Loon

Loon
Distant Fringe sophont
Base Information
Classification	Producer
Status	Minor Race
Locomotion	Floater
Terrain	Atmosphere
Body Form
Confluence	Non-humanoid
Bio-Identenoid	Phytoid
Size	8.0 meters
Weight
Culture
Languages	Native Language
Social Structure	Anarchy
Technological Epoch	TL:0-3
Psionic potential	Standard
Origin World
Homeworld location	Paradise (Halcyon 3026)
UWP	C7C3774-9 Starport C Routine: No Construction, Major Repair, Unrefined fuel Size 7 Medium (11,200 km, 0.70g - 0.94g) Atmosphere C Exotic (insidious) Hydrographics 3 Wet World 30% Population 7 Moderate (20 million) Government 7 Balkanization Law 4 Moderate Law (no light assault weapons) Tech Level 9 Early Stellar (fusion)
Primary Star	A7 III
Atmosphere	Insidious
Off-world presence	No
Zoetic individuals	Yes
Source
Reference	Ade Stewart - Distant Fringe
Canon	No
Also see

The Loons of Paradise (Halcyon 3026) are a technologically primitive Minor Non-Human Race with a Non-humanoid appearance. Their world has an exotic nitrogen-chlorine atmosphere and trichloramine seas.

Description (Specifications)

Loons are flying chlorine-breathers, estimated to number around 5 million in total and content to exist at a tech level of 0: the 3 million humans living on the world are entirely contained within an island “enclave” surrounded by the fluid seas. This island is the site of the starport and gives the world its tech level.

Loons are named for Terran hot air balloons, which they resemble. The major part of the Loon body is a huge buoyant sac with a volume of hundreds of cubic meters. It is studded with clusters of secondary sensory organs – their main sensory and manipulatory organs are located on a thick hanging torso at the base of the sac. They secure themselves in place with long organic “tethers” while feeding. They are geovores, consuming the minerals, chlorides and salts that crust the surface of their world. They excrete exotic compounds that fetch excellent prices if they can be gathered before they degrade.

All Loons are psionic and communicate with one another through telepathy. They appear to partially maintain their bodies through the use of awareness.

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History & Background (Dossier)

All Loons crave solitude and are intensely xenophobic, disliking the presence of other individuals of any kind, including other Loons. The natural functions of the human brain appear to disrupt Loon psionic activity, though the use of psi shields alleviates this. Loons are patient and pacifistic, and unless something presents an immediate danger they will either ignore an irritation until it goes away or release their tethers and float away.

Astrography

This race is primarily located in the following areas:
Uncharted Space:

• Halcyon Sector
  • Paradise Subsector

Homeworld

The homeworld of this race is:

• Paradise (Halcyon 3026)

World Listing

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

No world articles for Loon

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science