so my partner (who is reading Animorphs at my recommendation/rambling) pointed out something from the first book that somehow escaped my notice:
how many species are in the yeerk pool cavern?
(Image description: “And there were creatures everywhere. Taxxons, Hork-Bajir, and other things I couldn’t even begin to guess at. But mostly, there were humans. A lot of them.” End description)
— Jake, The Invasion
so bae read this, and upon returning the book to me asked “so what species are there, aside from the Hork-Bajir and Taxxons?” Presumably to get a better mental picture
and I realised the only ones I could physically describe were the Gedds (Leerans not being there yet)
then there’s this quote:
(Image description: “Through the window, we could see Yeerk crewmen - Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, and two or three other alien species, in simple red or dark brown uniforms. And there were humans, too. My first reaction was hope. Humans!” End description)
— Marco, The Predator
(granted this is on the pool ship, but still)
two or three other alien species, huh? We know from the following book that one was the Gedds, but that leaves one or two other species left unidentified. We know from the same book that the Mak and the Ssstram are infested and a few books later the Nahara.
(Image description: “ Two piers were built out over the lake. One was where the Controllers - human, Hork-Bajir, Taxxon, and other species - disgorged the Yeerks from their heads. Hork-Bajir guards would watch carefully as each Controller knelt at the far end of the pier, and held his head down close to the surface of the lake.” End description)
— Rachel, The Stranger
Rachel mentions “other species” in The Stranger and “some poor creature” in The Underground, so again, implied to be more than just Gedds down there.
I haven’t read the later yeerk pool books in a while so I can’t provide evidence from them.
but to summarise: we get multiple accounts, from at least half of the Animorphs, every time they are in a yeerk pool space, that there are multiple host species other than the Hork-Bajir and Taxxons present, and yet we NEVER GET A DESCRIPTION OF ANY OF THEM
WERE THERE EVER NAHARA ON EARTH? What were they used for? What do they look like? Whats their societal structure? Mak? Ssstram? Hell, Ongachic?
I wanna know! Bae wants to know! WE WANNA KNOW DAMMIT
