Ka Keleree

Ka Keleree
Base Information
Classification	Scavenger/reducer
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Digger
Terrain	Underground
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Alien
Size	4 meters
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Oligarchy
Technological Epoch	TL:7-9
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Gaae (Dagudashaag 0615)
UWP	C540538-7 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 5 Medium (8,000 km, 0.40g - 0.57g) Atmosphere 4 Thin (tainted) Hydrographics 0 Desert World 0% Population 5 Moderate (100 thousand) Government 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy Law 8 High Law (controlled blades) Tech Level 7 Pre-Stellar (electronics)
Primary Star	K4 V M1 V
Atmosphere	Thin (tainted)
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	"Shallows Library Data." Signal-GK 09 53.
Canon	No
Also see

The Ka Keleree are a Minor Race native to Gaae (Dagudashaag 0615). The Ka Keleree city-tunnels are usually found excavated around large underground water lakes. The race appear to be a curious hybrid of animal and fungi to be exact.

Physical sophontology

They have evolved out of scavenger stock that still have many living representatives on the world. They are predominantly carbon-based but have silicon as a significant component of their make-up, most notably their tough outer shell.

The related lifeforms create their habitats by exuding large quantities at powerful acids (complex mixtures of sulfuric. chromic and hydrofluoric acids with numerous catalytic components) which can rapidly etch away the rock through which they tunnel. Ka Keleree have evolved to the point where tool use has superseded their natural abilities to bore their new underground works and although their acid-production has diminished considerably with time, all their bodily secretions are highly corrosive. This has caused problems when the Ka Kalaree have interacted with humaniti.

Linguistic sophontology

Ka Keleree predominantly communicate by scent generated by their rear two pairs of legs, though sound-based language (created by clicking their various claws and rubbing their rear legs together), a fairly recent innovation, has begun to supersede that as their primary means of communication.

Societal sophontology

The Ka Keleree live deep underground in the cooler Polar Regions and have developed a stable, peaceful TL–7 society. Although not xenophobic, Ka Keleree are extremely insular and prefer to have little to do with other sentient races. Much of a Ka Keleree's waking hours are spent either hunting for food or composing life tales or poetry to increase their position in the Council of Light, a pseudo-government whereby the more charismatic citizens represent both their own interests and those who think the same as them.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:

• Dagudashaag Sector
  • Shallows Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Gaae (Dagudashaag 0615)

World Listing

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

1 of 1 World articles in Ka Keleree

Gaae  •  

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Reference 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.

• Jae Campbell. "Shallows Library Data." Signal-GK 09 (1994): 53. via HIWG
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 176-177.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science