Sliss

The Sliss are a species native to a water planet that orbits a K0V orange member of triple-star system Wasat/Delta Geminorum.

Biology
The Sliss are an ocean-evolved octopoid water-breathing species. The Sliss evolved from radiolarion predators though are omnivores. They can see in the blue-green spectrum through their single eye.

For communication, they use via encoded RNA squirt-packets emitted through a specially adapted tentacles. In addition the species is able to change skin, an evolutionary trait that used to act as camouflage

Culture
The Sliss are ruled by monosexual matriarchs who lead pod aggregates that make their homes in vast continental shelves and seamounts in the photic zone of the water homeworld.

Using robots they mine resources at the abyssal plains.

They are also members of the Compact of Trade.