Bye-Ren
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Homo sapiens byerenus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | Omnivore/gatherer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status | Minor Human Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Size | 1.65 meters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kilograms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Psionic potential | Standard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Homeworld location | Bye-Ren-Ay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
UWP | X000000-0
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Off-world presence | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reference | Marc Miller's Traveller 148. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canon | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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According to an editor's note in Aliens Archive, page 13, this race was called "Rye-Ben" by mistake in the Traveller rulebook and should be called "Bye-Ren". |
The Bye-Ren are an ethnic group most noted for their origin in the hellish crush of a continuous 2G gravity well, producing immense strength and resilience.
Physiology and ecology
Heredity and extensive super-calcification treatments have produced extreme bone density. However, their human heritage combined with their crushed and wrinkled appearance tend to disturb more traditional members of Humaniti.
Bye-Ren adapt easily to lower gravities, but their short legs often cause trouble in keeping up with their taller kin. Their super-rugged metabolism tends to “wear out” sooner than other humans’, even in normal gravity, and the high blood pressure needed in their home environment causes significant bleeding problems.
However, their human heritage combined with their crushed and wrinkled appearance tends to disturb more traditional members of Humaniti.
Archaeological and cultural sophontology
The Bye-Ben are the survivors of a mining expedition abandoned at the end of the First Imperium.
Bye-Ren are extreme in their regard for personal loyalty and refusals to abandon either responsibilities or comrades, and in holding both friendship and enmity for life.
Aesthetics
They tend to disdain luxury and have the interesting social tradition that altitude indicates importance.
Societal sophontology
Since the Bye-Ren have only recently been re-contacted and are still seldom visited, their technology lags far behind the Imperium’s.
Astrography
This race (sophont species) is primarily located in the following areas:
- No information yet available.
Homeworld
Bye-Ren-Ay is a derivation of the Solomani name given to the inhabitants. Technically, the world is the third circling Deltii. The natives have a variety of names for their world, few of them flattering or endearing, the most common being Gu-tes-tray, which translated means "home above death".
World Listing: 1116
Significant communities of this race (sophont species) are known to exist within the following systems and worlds:
References and contributors
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- Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 148.
- Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 13-20.
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science