Dhagoni

Starport	E	Frontier - no facilities
Size	8	Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere	B	Exotic (corrosive)
Hydrographics	1	Dry World 10%
Population	0	Barren (0)
Government	0	No Government structure
Law	0	No Law
Tech Level	A	Early Stellar (jump drive)

Primary Star

M1 III

Atmosphere

Corrosive

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

No

Source

Reference

Adie Alegoric Stewart - Distant Fringe

Canon

No

Also see

The Dhagoni are an extinct Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

A minor race of the Empty Stars region.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

The existence of this species was discovered by the Jannasta Expedition

Dhagoni Furnace Culture[edit]

On a tectonically active, volcanic planet with extremely high temperatures and crushing atmospheric pressures, a silica based life form rose to dominance amid a fiery ecosystem. Using heteropoly acids, metal oxides, titanium, aluminum, and magnesium they constructed nanotubes of cubic zirconia. These polyoxometalates, spherical membranes, are selectively permeable and the basis for their “cellular” structure. The corrosive atmosphere is insidious. A hazy layer of “photosynthetic” producers use ultraviolet light which can penetrate the first few layers of the super dense atmosphere. These floating organisms are akin to plankton except the biochemistry is completely different. The planetary surface would appear wreathed in permanent darkness to a being accustomed to visible light. Jets and geysers grant chemosynthetic life opportunities for organisms which have left traditional biochemistry behind. Carbonyl sulfide, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are the compounds of life here. Sulfur is used to form long chain polymers and hydrogen sulfide is a reducing agent.

Sentience arrived or was triggered from an exterior stimulus. The predominant form of sentient organisms massed from 500-600kg as adults. They used silicates to create a chemically inert dermal armor layer. They used an internal biochemical furnace to reduce the compounds needed to function. The metals were used to construct the numerous fins and lifting wing surfaces. The atmospherically suspended particulates circle the planet at speeds in excess of the speed of sound on Earth. The abrasive properties and the kinetic energy of the storms would obliterate normal forms of technology as they are traditionally known. There is no water here, nor oxygen and yet life evolved. For most of their life spans they would dwell as miners and diggers. They tunneled in the crust, underground. They stayed near geysers of hydrogen sulfide and the microbe-like forms that dwelled there. They grazed and reduced these anaerobes for additional nutrition. They hatched in numbers from crystalline masses. The younger forms tunneled and grew. Eventually they would gain mass as they consumed. They develop more advanced sensory webs and begin to communicate and commune. The merged biomass would reorganize itself. The mutable diggers grew and metabolized. Eventually they became self-aware and eventually fully intelligent. Diggers would merge and build bigger, smarter constructs. They would fabricate and extrude metals into forms necessary to accomplish tasks. They had tools before a true civilization. Once diggers progressed to even larger forms they would begin to lose their cognitive functions and memory storage abilities as the energetics of maintaining bodies of ever increasing mass rendered high intellectual functions secondary to survival. The terminal stage emerge from the ground as vast winged flyers. Sparred metallic wings, fins and jets sprouted from their body as it progressively lengthened and thinned out. The only chemically compatible biomass left for them necessitated taking to the air. The elderly fliers erupted from the sands and blasted rocks of the desiccated surface. Instinctively they only unfurl their wing blades with the correct alignment to catch the typhoon winds that explode across the ravaged surface. Once aloft these 600kg giants soar ever higher and they spent the remainder of their lives scooping up the UV filtering producers. The biomass of the abundant autotrophs of the upper atmosphere, provided the energy the larger fliers required. They would lapse into a dream like state only slightly aware of their surroundings above an instinctual level. These huge fliers would release reproductive precursors and promoters which would eventually settle to the ground. Whenever these “seeds” would take root, it would trigger nearby fabrication diggers to assemble a new digger nymph.

The complex silica tunnel networks constructed by the diminutive young diggers formed the basis for their computational sciences. The underground networks could construct and fabricate technology when intelligent diggers wanted to complete a task. As the civilization advanced they learned to build soaring gliders modeled after the bodies of the senile flying elders. These gliders allowed them to explore and colonize their inferno world. Once they learned how to travel beyond the gravity well of their home world they looked for other worlds. The enormous metallic, hurricane wings became useless once they were beyond the atmosphere. They were repurposed into solar sails of aluminum film. They in turn were sent toward every nearby star. In the form of a machine fitted with the templates for diggers and senile fliers. These sailors were instructed to find suitable worlds and manufacture new sailors to repeat the process. When sailors arrived they would use their sensors to find a world with the required elements. The sailor would crash there and release diggers. These new diggers would mine and in turn build more diggers and eventually the colony would launch its own sailors. They proved especially good at asteroid mining. Their silica-metallic bodies were unhindered by exposure to vacuum, which in many ways was less dangerous than the corrosive inferno worlds which spawned them.

Astrography[edit]

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Uncharted Space - Where The Stars End:

Shadow Rift Sector
- Intersect Cluster

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Yelm (Shadow Rift 3101)

World Listing[edit]

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

No world articles for Dhagoni

References & Contributors / Sources[edit]

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Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis), Captain, and Lead Naval Architect Ronald B. Kline, Jr. of the Imperial Navy
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science