Tredhili

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

Yes

Zoetic individuals

Source

Reference

Darkhstarr

Canon

No

Also see

TBD

The Tredhili are a technologically sophisticated sophont species.

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

Description (Specifications)

The Tredhili are a minor race of mobile, sentient plants native to Funafuti (Vanguard Reaches 2824).

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)

Growing up to 2.3 meters high, the Tredhili remind one of a brightly multi-colored asparagus with anywhere from 6-12 tentacles. They move about slowly (1 kph top speed) on 12-20 pseudopods developed from the plant's root system.

Omnivorous, they developed during a time when Funafuti started to dry up, evolving them to utilize animals as a subsidiary water source. For capture/defense, Tredhili developed a thorny tip on some of their tentacles (usually 2-4) which injects a paralyzing drug. Treat the normal tentacles as whip damage and attack. The Tredhili suck subsistence thru their normal tentacles. The same normal tentacles act as manipulative members.
The fibrous body is tough.
They are bisexual, reproducing by exchanging spores with other Tredhili.

History & Background (Dossier)

Culture & Society (Ethnology): A introspective and patient folk, the Tredhili live in planned arboretum cities dominated by a Erecih (rough trans.: "oldest root stock") with a maximum of 8,000 Tredhili per city. There are 134 such cities on Funafuti.

Tredhili usually stand aloof from animal sophonts. The exceptions are those Tredhili whose professions are engineers, biologists, botanists, archeologists, historians and psychologists. Tredhili botanists and psychologists are in much demand off world.

Social Organization: 1105

Society is a hierarchy of the oldest at the top and the youngest at the bottom. Anti-social Tredhili are exiled off-planet.

Language & Letters (Communication)

Tredhili are psionic, communicating by telepathy and also commonly possess telekinesis and awareness as psi skill. They also create scents to attract prey or other sentient they wish to interact with.

Technology & Trade (Economy)

At first contact with humaniti traders, they were TL–6. They embraced star travel quite happily, traveling far thru the Vanguard Reaches and Beyond sectors. Then suddenly, interstellar travel ceased in 835 for no apparent reason. In 965, they rejected the Comsentient Alliance' overtures and became an Imperial client state with an outpost and scout base on their largest moon (there are 4 moons total), Dasizich.

Tredhili current TL is 12, except for psychology, social science, and botany, at which they are rated 15+.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

Vanguard Reaches Sector
- Kajaani Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

Funafuti (Vanguard Reaches 2824)

World Listing: 1105

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

No world articles for Tredhili

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.

EXTERNAL LINK: High Tortuga by Michael J. Maley
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science