Sundowner

Sundowner
Base Information
Classification	Autotroph
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Sessile
Terrain	Plains
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Cosmoid
Size
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812)
UWP	E310A9A-C Starport E Frontier - no facilities Size 3 Small (4,800 km, 0.24g - 0.34g) Atmosphere 1 Vacuum (trace) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population A High (90 billion) Government 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy Law A Extreme Law (no weapons) Tech Level C Average Stellar (robots)
Primary Star	M4 III D
Atmosphere	Trace
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Solomani 152.
Canon	Yes
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The Sundowners of Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812) are a technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

A Sundowner, or Lampshade, is a member of a sedentary vacuum-adapted Minor Race native to Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812), where their population numbers in the billions.

Physiology & Environment

They leach light metals and oxygen from the world’s regolith, which they convert into a form of rocket fuel used to migrate.

History & Background (Dossier)

Some Lampshades have been induced to perform resource extraction tasks for the Solomani population.

Psychology & Philosophy

The Sundowners are sentient but very slow thinkers. They operate on a different sense of time. They are long lived and in no hurry for any facet of life. They perceive other carbon based life forms as fleeting and ephemeral when compared to their more gradual progress through existence.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Alpha Crucis Sector
  • Oriah Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Weeven (Alpha Crucis 1812)

World Listing

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

1 of 1 World articles in Sundowner

Weeven  •  

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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.

• David L. Pulver. Solomani (Mongoose Publishing, 2012), 152.
• Martin Dougherty. Solomani Front (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 13.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science