travels, and often seek to find ways to use potentially quite hazardous devices as part of their offered entertainments. As a result of frequent accidents, most civilized nations require  the carnivals to have constant safety supervision, if they allow them entry at all.

Physically transformative devices are a particular favorite among the aveyka carnies. Whenever, and wherever they think they can get away with it, the carnies frequently leave such items in places where unsuspecting carnival goers might discover and interact with them, largely for the carnies' own amusement. Such devices are often dressed up to seem mysterious, playful, and often far less than the permanently body altering machines they are.