Sundowner

Sundowner
Base Information
Classification	Autotroph
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Sessile
Terrain	Plains
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Cosmoid
Size
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812)
UWP	E310A9A-C Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population A High (90 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Primary Star	M4 III D
Atmosphere	Trace
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Solomani 152.
Canon	Yes
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The Sundowners of Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812) are a technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

A Sundowner -- sometimes called Weeven after their planet, or Lampshade for their appearance -- is a member of a vacuum-adapted Minor Race native to Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812), where their population numbers in the tens of billions.

Physiology & Environment

Sundowners leach light metals and oxygen from their world's regolith, which they convert into a form of rocket fuel used to migrate.

The billions of Sundowners on Weeven trundle slowly along the surface, other than when they jet hundreds of metres to cross an unappetising area of bedrock. These jumps take several minutes to complete. A faster leap is possible with greater thrust, but Sundowners do not think quickly enough to course correct if such a step is taken.

History & Background (Dossier)

Some Sundowners have been induced to perform resource extraction tasks for their world's Solomani population.

Psychology & Philosophy

The Sundowners are sophont but very slow thinkers. They operate on a different sense of time, and communication with other species is difficult. They are long-lived and in no hurry regarding any facet of life. They perceive other carbon-based lifeforms as fleeting and ephemeral when compared to their gradual progress through existence. They sometimes acknowledge and even work for the Human colonists on Weeven, but a conversation (technologically assisted) takes place over months.

Astrography

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

• Alpha Crucis Sector
  • Oriah Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812)

World Listing

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

1 of 1 World articles in Sundowner

Weeven  •  

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), 152.
• Martin Dougherty. Solomani Front (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 13.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science