Ashi Gurlagili

The Ashi Gurlagili are a sociological grouping of Vilani-descended sophonts known for flaunting Vilani customs and folkways. Today, they are primarily located in the Empty Quarter Sector.

Description (Specifications)

The Ashi Gurlagili are composed of what are essentially Vilani perverts: unlike the sexually-driven Solomani perverts, the innovation-driven Vilani perverts love to make new things, try new things, invent new things. Whether these activities are beneficial or hurtful, or even sane, is not the point; gaining mastery is.

Their culture is always in flux, but their wealth is derived from technological innovation: this includes the deliberate violation of as many Vilani patents and rules as possible. Their inventiveness and wealth did not protect them from exceedingly savage purges from Vland Sector, with the surviving membership scattered across the Imperium.

History & Background (Dossier)

There are eight surviving systems in the Third Imperium dominated by the Ashi Gurlagili -- the most successful by far is Ushmigad (Empty Quarter 0638).

Gurlagili Demons

Each member of this cult believes that they have a unique mini-deity, called a daemon (the choice of name is deliberate: they may reserve their hate for Vilani tradition, but they have no love for Solomani monotheism either). This daemon encourages them to 'follow their bliss', and 'do what thou wilt', whatever it may be.

Similar to the Christian understanding of demons, the Ashi Gurlagili see these daemons as essentially hostile to humaniti, quick to encourage people to destroy themselves and others. And indeed, the more violent cultic worlds have been progressively wiped out over the centuries, as they invariably either:

• 1.) Turn all their neighbours into their enemies and/or...
• 2.) Take on one challenge too many, up to and including challenging the Imperium, the laws of physics, or the nature of the universe.

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

• Alvin Plummer. "The Great Tribal Census of 993." Stellar Reaches 19 (2012): 5.