Tktk

Tktk
Base Information
Classification	Omnivore/gatherer
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Flyer
Terrain	Open
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Reptillianoid
Size	0.8 meters
Weight	40.0 kg
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Anarchy
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Tktk (Trojan Reach 1618)
UWP	D542640-6 Starport D Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 2 Dry World 20% Population 6 Moderate (5 million) Government 4 Representative Democracy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 6 Pre-Stellar (nuclear)
Primary Star	F5 V M3 V
Atmosphere	Thin (tainted)
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Aslan 180.
Canon	Yes
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The Tktk of Tktk (Trojan Reach 1618) are a technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

Physiology and Environment (Ecology)

While the Tktk are unlikely to have evolved on the small worldlet they call home, Human scientists have failed to find a Tktk world of origin. They resemble Chirpers and are usually considered to be a genetically-engineered variant of that race.

Tktks have adaptations to the thin, tainted atmosphere of their world, possessing larger lungs than other Chirpers, a broader chest cavity, and more extensive blood vessels. They are also more linguistically sophisticated than most Chirpers, and have a robust storytelling culture and mythology.

Culture and Society

Tktks are generally a nomadic species who mostly inhabit regions deep in their planet's deserts and mountain ranges, areas with limited access to water. Research teams from Dostoevsky and Gabriel are studying the migratory patterns of the Tktks in an effort to determine how they survive; one theory is that they use low-level psionic abilities to find water in oases and aquifers far from the planet's seas. Tktk populations that live adjacent to Human habitations mostly exist in harmony with them. Some Tktks have been known to participate in Human agricultural activities, helping with light farm work in return for access to food, trinkets and other goods.

History & Background (Dossier)

Tktk legends tell of a time when warring gods ‘put out the eyes of night.’ Fringe scientists have speculated that these stories refer to an Ancient weapon capable of snuffing out a star, and that there might be frozen planets in the Trojan Bight that were lost when their star was destroyed.

Astrography

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

• Trojan Reach Sector
  • Dpres Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Tktk (Trojan Reach 1618)

World Listing: 1105

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

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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.

• Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), 180.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science