Nunclee

Nunclee
Base Information
Classification	Omnivore
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Amphibian
Terrain	Waterways
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Alien
Size	8 cm
Weight	10 grams
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Anarchy
Technological Epoch
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Trenamii, Lishun 1804
UWP	E798998-8 Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere 9 Dense (tainted) Hydrographics 8 Wet World 80% Population 9 High (0 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 8 Pre-Stellar (superconductors)
Primary Star	G7 V
Atmosphere	Dense/Wet
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Aliens Archive 77-82.
Canon	Yes
Also see

The Nunclee are a technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

Nunclee are a conglomerate organism. The base form is a small, unintelligent worm, which is adapted to swamp environments. When gathered into larger groups, these worms operate collectively, forming into any number of shapes. Individual worms contribute to the combined form's mobility and intelligence.

Base

The building block of the Nunclees is the single worm. Each one is roughly 8 centimeters long, half a centimeter in diameter, and weighs about 10 grams. They are gray or pink, lined with tiny blood vessels visible beneath the skin. It is a simple animal that can perform all the tasks necessary for survival. It can eat and digest food, contract its muscular body for locomotion and digging, all controlled by a miniscule brain and alien nervous system.

Least Form

A grouping of roughly 200 component worms is called a Least Form, weighing in at about 2 kilograms. These are self aware and able to endure more damage than the individuals would separately. In fact, these are their only two characteristics. Joint protection may be the only impetus to conglomerate in the first place.

Lesser Form

The Lesser Form is equivalent to the mass of four Least Forms, or about 800 worms and around 8 kilograms. The Lesser Form protrudes short extremities for the sole purpose of locomotion. The four tentacles are only about 20 centimeters long.

Median Form

Median Nunclees are intelligent insofar as they can perform simple tasks and follow instructions, much like an obedient dog. They are equivalent to four Lesser Forms at 3200 worms and 32 kilograms. Medians have eight tentacles that reach out to 40 centimeters.

Supreme Form

Supremes are highly intelligent, cognizant creatures, with complete reasoning and problem-solving abilities. A Supreme is equivalent to about four Median Forms, or 12,800 worms at 128 kilograms. They have eight tentacles that reach out 60 centimeters. Supreme Form conglomerates are arguably as intelligent as Human beings.

Ascension

Each form below Supreme can grow new worms or gather loose worms from the environment to make the ascension to the next level. The conditions must be right, and there seems to be some overriding mass consciousness that dictates how many of each form there will be in a given area of the swamp. Nevertheless, ascension is fairly common on their homeworld, as the Nunclees still have predators.

History & Background (Dossier)

Civilization among Nunclees began about 50,000 years ago. The biological advance from single worm life to full Supreme Nunclees was apparently swift, perhaps no more than 100 years. Individual worms banded together into larger, more effective forms. The impetus to do so is unclear, since individual worms thrive to this day in the same swamplands where they evolved. Protection from predators is considered a likely motive, but what specifically triggered the change is unknown.

The Nunclees civilization grew quickly and has remained unchanged for 40,000 years. Their technology is simple agrarian, using muscle power, fossil fuels, and natural materials.

Nunclees live as individuals (that is, individual conglomerations). There is no community effort in accomplishing tasks, which explains their slow technological growth. Cooperation to manage a goal is unknown to them, though many individuals may be working toward the same goal.

The only social stratification is based purely in physiology. Dominance is maintained by the most intelligent Supreme forms, followed in descending order by the Medians, Lesser, Least, and then the component worms themselves. Beyond that, there is no social organization among the Nunclees.

Imperial Contact

See: Bell*Trenton Chemical

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:

• Lishun Sector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Trenamii

World Listing

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

1 of 1 World articles in Nunclee

Ushanghi  •  

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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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 77-82.