Ahetaowa
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| Classification | Herbivore/filter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | Minor Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locomotion | Sessile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Terrain | Plains | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Confluence | Non-humanoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bio-Identenoid | Plantoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size | 10 meters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 500 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Culture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Languages | Native Language, Trokh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Social Structure | Oligarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technological Epoch | TL:13-15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Psionic potential | High | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Origin World | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Homeworld location | Ahetaowa (Ealiyasiyw 2604) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UWP | B535504-C
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| Primary Star | M2 V M3 V M4 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atmosphere | Very Thin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Off-world presence | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Zoetic individuals | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reference | Alien Races 4 14-22. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canon | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ahetaowa of Ahetaowa (Ealiyasiyw 2604) are a Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance and technologically advanced sophonts.
Physiology & Environment (Ecology)
The Ahetaowa are plant-like neighbors of the Aslan. Ahetaowa are shaped like tapered cylinders. A mature individual has a height between 9m and 11m and masses a bit over half a ton. The "trunk" of an adult is about 60 cm in diameter at the base, and is quite flexible. It is green or bluish-green in color due to the photosynthetic and circulating copper-based respiratory pigments, and is covered with thousands of small whitish-gray cilia. The cilia have sensory, feeding, manipulative, and reproductive functions.
A circle of 10 tentacles, over a foot long in an adult, is located at the top of the trunk. These no longer have stingers. They are not manipulators, but sense organs, like the cilia but more sensitive; the Ahetaowa’s "hands" are provided by their helper creatures.
Two sets of five photosensors placed around the trunk at the top and near the base, as well as five "camera eyes" around the middle of the trunk, permit 360-degree vision into the near infrared. The sense of smell is based in and around the five large inspiratory pores located at the base of the trunk.
Eikhty and Afte
The Ahetaowa have many "helper creatures" which they control psionically to serve as an equivalent to hands. The eikhty and afte are the most widely used.
The ancestors of the eikhty were small (2-ounce) carnivorous flyers that lived in Ahetaowa's forested areas. Eikhty now average eight ounces in mass. They have membranous wings with an overall span of 0.5 meters. The body is covered in a thin brown fur, which is longer at the edges of the wings to aid lift. Eikhty live for about five local years, and produce three to four young every local year.
The afte are gray-furred, bipedal omnivore gatherers that stand about 0.5 meters tall. Afte are adept climbers and forage in trees as easily as on the forest floor. They live for about 15 local years. One or two young are born every local year.
History & Background (Dossier)
Few travelers from the Imperium have met these beings, as the system lies on the Aslan side of the Great Rift.
Culture & Society (Ethnology)
They are a highly ethical and peaceful race; however the very concept of "private property" is difficult for them to understand.
As a peaceful and accomplished race which possesses strong psionic abilities and uses them extensively, they would present a serious challenge for Imperial diplomats.
An aikho (grove) is the prime social grouping. An aikho numbers a few hundred individuals of varying ages. Within the group, cooperatives are formed to produce goods and information for trade with other aikho. Computer equipment and robots are scattered around a grove, engaged in various tasks. The immediate area around each Ahetaowa is decorated with other plants and artifacts, an expression of the individual's personality. These gardening displays, called kthtoi, are the only personal space an Ahetaowa seems to need.
Languages
The primary modes of communication used by the Ahetaowa between themselves are telepathy and a musical language based on a variety of harmonic scales. Most modern Ahetaowa can also readily communicate in Trokh.
Offworld Relations
The powerful Aslan Seieakh clan contacted the Ahetaowa in 730. Beneficial trade relations were soon established, and the current starport was completed by 801.
Astrography
This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Homeworld
The homeworld of this race is:
World Listing: 1105
Significant communities of this race (sophont species) are known to exist within the following systems and worlds:
References & Contributors (Sources)
- Joe Fugate. Robots (Game Designers Workshop, 1986), 15.
- Loren Wiseman. "Contact: Ahetaowa." Challenge 56 (1992): 26-28.
- Steve Jackson, Loren Wiseman. Alien Races 4 (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), 14-22.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science