Please help me find where the Yeerk character Dracon 1423 was mentioned.

[Dogman15]

Here is a copy of the message I sent to Issam (Essam 293 on these boards) at the Hirac Delest:

Issam, I was wondering if you could help me out with some "emergency" research. Do you recall in which book the Yeerk character "Dracon 1423" was mentioned? (Page number would be nice to know, too.) I think it was in Visser that he was mentioned. Dracon 1423 was the creator of Dracon Beam technology, but somone with an IP address of 64.252.198.96
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/64.252.198.96 )
deleted references to this character on Wikipedia because they say he "does not actually exist". I am sure that I read about this character somewhere, because I'm the one who added that a few months ago. Here are the edits where Dracon was removed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_minor_Yeerks&diff=next&oldid=446439413
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_species_(Animorphs)&diff=next&oldid=446603692

Some web searches also revealed that I'm not the only one who read about this character:
http://animorphalternateuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Dracon-1423
http://www.hiracdelest.com/projects/reviews/calebweapons.htm
http://animorphalternateuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Dracon-1423

Obviously, I can't really cite any of those pages for Wikipedia, so could you help me remember what book Dracon was mentioned in? I'm going to ask this at the RAF forum, too. Thanks in advance!

Can any of you guys help me find this character, Dracon 1423?

[MoppingBear]

did a quick search through all the chronicles books as well as visser, did not find any mention.

[Dogman15]

I'm almost sure it was in one of those books. Vissers One or Three were narrating about the history and development of Dracon Beams.
If it isn't one of those books, then it has to be in one of the earlier books, like book 8 or something. Maybe Ax talked about Dracon 1423 at one point.

I know that the character exists because of all those examples I linked to in my original post! He's there somewhere!

[Blazing Angel]

Might be in the hork bjair chronicles. Nothing too important just a brief mention of a scientist

[Dogman15]

Yes! That's it! I'm 99% sure that that's where I read it, during one of Esplin 9466 Primary's narration. If I had a copy of that book, I'd see the page number it's on. All the same, thank you!

(I'm not fixing the Wikipedia pages until I know the page number.)

[RYTX]

Well personally, I don't recall a character name Dracon ever.
I checked HBC, they don't have a Yeerk with the name
It's repeatedly said that the dracon beam is a modified form of the andalite shedder and in HBC dak says
the dracon beam is "a blending of Andalite shredder technology with some Ongachic particle-wave technology"

But no, I don't think the dracon beam itself is ever given a name creator: I've never heard of Dracon 1423
Probably a fanfic

[Dogman15]

Ooohhhhhhhhhhhh. That's probably where I heard it. -_- Just goes to show you how easily a good and well-written fan fiction can mesh with your perception of canon.

Then again, I can't find a specific fan fiction that mentions that name a search of "Dracon 1423" site:fanfiction.net reveals nothing, but I did find this:

http://www.freewebs.com/morphzclub/weapons.htm

[Blazing Angel]

We would probably need to skim through teh whole series for it

[yunyun]

i really remember they mentioned it in the HBC, though, but i couldn't find it there

[Dogman15]

He's like the mystery phantom character that no one can find, yet they think they know they've read about him before... (somewhere)

[Blazing Angel]

I dont remember him. Though I havn't read ALL the books.

[Darth Revan]

Well, fortunately for you, I have every single book in e-book form on my computer.

However, unfortunately for you, after doing a keyword search for "Dracon", with hopes of finding the Yeerk's name, there was no reference to that name in ANY of the 60+ books. There was no mention what-so-ever of the Yeerk that modified the shredder. Sorry.


Here's a bit of trivia, in books 6, 12, 22, 27, 32, and 40, there isn't a single refence to a Dracon. No Dracons were fired, or even threatened.

[Blazing Angel]

really? Curious

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Probably a name written in a FanFic, like someone suggested earlier.

[Darth Revan]

Why "curious"? He himself theorized that he read it somewhere in a fanfic and mistaked it for actual canon.

Also, Dracon-1423, It just sounds made up.