List of Andromeda races

This is a list of races from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda

A

• Avatars of Black Holes
• Avatars of Stars
• Avatar of the Abyss

B

• Bokor. Microscopic sentient parasites.^[1]

C

• Chichin
• Calderan: Featured in episode 5 season 2 "Last Call at the Broken Hammer"

H

• Hajira

• Human

• Heavy Gravity Worlders. Humans genetically modified to withstand gravity much greater than Earth's; as the result, they are several times stronger than normal humans.

I

• Inari

K

• Kalderans

M

• Magog. Human-sized predators covered in a loose, shaggy pelt. They feed on sapient beings which they paralyse with toxin, and reproduce by laying their eggs in another living being:^[2] the larvae hatch and consume their host. The most significant Magog character in the series is Rev Bem, who eschews the "brutish violence" of the rest of the Magog.^[3] Their leader, or god, is the Spirit of the Abyss: the Magog say that he is their creator. Rev Bem says that the Divine created the Magog: "...the Divine also has nightmares, for he created us."^{[episode needed]}

N

• Nietzschean. A species of genetically engineered humans who follow the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Social Darwinism and genetic competitiveness. They claim to be physically perfect and are distinguished from ordinary humans by bone blades protruding from their forearms. The race's Latin trinomial designation is Homo sapiens invictus, which means "undefeated wise man" in English.

• Nightsiders

P

• Paradine. The Paradines are both referred to as evolved Vedrans, as well as the first race of sentient beings in the galaxy. Trance Gemini hypothesizes that the Paradines may have had a "hand in its [the universes'] creation". These problems are not expanded upon or resolved during the show's run.^[4]

• Perseids

• Pyrians

S

• Spirit of the Abyss

V

• Vedrans

References

1. ^ Ginn, Sherry (2005). Our space, our place: women in the worlds of science fiction television. University Press of America. p. 136. ISBN 0761832157. 
2. ^ http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/tv/andromeda_strait_001013.html
3. ^ Booker, M. Keith (2004). Science fiction television. The Praeger television collection. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 188–190. ISBN 0275981649. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WyJf3m1G0ksC&pg=PA188. 
4. ^ Sennewald, Nadja (2007). Alien Gender: die Inszenierung von Geschlecht in Science-Fiction-Serien. Kultur- und Medientheorie. transcript Verlag. p. 99. ISBN 3899428056.