Jixen

The Jixen were a species of turtle-like warriors.

Biology
The Jixen were turtle-like in appearance, with broad shells, stubby limbs, bright-blue eyes and beak-like mouths. They were capable of using a sonar type movement that makes them appear to shudder. (K9TV: Regeneration) They were capable of emitting painful screams as an attack which were especially effective on the Meron and also generate a blanket of energy over their enemies to inflict pain or knock them unconscious. (K9TV: Liberation) The Jixen were part of a collective conciousness. (K9TV: Hound of the Korven)

The Jixen would spray a mucus on their prey, allowing the Jixen to track them from a great distance. Once marked this way, the Jixen would follow their prey until the end of their lives (which would be up to 800 years). This mucus contained Jixen genetic material, confusing some tracking devices (such as the one used by K9). (K9TV: Regeneration)

Culture
As they were part of a collective, individual names were not used. The Jixen were also known for their sense of humour. (K9TV: Hound of the Korven)

History
Before 2050, they were attacked by the Anubians. (K9TV: Curse of Anubis)

On their home planet, the Jixen fought a centuries long war across the galaxy with their sworn enemies, the Meron, whole planets were destroyed in the conflict. The Jixen were winning the war but they were eventually defeated (K9TV: Liberation) when the Korven turned the tide by supplying the Merons with energy weapons which cost the Jixen their rightful home. (K9TV: Hound of the Korven)

''Jixey's description of the war, referencing "winning the war against the Meron" and "on our home planet" suggests that the Jixen and the Meron were native to the same planet fighting for control of it. This is supported by his comment that the Korven's energy weapons cost the Jixen their "rightful home" which suggests that, rather than the Meron being a rival space-faring faction that destroyed the Jixen homeworld, they used it to take complete control of their homeworld.''

In the year 50,000, four surviving Jixen warriors, in league with the bounty hunter Ahab, murdered Zanthus Pia for unknown strategic importance. (K9TV: The Bounty Hunter) They fought K9 Mark I, the Korven agent, who witnessed the murder, until they were brought to 2050 via a Space-Time Manipulator. The Jixen tried to warn the nearby Humans of a Korven invasion, unfortanutely they couldn't speak English and due to their threatening appearance the Humans thought they were attacking. After spraying Starkey with tracking mucus, K9 came through the STM, after a brief battle his victory was improbable and was forced to self-destruct to destroy the Jixen emissary. Despite this, two of the Jixen survived and escaped although they were seperated. When Starkey was captured by the Department, the Jixen followed it to his holding cell, though Starkey was able to escape. (K9TV: Regeneration)

Some point later, one of the two surviving Jixen found out that two Meron were located in the Dauntless Prison and instead tracked it. When it encountered Starkey and the new K9 they managed to fool him by putting Starkey's jacket (which contained the hunting spray) in a cell and locked him in there. At this point, a Meron appeared and attacked them, but the Jixen scared it off with a scream. The Jixen was eventually able to break free and went after Starkey again. It was killed when Starkey attached the remote control for the Prison to the Jixen and set it to self-destruct. (K9TV: Liberation)

When K9 went to investigate a hole in a wardrobe which caused fear and panic, he saw a hallucination of a Jixen, frightening him. He was able to face the hallucination when Starkey convinced him it wasn't real. (K9TV: Fear Itself)

When the Bodach induced nightmares across London, Starkey experienced a dream where he was chased by a Jixen in a strange place. When he woke up he found there was a Jixen in the mansion. When he told K9 to stop it, K9 shot Starkey instead and Starkey woke up (for real). (K9TV: Dream-Eaters)

The last surviving Jixen learned English by reading books so it could warn humanity of the Korven. K9 and the team had suspicions a Jixen had survived after finding a sample of mucus. (K9TV: The Last Precinct) Later, Thorne tricked K9 into swapping his regeneration circuit for his faulty old memory chip thus turning him into a bomb that would be set off when he encounterd the Jixen. The Jixen had made itself at home down in the sewers so Thorne had the CCPCs plant stun mines and gas bombs down there to corall it. That way when K9 went down into the sewers to make the swap he would run into the Jixen a lot faster thus preventing it from warning mankind of the forthcoming Korven invasion. Luckily K9 was disarmed and the Jixen got his message across. The Jixen was nicknamed "Jixey". (K9TV: Hound of the Korven).

Behind the scenes

 * Jixen were the first aliens to appear in the K9 series.