Denaar

Denaar
Side view of a typical Denaar.
Base Information
Classification	Herbivore/generalist
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Walker (Ambulatory)
Terrain
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid
Size	1.5 m
Weight	70 to 100.0 kg
Culture
Languages
Social Structure
Technological Epoch	TL:7-9
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Matinger (Fornast 1126)
UWP	X000000-0 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	Yes
Source
Reference	Marc Miller's Traveller 147.
Canon	Yes
Also see	Metempsychosis
TBD

The Denaar are a technologically sophisticated sophont species.

• They are a Minor Non-Human Race with a non-humanoid appearance.

Description (Specifications)

The Denaar are a hexopodal species and a Minor Race, native to Matinger (Fornast 1126).

Physical Sophontology

Denaar brain and vital organs are protected beneath a chitin-like, layered carapace, which is tough but flexible. In physical and mental capacity they are much like Humaniti, though they can carry more and require about double the living and work space. Their two brain lobes can, to some extent, compensate for damage, protecting their valuable immortal personality (see below).

Denaar eyesight is roughly equivalent to human, extending only slightly farther into the infrared, but their wider eye separation does allow peripheral vision beyond the human norm. They hear as well as humans in their dense home atmosphere, and their technology can usually compensate in lesser pressures. They have no sense of smell, but extremely sensitive taste perception.

But the Denaar are best known for their "intellect downloading" or, more crudely, "body hopping" ability. No new Denaar personalities have been created for hundreds of millennia: offspring are born without self-awareness or useful intelligence. But when a Denaar's body is damaged or elderly (roughly a fifty years life span), a mere ten minutes' touching of cerebral stems (normally concealed beneath a flap of the carapace) moves the existing Denaar intellect and personality to the new body from the old (which quickly fades and dies, no matter its age or condition). The process can be interrupted without hazard, and a Denaar intellect can survive up to five years in an intact brain lobe. Barring malice or catastrophe, then, an individual Denaar personality is immortal and un-aging.

Denaar virtual immortality causes a lack of concern about disease and serious injury.

• Metempsychosis

History & Background (Dossier)

Archaeological sophontology: Denaar memories, however, are no more lasting than human ones: despite their ancient existence (some recall visits by Second Imperium scouts!), the Denaar, like Humaniti, dwell mainly on the recent past.

Cultural Sophontology

Denaar virtual immortality fosters the cultural values of risk-taking, lack of forethought, and even a devil-may-care attitude. They have a minor cultural bias against mechanisms that replace the power of the mind, such as computers, and that as well as their zero population growth and individualism have probably conspired to keep them at TL–7.

Since their offspring are non-sentient, Denaar have no sense of family, and remain highly individualistic, making friends but highly valuing their independence.

Linguistic Sophontology

Humans and Denaar find each others' languages physically unpronounceable, and thus must rely on writing or language translators for interspecies communication.

• The name for the Denaar Language is Denaari.

Societal Sophontology

The Denaar have an average TL–7 and show no signs of technological progress. Denaar also cannot use human low berths, and have never had appropriate models designed.

Image Repository

A Denaar driving a Wheeled ATV.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

• Fornast Sector
  • Irinkuka Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

• Matinger (world)

World Listing: 1105

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

1 of 1 World articles in Denaar

Matinger  •  

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References & Contributors (Sources)

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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 Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Marc Miller's Traveller (Imperium Games, 1996), 147.
• Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 28-36.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science