Ulane

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	6	Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	2	Dry World 20%
Population	6	Moderate (4 million)
Government	9	Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law	8	High Law (controlled blades)
Tech Level	8	Pre-Stellar (superconductors)

Primary Star

G3 V

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

The Travellers' Digest 17 30-31.

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Ulane of Ul (Dark Nebula 0603) are a technologically competent Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)

They originated as flying quadrupeds, but their wings are now vestigial, converted to manipulative digits. The Ulane are less than one meter long, hollow-boned and delicate.

Their diet consists primarily of fruit, since they require a lot of sugar to sustain their high body temperatures and activity levels. Small animals and insects provide protein.

Ulane are adapted to warm climates, but are able to build dwellings that enable them to live anywhere - although they seldom prefer to.

History & Background (Dossier)

The Ulane received a few jump-capable ships from the Aslan about 800 Aslan (-1385 Imperial). With their few ships, the Ulane explored a number of worlds in their own subsector and coreward into Reaver's Deep Sector. However, they found most worlds less hospitable than their homeworld of Ul (Dark Nebula 0603). Since they could neither build nor maintain the ships on their own, Ulane expansion soon stopped and the Aslan expansion flowed on around them.

Culture & Society (Ethnology)

Ulane prefer to live in very small, scattered towns. Most of their worlds have less than one million population owing to the low birthrate and need for large foraging territories. A larger population on a Ulane world indicates that another race lives there also, usually in a non-competing niche.

Social Organization

The Ulane social structure is built on clans of related families, so that when the Aslan contacted them, the Ulane decided to emulate their benefactors and model their society along Aslan lines. To the Aslan, this attempt has met with only moderate success. Ulane are not at all combative, and their ideas of honor puzzle the Aslan exceedingly. The hierarchy of clan and family dominance was decided by vote shortly after contact, and can be changed the same way, rather than by competition and combat. Still, the structure is useful to the Ulane.

Government & Politics (Leadership)

The Ulane Government is known as the Ulane Hierate although some question this supposition.

Please see Ulane Hierate for more information.

Government Structure

Canon Conflict: This article is suspect because other canon describes the polity referred to on DGP maps as the Ulane Hierate as the Union of Harmony, a human-dominated polity.

Please see the Ulane Hoax for a possible explanation.

Interstellar Relations

The Ulane maintain cordial and even friendly relations with the Aslan Hierate.

Commercial Aptitude

The Ulane are known for artistic rather than technological endeavors, and it is these that the Aslan prize when trading with them.

Astrography

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

Dark Nebula Sector
- Earle Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Ul (Dark Nebula 0603)

World Listing: 1105

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

2 of 2 World articles in Ulane

Ul (DN 0603) • Usun •

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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.

Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Data/Library: Dark Nebula." The Travellers' Digest 17 (1989): 30-31.
Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), 62.
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science