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== History & Background (Dossier) == | == History & Background (Dossier) == | ||
Thus the [[Sword Worlder]]s and inhabitants of the [[Islands Cluster]] subsectors are not minor human races, even though they did evolve their societies while separated from the mainstream of human society, because they were not planted by the Ancients. | Thus the [[Sword Worlder]]s and inhabitants of the [[Islands Cluster]] subsectors are not minor human races, even though they did evolve their societies while separated from the mainstream of human society, because they were not planted by the Ancients. | ||
| − | * Likewise, geneered races like the [[Jonkeereen]] are not ''minor human races'' but [[:Category:Variant Human Race|variant human races]]. | + | * Likewise, geneered races like the [[Jonkeereen]] are not considered ''minor human races'' by some, but are sometimes referred to as [[:Category:Variant Human Race|variant human races]]. |
== References & Contributors (Sources) == | == References & Contributors (Sources) == | ||
Revision as of 18:08, 1 February 2016
Minor human races are distinguished from major human races by the fact that minor human races didn't discover jump drive on their own, while major races have.
Description (Specifications)
A human population whose ancestors were believed to have been planted on a world of their own by the Ancients around -300,000 and who developed separately from other human-inhabited worlds until it was eventually contacted by a star-faring society.
History & Background (Dossier)
Thus the Sword Worlders and inhabitants of the Islands Cluster subsectors are not minor human races, even though they did evolve their societies while separated from the mainstream of human society, because they were not planted by the Ancients.
- Likewise, geneered races like the Jonkeereen are not considered minor human races by some, but are sometimes referred to as variant human races.
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.
- Traveller: The New Era The Regency Sourcebook
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science