TRAVELLER RPG

Races

	Humaniti Intelligent major race dominating the Imperium and several additional interstellar communities. Humans stand approximately 1.8 metres in height and weigh about 100 kilograms. Descended from omnivore gatherers, humans developed intelligence in response to shifting climatological factors. The most unusual aspect of humaniti is the fact that humans are present on many different worlds and stand at various levels of development on those worlds. The Solomani Hypothesis states that Humans evolved on Terra and were scattered to many different worlds by the Ancients for reasons currently unknown. The result is that many different, parallel human races exist and coexist throughout known space. The three most widespread human races are the Solomani (humans from Terra), the Vilani (humans from Vland), and the Zhodani (humans from Zhodane).
	Aslan Aslan are roughly human-sized and humanoid, and are descended from four-limbed, upright, bipedal carnivore-pouncer stock. The earliest Terran explorers saw in them a vague resemblance to the Terran lion, and they have been described by Terrans as lion-like ever since. There are two sexes, male and female. The male is most easily distinguishable by his larger size and prominent mane. Females outnumber males three to one.
	Droyne Droyne are an intelligent major race inhabiting scattered worlds within an area slightly larger than the region of the current Imperium. They are a small race derived from winged herbivorous gatherers. They vary in size depending on caste but generally stand one metre tall (large workers and warriors can be larger than Humans). The history of their evolution remains a puzzle because their home world is not known with certainty.
	Hivers Hivers are an intelligent major race with a large federation of their own. Hivers average 1.5 metres from ground to top of upraised head. Descended from omnivore gatherer/scavenger stock, they are among the most alien of the major races from a human standpoint. Hivers exhibit a modified six-fold radial symmetry; six limbs equally spaced around a roughly circular central body.
	K’kree K’kree (once called Centaurs by humans) are among the most massive of the major races and are the only one of the major races to be descended from herbivores. An adult K’kree stands about 1.5 meters at the shoulder and between 2.0 and 2.4 meters tall when standing erect. Weight averages 550 kg. They bear some resemblance to the centaurs of ancient Terran myth, a trait noted by the earliest human explorers.
	Vargr Vargr are an Intelligent Major Race derived from Ancient genetic manipulations of Terran carnivore/chaser stock, apparently dating from approximately the same time that humanity was scattered to the stars. Inhabiting a region rimward of the Imperium, the Vargr were for years a puzzle to Imperial xenologists. The Vargr biochemistry and genetic makeup are almost identical with a number of terrestrial animals, but differ radically from most of the flora and fauna indigenous to Lair, the purported Vargr home world.