Ciruwar

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	7	Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g)
Atmosphere	6	Standard
Hydrographics	6	Wet World 60%
Population	A	High (A0 billion)
Government	7	Balkanization
Law	7	Moderate Law (no firearms)
Tech Level	D	Average Stellar (holo data)

Primary Star

Atmosphere

Sandard

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

T5 Second Survey - [T]

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Ciruwar of Kiru (Ruupiin 0212) are a Minor Non-Human Race with a somewhat humanoid appearance and are technologically competent sophonts.

Description (Specifications)

The Ciruwar are a bipedal, warm-blooded race with long, thin limbs, a low-set pear shaped body, and a long funnel-shaped head suited to probing the colonies of their favorite food: the local equivalent of insects. They are naturally insectivorous but are not obligated to do so, and are, insects aside, almost entirely herbivorous.

History & Background (Dossier)

the Ciruwar have an extensive history of bucolic rural existence, gradual industrialization, and a penchant for long, intractable, bloody wars. They have traditionally farmed a variety of fruits and vegetables, and raise, in the still-fertile parts of their homeworld, several types of domestic animal for labor and byproducts.

Their history of warfare has led to at least one nuclear exchange which left parts of their world uninhabitable. In a period of recovery, this cycle was to be interrupted by the arrival of other beings from space: the K'kree.

The Ciruwar were an early contact by the expanding K'kree, as they were located a little over a subsector to spinward from Kirur. Their diet of insects and insect byproducts was disturbing to the K'kree, who contacted the largest city of the Ciruwar and issued their Mandate: abandon the eating of meat and join us, or be destroyed. The Ciruwar agreed on general principal, and the K'kree fleet moved on, replaced by cultural missions and more veiled threats.

The K'kree who landed were confused by the absence of any artifacts of prior meat eating, and in particular the odors they knew were associated with the foul practice. When the Ciruwar explained that they only ate bugs and were already vegetarian otherwise, the K'kree in charge of their integration became more sympathetic. As farmers themselves, the K'kree disliked most insects, and by a happy accident of biology, the insects of Kiru and the digestion of the Ciruwar did not produce the chemical odors of death the K'kree reacted so violently to.

Kiru did, however, produce foodstuffs that were pleasing to the K'kree, and commerce both with Kirur and to the fleets became an early point of common interest. The Herd Patriarchs set to oversee the Ciruwar struck deals with the leaders of the Ciruwar, and while they were not allowed off their planet for many years, the Ciruwar became one of the earliest useful clients of the K'kree.

Astrography

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

Ruupiin Sector
- Ignakuukrhka Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Kiru (Ruupiin 0212)

World Listing: 1105

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

No world articles for Ciruwar

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T5 Second Survey
Author: Jim Kundert