Kursae
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Status | Minor Race | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Confluence | Non-humanoid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bio-Identenoid | Alien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Languages | Unknown Native Language | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Technological Epoch | TL:28-30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Psionic potential | Standard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Homeworld location | Unknown World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Off-world presence | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zoetic individuals | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reference | T5 Core Rules 16. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Canon | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Also see | Precursor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Kursae are an unknown race who settled Charted Space with slow NAFAL generation ships around -200,000.
Description (Specifications)
The Kursae were a sophont people of an unknown type. They settled a region more than 3,000pc across. It is generally believed that Kursae did this using NAFAL technology. That would make them a major interstellar power, despite the lack of a Jump Drive.
Point of Interest: The Kursae Mystery
Many dedicated scientists from the Third Imperium are actively exploring mysteries of the Kursae:
- How did they manage to colonize such a large sphere without one of the Ancient's heirs interfering?
- How and why did the Kursae civilization die out so quickly (by astrographic standards)?
- If they truly colonized Charted Space, where are their remains? Why aren't we knee-deep in artifacts and ruins?
History
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.
The Kursae or some of their offshoots are thought to have been particularly active in Touchstone Sector. Possible artefacts of their civilizations include decayed cities on Forbidden (Touchstone 2114) and Rraerrgdzakaek (Touchstone 2211), the still-functioning space station at Greatlake (Touchstone 2529), and the evidence that Phobetor (Touchstone 2333) was significant to an alien empire, or several of them.
Iroioah in Trojan Reach Sector also has ruins from this period, quite possibly Kursae in origin.
Astrography
This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Charted Space (~1500 pc radius):
TravellerMap (T5SS):
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Homeworld
The homeworld of this race is unknown.
World Listing: 1105
Significant communities of this race are known to dwell within the following systems and worlds:
References & Contributors (Sources)
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- Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), 16.
- Novel: Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
- The Galaxiad Public Introduction (Far Future Enterprises)