The SCI‐FI‐I‐SPY Catalogue of All Known Types of Alien
#45: TRIPLOIDS

Identification: three eyes, three legs, three arms, three everything

Variants: Quadruploids (or Quintuploids, but rarely higher)

Also Known As: Troikans, Triaxians, or Trivet‐Men

Origin: the third moon of Tobleron III, in the Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33)

LOOKS: repetitive C
BRAINS: three‐lobed, which doesn't help 99
LETHALITY: tend to be physically imposing, but insist on using their traditional three‐bladed axes, which are simply hopeless 0.09
CULTURE: bureaucratic; do everything in triplicate 33
HARDNESS: on the SF Mohs scale near corundum (with trigonal crystal symmetry) 9
TOKENISM: radial‐symmetry tokenism 66

Religion: Trinitarian

National Anthem: the three times table

Favoured System Of Government: triumvirate

Wardrobe: tricornes and non‐Pantellurian‐Fraternity‐approved tritrousers

Affiliated With: the Conciliary Ententicles (occasionally)

Not To Be Confused With: Plastoids who just happen to have three of something