Dravidian
The Dravidians were an insect race from the Dravidian Star Cluster of Ganymede Antares. They were a race of scavengers and asset strippers, who took wealth and technology wherever they found it. They were an ambitious race, keen to establish their own empire.
Biology
The Dravidians looked like gigantic grasshoppers, with long bodies and thin spindly forelimbs, wide heads and huge, segmented eyes. Two sharp mandibles emerged from their mouth and their communication was by way of a series of chittering sounds. Like true insects, their yellow blood did not carry oxygen through their bodies; instead, they absorbied oxygen through their spiracles. Because of their size, they needed oxygen-rich environments to survive; otherwise they would become sluggish. (TDL: The Planet of Oblivion)
Hives
Dravidian colonies were transported in Hive Ships, large spacecraft with an organic interior, which held thousands of Younglings in conical, honeycomb filled chambers, each with a protected membrane. The application of heat would wake them and accelerate their growth when they were ready to hatch. (TDL: The Planet of Oblivion)
Other references
- Mehendri Solon rescued Condo, his manservant, from a Dravidian starship that had crashed on Karn. (DW: The Brain of Morbius)
- The Carrionites knew of the Dravidian race, and in the Carrionite-inspired play Love's Labour's Won there was a pair of lines which stated that:
- "The light of Shadmoch's hollow moon doth shine
- Onto a point in space betwixt Dravidian Shores"
