Tanifex

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 * Tanifex first appear in Croma Venture in a minor role as an unknown species on the Zondi Splicer
 * They appear on planet Rando in Rando Splicer and again on planet Eshir, in Qalea Drop
 * "They’re from the center of the Reeh Empire, a system we call Wokam" (RS-4)
 * "The alien was clearly one of the same two species that had assaulted Phoenix Company on the Zondi Splicer." (See Croma Venture (RS-4)
 * Rebel tanifex, led by Krisik, helped some Corbi escape the splicer (see rebels section below)

Reeh Slave Species

 * They are genetically modified and controlled by the Reeh as slaves. (RS-4)


 * A group of tanifex are enslaved on the Corbi homeworld by the Reeh, forced to serve as specimen scouts for the Splicer and as prison guards. Another group is enslaved on the Zondi Splicer, forced to guard the captives.


 * "Reeh use them for scouting. Not good at heavy assault.” (RS-4)


 * "There are many types of tanifex slave. The reeh, they do things to their soldiers. Different classes. ..reeh make changes. Change quickness. Change strength ..."(RS-4)

Descriptions

 * Descriptions of tanifex are of genetically biomechanoid modified slave species, not their original organic physiology
 * "Kauda" -- the corbi word to describe any creature that's been manipulated by reeh genetics (RS-7)


 * "Humanoid and not especially large" (RS-4)
 * "Not much taller than corbi, vaguely reptilian, beady eyes and a slinking, scuttling way of moving, like a spider on an oil slick. It cocked a bright eye at her" (RS-19)
 * "Faintly reptilian skin, bone protrusions at the shoulders, lips drawn back from sharp teeth, eyes narrowed to the point of nearly meeting beneath a central brow ridge. The shoulder protrusions ended in synthetic socket attachments, where the armour had connected. Trace knew that in reeh, and most of their slaves, those biomechanoid attachments extended within the wearer’s body, fully integrating organic and machine exterior." (RS-4)

Rebels

 * They have been thousands of uprisings or rebellions in the reeh empire (RS-4), for example the Eshfo Rebellion (RS-19, 20)
 * "Tanifex oppress themselves. Reeh let some colonies oppress themselves. Easier for reeh. But some colonies stop. We stopped" (RS-19)
 * "A rebel inside the Rando Splicer who knew the reeh's failings" (RS-19)
 * Tanifex rebels can undo genetic signals: “Rebels in the Splicer,” the tanifex corrected. “Splicer can make slaves. And unmake them. We try to unmake. With friends.” (RS - 19)
 * "Rika's tanifex friends had provided details" about the Splicer to plan the rebel invasion (RS-21)
 * Some tanifex working at the Rando Splicer have rebelled, deprogramming their reeh-controlled genetic coding so they don't react to red light stimulus or the frequency signal, for example (RS-7, RS-19)

"'Hello, human!' came an odd, synthetic translation. 'Tanifex here! Will disrupt lower levels, then go up for extraction!' (RS-26)"


 * Some deprogrammed rebel tanifex escaped the Splicer with Jindi's group of corbi : ”tanifex —- the same ones who had opened fire on the reeh to help Jindi and the others to escape the hangar. Those had followed them out, joined by others at the bottom..." They joined together with Jindi to escape into mountains, ultimately to the coast, with an assassin bug (RS)
 * Krisik, the tanifex leader in Jindi’s group of refugees (QD-8)
 * “But the tanifex in particular had proven useful for keeping watch during the day, when everyone slept, given that tanifex needed less than half as much sleep as corbi did. When Biku had gone for a machete during the day, with most of the party asleep, it had been Krisik, the leader, who had put him to sleep in a chokehold. (QD-8)