Haguya

Hayuya were a highly intelligent reptile-like species indigenous to the planet Rampart in the 24th century.

They were large flying creatures which resembled dragons. Hayuya were bigger than a horse and had long, leathery necks and wings. They communicated at a frequency of 40,000 Hz, inaudible to humans. Their communication contained three times the data of human speech. Their neural impulses operated a similarly high frequency.

History
By the 2160s, ambient radiation from the rho Ophiuchi nebula and Rampart’s star rho Ophiuchi had driven the hayuya and other native animal life underground, so none were evident when an Earth colony ship arrived with settlers. Naturally shy, the hayuya avoided the settlers and either lived in caves or in nearby mountains. The colonists approved of censorship, established thought-police to protect them from undesirable ideas, and practiced routine mental cleansing to erase such notions. As a result, anyone spotting a haguya would have had that memory erased. The only Rampartians who knew about native lifeforms were Dissenters, story-telling dissidents who hid in caverns like those in Alastor. The hayuya communed with such dissidents, listening as Dissenters shared their traditions and stories. Hayuya were also protective of the humans, having saved Gunabibi once when she nearly fell off of a cliff.

Prior to 2366, a Dissenter in Alastor named Rhiannon shared a close bond with a male hayuya whom she named Saushulima.

In 2366, when 12-year-old Rhiannon and other Dissenters were about to be executed by thought-police, a flock of hayuya appeared and swooped through the security officers. The sight of living dragons was a shock which even broke through the brainwashing of the Director of Cephalic Security, a man who once was Captain Alfred Bowles, last survivor of the USS Huxley (24th century). He ordered the troops to stand down. The Dissenters fled to safety and Bowles beamed aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). Shortly afterward, several hundred security officers left their homes to join the Dissenters, including Lieutenant Redman.

Afterward, Data determined that haguya communications resembled the songs of whales, and proposed that haguya might be storytellers.