Talk:Luriani
Reclassify Luriani? (2014)[edit]
I think that the Luriani should be reclassified as Human Chimera, based on Andrew/Andrea Vallance's Minor Alien Module 1: Luriani, from Mongoose. While they look human, they are not truly interfertile with other humans (except occasionally by accident/mutation); their genetic mechanism for sex determination is not compatible with the stock human twenty-third chromosome pair mechanism. I believe that the 'other part(s)' of the chimerism come from Ancient geneering using aquatic mammaloids of Daramm. Note that in MAM1, Luriani is used for both genetic Luriani and cultural Luriani (Mmarislusant, genetic Vilani, and Verasti Dtareen, genetic Solomani), but I'm reading this list as referring only to the genetic Luriani.
- -- Jeff Zeitlin
- A minor human race which has been genetically altered by the Ancients poses an interesting classification problem. This may be a question which needs to be directed to Don and Marc to make the issue clear.
- - Tjoneslo (talk) 22:04, 9 August 2014 (EDT)
Luriani vs Luriani (2017)[edit]
The Luriani as described by Dave Cheever are not the same as the Luriani described in all the other sources. In Dave's version, their home world is L'sis (Deneb 0409), and the race is not aquatic.
The source material in Alien Realms includes this note:
- [Editor's Note: This race was created for Dave Cheever's campaign and there is no intent that it be part of the official Traveller literature]
Which would explain why Dave's version never shows up anywhere else. I'm leaving the source link for interested parties, but asking that none of Dave's work be incorporated into this article as it conflicting to the point of being unresolvable.