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Despite their ancestry, they are mostly land-dwelling. The respiratory requirements of their ever-active bodies has long since outstripped their under-adapted gills' water-breathing ability. They can be used as a means to extend trips underwater, but can only sustain them there if they do not exert themselves. The whiskers are actually vestigial fleshy growths that were once used as sensory assistance in underwater caverns where there is no light. They can sometimes grow back but losing them is quite painful. The eyes themselves are stationary, but use their hooded sockets as a pivotal mount to be able to look around.

Whilst they have a fairly thick skin, the butt of the tail is thicker, and is often used as a prop-stand for whilst the arms are in use. They have a naturally strong sense of balance and even a sedentary individual will keep a baseline of strength and fitness. Though they prefer to keep their skin slightly moist, they do not suffer at all if completely dried out, which causes their skin to feel like a strange plastic. Most walk on the side of their fists, wearing gloves with side-grips and a covering flap for hygiene's sake when interacting with their hands.

The Shigyan are the unabashed heart and soul of the "Citizens of Wait", and it's technical founders. Highly social and expressive, they earned a reputation of being somewhat juvenile on the galactic scene. Where the Ensu provide a reliable moderative workforce and the Mugg act as as a grounding voice of insight, the Shig are the beating heart of it's culture and the constant spark of change. Perfectly capable of intellectual pursuits, they simply tend to prefer anything with shorter term stimulation or a quicker result on the community.

Though the camel-ape Mugg are the main staple of Wait's diplomatic force, the sharky-frog Shig are nearly always the ones spearheading any change. They can be a little vexed about the Ensu and their reluctance to weigh in on things personally, but they refuse to let the matter rest. Originally, the Mugg were just as retracted and subservient, but time changes all things. The more intellectual amongst them would note this is due to the Shig having interrupted their natural rise to elaborate culture, absorbing the other species into their own, but they would probably be too busy playing with the executive office toys to pay attention to boring analysis.

They have quite a variety of individual variation, and not just in colouration. The whiskers for example, are not always present, or their number and length can vary wildly. Some still grow stubby claws on their hands that need regular trimming, others have more functional gills, and rare individuals can be as much as double the average height. Their culture doesn't tolerate genuine discrimination, but due to the overall Waitian behaviour and variety, judgemental sounding (but normally innocent) observations are often passed.

They prefer to be passive and neutral in galactic politics, doing their best to steer their lot away from committing to anything on any issue, but value peace to a degree that often lands them in assisting in skirmishes or enlisting peacekeeping forces, most often for whoever happens to be the underdog. It isn't unusual for a Waitian colony to spring up completely out of the blue in the middle of nowhere, or even in owned space, particularly on planets with large bodies of water and tropical landmass.

Galactic drifters and hippies that can punch your head through a wall whilst doing one-handed push-ups. Their main drawback is perhaps a tendency towards casual "limb envy", as a lot of tasks can be awkward for them. Just as well that their compulsive habit of meeting every challenge full-on wins out, eh?