Ulane

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	6	Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	2	Dry World 20%
Population	6	Moderate (4 million)
Government	9	Impersonal Bureaucracy
Law	8	High Law (controlled blades)
Tech Level	8	Pre-Stellar (superconductors)

Primary Star

G3 V

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

The Travellers' Digest 17 30-31.

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Ulane of Ul (Dark Nebula 0603) are a technologically competent Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)[edit]

The Ulane are less than one meter long, hollow-boned and delicate. Arboreal hexapods, their distant ancestors originated as flying quadrupeds, but their wings are now vestigial, converted to manipulative digits.

Their diet consists primarily of fruit and nuts, since they require a lot of sugar and protein to sustain their high body temperatures and activity levels. Small animals and insects provide additional protein. Ulane have a heightened metabolism and very fast reactions.

Ulane are adapted to warm climates, but are able to build dwellings that enable them to live anywhere -- although they seldom prefer to.

History & Background[edit]

The Ulane received a few jump-capable ships from the Aslan about 800 Aslan (-1385 Imperial). With their few ships, the Ulane explored a number of worlds in their own subsector and coreward into Reaver's Deep Sector. However, they found most worlds less hospitable than their homeworld of Ul (Dark Nebula 0603). Since they could neither build nor maintain the ships on their own, Ulane expansion soon stopped and the Aslan expansion flowed on around them.

Culture & Society (Ethnology)[edit]

Ulane prefer to live in very small, scattered towns. Most of their worlds have less than one million population owing to the low birthrate and need for large foraging territories. A larger population on a Ulane world indicates that another race lives there also, usually in a non-competing niche.

Social Organization[edit]

The Ulane social structure is built on clans of related families, so that when the Aslan contacted them, the Ulane decided to emulate their benefactors and model their society along Aslan lines. To the Aslan, this attempt has met with only moderate success. Ulane are not at all combative, and their ideas of honor puzzle the Aslan exceedingly. The hierarchy of clan and family dominance was decided by vote shortly after contact, and can be changed the same way, rather than by competition and combat. Still, the structure is useful to the Ulane.

Government & Politics (Leadership)[edit]

Today, most Ulane are part of the Union of Harmony. The rimward side of the Union used to be part of the Ulane Nations (not the "Ulane Hierate", a farcical extrapolation made as part of an infamous practical joke, see: Ulane Hoax.) On the other side, coreward, the Union of Harmony used to be the Celestial League, a Solomani-derived group of colonies of largely Chinese ancestry, which also had peaceful trade contacts with the Ulane. During the Border Wars, the Celestial League was annihilated and annexed by the Hierate, and, while retaining a mostly-Human population, adopted a mix of Solomani and Aslani customs and cultural traditions. As part of the Peace of Ftahalr, the Ulane Nations and former Celestial League became independent from the Hierate as the Union of Harmony, a combined polity of Ulane, Human, and Aslan.

Interstellar Relations[edit]

The Ulane maintain cordial and even friendly relations with the Aslan Hierate.

Commercial Aptitude[edit]

The Ulane are known for artistic rather than technological endeavors, and it is these that the Aslan prize when trading with them.

Astrography[edit]

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

Dark Nebula Sector
- Earle Subsector

Homeworld[edit]

The homeworld of this race is:

Ul (Dark Nebula 0603)

World Listing: 1105[edit]

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

2 of 2 World articles in Ulane

Ul (DN 0603) • Usun •

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References[edit]

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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

Gary L. Thomas, Joe Fugate. "Data/Library: Dark Nebula." The Travellers' Digest 17 (1989): 30-31.
Gareth Hanrahan. Aslan (Mongoose Publishing, 2009), 62.