Capasin
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The Capasins are a fictional race from the Animorphs book series first seen in The Ellimist Chronicles
The Ellimist Chronicles
The Ellimist Chronicles is a children's science-fiction novel, a companion book to the Animorphs series written by K. A. Applegate. It tells the backstory of the Ellimist, a god-like being from the story...

. They resemble squids, with giant, bulbous heads dominated by glittering blue eyes, a beak-like mouth, and a number of thin, multi-jointed arms. They came across images of the Ketran
Ketran
The Ketrans are a fictional race from the Animorphs book series; they lived in giant crystals hovering above a lava-covered planet. The Ellimist was once a member of this race, apparently one of the first technologically advanced sentient life-forms of the galaxy...

Games and thought the games were real. Believing that Ketrans actually played with the evolution of species as if they were toys, the Capasins launched a crusade and wiped out the Ketrans in a display of military force the Ketrans were unable to match.

Capasin ships are described as having raked cylinders, an arched neck, and dagger points, with the dagger points presumably being the source of the Capasin beam weapons. They also carry a smaller "boat" which can be released from their belly.

Capasin armaments include a pale red beam weapon, similar to a heat ray, as well as a flechette weapon that launches clouds of sharp-edged metal hooks with a "sound like a volcano blowing."
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