Sundowner

Sundowner
Base Information
Classification	Autotroph/chemotroph
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence
Bio-Identenoid
Size	Unknown
Weight	Unknown
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch
Psionic potential	TBD
Origin World
Homeworld location	Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812)
UWP	X000000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
Primary Star
Atmosphere
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals
Source
Reference	Solomani 152.
Canon	Yes
Also see
TBD

The Sundowners are a technologically sophisticated sophont species.

• They are a Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

A Sundowner, or Lampshade, is a member of a sedentary vacuum-adapted Minor Race native to Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812), where their population numbers in the billions.

Physiology & Environment

They leach light metals and oxygen from the world’s regolith, which they convert into a form of rocket fuel used to migrate.

History & Background (Dossier)

Some Lampshades have been induced to perform resource extraction tasks for the Solomani population.

Psychology & Philosophy

The Sundowners are sentient but very slow thinkers. They operate on a different sense of time. They are long lived and in no hurry for any facet of life. They perceive other carbon based life forms as fleeting and ephemeral when compared to their more gradual progress through existence.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

• Alpha Crucis Sector
  • Oriah Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

• Weeven (world)

World Listing: 1105

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

1 of 1 World articles in Sundowner

Weeven  •  

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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.

• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), 152.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science