GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3

GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3
Hiver, Dryone, Ancients and other enigmatic races.
Author		Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack, David Thomas
Publisher		Steve Jackson Games
Version		GURPS Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback)
Language		English
Pages		144
Year Published		2000
Canonical		Yes
Available from		TBD
ISBN 1-55634-431-7 Stock #6608
Table of Contents
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GURPS Traveller: Alien Races 3 is the third book in the GURPS Alien Races series describes two of the MOST alien races in the Traveller universe - the Droyne and the Hivers as well as two minor races.

Description (Specifications)

The Hivers should worry you...

Openly cooperative, apparently pacifistic, reportedly cowardly, the starfish-shaped Hivers don't seem to be empire-building material - but they hold one in a secure grip. They won the only interstellar war they've fought after losing every battle, but with this most alien of the major races, looks almost always deceive. Inscrutable, patient, and subtle, the Hivers puzzle their neighbours more than they worry them. It should be the other way around.

The Droyne should awe you ...

An insectoid race scattered across the Imperium like so many gypsies, the seemingly insignificant Droyne often fall beneath the notice of Humaniti ... and most Humans are foolish enough to think that's their own choice. A series of puzzles in their history and culture suggests that huge secrets lurk behind the compound eyes of these tiny sentients ... and that the most awesome of the major races may come in the smallest package.

Ancient answers await!

Alien races 3 offers an expose on the Ancients themselves, and examines in detail the biology, home worlds, culture, and society of the enigmatic Hivers and cryptic Droyne. Included are racial and career templates, sample equipment and starships, Ancient artefacts, and much more.

This book also includes a set of 36 Droyne "coyns" and instructions for predicting the future and making decisions, Droyne style.

Two new minor races are presented here as well:

• the Inheritors, a race of fluorine breathers living on the shell of an ancient Dyson sphere and "improving" on the technology left behind.
• the Lithkind, a nocturnal species for which mating means death and death means rebirth, and who treat the opposite sex as taboo!

Table of Contents

Introduction	4
1. The Hivers	5
2. The Droyne	63
3. The Ancients	106
4. The Inheritors	121
5. The Lithkind	132
Index	143

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

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Credits (Primary Sources)

Author

Dave Nilsen, David L. Pulver, Andy Slack and David Thomas

Editor

Gene Seabolt and Loren K. Wiseman

Cover

Doug Shuler

Illustrations

Jesse DeGraff, Glenn Grant, Sean Murray, and Ed Northcott

Coyns

Alex Fernandez

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