Tokyai
Details
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Habitat
- Ko'li (Ē'aluth III), with "Koli" kept as a search alias; home world is Xi = R.il'a V.
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An arboreal, ambush-hunting apex predator from the Xi'an forest world Xi — a roughly 2-meter glider whose Xi'an name literally means "animal that creates genuine fear."
Appearance
The Tokyai (Xi'an: *ma'tok.yāi*) is about 2 meters long. Its body is built for life in the trees: it has long, curved claws for gripping branches and seizing prey, and skin membranes stretched beneath its arms that let it glide from tree to tree. Its alternate human nickname, "R.il'a Jumpbeast," references both its leaping/gliding locomotion and its home star system (R.il'a, where the planet Xi sits).
Behavior & temperament
A forest-dwelling ambush predator rather than a chaser. It lurks among the foliage and waits for prey to pass beneath, then drops down or glides in to attack, latching on with its claws. It is aggressive and capable of taking down animals up to twice its own size, which is what earns it apex-predator status in its habitat.
Where to find
- **Xi** (designation R.il'a V), in the R.il'a system of the Xi'an Empire — its natural home world, where the species is now endangered. - **Ko'li** (designation Ē'aluth III) — a protected/conservation world in the Ē'aluth system, where a transplanted population is healthy and flourishing. Note: locations are lore/Galactapedia placements within the Xi'an Empire, not current player-accessible hunting grounds (see Notes).
Diet
Carnivore. It preys on smaller herbivorous forest animals and can bring down prey up to twice its own body size.
Lore & discovery
The creature's Xi'an name *ma'tok.yāi* translates literally as "animal that creates genuine fear." The prefix *ma* marks it as an animal (the Xi'an do not regard it as a person), and the name follows the same "X that creates Y" combinatorial grammar seen in other Xi'an words (for example, the word for farmer parses as "person who creates food"). The name comes from real Star Citizen community history: it was submitted by player **Kiv0** and chosen as a winner in CIG's **Animal Naming Contest**, with results published **November 28, 2017**. The lore team selected it because it was grammatically well-formed in Xi'an and because its pitch construction itself conveyed a sense of fear. The Galactapedia article for the creature was published **March 1, 2023**. The fan-coined name went on to be reused for hardware: the Aopoa **San'tok.yāi** medium fighter is named after this apex predator (the ship name parses as "ship that creates genuine fear").
Sources:star-citizen.wikirobertsspaceindustries.comstar-citizen.wikistarcitizen.tools
Trivia
- "Animal that creates genuine fear" is both the creature's name and the thematic root of the San'tok.yāi fighter's name — the ship is literally named after this predator. - The Xi'an grammar of the name deliberately classifies it as fauna, not a sentient being, via the *ma* (animal) prefix.
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