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Revision as of 16:07, 11 April 2019
Native Intelligent Life (or NIL) is another description for sophont or sapient.
- It is a descriptive term for a single world to indicate the native life forms have evolved to be sophonts.
- The term includes TL-0 Proto-Sophonts.
Description (Specifications)
This is a species of highly intelligent native life capable of sentient (feeling), sapient (wise cognizance), and technologically sophisticated behavior. In other words, NILs are at least as sophisticated as proto-sophonts and have begun using tools to construct other tools.
History & Background (Dossier)
While the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service has standardized terminology within Imperial service, non-Imperials use a vast variety of terms for native intelligent species without an interstellar presence including the following:
- Aboriginal
- Indigene
- Native
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 5th Core Rules v5.09, (pages 407, 412, 544)
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science