Pak'ma'ra
The Pak'ma'ra are a fictional race of aliens in the Babylon 5 universe. They do not feature heavily in any storylines, partly on the pretext that other species avoid them because they are carrion eaters (though they can eat spoo) and partly because the Pak'ma'ra consider themselves superior to other races and so avoid other species themselves. The Pak'ma'ra are renowned for their intelligence and inquisitiveness, but also for scavenging not only their foods but also technologies. Broadly humanoid in form, the Pak'ma'ra have tentacles around a mouth cavity containing an inflexible beak, somewhat reminiscent of the mind flayers or Cthulhu. As this combination renders their mouths incapable of forming words in most other species' languages, they rely on machine translation for interspecific communication. Until its dissolution, the Pak'ma'ra were members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, with an ambassador on Babylon 5. The Pak'ma'ra were one of the few other races to be susceptible to the Drafa Plague, though, unlike the Markab, their numbers were not threatened by Second Outbreak in 2259.
External links Pak'ma'ra on Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica Pak'ma'ra background information from the Rifts trading card game
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