Akumgeda Vargr

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	8	Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	5	Wet World 50%
Population	9	High (2 billion)
Government	B	Non-Charismatic Dictator
Law	9	High Law (no weapons out of home)
Tech Level	E	High Stellar (anti-grav cities)

Primary Star

G5 V

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

Yes

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Vargr 3,32.

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Akumgeda Vargr are a Vargr ethnic group and a distinct Vargr subspecies. The Vargr are a Canidoid Race with a humanoid body plan and are technologically advanced sophonts.

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Description (Specifications)[edit]

The Akumgeda are a distinct Vargr subspecies (not merely an ethnicity). Like most other subspecies of Vargr, the Akumgeda fled Lair (Provence 2402) after their people were ostracized by the majority of the Vargr population. The Akumgeda settled on a number of worlds in Ksinanirz Sector and although some of these settlements still exist, many of the packs reintegrated with their brethren as the Vargr expanded throughout the Vargr Extents.

The Akumgeda appear much like other Vargr but they tend to have spotted fur. Although unusual, spots are not unknown in mainstream Vargr and the Akumgeda found it easy to blend in with "normal people" unnoticed. What set the Akumgeda apart was their strong psionic ability. Some Vargr postulate that the standard Vargr species only developed psionic powers since the Akumgeda reintegrated with Vargr society, but there is no actual evidence to support this.

Linguistics[edit]

The Akumgeda speak a Vargr dialect that is both a holdover from Arrghoun and a blend with the newer Gvegh tongue. The linguistic drift continues to infect the Akumgeda and the language is evolving even today. Gvegh scholars have yet to separate their language, pierce Akumgeda and lock down the core elements of Arrghoun, and the entire linguistic field is a topic of much debate.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

Lair histories tell of a spotted pelt subspecies of Vargr that had been marginalized, abused and ostracized to a near breaking point. This subspecies, calling themselves the Akumgeda, having endured enough torment, invested in a secret exodus from the Vargr homeworld. They travelled coreward in search of a new home. The Akumgeda were the last wave of Vargr minorities with misunderstood, aberrant mental phenomena to leave Lair. Two other psionic subspecies had already fled by the time the Akumgeda were next on the list to be purged by ostracism. Less dexterous and more given to mental acumen, the Akumgeda were otherwise the same as standard Vargr but for their spotted pelts that gave them away to observers.

Sometime in the First Diaspora, the Akumgeda had endured enough hatred to be prodded from Lair in Jump-2 capable colonization starships, outbound for points coreward -- though their initial tack was spinward-coreward, through Ngathksirz, Dhuerorrg and coreward into Ksinanirz Sector where they surveyed and colonized Ularr (Ksinanirz 1408 A355578-B). It took more than 72 weeks of travel in then-uncharted space to arrive at Ularr. Many Akumgeda were forced to endure the search while asleep in cavernous starship holds filled with Low Berth arrays. They had ranged out ahead of the other exploration vectors, then mostly concentrated spinward of Provence Sector. From Ularr, the Akumgeda spread out over nearly three subsectors and galvanized themselves for a quiet frontier life and a peaceful existence.

The Akumgeda, during their exodus and search for a new home, continued to hone their psionic talents. They still spoke Arrghoun, the lost language of the Vargr, and kept meticulous records of their journey, surveys and hardships.

Recontact[edit]

Eventually, the solitude of the Akumgeda was disturbed by the following wave of exploratory Gvegh culture. Long forgotten were the Akumgeda, lost in the annals of history. Thus, the Gvegh were surprised to find the psionic Vargr of the Kechk Pact polity. Without the racism of archaic Lair, the Gvegh took to the Akumgeda with curiosity and a willingness to make peaceful contact, subject to the usual racial tendency for seeking Charisma. The Gvegh brought with them higher technologies and more efficient fleets of explorers, merchants, navies, and of course Corsairs. Part of the reason for their curiosity was that the Akumgeda had no previous contact with the distant Zhodani Consulate to spinward and yet had discovered psionic talents on their own. This originality without Zhodani 'taint' or the Humans' subtle manipulations appealed to the region's Gvegh.

There was much intermingling of Vargr, and the Akumgeda became less a culture absorbed into the expanding Gvegh and merely a subspecies. They let Arrghoun fade into a dead language in favor of the efficient Gvegh language. This was made doubly easy to learn through the Akumgeda use of telepathy by tying thoughts of a Gvegh speaker to the spoken word. Thus the Akumgeda were absorbed and accepted into the Gvegh, although their phenotype and psionic potentials continued to breed true.

Recent Developments[edit]

All the innovations, new diversions, attractions and culture injection eventually drove a subtle wedge between the latest generation of Akumgeda Vargr and the more traditional, secluded elders. When the majority of spinward worlds of the Kechk Pact saw the fruits of high technology, a movement began calling for the people to "reverse course", return to the greater Vargr Extents community, conduct trade, and welcome Emissaries from other polities such as the Brzeh Council, the Democracy of Greats and the Empire of Varroerth. This did not sit well with the elders, who recalled their grandsires' historical account of the exodus from Lair and the ostracism of the majority Vargr. The generational gap was widening and soon the Kechk Pact began to distance themselves from the now-embedded Gvegh. Keeping the Gvegh at arm's length, the elders laid down a policy of separatist tendencies, cultural and economic.

The wilder youth would let nothing get in the way of their opportunity for greater Charisma, trade, glory in expansion, and many other enticements the Gvegh offered. At least the Gvegh were not persecuting the Akumgeda in the modern era, they believed. In an overnight coup, the younger generation seized Forraroekou (Ksinanirz 0908 A629500-E) a lawless, high-tech world ripe for development by the combined Akumgeda rebels and the Gvegh. The latter did not understand the schism to begin with and sought to peacefully do business with both generations of Akumgeda as opportunity arose. With technology, youth and a higher average world Tech Level, Forraroekou became the hotbed of separation; an about-face of the youth back to the Vargr Extents, to greater civilization and opportunity. Faced with a deficit of sufficient technology, production, and naval vessels (the fleet had been sent to patrol the spinward edge of the polity), the Kechk Pact was forced to default and grudgingly accept the Kechk Reversion -- the loss of 17 worlds to the Gvegh and their younger generation.

The Reversion was unable, due to typical Vargr tendency, to consolidate its worlds and lost five of its newly-claimed members -- including Goeollaz (Ksinanirz 0910), the Reversion's only Industrial world. A stalemate ensued, with neither polity able to overmatch the other. The Pact held the master psions and the home advantage as well as the Rich and Agricultural worlds. The Reversion held the worlds with the superior Starports, the Navy, and nominal support from the Gvegh (who were invested and interested in peace betwixt the Pact and the Reversion). The standoff held until Gvegh Emissaries from the coreward-spinward expansion arm sued for peace and won a treaty, though the two Akumgeda nations were forever divided in their mindsets and future forecast.

The Kechk Pact sees its seclusion as a valued asset, keeping safe from the other Vargr of the Extents and trading only through its younger relative, the Kechk Reversion.

Meanwhile the Kechk Reversion sees both trade and support from the Gvegh as that culture continues to spread coreward after reaching its spinward-most expansion against the Zhodani Consulate.

Astrography[edit]

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Vargr Extents:

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Lair (Provence 2402)

World Listing: 1105[edit]

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

No world articles for Akumgeda Vargr

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 63.
Simon Beal. "The Vargr Race." Vargr (2009): 3,32.
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Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science