Stormrider

Stormrider
Base Information
Classification	Herbvore/grazer
Terrain	Desert
Locomotion	Airborne
Size	Extremely small (less than 1 gram)
Speed	0 (wind-borne / sessile)
Strength	-
Social Structure	-
Weapons	none
Armor	none
Source
Homeworld	Holtan Rock
Multi-world	Yes
Canon	No
Reference	Greg Videll

A Stormrider is an extremely small desert creature.

• It thrives in arid environments.

Physiology & Ecology

Stormriders got their name from their common dormancy habitat -- riding like sand particles in a windstorm. In the presence of moisture, a Stormrider "grain" leaves its dormant state and secretes a sticky, superglue-like substance that attaches it securely to a possible source of water and nutrients.

Diet & Trophics

Stormriders carried by a windstorm rapidly accumulate around a plant's wound and effectively seal it, protecting the plant from further water loss. The stormriders become parasites and shortly multiply into a large colony, which grows until it begins to tax the resources of its host.

Life Cycle & Reproduction

Another windstorm will eventually break the colony "knob" off the plant. Robbed of a source of moisture and nutrients, the colony breaks down into dormant stormrider grains.

History & Background / Dossier

It is believed that Stormriders are native to Holtan Rock, a desert world in Zarushagar Sector. The history of their appearance on other desert worlds in Zarushagar during the First Imperium seems to bear this out.

Worlds & Sectors

World Listing

Comprehensive Second Survey data for all worlds associated with Sandriders is available.

• The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
• Other sources may differ: some elements of the data may be contradictory or incorrect.
• Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.

AAB library archives contain expanded data about the following systems:

5 of 5 World articles in Stormrider

Bluve  •  Carson's Desert  •  Holtan Rock  •  Nedadzia  •  Prudhoe  •  

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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, may already be out of date.

• Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.

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References & Contributors / Sources

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• Author and contrbutor: Greg Videll