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Gurps Traveller Alien Races 1: Zhodani, Vargr and Other Races of the Spinward Marches »

Authors: David L. Pulver, Loren K. Wiseman (Editor), Glenn Grant (Illustrator), Paul Abrams (Illustrator), Rob Caswell
ISBN-13: 9781556343612, ISBN-10: 1556343612
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jackson, Steve Games, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David L. Pulver

Book Synopsis

	Introduction	4
1.	The Zhodani	5
	Physiology	5
	The Zhodani and the Ancients	5
	Diet	6
	Zhodani Philosophy	6
	Zhodani and Other Religions	7
	Zhodani Sports	7
	Zhodani Art	7
	Society	8
	Zhodani Humor	8
	Honesty	9
	The Final War	9
	Respect	9
	Conformity	9
	Racism and Intolerance	10
	Ambition and Education	10
	Primitive Zhdant	10
	Primitive Chirpers in Qiknavra	11
	Consular Government	12
	The Viepchakliashtie Empire	12
	The Discovery of Qiknavra	13
	Industrial Revolution	14
	The Legal System	15
	Exploration of Viepchakl	15
	The Dark Age	16
	Rights and Responsibility	17
	The Zhodani Consulate	18
	The First Olympiads	18
	Provinces	19
	The Second Industrial Revolution	19
	Borders and Expansion	20
	Formation of the Consulate	20
	Expansion and Contact	20
	Zhdant	21
	The Core Expeditions	22
	Zhodani Language	23
	Zhodani Sound Frequency Table	24
	Zhodani Names Generation Tables	25
	Business and Economy	26
	Security and Intelligence Institutions	28
	The Thought Police	28
	The Imperium and the Frontier Wars	29
	The Second Frontier War	30
	The Military Thought Police	31
	The Eye and the Hand	31
	The Long Peace	31
	No Peace Between Us	32
	The Military	33
	The Zhodani Navy	33
	The Zhodani Army	34
	The Third Frontier War	34
	The Consular Guard	35
	Rise of the Hawks	35
	The Fifth Frontier War	36
	Sample Military Unit: Lift Infantry Battalion	36
	The Future	37
	Zhodani Commandos	38
	The Zhodani Calendar	38
	Table of Equivalent Organizations	39
	The Holidays	39
	A Zhodani Timeline	40
	Creating Zhodani Characters	42
	Racial Templates	42
	Advantages and Disadvantages	42
	Naval Ranks	43
	Skills	43
	Character Templates	44
	Zhodani Official	44
	Zhodani Commando	44
	Thought Police Officer	45
	Zhodani Equipment and Starships	46
	Zhodani Combat Armor	46
	Zhodani Starships	47
	Shivva-Class Patrol Frigate	47
	Yetsabl-class Zhodani Courier	47
	Shivva-Class Patrol Frigate Deck Plan	48
	Yetsabl-class Zhodani Courier Deck Plan	54
	Zhodani Robots	56
	Using Robots	57
	Zhodani Warbots	57
	TLIA-3404 Chiakrzi	57
	CHI-3374 Maintenance Bot	58
	Zhodani Grav Vehicles	59
	CHI-2724 Yonchobo Utility Grav Sled	59
	TLIA-3314 Vlezjaq Scout Grav Sled	60
	TLI-960 Diziyanatl Zhodani Grav APC	61
	Zhodani Vehicular Weaponry	63
2.	The Vargr	64
	Physiology	64
	Problems in Vargr Historiography	64
	Vargr Dating Systems	65
	Prehistory	66
	Ancient History	66
	Psychology	66
	Charisma and Dominance	66
	Racial Pride	67
	Vargr Society	67
	Pack Dynamics	68
	Vargr Curiosity	68
	Loyalties	69
	Industrialization	69
	Egalitarianism	70
	Interstellar Society	70
	Government	70
	Law and Justice	71
	Zhodani Contact and the Gvurrdon Hvaek	71
	Vargr and Humans	71
	The Gvurrdon Hvaek	72
	Vilani and Vargr	72
	The Vargr Extents	72
	Vargr Worlds	73
	Wolves in the Night	73
	The Vargr Conquests	74
	The Vargr Homeworld	74
	The Third Imperium	75
	Vargr in the First Outworld Coalition	76
	Gvurrdon Sector	76
	Vargr in the Second Outworld Coalition	77
	Warring States	78
	The Vargr Military	79
	The Kforuzeng Corsairs	79
	Vargr Armies	80
	Grand Ambitions	80
	Vargr Navies	81
	Vargr Corsairs	81
	The Fifth Frontier War	81
	Post-War Blues	82
	A Few Cautions	83
	Vargr Religion	83
	Vargr Events	84
	Business, Trade & Commerce	85
	Vargr Word Generation Tables	85
	Language and Naming	86
	Vargr Sound Frequency and Pronunciation Table	87
	Creating Vargr Characters	87
	Vargr Racial Template	87
	Advantages and Disadvantages	89
	Vargr Status Table	90
	Vargr in the Zhodani Consulate	90
	Army and Corsair Ranks	91
	Character Templates	92
	Vargr Corsair	92
	Emissary	92
	Loner	93
	Equipment, Vehicles and Starships	94
	Vehicles	94
	Vargr Speeder	94
	Vargr G-Carrier	94
	Vargr Starships	95
	Vargr Corsair	95
	Vargr Trader	96
	Vargr Frigate	96
	Vargr Corsair Deck Plan	97
	Vargr Trader Deck Plan	98
3.	The Drakarans	100
	Physiology	100
	Drakaran History	100
	Psychology	101
	Society	102
	First Contact	102
	Government	103
	Second Contact	103
	Law and Justice	104
	Waking the Dragon	104
	Taakas Yh'drak	105
	Drakaran Worlds	105
	War and Peace	105
	Homeworld	105
	Institutions	106
	The Military	106
	The Current Situation	106
	Technology	107
	Trade	107
	Language	107
	Characters	107
	Drakaran Racial Template	108
	Housing and Cities	108
	Advantages and Disadvantages	109
	Character Templates	109
	Social Status	109
	Clothing and Costume	110
	Equipment	110
	Spacecraft	110
	Drakaran Family Trader	110
	30-ton Drakaran Ship's Boat	111
	Khaz' akum-class Patrol Tender	111
	Vr' tahk-class Patrol Rider	111
	Drakaran Family Trader Deck Plan	112
4.	The Clotho	113
	Origins	113
	Physiology	113
	Early History	113
	The Sibling Pair	114
	Contact: The Zhodani	114
	Communication and Language	115
	Psychology	116
	Integration	116
	Society	117
	Alien Encounters	117
	Patterns	118
	Government	118
	Religion and Mysticism	118
	The Military and Violence	118
	Housing and Cities	118
	The Addaxur Reservation	119
	Addaxur	119
	Characters	119
	Clotho	119
	Trade and Commerce	120
	Other Advantages and Disadvantages	121
	Character Templates	121
	Technology and Equipment	121
5.	The Sheol	122
	Physiology	122
	Squid Mothers	122
	Early Signs	122
	Messengers	123
	Haunting Thunder	123
	The Sheol Expedition	124
	Language	124
	Human-Sheol Communication	124
	Psychology	125
	Religion and Mysticism	125
	Society	125
	Second Contact	125
	Imperial Entanglements	126
	Messenger Status and Activity	127
	Squid Mother Societies	127
	Sheol Station	127
	Technology	128
	Trade	128
	Hazards and Opportunities	128
	Military	129
	Homeworld	129
	World Data	129
	Psychovores	129
	Inside the Squid Mothers	130
	Interpreters	130
	BIO-Tech Devices	131
	Characters	132
	Messenger Racial Template	132
	Notes on Advantages and Disadvantages	132
	Character Templates	132
	Squid Mother	133
6.	Psionics	134
	Psionic Powers	134
	Psionic Training and Psionic Skills	135
	Psionic institutes	136
	Locating an Institute	136
	Psionics Rules Changes	136
	Institute Services	137
	Using GURPS Psionics with Traveller	138
	Working for Psi Institutes	139
	A Puzzle	139
	An Underground Psi Institute	139
	Open Psionics Institutes	140
	Racial Psionics	140
	Psionic Technologies	140
	Lab Equipment	140
	Psi Drugs	140
	Anti-Psionic and Psi-Detection Devices	141
	Keeping Psis Prisoner	141
	Psychotronic Technology	142
	Imperial Institutes -- GMs Only	142
	Why?	142
	Index	143

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