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The tree-like Hresh can grow to 3m tall, with a ball of branches and leaves some 2m in diameter, though they are quite light for their size (just 90 to 110 kg). Their bodies are covered with tough, fibrous bark, though their root-tentacles are far more tender. Hresh have from thirty to fifty individual “branch arms” of 0.5 to 2.0 meters in length, though their limited mobility makes these unusable for, say, hand-to-hand combat. Each arm has up to ten “branch fingers” along its length, giving them many two-fingered hands but with poor manipulation. The Hresh brain can control every finger/arm manipulator independently, allowing them to perform hundreds of small tasks at once, though they are incapable of reacting swiftly enough to use this for multiple at- tacks in combat. Still, the Hresh can bring great strength to bear. In general, Hresh have rather poor agility and cannot use human personal equipment. Their casual movement rate is in inches per hour, but they can match a human walk if pressed.  
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|name        = Hresh
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|image      = Hresh 350.png
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|caption    = Adult
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|type        = Producer
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|status      = Minor Race
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|terrain    = Forest
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|locomotion  = Walker
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|code        = Hres
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|confluence  = Non-humanoid
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|typoid      = Alien
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|size       = 3.0 [[meter]]s
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|weight      = 110 [[kg]]
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|languages  = Native Language
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|government  = Balkanization
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|epoch      = TL:0-3
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|psi        = Standard
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|home        = [[Shashwas (world)|Shashwas]], [[Vland_Sector|Vland 2319]]
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|uwp        = D866774-2
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|pop        = 1
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|primary    = G2 V
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|atmo        = Standard
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|multi      = No
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|existing    = Yes
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|ref        = {{Ludography ref|name=Aliens Archive|page=59-68}}
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|canon      = Yes
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|author      =
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|era        = 1105
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|gravity    = Standard
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|limbs      = 20-ped
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|symmetry    = N-ial
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|TL          = TL-1
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A [[Minor Race]] with a non-Humanoid appearance.
  
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Hresh light-sensitive leaves allow them to perceive events all around them, seeing twice as far as humans and making out close-up details twice as well. They can also distinguish light somewhat above and below the human spectrum. Hearing is roughly equivalent to the human norm, but their sense of smell can only detect intensities of odor, and taste is largely limited to detecting poisoned water. The Hresh sense of touch also tends to be imprecise: they can easily detect bumps or blows, but must pay more attention to detect soft touches or breezes. They are mute, and communicate by funneling breezes through their leaves.  
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The tree-like [[Hresh]] can grow to 3.0 meters tall, with a ball of branches and leaves some 2.0 meters in diameter, though they are quite light for their size, just 90 to 110 kilograms.
  
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The Hresh are photosynthetic: they do not eat, but do require sunlight and water. If deprived of adequate light and water for two weeks or so, they may enter a “photosynthetic priority” state to renew their energy stores. Though flexible in schedule, normally they spend 22 out of 44 hours in a resting state, still remaining more alert than a sleeping human. Hresh grow rapidly from seedpod to seedling (a few weeks) to immobile but sentient sapling (1.8 years) to free-moving adult (1.8 years). Full size is attained within another 3.6 years, and Hresh can live for 90 to 180 years before hardening of the “bark” causes immobility, then for up to 300 more years.  
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== Physical Sophontology ==
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Hresh bodies are covered with tough, fibrous bark, though their root-tentacles are far more tender.  
  
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The Hresh have a strong mothering instinct, often carrying with them a menagerie of small animals inhabiting their branches. Indeed, they will almost automatically extend courtesies and aid to any non-threatening creature less than about half man-sized. They become disturbed by the human practice of eating such creatures (or even innocent plants), and indeed send prophets throughout known space preaching their “photosynthetic bigotry”. Hresh are gregarious among themselves and lonesome when isolated from their fellows. Their own peaceful communal lifestyles make them distrustful of centralized, controlling governments. Hresh physical technology is Stone-Age (TL0), though they have an interesting biotechnology based on grafting, giving them missile weapons and containers (TL1).
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Hresh have from thirty to fifty individual "branch arms" of 0.5 to 2.0 meters in length, though their limited mobility makes these unusable for hand-to-hand combat. Each arm has up to ten "branch fingers" along its length, giving them the equivalent of many two-fingered hands, albeit clumsy ones. The Hresh brain can control every finger/arm manipulator independently, allowing them to perform hundreds of small tasks at once, though they are incapable of reacting swiftly enough to use this for multiple attacks in combat. Still, the Hresh can bring great strength to bear. Their casual movement rate is in inches per hour, but they can match a [[human]] walk if pressed.
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In general, Hresh have rather poor agility and cannot use human personal equipment.
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=== Senses ===
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Hresh light-sensitive leaves allow them to perceive events all around them, seeing twice as far as humans and making out details twice as well. They can also distinguish light somewhat above and below the human spectrum. Hearing is roughly equivalent to the human norm, but their sense of smell can only detect intensities of odor, and taste is largely limited to detecting poisoned water. The Hresh sense of touch also tends to be imprecise: they can easily detect bumps or blows, but must pay more attention to detect soft touches or breezes. They are mute, and communicate by funneling breezes through their leaves.
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=== Diet and Trophics ===
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The Hresh are [[photosynthetic]]: they do not eat, but do require sunlight and water. If deprived of adequate light and water for two weeks or so, they may enter a "photosynthetic priority" state to renew their energy stores. Though flexible in schedule, normally they spend 22 out of 44 hours in a resting state, still remaining more alert than a sleeping human.
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=== Life Cycle and Reproduction ===
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Hresh grow rapidly from seedpod to seedling (a few weeks) to immobile but [[sentient]] sapling (1.8 years) to free-moving adult (1.8 years). Full size is attained within another 3.6 years, and Hresh can live for 90 to 180 years before hardening of the "bark" causes immobility, then for up to 300 more years.
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== Cultural Sophontology ==
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The Hresh have a strong mothering instinct, often carrying with them a menagerie of small animals inhabiting their branches. Indeed, they will almost automatically extend courtesies and aid to any non-threatening creature less than about half man-sized. They become disturbed by the human practice of eating such creatures (or even innocent plants), and indeed send prophets throughout known space preaching their "photosynthetic bigotry." Hresh are gregarious amongst themselves and lonesome when isolated from their fellows.
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== Societal Sophontology ==
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The peaceful communal lifestyles of the Hresh make them distrustful of centralized, controlling [[government]]s. Hresh governance, when required, is composed of the [[Hresh Council of Elders]].
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Hresh physical technology is Stone-Age {{TL|0}}, though they have an interesting [[biotechnology]] based on grafting, giving them [[missile]] weapons and containers at {{TL|1}}.
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== Astrography ==
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There are thousands of Hresh communities scattered among the Human worlds of the [[Third Imperium]].
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=== Homeworld ===
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The Hresh homeworld is [[Shashwas (world)|Shashwas]].
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=== World Listing: 1105 ===
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Significant communities of Hresh are known to exist within the following systems and worlds:
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{{ClusterWorlds2}}
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== References and contributors ==
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{{Intermediate}}
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{{Detail}}
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{{Sources
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|S1= {{Ludography cite|name=Marc Miller's Traveller|page=148}}
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|S2= {{Ludography cite|name=Aliens Archive|page=59-68}}
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|S3= 
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}}
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[[Category: Aliens Archive Sophont]]
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[[Category: Biotechnology]]
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[[Category: Hresh]]
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[[Category: Phytoid]]
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[[Category: Plantoid]]
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[[Category: Third Imperium races]]
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{{LE|Races}}

Latest revision as of 02:10, 2 August 2025

Hresh
Hresh 350.png
Adult
Base Information
Classification Producer
Status Minor Race
Locomotion Walker
Terrain Forest
Body Form
Confluence Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid Alien
Size 3.0 meters
Weight 110 kg
Culture
Languages Native Language
Social Structure Balkanization
Technological Epoch TL:0-3
Psionic potential Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location Shashwas, Vland 2319
UWP
D866774-2
StarportD Poor: No Construction, Minor Repair, Unrefined fuel
Size8 Large (12,800 km, 0.80g - 1.08g)
Atmosphere6 Standard
Hydrographics6 Wet World 60%
Population7 Moderate (10 million)
Government7 Balkanization
Law4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons)
Tech Level2 Pre-Industrial (printing)
Primary Star G2 V
Atmosphere Standard
Off-world presence No
Zoetic individuals Yes
Source
Reference Aliens Archive 59-68.
Canon Yes
Also see

A Minor Race with a non-Humanoid appearance.

The tree-like Hresh can grow to 3.0 meters tall, with a ball of branches and leaves some 2.0 meters in diameter, though they are quite light for their size, just 90 to 110 kilograms.

Physical Sophontology[edit]

Hresh bodies are covered with tough, fibrous bark, though their root-tentacles are far more tender.

Hresh have from thirty to fifty individual "branch arms" of 0.5 to 2.0 meters in length, though their limited mobility makes these unusable for hand-to-hand combat. Each arm has up to ten "branch fingers" along its length, giving them the equivalent of many two-fingered hands, albeit clumsy ones. The Hresh brain can control every finger/arm manipulator independently, allowing them to perform hundreds of small tasks at once, though they are incapable of reacting swiftly enough to use this for multiple attacks in combat. Still, the Hresh can bring great strength to bear. Their casual movement rate is in inches per hour, but they can match a human walk if pressed.

In general, Hresh have rather poor agility and cannot use human personal equipment.

Senses[edit]

Hresh light-sensitive leaves allow them to perceive events all around them, seeing twice as far as humans and making out details twice as well. They can also distinguish light somewhat above and below the human spectrum. Hearing is roughly equivalent to the human norm, but their sense of smell can only detect intensities of odor, and taste is largely limited to detecting poisoned water. The Hresh sense of touch also tends to be imprecise: they can easily detect bumps or blows, but must pay more attention to detect soft touches or breezes. They are mute, and communicate by funneling breezes through their leaves.

Diet and Trophics[edit]

The Hresh are photosynthetic: they do not eat, but do require sunlight and water. If deprived of adequate light and water for two weeks or so, they may enter a "photosynthetic priority" state to renew their energy stores. Though flexible in schedule, normally they spend 22 out of 44 hours in a resting state, still remaining more alert than a sleeping human.

Life Cycle and Reproduction[edit]

Hresh grow rapidly from seedpod to seedling (a few weeks) to immobile but sentient sapling (1.8 years) to free-moving adult (1.8 years). Full size is attained within another 3.6 years, and Hresh can live for 90 to 180 years before hardening of the "bark" causes immobility, then for up to 300 more years.

Cultural Sophontology[edit]

The Hresh have a strong mothering instinct, often carrying with them a menagerie of small animals inhabiting their branches. Indeed, they will almost automatically extend courtesies and aid to any non-threatening creature less than about half man-sized. They become disturbed by the human practice of eating such creatures (or even innocent plants), and indeed send prophets throughout known space preaching their "photosynthetic bigotry." Hresh are gregarious amongst themselves and lonesome when isolated from their fellows.

Societal Sophontology[edit]

The peaceful communal lifestyles of the Hresh make them distrustful of centralized, controlling governments. Hresh governance, when required, is composed of the Hresh Council of Elders.

Hresh physical technology is Stone-Age TL–0, though they have an interesting biotechnology based on grafting, giving them missile weapons and containers at TL–1.

Astrography[edit]

There are thousands of Hresh communities scattered among the Human worlds of the Third Imperium.

Homeworld[edit]

The Hresh homeworld is Shashwas.

World Listing: 1105[edit]

Significant communities of Hresh are known to exist within the following systems and worlds:

2 of 2 World articles in Hresh
Dingir  •  Shudi  •  
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References and contributors[edit]

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