Shlangii

The Shlangii are a fictional alien species featured in Andy Lane's novel All-Consuming Fire, based on a line of dialogue from the 1978 Doctor Who serial The Ribos Operation, which mentions "mercenaries from Shlangii".
==Description==
The Shlangii are strange-looking creatures with a sac-shaped body supported by five spindly legs. Each leg has five joints, which are composed of two hinges aligned on different planes, thus allowing the legs to bend on any direction. Their skin is mottled grey, with a network of blood vessels visible underneath, arranged like a cobweb. They don't have any visible eyes or mouth, but speak in a hissing voice, which is produced by a pulsating membrane on the underside of the body. They can move faster than the human eye can follow.
A ruthless mercenary species, a large group of Shlangii have been employed on the planet Ry'leh to guard an imprisoned being who presented herself as Azathoth (although the Doctor denied that she was the real deal). The Shlangii were selected for this task because their reluctance to accept new ideas makes them particularly resistant against the false Azathoth's psychic abilities. However, this didn't prevent some Shlangii from being brainwashed by the creature, and converted to her cult. Like all of Azathoth's worshipers, the converted Shlangii were eventually transformed into rakshassi. (: All-Consuming Fire)
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Category:Species Originating From Mythos-Adjacent Works
Category:Sapient Species
Category:Extraterrestrial Species