Jaylay-yay

Jaylay-yay
Base Information
Classification	Omnivore
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Walker
Terrain	Waterways
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Amphibianoid
Size	1.3 meters
Weight	75 kg
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Inghinfudzolorz (Gvurrdon 1037)
UWP	B6A5786-8 Starport B Good: Spacecraft Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere A Exotic Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 7 Moderate (30 million) Government 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy Law 6 Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
Primary Star	K2 II M3 V
Atmosphere	Exotic
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Gvurrdon Sector Campaignbook 33-34.
Canon	No
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The Jaylay-yay of Inghinfudzolorz (Gvurrdon 1037) are an aquatic Minor Non-Human Race with a semi-humanoid appearance and technologically primitive sophonts.

Physiologsy & Environment

This race has one rare ability that has not been previously observed in an sapient species -- the ability to give electric shocks. This does not mean that the Jaylay-yay are immune to electric shocks themselves. If the target is insulated, the attack will backfire. In water the target just has to be close to the Jaylay-yay for the technique to work. However, the effect cannot be aimed; it covers a 360 degree arc on every axis out from the Jaylay-yay, forming a globe of electricity.

The Jaylay-yay are omnivorous. They are lightly built, massing an average of 75kg. They have 4 fingers on each of their two hands. The hands are webbed, though not to the ends of their fingers, but the toes have no webbing at all. The Jaylay-yay head holds four eyes; the configuration is such that the upper pair are the only part of the body that is above the surface of the water as they swim. According to studies on their anatomy, the upper pair of eyes have been weakening over the generations due to disuse. Their skin is scaled as a fish, but near the joints it transits to a more leathery substance. The Jaylay-yay's skin varies between a number of colours, being different in each individual, something that makes it easy to tell them apart.

History & Background (Dossier)

Prior to contact with the Vargr, they had developed only rudimentary technology. A few of their communities had reached early iron age. Thanks to offworld trade and exchange, they have now reached TL-8.

Around 30,000,000 Jaylay-yay are known to live on their homeworld. The world has fallen into the territory of the Anti-Rukh Coalition; this is a matter of decisions made by their major Vargr trading partners, not any commitment to Vargr politics on the part of the Jaylay-yay themselves.

Astrography

This race (sophont species) is primarily located in the following areas:

• Gvurrdon Sector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Inghinfudzolorz (Gvurrdon 1037)

World Listing: 1105

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

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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.

• Roger Malmstein. "Aliens in Gvurrdon Sector." Kfan Uzangou 5 (1993): 6. via HIWG
• Roger Malmstein. Gvurrdon Sector Campaignbook (Roger Malmstein, 2002), 33-34.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science