Orpheides
Orpheides | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Base Information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification | Herbivore/grazer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Minor Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locomotion | Walker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Body Form | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Confluence | Non-humanoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bio-Identenoid | Bovinoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Culture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Languages | Native Language | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Social Structure | Anarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technological Epoch | TL:0-3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Psionic potential | Standard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Origin World | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Homeworld location | Orphee (Reft 1429) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
UWP | X885610-0
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Primary Star | G9 V M0 V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atmosphere | Dense | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Off-world presence | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zoetic individuals | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reference | Trillion Credit Squadron 43. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canon | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Orpheides of Orphee (Reft 1429) are a technologically primitive minor race with a non-humanoid appearance.
Physiology & Environment (Ecology)[edit]
Descended from herbivorous grazer stock, the Orpheides have only achieved rudimentary development (approximating TL–0). Despite this, their culture at that level has proven of interest to academics throughout the Islands Cluster.
The Orpheides are a vaguely reptilian people. They fashion tools from sticks and stones, though they have little interest in fire, having neither need for artificial warmth nor cooked food.
Politics[edit]
It is expected that the Orpheides, with suitable protection from interference, can achieve a technological civilization within a few thousand years. To this end, Orphee itself has been interdicted (making it the equivalent of a Red Zone within the Imperium).
Astrography[edit]
This sophont species can primarily be found in the following areas:
Homeworld[edit]
The homeworld of this race is:
There are thought to be several million of them on the planet. They typically live in herds of 10-30 adults, with herds belonging to looser "over-herds".
World Listing[edit]
The following systems and worlds are associated with this sophont species:
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- John Harshman, Marc Miller. Trillion Credit Squadron (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), 43.
- Barnes Thomas. Trillion Credit Squadron (Mongoose Publishing, 2013), 113.
- Martin Dougherty. The Great Rift (Mongoose Publishing, 2018), Book 2: 43-44.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science