Bove

Bove
Base Information
Classification	Omnivore/gatherer
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence
Bio-Identenoid
Size	2.5 m
Weight	50.0 kg
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Arkady
UWP	X000000-0 Starport X No Starport Size 0 Asteroid/Planetoid Belt Atmosphere 0 Vacuum Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 0 Barren (0) Government 0 No Government structure Law 0 No Law Tech Level 0 Pre-Industrial (primitive)
Primary Star
Atmosphere
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals
Source
Reference	Aliens Archive .
Canon	Yes
Also see

The Bove are a technologically sophisticated sophont species.

• They are a Minor Non-Human Race with a non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

The Bove are a Minor Race from the world of Arkady.

Physiology & Environment (Ecology)

The Bove of Arkady have an elongated, segmented body structure much like caterpillars (about 2.5m long, 20kg/m), but are endoskeletal and warm-blooded. They have fifteen body segments, each of which (except the head) possesses two limbs. The upper three segments’ limbs are equipped with "hands:" simple, bony, curving pincers like those of crabs. Bove have extremely flexible arm joints: their elbows and wrists are capable of nearly 360-degree rotation. Most of their tactile sense, however, lies not in their pincers but in the half-meter long tongue.

• The Bove have better depth and peripheral vision than humans. They see mostly in the upper infrared, and are blind to human-visible light. They are as agile in trees as Terran monkeys and have tree-pattern camouflage covering the finely meshed microscales of their skin.
• Bove have no centralized brain, instead relying on neuron clusters distributed along a central notochord. Many other bodily functions are similarly distributed. They are hermaphroditic: every two years or so after age 30, when the scent of the Hi’ich flower triggers mating, and after several months gestation, their rearmost body segment breaks off and becomes a hard-shelled egg. A Bove can produce four to eight children in this unique fashion. Its consciousness dissipates with childbearing (the results are akin to Alzheimer’s disease), since segments of notochord with their memories and knowledge are thus passed on to the offspring.
• Bove achieve physical adulthood at age 12 (they are born with full sentience, language, and abstract reasoning), and generally die by age 60 or so. However, only a few thousand or so individuals survive due to over-development of their world by human colonists.

History & Background (Dossier)

Only a few thousand or so individuals survive due to over-development of their world by human colonists.

Language & Letters (Communication)

The Bove are quite good at languages.

Technology & Trade (Economy)

Bove tend to be bad at any math beyond simple addition and subtraction, but are quite good at languages.

Their technological development is still Stone Age.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This race (sophont species) is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• TBD Sector
  • TBD Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

• TBD (world)

World Listing: 1105

Significant communities of this race (sophont species) are known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Bove

References & Contributors (Sources)

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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.

• Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), TBD.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science