Hana Saka

Starport	A	Excellent: Starship Construction, Overhaul, Refined fuel
Size	9	Large (14,400 km, 1.03g - 1.33g)
Atmosphere	8	Dense
Hydrographics	6	Wet World 60%
Population	8	Moderate (100 million)
Government	7	Balkanization
Law	6	Moderate Law (no firearms except shotguns)
Tech Level	5	Industrial (mass production)

Primary Star

G8 V

Atmosphere

Dense

Off-world presence

No

Zoetic individuals

Yes

Source

Reference

Aliens Archive 46-48,53-58.

Canon

Yes

Also see

The Hana Saka are descended from ocean-dwelling hexapedally symmetrical filters, the Hana Saka ("suckers" or "ogres" to many humans) are a fearsome-looking but friendly race, standing some 2.8 to 3.5 meters tall and massing 350 kilogram on average.

Physical sophontology

They are far stronger than humans, and their three-meter shoulder tentacles outreach their arms. Instead of an internal skeleton, minute calcium deposits in each cell provide an intricate network of thin supporting "bones" throughout the body. Not nearly as strong as human bones, but pliable and difficult to break, this configurable net essentially can form joints anywhere on a limb the Hana Saka desires. The four fingers of Hana Saka hands proper are all mutually opposable and more flexible than their human equivalents. Any missing body part will regrow, taking up to a year to replace a lost limb.

Hana Saka have only one eye with very poor vision: it gives fair resolution, a distinction between light and dark, but no fine detail. In recompense of a sort, they have doglike hearing and a racial sonar ability. Hana Saka senses of taste and smell equal humans'. They have no head, instead clustering all sensory organs in the middle of the torso. Hana Saka do not "sleep" per se: they intermittently rest, but remain aware.

Hana Saka digestion is partially external, in the mouth-pouch, involving much noise, and involves violently spitting out inedible detritus, a practice many humans find disgusting. Oddly enough, Hana Saka are intolerant of human chewing noises, and of excess, unnecessary, or random noise in general: sudden loud noise can, flare-like, shut down their hearing for up to a minute.

Cultural sophontology

In general, however, the Hana Saka are an extraordinarily patient race, tolerant of others. In an additional cultural quirk, Hana Saka society is highly matriarchal: transients, owning only what they can carry or what a household will hold "in trust" for them.

Reach, touch, and proximity are of vital importance to them, sometimes to the discomfort of human companions: they even prefer sleeping in groups.

Indeed, reach equates to power, and traditional Hana Saka combat is personal and close. They adopt human-designed missile weapons only grudgingly.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:

Charted Space

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

Shiro

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

No world articles for Hana Saka

References and contributors

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.

Timothy B. Brown. Aliens Archive (Imperium Games, 1996), 46-48,53-58.
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science