Difference between revisions of "Shrieker"

Starport	E	Frontier - no facilities
Size	5	Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g)
Atmosphere	3	Vacuum (very thin)
Hydrographics	2	Dry World 20%
Population	0	Barren (1)
Government	0	No Government structure
Law	0	No Law
Tech Level	0	Pre-Industrial (primitive)

Primary Star

G5 III M9 V

Atmosphere

Very Thin

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Safari Ship 10-12.

Canon

Yes

Also see

Quasi-arachnoid

The Shriekers of 567-908 (Spinward Marches 1031) are technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

Shriekers are omnivores evolved from plains gatherer/scavengers. Superficially, they resemble gigantic, short-legged tarantulas.

Language & Letters (Communication)

The Shrieker name derives from their manner of speech, which uses high-frequency sounds which is bellowed (shrieked) through the thin atmosphere of 567-908 by trained speakers. Corporations have produced translator devices to shift the Shrieker vocalizations into the range of human hearing. Shriekers also use a complex set of gestures as part of their language, called Yiirabarhi.

History & Background (Dossier)

Darrian explorers visited 567-908 before the Maghiz; any records they made of the world are probably in a lockbox in the basement of one of their more ancient universities.

The first visit by an Imperial citizen was in 480. The scout Mtume Denuli landed there for repairs, discovered Denuli Crystals. His original reports to the IISS showed no inhabitants, omitting all mention of the Shriekers. The next visit to the world was in 1108, when the Shriekers were discovered by Kafka Thingvellir Safari Ship 10-12..

By 1201, the world had been re-named to Shvreeyiyi, the name the Shriekers use to refer to their land. By 1248 the name had officially changed to Denuli in honor of Mtume Denuli. Records are garbled after that, but by the time Scouts were once again exploring the Wilderness, the name reverted back to Shvreeyiyi.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:

Spinward Marches Sector
- District 268 Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

567-908 (Spinward Marches 1031)

World Listing: 1105

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

No world articles for Shrieker

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.

Marc Miller. Safari Ship (Game Designers Workshop, 1984), 10-12.
Martin Dougherty, Neil Frier. Behind the Claw (Steve Jackson Games, 1998), 73.
Steve Jackson, Loren Wiseman. Alien Races 4 (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), 107-115.
Shawn Havranek, Loren Wiseman. Planetary Survey 2: Denuli (Steve Jackson Games, 2001), all.
Mike West. The Spinward States (Avenger Enterprises, 2008), 110.
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science

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 |multi       = No
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-|primary     = G5 V M9 V
+|primary     = G5 III M9 V
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 == Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
-[[Shrieker]]s are crustacean-like omnivores evolved from plains gatherer/scavengers. Superficially, they resemble gigantic, short-legged tarantulas.
+[[Shrieker]]s are omnivores evolved from plains gatherer/scavengers. Superficially, they resemble gigantic, short-legged tarantulas.
 === Language & Letters (Communication)===
-The Shrieker name derives from their manner of speech, which uses high-frequency sounds which must be bellowed through the thin atmosphere of 567-908 by trained speakers. [[Corporation]]s have produced translator devices to shift the Shieker vocalizations into the range of human hearing. Shriekers also use a complex set of gestures as part of their language, called [[Yiirabarhi]].
+The Shrieker name derives from their manner of speech, which uses high-frequency sounds which is bellowed (''shrieked'') through the thin atmosphere of 567-908 by trained speakers. [[Corporation]]s have produced translator devices to shift the Shrieker vocalizations into the range of human hearing. Shriekers also use a complex set of gestures as part of their language, called [[Yiirabarhi]].
 == History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
-Some of the IISS records show the name of the world and the species as ''Denuli'', named for [[Mtume Denuli]] the Scout that originally encounter the Shriekers in [[480]]. His original reports to the IISS showed no inhabitants, omitting all mention of the Shriekers.
+Darrian explorers visited 567-908 before the Maghiz; any records they made of the world are probably in a lockbox in the basement of one of their more ancient universities.
-The next visit to discover the Shrikers was in [[1108]].
+The first visit by an Imperial citizen was in [[480]]. The scout [[Mtume Denuli]] landed there for repairs, discovered [[Denuli Crystals]]. His original reports to the IISS showed no inhabitants, omitting all mention of the Shriekers. The next visit to the world was in [[1108]], when the Shriekers were discovered by Kafka Thingvellir {{Ludography ref|name= Safari Ship|page=10-12}}.
+By [[1201]], the world had been re-named to ''Shvreeyiyi'', the name the Shriekers use to refer to their land. By [[1248]] the name had officially changed to ''Denuli'' in honor of [[Mtume Denuli]]. Records are garbled after that, but by the time Scouts were once again exploring the Wilderness, the name reverted back to ''Shvreeyiyi''.
 == [[Astrography]] ==

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