Galvan

**Galvans** are a species from the planet Galvan Prime.

## Appearance

The Galvan are a species of small bipedal frog-like amphibians.

Galvan are about five inches tall on average. Their bodies consist of soft and flexible bones, allowing them to squeeze into tight spaces or quickly escape from danger.

The Galvan have large, bulbous eyes with thin lines for pupils. Unlike humans, Galvan eyelids close horizontally and from both sides of the eye. Normal Galvan have green eyes.

Infant Galvan look like tadpoles; they have tails and lack legs, but they grow legs and shed their tails at a time they call "wisdom feet".

Female Galvan grow thin tendrils on their head. Male Galvan grow similar tendrils but on their chin, when they turn into adults.

## Abilities

* **Enhanced Intelligence-** Galvans have a very high intelligence, allowing them to think more critically and logically
	+ **Technological Skills-** Galvans works very well with machines, and can dismantle and build things as they please.
* **Small Size-** Galvans are small, which allows them to get through or inside places that larger species cannot.
* **Wall Climbing-** Galvans' microscopic pads on their skin allows them to climb walls.
* **Universal Translation-** Galvans have been shown to be able to understand complex and even foreign languages just by hearing them.
* **Underwater Breathing-** Galvans are capable of surviving underwater.
* **Sharp Teeth-** Galvans can cause a decent amount of damage with their teeth.

## Weaknesses

* **Small Size-** Galvans' small size can make it hard for them to fight in certain situations, and making it easy for them to either be captured or put in a corner.
* **Omnivoracious-** The Omnivoracious is a Galvan's natural predator.
* **Fragile Body-** Galvans' bodies are not very durable, being weak to even the basic of attacks from most species larger than them.

## Notable Galvans

* Grey Matter
* Azmuth
* Albedo
* Galvan Teacher
* Zennith
* Retaliator
* Blukic
* Driba
* Fergi
* Y-it
* Chadzmuth
* Galvan Prime Soldiers
* Luhley
* Galvan Major
* Ujin
* Duffy
* Azmuth's great-aunt
* Azmuth's sibling
* Azmuth's three nephews

#### Alternate Universes

* Brainfrog (Dimension 23)
* Grey Matter (Gweniverse)
* Grey Matter (Fallout Ben's Universe)
* Azmuth (Dimension 23)
* Azmuth (Benzarro's Universe; undead)
* Azmuth (Nega Ben's Universe; deceased)
* Azmuth (Argitrix Universe)

## History and Society

The Galvan originally had no empire to speak of, instead they were first kept as pets and then employed by other species as industrial technicians, spies, and saboteurs once their intelligence became known.

The Galvan were smart enough to keep the best secrets for themselves, eventually amassing enough knowledge to build a powerful empire of their own, based on the technology that they kept from the rest of the universe.

Most of the Galvan are known as technological geniuses.

There are some Galvan that live outside the cities of Galvan Prime that have less tech-focused lives.

## Etymology

A corruption of "Luigi Galvani", an Italian physicist who discovered the electrical impulses of the nervous system by performing experiments on frogs (hence the Galvan's frog-like appearance).

## Trivia

* Galvans are insectivores.
* Galvans have two brains. One for basic activities and the other for knowledge and skills.
* The Galvan have extremely long life-spans, with Azmuth himself already several thousand years old, and expects to live at least another three thousand years.
* The Galvan were the first species added to the Omnitrix. However, the DNA sample used for Grey Matter did not come from either Azmuth or Albedo.
* Galvan technology is very eco-friendly and works in harmony with nature. Even their domiciles are a grown techno-organic fungus.
* Galvans have their own written language called "Galvan" in which some signs in Omnitrix City were written in.
* The Techadon Weaponmasters don't accept the fact that the Galvan are smarter than them. So, they try everything to make the Galvan look bad.
* Primitive Galvan worshipped technology as gods.
* The Galvan intellect is apparently highly revered as even the former Highbreed Supreme said that the Galvan were "a slightly more intelligent form of pond scum".
* Galvan have been involved in Earth's history countless times, including building the Stonehenge as a prank, giving Ascalon to Sir George, causing the Roswell Incident, and protecting Earth from Benevelon's attack before it was incorporated.
* The Galvan admire the Planchaküles' industriousness and skill, but prefer not to hang out with them too much after work.
* In Nega Ben's timeline, soon after the creation of the Omnitrix, the Galvan were wiped out by a rogue Celestialsapien coerced by Maltruant.
* The writers' naming convention for Galvan in Alien Force and Ultimate Alien was to use astronomical terms.
* The idea to name multiple Galvans after creators of the series started after T.J. Collins named Blukic and Driba.
* Had Omniverse continued past Season 8, a Galvan colored like a poisonous frog would have appeared as a member of the Negative 10, but not as the group's leader.