Traveller Gene

The Traveller Gene: Most people (indeed, whole species) never leave their homeworld: they never venture out of their gravity well, content to work, play, and even thrive on their home planet. Some postulate that there is a genetic basis for the drive of some (and the lack of drive in others) to reach beyond the bounds of a single world into the greater universe: a Traveller Gene.

• The term is tantamount to dubbing someone a Spacer or Starfarer.
• They are also known as adventurers, coddiwomples, and by a plethora of other terms.
• In the Vilani language, they are known as Deraabelars.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please see the following AAB Library Data articles for more information:

• Interstellar Travelling (Travelling in Charted Space)
  • First Meal
  • Jump Dimming
  • Signal-GK
  • Travel Passage
  • Travel Zones
    • Interdiction
  • Traveller Gene
  • Travelling Society

Description (Specifications)

Many, perhaps most, sophont species are composed of great demographic masses with little motivation to do more than eat, sleep, reproduce, and otherwise survive. Very successful sophont societies learn to encourage, foster, and otherwise support the members of their society who want to do more, who have that drive to succeed.

Travellers travel. They move between worlds as well as on their surfaces. The distances such travel covers may be interplanetary or interstellar in scale.

Major Race Traveller Matrix

Travelling Mindsets

Name	Race	Society	Remarks
Ihatei	Aslan	Aslan Hierate	Aslan Ihatei: TBD
Praytsirv	Droyne	Droyne Oytrip Yatroy	Droyne Dynamism : TBD
Topical Club	Hiver	Hive Federation	Hiver Enigmatism: TBD
Imperial Scout	Imperial Man	Third Imperium	Imperial Spirit: TBD
Steppelord	K'kree	Two Thousand Worlds	K'kree Gregariousness:
Terra-Competitiveness	Solomani	Solomani Confederation	Solomani Soul: Tribalism...
Logaksu	Vargr	Vargr Extents	Vargr Wanderlust: TBD
Deraabelar	Vilani	Ziru Sirka	Vilani Enterprise
Divl Iadliavr	Zhodani	Zhodani Consulate	Zhodani Enigmas: TBD

History & Background (Dossier)

Every generation seems to produce great Travellers, and yet a few are still widely remembered, even commemorated throughout Charted Space for their immense achievements.

Famous Travellers of Charted Space

The following individuals are among the best known Travellers that Charted Space has produced:

Famous Travellers of Charted Space
Name	Race	Society	Accomplishment/s	Remarks
Ktouwaatritoikh	Aslan	Aslan Hierate	Bridged the Great Rift.	The Aslan were traditionally hemmed in by the Great Rift and the Rim, Ktouwaatritoikh broke those barriers and found a way to broach the Great Rift, an event of major political, expansionistic, and even spiritual significance within Aslan society.
Yaskoydray	Droyne	Droyne Oytrip Yatroy	Mythical founder figure of the Droyne.	Yaskoydray is a legendary figure to the Droyne and a little known and mythical figure to the other races. Before the present greater civilization of Charted Space existed, it is widely believed that Yaskoydray led a burgeoning space empire. And then he (maybe she?) disappeared... Some say that he was slain in the Final War, but no one really knows except perhaps the Droyne and they are not telling.
M. Primus	Hiver	Hive Federation	Founder of modern Hiver culture.	M. Primus, master of the manipulation, founded modern Hiver culture as we know it.
Cleon I	Human: Imperial	Third Imperium	Founded the Third Imperium.	Cleon I became the Grand Duke of the Sylean Federation transforming it into an expansive interstellar empire, bring disparate worlds out of the Long Night into a new sense of order. He proclaimed himself Emperor of the Third Imperium and established the existing interstellar order.
Hiroshi Tokugawa Estigarribia	Human: Solomani	Solomani Confederation	Founded the Rule of Man	Hiroshi Tokugawa Estigarribia was a strongman who overcame the Ziru Sirka and abolished the Terran Confederation in favor of the Rule of Man.
Ushimkarun Primerius	Human: Vilani	Ziru Sirka	Founded the Ziru Sirka.	Ushimkarun Primerius was most likely the first Shadow Emperor, a man who united the bureaux to a degree never seen before and brought Vilani culture together in a way that hadn't been seen in centuries.
Viepchakliashtikon	Human: Zhodani	Zhodani Consulate	Helped to found the early Zhodani culture	Viepchakliashtikon was one of the most influential men of learning, science, and psionics. He helped to create the Zhodani Scientific Method and was a major reformer of Morality's Path.
Nightmane the Wise	K'kree	Two Thousand Worlds	Helped to unite early K'kree.	Nightmane the Wise helped to form the cultural structures that still shape K'kree society: Militant vegetarianism, anti-carnivoranism, and herd-family values. These have helped the Kkree to become an interstellar society and one of the major races of Charted Space.
Knurroe the Great	Vargr	Vargr Extents	Helped to unite the early Vargr.	Knurroe the Great had a sense of freedom and curiosity that has ever inspired future generation of Vargr.

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