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The Known Minor Races

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This is a preliminary list of Minor Races with reference to their homeworlds.

Solomani Terra Sol 0000
Zhodani - Zhdant Zho 0000
Vilani Vla 0000
Altareans Van 0000
Answerin Answerin Vla 0431
Azhanti Ant 2315
Cafadans Cdr 3135
Darrians Spi 0627
Darmine Zar 1323
Dynchia Leo 0633
Floriani Tro 0213
Fiorani
Geonee Mas 1430-
Halkans Tro 0510
Happirhva Rea 1218
Irhadre Lis 0935
Issugur
Kaggushus
Lancia Gus 2207
Liberts Clay Bush
Loaeskalth Gus (Sky Raiders)
Menetha
Otrai JTAS 13
Ronni Flaming Eye
Suerrat Ile 1710
Syleans Core
Tapazmal Ref 3134
Thaggeshi Vla 2530
Vlazhdumecta Sky Raiders
Yileans Gas 0721
Ziadd Dag 0721
Urunishani Ant 0124
 
Minor *Human* Races, I assume you mean?

I thought Solomani, Zhodani and Vilani were all Major Races, at least collectively.
 
Hunter is pressuring me to share with him the text of the Draft Minor Race Generation charts. I put this out to several people about a year ago (in hard copy form). Would you believe I responded to requests, sent out about 10 copies, and I have not heard a word from any of them since?

In any case, this system is a series of charts and tables which use as input the UWP of a world and through die rolls generate the details of a minor race... which are then used to create characters of that race for Traveller role-playing.

For T5, I envision that a player (in addition to creating human characters) has the opportunity to create a favorite Minor Race and run characters of that race in this games.

Major Races travel all over. So do individuals of the minor races. But populations of a specific Minor Race are rarely encountered more than 10 parsecs from their homeworld. [proposed Canonical definition of Minor Race demographics).
 
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Avery:
Hunter is pressuring me to share with him the text of the Draft Minor Race Generation charts. I put this out to several people about a year ago (in hard copy form). Would you believe I responded to requests, sent out about 10 copies, and I have not heard a word from any of them since?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I did email you my comments with a week of getting it <big grin>. I've had a few system crashes since then, but I'll see if I can find the email and resend it. (basically I suggested explaining a few terms such as "sport" and "component" that might cause confusion in a new user, but otherwise thought it was very good).
 
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Avery:
This is a preliminary list of Minor Races with reference to their homeworlds.

Solomani Terra Sol 0000
Zhodani - Zhdant Zho 0000
Vilani Vla 0000
Altareans Van 0000
Answerin Answerin Vla 0431
Azhanti Ant 2315
Cafadans Cdr 3135
Darrians Spi 0627
Darmine Zar 1323
Dynchia Leo 0633
Floriani Tro 0213
Fiorani
Geonee Mas 1430-
Halkans Tro 0510
Happirhva Rea 1218
Irhadre Lis 0935
Issugur
Kaggushus
Lancia Gus 2207
Liberts Clay Bush
Loaeskalth Gus (Sky Raiders)
Menetha
Otrai JTAS 13
Ronni Flaming Eye
Suerrat Ile 1710
Syleans Core
Tapazmal Ref 3134
Thaggeshi Vla 2530
Vlazhdumecta Sky Raiders
Yileans Gas 0721
Ziadd Dag 0721
Urunishani Ant 0124<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I must ask what about the other races like

chirpers
dolphins
ebokin
llellewyoly
mewey
obeyery
otarri
saurians
shriekers ect.What about all these other great races?
 
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Avery:

In any case, this system is a series of charts and tables which use as input the UWP of a world and through die rolls generate the details of a minor race... which are then used to create characters of that race for Traveller role-playing.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oooh. That would be worth the price of a book all on it's own.

<snip>

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Avery:

Major Races travel all over. So do individuals of the minor races. But populations of a specific Minor Race are rarely encountered more than 10 parsecs from their homeworld. [proposed Canonical definition of Minor Race demographics).

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Beats the heck outa did/didn't they invent jump on their own as a delineator of major/minor races.

David Shayne
 
Assuming there is some advantages/cons to a PC playing a minor race - are there provisions for inter-racial mixes?

Looks like info on races could fill a book or too - what about languages? And cultural aspects?
 
Avery/Marc:

do you have a draft of the minor race generator available somewhere?

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-aramis
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Smith & Wesson: The Original Point and Click interface!
 
I did up an article on the Llellewyloly many years ago (back in my HIWG days) that I'd love to pass along to the right people for a shot at officialdom. Perhaps unfortunately, I made the article part of my website during the low ebb of Traveller late in the T4 period, so it becomes a tough sell at this point. Still, I harbor hopes...

[This message has been edited by GypsyComet (edited 22 June 2001).]
 
Minor Human races, in the first reply got me to thinking...

Maybe there are minor non-human race races from the Major Races, we already know about the Lords of Thunder experiment. What about others, female Aslan who have become more warlike. Or Hivers who are not afraid of their own shadow? What do you think?
 
Given the hiver manipulations would they have manipulated members of their own race to make them more aggressive. Did they manipulate the ancients, just what is the secret of the Hivers.
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Originally posted by Avery:

Menetha
...
Vlazhdumecta Sky Raiders



This is vaguely embarassing, actually.
I worked on the Menetha many years ago, and can not find my notes anywhere. They were native to Deneb sector if I recall correctly...

As for the Vlazhdumecta and their indistinct homeworld, despite being mentioned both in the Zhodani Module and in subsequent FASA material, well...
The people working on the sectors out thataway during the MT/TNE years (me, Grant Sinclair & HIWG Australia, and Will Dover) decided pretty much to leave the Vlazhdumecta homeworld a mystery. Traveller needs its mysteries, after all. Grant and I were careful to put several likely worlds in the proper vicinity, and there are several more in Will's stuff (this is the Zhdant/Tienspevnekr/Yiklerzdanzh/ Afachtiabr four-corner region, BTW).
 
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(sigh)

I supposed I should be worried that I didn't have to look any of those Zhodani sector names up, either to place them OR to spell them...



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"It's a monkey curiosity
thing. You Aslan
wouldn't understand."
 
Originally posted by necron99:
What about the Ael Yael, Virushi, Newts and others from Contact articles in early JTAS?

Asuming you read only the first message, you may have missed the note that the list is actually the Minor Human Races, not all Minor Races...

There are a LOT of Minor Alien Races spread out in Known Space...
 
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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by GypsyComet:
Asuming you read only the first message, you may have missed the note that the list is actually the Minor Human Races, not all Minor Races...

There are a LOT of Minor Alien Races spread out in Known Space...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I somehow missed that point while reading the thread. Shame on me.

Are the differences between these races profound enough to create significant differences in game defined characteristics? Or are the differences mainly in cosmetic appearence and culture? This would of course lead to variation in available careers and skills, but would not neccesarily change the basic rolls for characteristics. An I expressing my question clearly? I would love to see more details on the minor races (human and non-human alike) as well a system for helping to make worlds more distinctive, beyond what the UPP tells us.
 
Being a part of humaniti does not suggest uniformity, either physically or psychologically. A fair number of the Minor Human races already have writeups, official and unofficial (and "semi-official" in a few cases). In some cases the game differences are stat adjustments, in other cases (the Vilani, frex) the biggest rule change is in the ageing rules, or some sort of sensory adjustment. A very few are just "role playing" differences, but those are hardly less important, since this IS a role-playing game...
 
GypsyComet said:
Originally posted by Avery:

Menetha
...
Vlazhdumecta Sky Raiders



This is vaguely embarassing, actually.
I worked on the Menetha many years ago, and can not find my notes anywhere. They were native to Deneb sector if I recall correctly...

As for the Vlazhdumecta and their indistinct homeworld, despite being mentioned both in the Zhodani Module and in subsequent FASA material, well...
The people working on the sectors out thataway during the MT/TNE years (me, Grant Sinclair & HIWG Australia, and Will Dover) decided pretty much to leave the Vlazhdumecta homeworld a mystery. Traveller needs its mysteries, after all. Grant and I were careful to put several likely worlds in the proper vicinity, and there are several more in Will's stuff (this is the Zhdant/Tienspevnekr/Yiklerzdanzh/ Afachtiabr four-corner region, BTW).
Click to expand...

Greetings.

This was my SO for the sector I worked on as well: try to get known worlds as close as possible to canon. And before anyone says anything, I did not have a copy of Supplement 11 with me when I did the UWPs for Zhodane so we ended up using Zhdant as the subsector name instead of Gaval.
 
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