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Originally Posted by BwapTED
I like them.
Questions:
What sort of body covering do they have?
Any other salient features?
(I'm trying to form a more definite mental image)
What's their native technology like? TL 0? 1?
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They have black faces, hands and feet; white fur on the rest of them. Proportions: Legs 25%; Body 50%; Neck 13% and Head 12%
Two Blue eyes with circular pupils half way up head.
Bilaterally symmetrical
Three toes on each foot with claw, fourth (thumb/big-toe) with no claw
Three fingers and one thumb on each hand
About 4.5 times as high as wide
TL when contacted by Vargr they would be TL-1 at best with many hang-overs back to TL-0 (e.g. Wooden Spoon, Crockery Cooking/Storage pot). I'm not convinced they would ever have managed "Scientific Method" without the prompting of environmental change of alien invasion. Dhaen is TL-A in 1105.
Dhaen is just 24 parsecs from Lair - but isn't on the J2 route to anywhere else so probably got contacted by them quite late. It's population is just 6 - but the Vargr wouldn't count the Dhaen in that value as they aren't Sophonts in their eyes.
When contacted
I'd envisage they have a complex interweaving of craft skills based on Leather/Fur/Bone/Clay/Stone/Sinew - A planet that varies between +15 and -50 regularly would have plants as a seasonal (summer) thing growing fast in one season or slow and hibernate.
Arts might include fur-dying, tanning, painting, sculpture, scrimshaw.
They are sophonts, so they have construction. Little or no timber means stone arches and lintles, hide doors on frames of the bones of giant animals. Some summer "Grain" in clay-sealed pots; summer meats stored overwinter in deep-freezes.
They have evolved while they have been settled. (They have 60 castes). That they have a set of service castes implies that they have a complex and static social structure - so they aren't just hunter-gatherers - but I'd think the cold season food would have to be supplemented by that means.
Anything else?
(And the one in my campaign has Steward-3 and likes to add a dash of household bleach to its coffee. - Don't do this at home guys!)