Iltharan

Starport	B	Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	5	Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere	6	Standard
Hydrographics	9	Wet World 90%
Population	6	Moderate (9 million)
Government	9	Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law	D	Extreme Law (paramilitary law)
Tech Level	7	Pre-Stellar (electronics)

Primary Star

G4 V

Atmosphere

Standard

Off-world presence

Yes

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Humaniti 79.

Canon

Yes

Also see

Akakhad, K'Tring, Tring

The Iltharans of Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 1826) are a Minor Human Race, and one of three ethnic groups on this world. The other major ethnic groups are the Akakhad and the Tring.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

The dominant ethnic subdivision of the Iltharan are also referred to as the High Iltharans. Iltharans are fairly close to the Human root stock, and can usually interbreed with other Humans (particularly Solomani) without difficulty. Most of their divergences are adaptations to light gravity and a cold climate.

Hair tends to be dark brown or black, and can cover much of the body; adult males always grow beards. Facial structure is strong-boned.

The most significant difference between Iltharans and the rest of Humaniti lies in the reproductive cycle. Iltharans are relatively infertile, but in compensation they enjoy an unusually long life expectancy. An Iltharan will reach maturity at about 18 standard years, but doesn't feel the onset of aging until about 100 standard years of age, and with reasonable medical care he can expect to live over 150 standard years.

Society[edit]

Professional guilds are the most important divisions of Iltharan society, being both educational institutions and something akin to a clan or tribe. Guilds bicker and sponsor rival business ventures (there are no corporations as typically understood) and although the system.is inefficient it suits the Iltharan mindset.

Iltharan guild structures, and indeed all social institutions, are quasi-gerontocratic. As a result, they tend to be conservative. Another consequence of their long lives but limited fertility is that females spent little time pregnant or nursing and have always been involved in politics and industry alongside the males, with little sexual discrimination.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

During the fall of the Rule of Man, their world served as a refuge for Grand Lord Izanak, a Reaver warlord, for eight years while Izanak's ships were repaired. The Iltharans managed to copy the Reavers' technology and built themselves a small interstellar empire during the Long Night.

The Iltharan Empire was unchallenged for almost 800 years (from about -890 to -100). It finally met its match in the Principality of Caledon, a Solomani splinter state founded late in the Long Night. The Empire attacked and conquered several outlying Caledonian worlds, but the Principality’s core resisted Iltharan attack.

About 100, scouts from the Third Imperium entered the region, and trade began to pick up considerably. This led to a sharp increase in Iltharan attacks on the colonies and shipping of others, and finally led to a direct confrontation between the Iltharan Empire and the Imperium. About 250, the Caledonians engineered rebellions on several of the Empire’s subject worlds, triggering open war and Imperial intervention. By 267 the last Iltharan subject worlds had been conquered by Caledonian forces, supported by the Imperial White Fleet. In 268, the White Fleet subjected Drexilthar itself to nuclear bombardment, devastating the Iltharan homeworld and bringing the Empire to a fiery end.

Astrography[edit]

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

Reaver's Deep Sector
- Drexilthar Subsector

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Drexilthar (Reaver's Deep 1826)

Ironically, the single largest modern population of Iltharans (specifically descendants of the Tring ethnicity) are found on the homeworld of an alien race -- the K'Tring are found on Gaajpadje, the world of the J'aadje species.

World Listing[edit]

Significant communities of this race are known to exist within the following systems and worlds:

4 of 4 World articles in Iltharan

Drexilthar • Gaajpadje • Kraan • Victory (RD 2017) •

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References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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.

J. Andrew Keith. A Pilot's Guide to the Drexilthar Subsector (Gamelords, 1984), 22-23.
Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 30,52,54-55.
Loren Wiseman, Jon F. Zeigler. Humaniti (Steve Jackson Games, 2003), 79-85.