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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6837956" data-attributes="member: 63746">The insectile one shifts her body in its seat, expressing... something about the captain's sudden departure. Distress? Surprise? Hard to tell.As to Cal's question, the gand simply reaches into its robes and, after some manipulation, politely presents the same datapad as before in an open palm...[sblock=If Cal takes it]If Cal takes it, he'll see two passages highlighted from something called The Ultimate Anthology of Aliens, 32793 Edition.The green text on the screen reads: The Gands, or Gand (pronounced /Gănd/), are a sentient species of humanoids that is believed to have evolved from an insect genus that inhabited the ammonia-gas planet of Gand.Further down, the second passage goes: Despite the species' refusal to be studied and its widespread diversity, Xenobiogists have now established that most Gands can be classified into two subspecies: lungless and "breathers."[23] The lungs of the breathers function rather efficiently, able to utilize nearly eighty–five percent of the atmosphere with each breath [18], but are nevertheless adapted to breathing only ammonia. They therefore require breath masks or similar equipment to survive in the more common oxygen–rich environments found on many planets.[/sblock]</blockquote>