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. (K9TV: Regeneration) They were capable of emitting painful screams as an attack and also generate a blanket of energy over their enemies to inflict pain or knock them unconcious. (K9TV: Liberation) The Jixen were part of a collective conciousness. (K9TV: Hound of the Korven)


 * The Jixen were always shown with a distorted image. What this is supposed to represent is unknown.

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)

The Jixen fought a centuries long war with their sworn enemies, the Merons, 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 they then used to obliterate the Jixen homeworld and thus win the war (K9TV: Hound of the Korven)

In the year 50,000, the four sole surviving Jixen warriors, in league with the bounty hunter Ahab, murdered The Zanthus Pia as he threatened to bring about peace and harmony through-out the galaxy and ruin their chances of ever getting their revenge on the genocidal Merons. (K9TV: The Bounty Hunter) They fought K9 Mark I, The Korven's little pet 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 a Meron was 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, the 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: Dreameaters)

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. When The Last Precinct's plot to control CCPCs backfired and they became self-aware. K9 managed to use a Jixen DNA sample derived from the Jixen slime on Starkey's jacket to create a vaccine and immunize the CCPC of the computer virus thus returning them to normal. (K9TV: The Last Precinct) Later, Thorne tricked K-9 into swapping his regeneration circuit for his faulty old memory chip thus turning him into a ticking time-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. 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 K-9 was disarmed and the Jixen got his message across. The Jixen was nicknamed "Jixey". (K9TV: Hound of the Korven) It will probably return for the showdown with the Korven (K9TV: Eclipse of the Korven)

Behind the scenes

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