Nibammer

Nibammer
Base Information
Classification	Herbivore
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence
Bio-Identenoid	Alien
Size
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Impersonal Bureaucracy
Technological Epoch	TL:7-9
Psionic potential
Origin World
Homeworld location	Gembolia
UWP	C53499A-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 3 Vacuum (very thin) Hydrographics 4 Wet World 40% Population 9 High (2 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Primary Star	M7 V
Atmosphere	Very Thin
Off-world presence	Unknown
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference
Canon	No
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The Nibammer of Gembolia are a Minor Non-Human Race native to Astron Sector.

• Their homeworld is located within Gembolia Subsector.
• Their technological competency is rated as sophisticated.

Description (Specifications)

The Nibammer are naturally adapted to far colder conditions and lower atmospheric pressures than Humans find tolerable.

They are industrious, efficient, subterranean herbivores.

Physiology

• Pill-shaped bodies.
• Bilateral N-TBS-AN-LN-N
• External carapace
• Hemolymph fluids
• Tentacle manipulators

The Nibammer body features no head or neck and no arms. They are large and pill-shaped with a hard external carapace, and with two legs emerging from the lower end; these have powerful clawed toes. Tentacle-arms emerge from the carapace as needed.

Although they are capable of surviving and functioning in low air pressures and low temperatures, Nibammer prefer a slightly more temperate environment. Their subterranean cities are sealed, with increased internal air pressure and elevated temperatures.

• Many of their world's native lifeforms display similar behaviour, creating sealed underground burrows or warrens and practicing forms of agriculture.

Demographics

The total known population equals 2 billion individuals.

Urbanization

Their homeworld has multiple large cities, each surrounded by smaller satellite communities.

• Cities are located across the world, principally within the twilight zone.
• Regional centers have their own starports.
• Structures and facilities are sealed.
• Some temperate regions of the surface of the world are preserved as wilderness.

Native Culture

• Homogeneity: D (fragmented)
• Acceptance: 9 (friendly)
• Strangeness: 2 (typical)
• Symbols: 8 (somewhat abstract)

History & Background (Dossier)

The Nibammer live in a strict, rigid, caste-based society.

Around ten percent of the population (around 200 million individuals) are members of the soldier caste.

First contact with the Nibammer was made by Eniri Hudson, a retired bureaucrat turned frontiersman and explorer of the Rule of Man era.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Astron Sector
  • Gembolia Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Gembolia, a cold twilight zone world with a very thin, tainted atmosphere.

Local Technology

Gembolia possesses a Technology Level of TL–7.

• Common Communication technologies for this TL include: Early video and early satellite communication networks.
• Common Power Generation technologies for this TL include: Early fuel cells, solar energy, and geothermal power sources.
• Common Transportation technologies for this TL include:
  • Land: Improved automobiles, hovercraft, and bullet trains.
  • Water: Hydrofoils and early triphibians.
  • Air: Hang gliders and supersonic jets.
  • Space: Deep space probes and interplanetary spacecraft (System Craft).

Local Government

Gembolia is governed by an Impersonal Bureaucracy. The leadership of the government takes another form (democracy, dictatorship, oligarchy), but the bureaucracy dictates government policy and its execution. Government leadership is reduced to little more than figureheads and does not select the bureaucracy leadership or its members.

Local Law

Gembolia has a high law level with laws covering many areas of interactions of people, corporations, and the government. A few worlds with this law level may be Amber Zones. Any interaction with the judicial system requires an Advocate trained in the local legal system. Law enforcement is present almost everywhere, either as people or via technology. Legal proceedings can take weeks to months to resolve and involve a dozen or more people. All objects specifically manufactured as weapons are typically regulated or prohibited (outside private residences or visiting starships).

World Listing: 1105

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

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• Author & contributor: Jo Grant of CORE (generated data)
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS