Bye-Ren

Starport	X	No Starport
Size	0	Asteroid/Planetoid Belt
Atmosphere	0	Vacuum
Hydrographics	0	Desert World 0%
Population	0	Barren (0)
Government	0	No Government structure
Law	0	No Law
Tech Level	0	Pre-Industrial (primitive)

Primary Star

Atmosphere

Standard

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Source

Reference

Marc Miller's Traveller 148.

Canon

Yes

Also see

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 a technologically sophisticated sophont species.

They are a Minor Human Race with a humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

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.

History & Background (Dossier)

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.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This race (sophont species) is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space:

Unidentified Sector
- Unidentified Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

Bye-Ren-Ay (world)

Note: 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: 1105

Significant communities of this race (sophont species) are known to dwell on the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Bye-Ren

References & Contributors (Sources)

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Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 148.
Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 13-20.
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Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science