Suedzuk Vargr

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	8	Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	5	Wet World 50%
Population	9	High (1 billion)
Government	B	Non-Charismatic Dictator
Law	9	High Law (no weapons out of home)
Tech Level	F	High Stellar (anagathics)

Primary Star

G5 V

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

Yes

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Vargr 3,32.

Canon

Yes

Also see

Vargr Extents

The Suedzuk Vargr are a technologically advanced Vargr ethnic group. The Vargr are a Canidoid Race with a humanoid body plan and a Semi-humanoid appearance. "Suedzuk" is a word literally meaning "red" or "red-brown".

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Description (Specifications)[edit]

Suedzuk Vargr are also known as Red Vargr (named for both their red pelts and their tendency for viciousness). They are discriminated against by Humans, Bwaps, and even some Vargr, due to a cultural reputation for savagery and violence.

The 'Blood Vargr' -- another local Anglic term for the Suedzuk with their infamous coats of red fur -- once had undisputed authority in the coreward Empty Quarter Sector, Gashikan Sector, and Arzul Sector, with only a few 'fake Vilani' Ovaghoun Vargr and 'cutie-pie' Irilitok Vargr interspersed in the general population. Their numbers in these regions are now much reduced -- most that weren't killed fled trailing to the Vargr Enclaves.

Culture[edit]

Suedzuk packs are not as loose as those of other Vargr, tending to be closed and enduring. Packs of adolescents often remain together throughout their lives and form strong interpersonal bonds. Suedzuk are often paranoid about outsiders; private languages are common, and some claim that there are almost as many forms of Suedzuk Vargr language as there are packs.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

The Blood Vargr are infamous for the devastation of the garden world of Gashikan, the homeworld of a Minor Human Race called the Yileans, in A.D. 2862 (-1658 Imperial). However, in A.D. 3093 (-1427 Imperial) the Vargr were effectively exterminated within Gashikan Sector by the Yileans' Wolvesbane Project. The Project, an anti-canine plague, was successfully quarantined within the sector by the Vargr, but only at great cost.

Suedzuk subsequently congregated in what became known as the Vargr Enclaves.

The sudden rise of the humanist Hegemony of Lorean redrew the map of Arzul and the coreward Empty Quarter in the 800s, absorbing numerous pocket empires and independent worlds into its expanding frontiers. This also directly led to the shattering of Suedzuk Vargr culture in the region, and its eventual replacement with the man-friendly Irilitok Vargr.

The surviving Suedzuk in places like Arzul and the Empty Quarter are very aware that the Arzula wiped out their packmates and, in earlier times, much of the original Arzul Suedzuk (with assistance from the Yileans in both cases). The more sophisticated of the Suedzuk leaders -- and the sophisticated leaders are the only ones left -- play politics as well as they hunt. The Pack leaders have pushed hard to funnel the natural aggression of their followers into avenues that don't bring them into conflict with the Lorean Humans.

Era: Collapse[edit]

A large group of Suedzuk Vargr appeared in the Corridor and Deneb Sectors post-1130, and became known as the Red Pelts. In Khouth Subsector, their appearance trailed the arrival of the Virus (which first arrived in 1137) and in Million Subsector they arrived with the collapse of the United Followers of Augurgh. They almost immediately extended operations to Antra Subsector in alliance with Tutankhamen on Filangger/Rroerruerz .

Astrography[edit]

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:
Vargr Extents:

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Lair (Provence 2402)

World Listing[edit]

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

No world articles for Suedzuk Vargr

References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]

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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.

James Holden, Joe D. Fugate Sr., Terrance McInnes. Vilani & Vargr (Digest Group Publications, 1990), 63.
Simon Beal. "The Vargr Race." Vargr (2009): 3,32.
Alvin Plummer. "Hegemony, Republic, Duchy: Part I." Stellar Reaches 10 (2010): 13.
Author & Contributor: Pakkrat