Kursae

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

Yes

Zoetic individuals

Source

Reference

T5: Core rules

Canon

Yes

Also see

TBD

Kursae are a race of sophonts who settled Charted Space with slow NAFAL generation ships around -200,000.

Very little is conclusively known about the Kursae. Some of leading research supports the idea that the Kursae were insectoids. Others vehemently disagree.

Description (Specifications)

A Parsec, abbreviated as pc, is a considerable distance, and just one parsec is considered equivalent to 3.26 Light-years (ly).

This makes the fact that the Kursae settled a region more than 3,000pc in diameter an incredibly significant feat. That means that this species settled a sphere nearly 9200 ly across. Being that a jump drive with a J-1 rating can travel across a subsector in 8 to 10 jumps and the average subsector contains 80 parsecs of flat (simple calculation) volume of space, this is the equivalent of roughly 260 ly in across . Extending that calculation means that the Kursae colonized a zone more than two sectors in volume. That would make them a major interstellar power, despite the lack of a FTL Jump Drive, by current political reckoning.
It is generally believed that Kursae did this using NAFAL technology, an even more impressive feat.

Point of Interest: The Kursae Mystery

Some of the great questions of our age involve the Kursae and many dedicated scientists from the Third Imperium are actively exploring these very mysteries:

How did they manage to colonize such a large sphere without one of the Ancient's heirs interfering?
How did the Kursae devolve so quickly, by astrographic standards, and lose their technology? Why?
What myths and knowledge do the Kursae have about what was once their space?
After losing their technology, why did they not die out as so many other species have?

History & Background (Dossier)

From an unidentified homeworld somewhere in now- Charted Space, these sophonts reached out and settled nearly five thousand worlds across half of settled space.

Over the next thousand centuries these many worlds of the Kursae all followed a common path: a downward spiral to a comfortable low technology level where they are today… sharing a common heritage of myths about their past.

Image Repository

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Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

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

TBD Sector
- TBD Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this race (sophontic species) is:

TBD (world)

World Listing: 1105

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

No world articles for Kursae

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T5: Core rules (pg. 16) in Section "Introduction"
Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science