Jovionoid

Jovionoid is the typoid classification of creatures with Gas Giants as their native world. Jovionoids are considered unconventional life.

Description (Specifications)

The term Jovian derives from the Terran system planet Jupiter, the largest gas giant in that system. The world of Jupiter has no lifeforms.

In practice, Jovionoids are flyers or floaters and breathe hydrogen or hydrogen compounds with alternate biochemistries. Jovionoid civilizations are sometimes called "Hydrogen Societies."

It is known for conventional lifeforms to develop very similar biologies, physiologies, and appearances to jovionoids and to be found on terrestrial worlds. These are usually cases of parallel evolution.

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1. Two Jgd-ll-jagd, a long-lived hydrogen species.
   
2. The Domination, an aggressive, often threatening race of jovionoid.
   

Jovionoid in Charted Space

Jovionoid Lifeforms are still considered rare within Charted Space. There are numerous reports that they are much more common outside of its boundaries. The relative rarity of Jovian creatures within Charted Space is usually explained somewhat unconvincingly as a consequence of several interrelating factors. It is thought that a comprehensive program to search for hydrogen-breathing Jovionoid life would turn up many other such species, and that while many of them would be primitive pre-spacefaring civilizations there would be a small portion who have evolved to become more advanced sophonts.

Specific Species examples

Charted Space knows only a handful of Jovionoid species:

Selected Silicoid Species
Specie/s	Sophonce	Remarks
Blimps	Sophont	No information yet available.
Calipha	Proto-Sophont	No information yet available.
Domination	Sophont	No information yet available.
Jgd-ll-jagd	Sophont	No information yet available.
Sheol	Sophont & Creature	No information yet available.
Zakai	Creature	No information yet available.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

Jovionoids tend to be prolific species and experience much less competition for worlds than conventional, terrestrial life.

World Listing: 1105

The following systems, worlds, and gas giants are known places of residence for jovionoid lifeforms:

16 of 16 World articles in Jovionoid

Arend  •  Asimidiske  •  Beleperan  •  Bondi  •  Dywosik  •  Gabik  •  Gh'kabrroo  •  Jagd  •  Liaw  •  Narrad  •  North  •  P'lay  •  Querion  •  Reshumirak  •  Tess  •  Udipeni  •  

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See also: Querion (world)

See also

Selected Typoids

§ == ( Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information: ) == §

Bio-Identenoid

A:

• Amoeboid
• Amphibianoid
• Annelidoid
• Arthropodoid
• Avianoid

B:

• Bovinoid

C:

• Canidoid
• Celestoid
• Centauroid
• Cephalopodoid
• Chilopodoid
• Chondrichthoid
• Cnidarianoid
• Cosmoid
• Crustaceanoid

E:

• Echinodermoid
• Equinoid
• Extremophyloid

F:

• Felidoid
• Fungoid

H:

• Hominid

I:

• Infotoid
• Insectoid

J:

• Jovionoid

M:

• Macropodoid
• Mammallianoid
• Mechanimorph
• Microbiotoid
• Molluscoid

O:

• Ophidoid

P:

• Phytoid
• Piscinoid
• Porcinoid
• Procyonidoid

Q:

• Quasi-arachnoid

R:

• Reptillianoid

S:

• Silicoid
• Skiapodoid

U:

• Ungulatoid
• Ursinoid

V:

• Vulpinoid

Z:

• Zoophytoid

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.

• Loren Wiseman. Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society 17 (Game Designers Workshop, 1983), .
• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Zeda." Signal-GK 11 (1995): 90-91. via HIWG
• Leighton Piper. "Port of Call: Reshumirak." Signal-GK 13 (1997): 3-5.
• David L. Pulver. "The Sheol." Alien Races 1 (1998): 122-133.
• Steve Jackson, Loren Wiseman. "Jgd-Il-Jagd." Alien Races 4 (2001): 90-94.
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 92-94.
• External Link: Downport CARI by Author & Contributor: Paul J. Drye ^{dead link}