Bye-Ren-Ay (world)

A secondary world in the Griffith system, and home to the unusual Human ethnic group, the Bye-Ren.

Bye-Ren-Ay is a derivation of the Solomani name given to the inhabitants. The natives have a variety of names for their world, few of them flattering or endearing, the most common being Gu-tes-tray, which translated means "home above death."

Planetary Conditions

The Bye-ren live on the highest mountains and few plateaus, where the atmosphere is thin enough to breathe without special apparatus. Travel between these settlements is difficult. The thick, high pressure atmosphere of the valleys is also full of dangerous, non-native life; germs brought from offworld by the Bye-rens' ancestors. The rich atmosphere serves as a massive incubator. Storms whipped up lethal bacterial clouds sometimes force city dwellers to stay indoors behind air filtration systems.

The valleys are useful, though, for the easily accessible mineral deposits. The Bye-ren regard these precious ores with a deep-seated cultural reverence, even though many of them have no practical use in their society. Undoubtedly, it was these resources that first brought Human miners to Bye-ren-ay.

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

• Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 148.
• Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 13-20.