: But your are right, the Hounds only had 3 eyes - it would seem, then that
: they are a native beast of the Pfhor homeworld, though their eyes are of a
: different configuration.
The number of eyes is probably less important than the configuration in determining species relations. Hidden deep within our brains is a vestige of a 3rd eye - the pineal gland. The pineal gland was never a true visual organ in the sense of out other 'eyes', but in more primitive species it physically protrudes from the head where it responds to light and secretes melatonin to maintain circadian rhythms, the same role it serves in our own brains.
The point of this digression is that having 3 eyes in the midline does not necessarily imply that the hound is related to the Pfhor, which have 3 eyes in a triangular configuration. The 3 eyes in the hound would not likely serve the same function as in the Pfhor and therefore probably do not serve the same evolutionary heritage. My guess is that the hound is from the same home world as the wasp and Drinnol, but the extra eyes are either vestigial in the wasp and Drinnol in the same sense as our pineal gland, or perhaps they are even an evolutionary advance in the hound. Alternatively, the hound may be from an entirely different home world than any of the other species we've encountered.
