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Biology and appearance
Pacithhip were bipedal pachyderms who stood between 1.3 to 1.7 meters tall. Their bodies were predominately humanoid, but their legs were quite short in proportion to their bodies. Coupled with a long tail, this gave them a low center of gravity and made them very surefooted and stable. However, it also made them slower than other humanoids of comparable size. To compensate for this, many Pacithhip wore robotic stilts that increased their height by about 0.17 meters. This gave them the proportions of an average human and increased the pace at which they walked. The Pacithhip had wrinkled skin that ranged from green to gray in color. It was thick and tough, which afforded them some resistance to physical damage. Their three-fingered hands were short and stubby in some individuals, long and thin in others. Pacithhip adjusted easily to environmental extremes.

The Pacithhip head was protected by a thick ridge of bone at the back of the skull. Above this were two large eyes, high on the sides of the head, that gave the Pacithhip the ability to see a full 360 degrees around them. Their eyes came in several different hues, but blue was particularly common. A long proboscis jutted from the front of the face, flanked by two cavernous nostrils. The beings' most distinctive feature was a pair of elaborate tusks that grew from the base of the skull ridge and stuck out to either side of the nose. In ancient times, these tusks were long and forbidding and used both to fight and to spar for mates. In later generations, however, the tusks, while still deadly in combat, were shorter and used primarily to aid with depth perception. The tusks came in three genetically determined patterns. Young Pacithhip had undifferentiated tusks until the onset of adolescence (age 13), with the full tusk pattern emerging by adulthood (age 18). Pacithhip life expectancy was 85 years.