Alien Race: The Tinroa

[Spaceresearcher]

Page 513 of the T5 Core Rules book, there is mention of a race that
achieved for a brief time what must have been right up there with the ancients
"Tech level 33 for a time" Sadly they disappeared as a species in what is known as the Technological Singularity(after watching Stargate I guess that means they ascended??). This was The Tinroa. All that remains is archeological evidence on worlds in the Foreven sector, making them surely a high point for discovery right next to the ancients.

Can anyone tell me where to find more on this overlooked race?

 

[Spaceresearcher]

Well from the lack of response, it must be a completely new race no one has ever heard of before. How exciting.

 

[HG_B]

Well from the lack of response, it must be a completely new race no one has ever heard of before. How exciting.

Never heard of it. But, at TL 33 I'm sure they could build stuff that would last almost forever. Must be tons of their stuff laying about...

 

[rancke]

Never heard of it. But, at TL 33 I'm sure they could build stuff that would last almost forever. Must be tons of their stuff laying about...

Especially if they just ascended (or whatever you call it) instead of having a 2000 year genocidal war.


Hans

 

[Disco Soup]

I would assume that they were created as an Ancients replacement for folks to explore in the Foreven Sector.

 

[robject]

I would assume that they were created as an Ancients replacement for folks to explore in the Foreven Sector.

Though, it's probably not for Foreven, since that is (mostly) a referee's preserve.

 

[Spaceresearcher]

See! Who said we don't need a new Aliens book?

T5 looks set to add a totally new take on the existing races of the Traveller universe and perhaps there's a stack more in the pipeline. If the Aliens book from T4 is anything to go from, there could be interesting days ahead. In particular for the Tinroa, or perhaps there a natural offshoot of the ancients? Anyone's guess at this stage.

 

[GrayPennell]

At tech 33 and near technological singularity ascendancy what we think of as evidence could be hidden in plan sight and unusable. It could be whole planets or that gas field. They could also just blink everything out of reality.

Also evidence could also be books, paintings etc done by other races or just a traffic sign left behind.

I think though the mention was more to stress the technological singularity than the race. As a referee I wouldn't touch this with 200000000 mile long tech 15 long pole.

 

[inexorabletash]

It's unclear that the section "THE TINROA" is intended to be a description of the OTU rather than simply an illustration of the principles outlined in the rest of the chapter. In spec parlance, is the text normative or merely informative? To me, it reads more like an example than anything else.

While the text explicitly mentions the reserved sector Foreven ("... the Tinroa reached the Technological Singularity and disappeared... evidence of their civilization is found on a few worlds just beyond the Imperial frontier in Foreven sector."), you can draw an analogy with Internet standards that use the domain name "example.com", one of a class of domains reserved by IETF RFC 2606 for such use.