Alejia

Alejia
Base Information
Classification
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Walker
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Alien
Size
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Oligarchy
Technological Epoch	TL:7-9
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Marinagua (Theta Borealis 1517)
UWP	A6B5530-9 Starport A Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel Size 6 Medium (9,600 km, 0.60g - 0.81g) Atmosphere B Exotic (corrosive) Hydrographics 5 Wet World 50% Population 5 Moderate (300 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 0 No Law Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
Primary Star	A0 V
Atmosphere	Corrosive
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Marinagua 8.
Canon	No
Also see

The Alejia of Marinagua (Theta Borealis 1517) are a technologically competent Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

The Alejia are flexible, long necked, long-limbed, and are described as never still or constantly moving.

Along an Alejia's back is a series of three humps. The hump nearest the head houses the brain beneath a thick skull layer. The other two humps are water-storage organs.

Their six-digit hands have two opposable thumbs.

Psychology

The Alejia exhibit recognized characteristics of intelligence:

• Conceptual thought, including abstract language.
• Social structure, including social organization.
• Tool use, allowing environmental manipulation.

Alejia psychology is driven by factors common to many sophonts:

• Acquisition (stemming from the need to gather adequate nutrition),
• Preservation (derived from the need to continue their personal existence), and
• Perpetuation (the urge to continue the species).

Reproduction

The Alejia are hermaphroditic. They lay leathery-shelled eggs in concealed caves and holes (or specially built caches in the civilized territories).

History & Background (Dossier)

Suspicious of each other and actively hostile to outsiders, Alejja usually hide rather than fight if they don't have a 2-to-1 advantage. They are hoarders, with excellent memories for the hundreds of places they choose to hide their treasures. Cache-invasion, no matter how inadvertent, results in violence. As of 1105, their society is in the grip of an apparent breakdown, with most areas outside fortified strongholds now essentially lawless.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:

• Theta Borealis Sector
  • Borealis Kantel Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Marinagua (Theta Borealis 1517)

World Listings

Comprehensive Second Survey UWP data for all worlds with significant communities of this race is available.

• The primary source material for all data is Traveller Map.
• Other sources may contain contradictory or incorrect information.

1 of 1 World articles in Alejia

Marinagua  •  

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Note that some Second Survey data, though only 40 years old, is likely to be out of date.

• Data is occasionally updated as new information becomes available.
• Scouting missions gathering reliable, verified data can receive substantial payment.
• Verified updated data is constantly sought.

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.

• Bill Bledsaw. Marinagua (Group One, 1981), 8.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science