Will there be non-humans?

[Whitestreak1]

Has anyone who has been in close contact with T5 know if there will be non-humans included?

How about a non-human design system, in addition to the animal creation system which I am pretty sure will be included?

I'm certainly looking forward to the release, whenever it may happen (hopefully soon, though!)

 

[aramis]

There is an alien creation system, with loads of random roll tables, that hit playtest. It was about 12 pages long.

 

[Whitestreak1]

Thanks.

One of the things I've missed about Traveller is the lack of a canon way of creating aliens. Admittedly, the OTU has been way past the time of exploration and first contacts, but it would have been nice, especially for encountering some civilization on a true backwater planet.

Well, this increases the anticipation for T5 on my part.

 

[kafka47]

Life including intelligent life is knowing where to look and given the huge span of time between the surveys. I have always played around with different cargo cults springing up in refuge of different survey missions. How long before the monkey learns that the pointy end of the thunder stick confers power...

Also, civilizations that are based on psionics could easily be hushed up by a zealious Imperium. Or imagine a civilization based on pheromones or electrical impulses in vast underground complexes. Conversely, what lies under the sea would not warrant a detailed survey unless mineral wealth could be detected there.