Traveller Gene
The Traveller Gene: Most people (indeed, whole species) never leave their homeworld: they never venture out of their gravity well, content to work, play, and even thrive on their home planet. Some postulate that there is a genetic basis for the drive of some (and the lack of drive in others) to reach beyond the bounds of a single world into the greater universe: a Traveller Gene. [1]
- The term is tantamount to dubbing someone a Spacer or Starfarer.
- They are also known as adventurers, coddiwomples, and by a plethora of other terms.
- In the Vilani language, they are known as Deraabelars.
Library Data Referral Trees[edit]
Cultural Mores[edit]
Other[edit]
- Interstellar Travelling (Travelling in Charted Space)
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Many, perhaps most, sophont species are composed of great demographic masses with little motivation to do more than eat, sleep, reproduce, and otherwise survive. Very successful sophont societies learn to encourage, foster, and otherwise support the members of their society who want to do more, who have that drive to succeed.
Travellers travel. They move between worlds as well as on their surfaces. The distances such travel covers may be interplanetary or interstellar in scale. [2]
Major Race Traveller Matrix[edit]
Name | Race | Society | Remarks |
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Ihatei | Aslan | Aslan Hierate | Aslan Ihatei: TBD |
Praytsirv | Droyne | Droyne Oytrip Yatroy | Droyne Dynamism : TBD |
Topical Club | Hiver | Hive Federation | Hiver Enigmatism: TBD |
Imperial Scout | Imperial Man | Third Imperium | Imperial Spirit: TBD |
Steppelord | K'kree | Two Thousand Worlds | K'kree Gregariousness: |
Terra-Competitiveness | Solomani | Solomani Confederation | Solomani Soul: Tribalism... |
Logaksu | Vargr | Vargr Extents | Vargr Wanderlust: TBD |
Deraabelar | Vilani | Ziru Sirka | Vilani Enterprise |
Divl Iadliavr | Zhodani | Zhodani Consulate | Zhodani Enigmas: TBD |
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
Every generation seems to produce great Travellers, and yet a few are still widely remembered, even commemorated throughout Charted Space for their immense achievements.
Famous Travellers of Charted Space[edit]
The following individuals are among the best known Travellers that Charted Space has produced:
Famous Travellers of Charted Space | ||||||||
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Name | Race | Society | Accomplishment/s | Remarks | ||||
Ktouwaatritoikh | Aslan | Aslan Hierate | Bridged the Great Rift. | The Aslan were traditionally hemmed in by the Great Rift and the Rim, Ktouwaatritoikh broke those barriers and found a way to broach the Great Rift, an event of major political, expansionistic, and even spiritual significance within Aslan society. | ||||
Yaskoydray | Droyne | Droyne Oytrip Yatroy | Mythical founder figure of the Droyne. | Yaskoydray is a legendary figure to the Droyne and a little known and mythical figure to the other races. Before the present greater civilization of Charted Space existed, it is widely believed that Yaskoydray led a burgeoning space empire. And then he (maybe she?) disappeared... Some say that he was slain in the Final War, but no one really knows except perhaps the Droyne and they are not telling. | ||||
M. Primus | Hiver | Hive Federation | Founder of modern Hiver culture. | M. Primus, master of the manipulation, founded modern Hiver culture as we know it. | ||||
Cleon I | Human:
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Third Imperium | Founded the Third Imperium. | Cleon I became the Grand Duke of the Sylean Federation transforming it into an expansive interstellar empire, bring disparate worlds out of the Long Night into a new sense of order. He proclaimed himself Emperor of the Third Imperium and established the existing interstellar order. | ||||
Hiroshi Tokugawa Estigarribia |
Human: | Solomani Confederation | Founded the Rule of Man | Hiroshi Tokugawa Estigarribia was a strongman who overcame the Ziru Sirka and abolished the Terran Confederation in favor of the Rule of Man. | ||||
Ushimkarun Primerius | Human: | Ziru Sirka | Founded the Ziru Sirka. | Ushimkarun Primerius was most likely the first Shadow Emperor, a man who united the bureaux to a degree never seen before and brought Vilani culture together in a way that hadn't been seen in centuries. | ||||
Viepchakliashtikon | Human: | Zhodani Consulate | Helped to found the early Zhodani culture | Viepchakliashtikon was one of the most influential men of learning, science, and psionics. He helped to create the Zhodani Scientific Method and was a major reformer of Morality's Path. | ||||
Nightmane the Wise | K'kree | Two Thousand Worlds | Helped to unite early K'kree. | Nightmane the Wise helped to form the cultural structures that still shape K'kree society: Militant vegetarianism, anti-carnivoranism, and herd-family values. These have helped the K'kree to become an interstellar society and one of the major races of Charted Space. | ||||
Knurroe the Great | Vargr | Vargr Extents | Helped to unite the early Vargr. | Knurroe the Great had a sense of freedom and curiosity that has ever inspired future generation of Vargr. |
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
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- Classic Traveller Book 2 Starships
- T5 Core Rules
- Novel: Far Future Enterprises Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
- ↑ Marc Miller. Agent of the Imperium (Far Future Enterprises, 2015), TBD.
- ↑ Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 4.