Zoromes

Zoromes are an alien species in the far future in the Professor Jameson stories beginning in 1931. They have discovered a way to transfor their brains, upon the deaths of their physical bodies, to mechanical bodies called "Machine Men." The Machine Men mimic the original Zorome form in that they have six tentales and four legs, but are completely artificial. In these bodies the Zoromes roam the stars in huge spaceships they have built. Their expeditions can last for centuries and they survive by replacing any part of their bodies that becomes damaged. They can even survive shipwrecks and be marooned for years, even centuries.
== Description ==
A typical Zorome has a cone-shaped head and a square body with six tentacles sticking out of the top half of the square. The four legs are attached to the bottom of the square body and carry the Zoromes across the planets they explore regardless of gravity [I only wish I know exactly how, though]. In the various covers painted to showcase the Professor Jameson stories, the Zoromes are shown walking in a straight line each one following the other and led by Professor Jamesob. They normally use the brains of their own dying people in the Machine Man bodies, but sometines they'll take and alien brain, rescuscitate it, and place it in a Machine Man body. This they did for the four Tripeds whom they first encountered and later, for other beings including 5 leaders of an alien race who had been lured into a ship and shot out past their planet's moon into space without a crew. The Zoromes were able to track the missing ship, locate it, collect the heads of the five men, and rescuscitate their brains although their elongated shape meant that the five new Zoromes had heads the shape of cans instead of the usual cone shape.
Category:Aliens
Category:Species