Sheol

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Sheol
Base Information
Classification Unknown
Status Minor Race
Locomotion
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence
Bio-Identenoid
Size 1.4 miles in diameter
Weight Many thousands of tons
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch
Psionic potential Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location Querion (Spinward Marches 0614)
UWP
X000000-0
StarportX No Starport
Size0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt
Atmosphere0 Vacuum
Hydrographics0 Desert World 0%
Population0 Barren (0)
Government0 No Government structure
Law0 No Law
Tech Level0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
Primary Star
Atmosphere
Off-world presence No
Zoetic individuals
Source
Reference GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 1
Canon Yes
Also see

The Squid Mothers and the messengers are two distinct races who exist in a symbiotic relationship.

Description (Specifications)

The Sheol exist in a symbiotic relationship. They inhabit a large gas giant rather than a terrestrial planet

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)

  1. Squid Mothers
    1. A Squid Mother is a spherical creature, 1.4 miles in diameter. Twenty feeding tentacles dangle from beneath this vast body, each one half a mile long and 30 yards wide. A Squid Mother has a coarse, ropy hide, covered in pock-marks, mouths, and gas vents. Beneath its skin is a complex series of intestinal passages, stomachs, valves and bladders. Much of the Squid Mother's interior is hollow, filled with heated gas. Living balloons, the Squid Mothers float serenely through the ammonia clouds, tentacles questing in search of living prey.
    2. Adult squid mothers live for an estimated 600 years.
  2. Messengers
    1. Messengers are a fully sentient race living in partnership with the giant squid mothers. Although in some ways subservient to the squid mothers, the messengers are intelligent beings in their own right. Because the messengers are much closer to Humans in size and outlook, it is they who are commonly entrusted with the responsibility of dealing directly with other races.
    2. Xenologists consider it likely that the squid mothers deliberately bred the present species of messengers from less intelligent ancestors, perhaps beginning with a simple process of domestication in prehistoric times, and continuing until the present form of the species was developed. It is also apparent that this process continues: although the so-called adaptives are the most often encountered race, several other sub-species of messenger have been observed, some showing signs of deliberate biological engineering.

Psychology & Philosophy (Mindset)

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

No information yet available.

Major Historical Events Timeline: 1116

These are some of the more important historical events that have affected this polity:

  • No information yet available.

Culture & Society (Ethnology)

No information yet available.

Social Organization: 1116

No information yet available.

Government & Politics (Leadership)

No information yet available.

Government Structure: 1116

No information yet available.

Interstellar Relations: 1116

No information yet available.

Language & Letters (Communication)

No information yet available.

Calendar & Timekeeping (Chronology)

No information yet available.

Technology & Trade (Economy)

No information yet available.

Commercial Aptitude: 1116

No information yet available.

Other Aptitudes: 1116

No information yet available.

Research & Technology: 1116

No information yet available.

Military & Intelligence (Force Projection)

No information yet available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This race (sophont species) is primarily located in the following areas:

Homeworld: 1116

The homeworld of this race is:

World Listing: 1116

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

1 of 1 World articles in Sheol
Querion  •  
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