Solomani Hypothesis

Library Data Milieu 1116 

Solomani Hypothesis: The theory that the many scattered human races in the galaxy all originated on Terra (Solomani Rim 1827) and were transported to their current homeworlds by an alien race (the Ancients) for purposes which remain unclear.

History & Background (Dossier)

When the Solomani discovered jump drive in -2431, they also discovered that more than a dozen human races had already colonized the worlds surrounding Terra. At the time, there was no satisfactory explanation for the more than 40 genetically identical human races.

The Solomani Hypothesis, first proposed by Magis Sergei haut-Devroe, theorized that all of the many widely scattered human races of the galaxy originated on Terra. He thought that they were transported to their current homeworlds by an alien race (called the Ancients) for purposes which even today remain unclear. The approximate date of the scattering has been established as -300,000.

When Terra was incorporated into the Imperium in 588, a small historical mission verified much of haut-Devroe’s work. The hypothesis was already generally accepted by the majority of the human population in the Imperium.

More than 40 known human races have been located (and several more of them failed to adapt to their new worlds and are now extinct), but only three of these human peoples have reached widespread prominence as Major Races. These are the Vilani, the Zhodani, and the Solomani.

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.

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• Marc Miller. The Traveller Book (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), 156.
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), 38.
• Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 186.
• Jon F. Zeigler. Rim of Fire (Steve Jackson Games, 2000), 54.
• Colin Dunn. Library Data (Mongoose Publishing, 2011), 47.
• Gareth Hanrahan. Secrets of the Ancients (Mongoose Publishing, 2010), 255.