Graytch

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	6	Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	8	Wet World 80%
Population	8	Moderate (600 million)
Government	6	Captive Government/Colony
Law	3	Low Law (no automatic weapons)
Tech Level	A	Early Stellar (jump drive)

Primary Star

G3 Ib BD

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Marc Miller's Traveller 147-148.

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Graytch of Liigash (Gushemege 2815) are a Minor Non-Human Race with a non-humanoid appearance and technologically sophisticated sophonts.

Physical sophontology

The arboreal Graytch have six legs. Their two arms are quite short and weak, but the hands are very flexible and delicate. Graytch bones are made of crystalline silicon, and their muscle fibers, working in both directions, give them both great dexterity and great range of motion. Though slower than humans on flat surfaces, Graytch are supreme in 3-D environments, often moving through trees faster than human runners on the ground.

Graytch mass from 75 - 125 kg, stand some 1.5 - 1.75m from ground to head, and extend about 2 - 2.25 m from snout to rump.

Cultural sophontology

Graytch grow up quickly, reaching physical maturity a mere seven months after birth and the age of majority within two years. Almost all Graytch follow the non-violent teachings of Say-ta-chu, but each of the several sects looks down upon the others. Graytch are intensely curious about other aliens, and are adaptive and tolerant in their minglings with other races, cultures, and beliefs, even suffering when they are alone. Two or three times in its life, a Graytch may become absent-minded and mistake-prone as they enter a thirteen-month parenting phase, but their culture has evolved to deal with these occasional sabbaticals.

Government and politics

Graytch Harmony

Interstellar Relations

They may become confused in off-world dealings, since Graytch legal codes treat almost all crime as an example of mental illness, and hand out banishment as one of their most substantial punishments.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Liigash (Gushemege 2815)

World Listing: 1105

Significant communities of Graytch are known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:

17 of 17 World articles in Graytch

'Twee • Bruyrkna • Colehco • Jasper • Kaagaarkha • Khusgulur • Kinshasa • Koinunmatie • Liebing • Liigash • Lumu • Shakhamash • Tinisutta • Tuuttka • Twele • Une • Upllor •

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References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 147-148.
Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 37-45.
David Burden, Stuart Dollar, Andy Lilly, Joseph Walsh. Aliens Volume 1 (Imperium Games, 1998), 183-256.
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Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science