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The Iridane are the posthuman descendants of an Algero-Nigerian tradecraft, stranded upon a hospitable world of low gravity. The alien environment lengthened their bodies and sharpened their minds. Their most striking feature is their eyes: vast, luminous orbs of deep violet, shimmering with layered hues like cut crystal. With these, the Iridane perceive not only light but heat, emotion, even the faint bioelectric whispers of living flesh. Outwardly, they remain close to human, yet conversations with them carried a quiet unease. Though outwardly familiar, conversations with them left a quiet unease. It was clear they still remembered being human; yet in their violet gaze lingered the patient pity one reserves for a species already extinct.