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| Description | Silicon, Aemobic |
| Size | Large |
| Skin Pigment | Brown/Black |
| Hair | None Evident |
| Distinguishing Features | Nearly indistinguishable from a large outcrop of rock except when moving. |
| Series | TOS: "The Devil in the Dark" |
| Planet of Origin | Janus III |
| Quadrant | Alpha (assumed) |
| Background | The Horta is a very rare case of mineral intelligent race. The HORTA has been met for the first time in the Pergium mines of Janus III. The first approaches with the Horta have been rather dramatic, several miners were killed by a "monster that moves in the rock." Spock understood however believed the creature possessed some intelligence, and after a mind meld with the creature, the Horta has revealed herself to be a based species on Silicon whose natural habitat is the depths of the planet. The Horta having been revealed as a peaceful species, now cooperates in the extraction of the mineral. |
| Editors Notes | The horta moves through rock by digging tunnels, as easily as humans walk through air. The eggs of the Horta are silicon globes (the miners had been keeping them as souvenirs and/or destroying them - the Horta was killing the miners with her acid in self-defense to keep her species alive (and stole the life-support system to try to make the miners go away) Every 50,000 years the race of Horta all die, saving the one mother Horta to take care of the eggs. |
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