Jaylay-yay

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

Also see

The Jaylay-yay of Inghinfudzolorz (Gvurrdon 1037) are an aquatic Minor Non-Human Race with a semi-humanoid appearance, and are technologically primitive sophonts.

Physiologsy & Environment[edit]

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, while the toes have no webbing at all. The Jaylay-yay head features 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. Jaylay-yay skin varies between a number of colours, being different in each individual, something that makes it easy to tell them apart.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

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[edit]

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

Gvurrdon Sector
- Spurl Subsector

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Inghinfudzolorz (Gvurrdon 1037)

World Listing: 1105[edit]

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

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Inghinfudzolorz •

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References[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.

Roger Malmstein. "Aliens in Gvurrdon Sector." Kfan Uzangou 5 (1993): 6. via HIWG
Roger Malmstein. Gvurrdon Sector Campaignbook (Roger Malmstein, 2002), 33-34.