Shalap

Shalap
Base Information
Classification
Terrain	Unknown
Locomotion	Walks (motile)
Size	Unknown
Speed	Unknown
Strength	Unknown
Social Structure
Weapons	Unknown
Armor	None
Source
Homeworld	Vland (Vland 1717)
Multi-world	No
Canon	Yes
Extinct	Extant
Reference

The Shalap is a porcinoid species that most closely resembles a Terran pig, native to Vland (Vland 1717).

Description (Specifications)

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)

A common Vilani proverb pertaining business states the following: "Pay for the shalap only if you are certain it is a shalap", similar to the Solomani saying "let the buyer beware".

Derived Products (Goods)

They are raised as livestock animals and are popular in Vilani Space. They make a potent foodstuff and can survive under almost any conditions with minimal care. It isn't uncommon to find canned and salted Shalap on older Vilani vessels that is still good over a millennium later.

Travellers' Aid Society Advisory

The Travellers' Aid Society (TAS) classifies the TBD as non-threatening to most sophonts and makes no special advisory regarding this creature.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This creature can primarily be found in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Vland Sector
  • Vland Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this creature is:

• Vland (Vland 1717)

World Listing: 1105

Significant communities of this creature are known to be found within the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Shalap

References

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.

• Thom Gressman, J. Andrew Keith, Joe Fugate, Nancy Parker, Bill Hezeltine. The Flaming Eye (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 14.