This frigid world barely supports life. Much of the oxygen on the planet is frozen on the planet's surface, making carbon-based life impossible. However, the planet is the homeworld of the Sinkar race, helium-based slug creatures that resemble huge, black amoebas. These huge creatures crawl across the surface of Karvoss II, living on solar energies and minerals scraped from the ground. They are believed to live for an extremely long time, and many believe that their minds hold many of the secrets of the universe. However, the Sinkar are also known as slow and ponderous thinkers, and obtaining even tiny bits of information from them could take years.