Saie

Starport		Error in Starport Decode
Size		Error in Size Decode
Atmosphere		Error in Atmosphere Decode
Hydrographics		Error in Hydrographics Decode
Population		Error in Population Decode
Government		Error in Government Decode
Law		Error in Law Decode
Tech Level		Error in Tech Decode

Primary Star

Atmosphere

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Source

Reference

Ascent to Anekthor 43,50.

Canon

No

Also see

The Saie are an extinct Minor Non-Human Race with a unknown appearance and technologically sophisticated sophonts.

Description (Specifications)

The Saie were a mysterious, non-human civilization which vanished approximately 3,700 years ago, believed to have been based in the Caledon Subsector of Reaver's Deep Sector.

Physiology & Environment

The Saie were non-humanoids. From evidence collected, it is believed that the Saie were upright bipeds of carnivore/killer stock; their homeworld is unknown, and no depictions of their race have come down to contemporary archeologists intact.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Saie vanished approximately 3,700 years ago. Evidence of the Saie presence is slim at best; a few artifacts (most notably the starship found at Crash Jura on Glenshiel (Reaver's Deep 1912) have been discovered, and a few ancient Vilani records mention the existence of a small empire of five or six worlds which can be tentatively identified as that of the Saie. Most knowledge of their activities comes from the myths and legends of the Yn-tsai of Tsanesi (Reaver's Deep 1711) and the Lhshana of Lhshami (Reaver's Deep 2111), both races native to the Caledon subsector, where the empire seems to have flourished.

Archeologists are currently attempting to learn more of this mysterious race, but have met little success in their efforts to discover who the Saie were and where they came from.

Culture & Society

Few details, beyond their warlike nature, are known about the Saie - most of the existing information being drawn from legends told by some of the sector's indigenous minor races. The search for further evidence of this culture has occupied the interest of a great number of the Principality of Caledon's archeologists.

Government & Politics

Saie Empire

Technology & Trade

They appear to have acquired jump-drive technology from the Vilani by way of a renegade Vilani governor searching for allies during the upheavals prior to the Interstellar Wars. The Saie are thought to have been warlike, highly combative, and prone to internal strife; it is believed that their presence on any particular world may have been limited to only a few hundred administrators and soldiers dominating a native planetary population. This theory has been advanced to explain the complete breakdown of their empire and their disappearance from history in the wake of an evidently devastating civil war.

Astrography

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

Reaver's Deep Sector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Unknown world

World Listing

Significant communities of this race were known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:

5 of 5 World articles in Saie

Doom (RD 2412) • Glenshiel • Lhshami • Marlheim • Tsanesi •

startbacknext(5 listed)

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.

J. Andrew Keith. Ascent to Anekthor (Gamelords, 1984), 43,50.
Gary L. Thomas. The Travellers' Digest 16 (Digest Group Publications, 1989), 28.
Kevin Knight. "Aoreriyya: New Era Adventures in the Reaver's Deep." Traveller Chronicle 06 (1994): 13.
Paul Sanders, J. Andrew Keith. Reaver's Deep Sector Sourcebook (Cargonaut Press, 1998), 60,63.
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science