GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3

Alien Races 3
Hiver, Dryone, Ancients and other enigmatic races.
Author		Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack, David Thomas
Publisher		Steve Jackson Games
Version		GURPS Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback)
Language		English
Pages		144
Year Published		2000
Canonical		Yes
ISBN 1-55634-431-7 Stock #6608

GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3 is a Steve Jackson Games product.

• It is a sophont source book written for GURPS Traveller.

Description (Specifications)

The Hivers should worry you...

Openly cooperative, apparently pacifistic, reportedly cowardly, the starfish-shaped Hivers don't seem to be empire-building material - but they hold one in a secure grip. They won the only interstellar war they've fought after losing every battle, but with this most alien of the major races, looks almost always deceive. Inscrutable, patient, and subtle, the Hivers puzzle their neighbours more than they worry them. It should be the other way around.

The Droyne should awe you ...

An insectoid race scattered across the Imperium like so many gypsies, the seemingly insignificant Droyne often fall beneath the notice of Humaniti ... and most Humans are foolish enough to think that's their own choice. A series of puzzles in their history and culture suggests that huge secrets lurk behind the compound eyes of these tiny sentients ... and that the most awesome of the major races may come in the smallest package.

Ancient answers await!

Alien races 3 offers an expose on the Ancients themselves, and examines in detail the biology, home worlds, culture, and society of the enigmatic Hivers and cryptic Droyne. Included are racial and career templates, sample equipment and starships, Ancient artefacts, and much more.

This book also includes a set of 36 Droyne "coyns" and instructions for predicting the future and making decisions, Droyne style.

Two new minor races are presented here as well:

1. The Inheritors, a race of fluorine breathers living on the shell of an ancient Dyson sphere and "improving" on the technology left behind.
2. The Lithkind, a nocturnal species for which mating means death and death means rebirth, and who treat the opposite sex as taboo!

Table of Contents

GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3
Section	Page/s
Introduction	Page 4
1. The Hivers	Page 5
2. The Droyne	Page 63
3. The Ancients	Page 106
4. The Inheritors	Page 121
5. The Lithkind	Page 132
Index	Page 143

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Ancients
2. Biyzihn
3. Droyne
4. Embassy Directorate
5. Federation Development Agency (FDA)
6. Federation Navy
7. Fiyuh (yearling alien)
8. Gurvin
9. Gurviotic (Gurvin Language)
10. Hive Federation
11. Hivers
12. Hiver Script
13. Hiver Sign Language (HSL)
14. Iydoch Tryyliniy
15. Inheritors
16. The Inheritor Sphere
17. Ithklur
18. Lithkind
19. Manipulation
20. Matriarchal Collective
21. Matriarchy
22. M. Eneri
23. M. Fioran
24. M. Primus
25. Panimmunity
26. Snohl
27. Topical Club
28. Wind Wasp
29. Young Worlds
30. Za'tachk

Selected Astrography

1. Glea (world)
2. Guaran (world)
3. Loza'tch (world)
4. Ofilaq (world)
5. Tryylin (world)

Selected Equipment

1. Akkagi
2. Artificial Scent Organ
3. Chest Computer
4. Cybernetics
5. Gauss Gun
6. Gauss Squad Support Weapon
7. Heavy Gauss Gun
8. Ithklur Barb
9. Prothesis
10. Robot
11. X-ray Laser
12. Aloo class TAC Missile
13. Loflar class TAC Missile

Selected Ships

Hive Federation Navy:

1. Ciigusna class Shuttle
2. Cihzicih class Transport
3. Fazachu class System Defense Boat
4. Giciifichu class Dispatcher
5. Giiphicih class Liner
6. Gizicih class General Trader
7. Iigicih class Embassy Ship
8. Zahzicih class Q-Ship
9. Zofagic class Utility Vessel

Droyne Oytrip Yatroy - Droyne Navy:

1. Type AD class Trader
   1. Droyne Trader
2. Type CD class Cruiser
   1. Type A7 class Cruiser AKA Droyne Cruiser
3. Type SD class Scout
   1. Droyne Scout

Ancients:

1. Ancient Hull

Inheritor Sphere:

1. Inheritor Armed Merchant Cruiser

Selected Smallcraft

Hive Federation Navy:

1. Cigiysna class Ship's Boat
2. Ciigusna class Pinnace
3. Gahcuyche class Heavy Fighter
4. Giicuyche class Light Fighter
5. Ziigusna class Military Pinnace

Ancients:

1. Ancient Capsule

Selected Vehicles

Hive Federation:

1. Ciycuu class Floater
2. Gui'chka class Attack Craft
3. Ziysnu class G-Carrier

Droyne Oytrip Yatroy:

1. TBD
2. TBD
3. TBD

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

It is the third book in the GURPS Alien Races series describes two of the MOST alien races in the Traveller universe - the Droyne and the Hivers as well as two minor races.

GURPS Traveller: Alien Races Series

The GURPS Traveller: Alien Races Series produced at least four canon volumes:

1. GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 1: Zhodani & Vargr
2. GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 2: Aslan & K'kree
3. GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3: Droyne & Hiver
4. GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 4: Minor Races
5. GURPS Traveller: Humaniti: Humaniti, Major & Minor

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Author	Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack and David Thomas
Editor	Gene Seabolt and Loren K. Wiseman
Cover	Doug Shuler
Illustrations	Jesse DeGraff, Glenn Grant, Sean Murray, and Ed Northcott
Coyns	Alex Fernandez

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