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Animorphs Races: Yeerk by ~Monster-Man-08:iconMonster-Man-08:

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Now for the rest of the aliens in the Animorphs series. First up, one of my favorites, the Yeerks!

The six-inch grey-green slug-like Yeerks are able to completely control nearly any creature by crawling into it's skull and 'melting' into their brain! It's a bit of a necessary evil, since 'natural' Yeerks are deaf and blind, despite being fully sentient.

Unfortunately, by the end of the series, the Yeerks are effectively extinct, forced to morph *something* and stay in that morph (Taxxons also must do this; drat, my other favorite).

Despite only being spacebound for only 30 years, a group of Yeerks had 'evolved' into the Iskoort.

NEXT: the 'natural' hosts of the Yeerks, the Gedds

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~dodoman1 Apr 27, 2009, 5:30:12 PM
Really? That sucks. Oh well... at least they get to be, I don't know, squid or something. That'd be cool.

Can't they just dump the Taxxons on some garbage planet? Oh wait, I read that one book that said they hated being Taxxons. An entire species of jello-eyed centipedes with identity crises.

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Blame it on the girls who know what to do,
Blame it on the boys who keep hitting on you,
Blame it on your mother for the things she said,
Blame it on your father but you know he's dead.
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~Monster-Man-08 Apr 27, 2009, 5:39:36 PM
The Taxxons hated their undying hunger, and freely joined the Yeerk Empire because of promises of ending that hunger. In the end, they all morph various constrictor snakes, which, of course, can go for long periods without eating (and have vaguely similar bodies).

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Mitchen bi paha yah!
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~Kaedwuff Apr 27, 2009, 6:06:09 PM
Yeah, I always wondered about the whole Iskoort thing, and I think that it was just the Yeerks around earth that were 'defeated'. There are probably some that survived to live among the stars. Conquering and blahblah.

That's probably why the Crayak and Emillist had a fight over them, because it was supposed to change how the distant future happened - the Iskoort were not evolved from the Yeerks, but were such a similar species that finding them would have shown the Yeerks a new, more peaceful way of living.
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~iraepyou Jun 20, 2009, 6:55:02 PM
The deal with the Iskoort was, the Andalites did not first find the Yeerks. Some other unknown race did, carried them offworld, but the batch they found weren't evil and bent on domination. So the Yeerks (I suppose we call them Yoorts now) created their own host species, the Isk, to infest peacefully so that way they don't have to take over another helpless species just to lead lives out of the muck pool.

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Let's get together and have some fun!
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~moontail299 Jul 1, 2009, 5:23:49 PM
EVIL!!! You chose evil side!

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I have no idea what you're talking about.
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