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Bilar

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a short, pudgy alien race with long arms, short legs, and no hair, the Bilars look like bald teddy bears with frozen smiles. The ears of a Bilar are quite large, and are capable of hearing in infrasonic and ultrasonic wavelengths. The ears can be swivels in different directions, allowing the Bilars to use them with great efficiency. Their eyes are large and black, and can gather light in the darkest of nights. However, they are not a dominating race, and have survived more vicious forms of life on their homeworld of Mima II by staying in large groups for safety. This behavior soon became part of their genetic makeup, and they have evolved the need for a group mind in order to function. On their own, single Bilars are dumb animals. Together, they form claqas (group minds) in which the overall intelligence of the claqa doubles with each additional Bilar mind. The average number of Bilars in a sentient claqa is four, while a genius claqa has at least seven Bilars. There is a single instance of a 10-Bilar claqa which became the entity known as Unni Yerudi.