Minor Races incl. Humans

[ottarrus]

Does anyone have a good source for minor technological races including minor Humaniti sophonts?
I've seen a lot of stuff scattered in many different places, but I'm looking for a good overall source.

 

[G'Naakbusters]

Do you mean background lore or game mechanics? If the former, the wiki has most of what you need, but if the latter... maybe there should be a future compendium of all the races/species so far given rules write-ups in Mongoose Traveller (there's a lot of them by this point, across a number of books)?

Lore on the various Human Minor Races: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Humaniti#Solomani_Hypothesis

 

[Limpin Legin]

Here is a different presentation of 46 Minor Races known to Imperial Science: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Minor_Human_Race

Tables show where each race acquired Jump Drive knowledge. Click on each race name, and you will be taken to the Minor Race wiki entry. The entry will have an Info panel on right-side of page listing a Technological Epoch that the culture lives by.

 

[rinku]

It's unlikely that a truly comprehensive manifest could or should be done.

Potentially the Ancients seeded some version of humans anywhere in the Galaxy (or at least throughout any part of the map likely to be reached) 300,000 years ago. Even without genetic tinkering, that's plenty of time for speciation in response to a challenging environment, or to fit in to (or displace other species from) a niche. And that's just the genetic stuff. Social and technological variations would be as wide as for unrelated aliens. Many of them will have developed space travel, obtained jump drives and spread around. Including, potentially, humans that developed J-Drive and colonised the stars before losing it all (as the Imperials manage to do *twice* in barely more than a millenium...), a long time ago.

So... we're everywhere, like rodents. Or bacteria.

46 are a drop in the ocean, and it's not impossible that aliens that are known but haven't been properly studied yet could be humans too (DNA analysis would usually pick it up immediately).

 

[MongooseMatt]

maybe there should be a future compendium of all the races/species

Work is about to start on that

 

[CordwainerFish]

Work is about to start on that

Ending, I trust, with "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvahd / And there may be many others but they haven't been discahvahd."

 

[ottarrus]

Work is about to start on that

It would be VERY helpful if there is supporting artwork. Please.

 

[Galadrion]

Ending, I trust, with "These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvahd / And there may be many others but they haven't been discahvahd."

Somebody's a fan of the classics, I see...

 

[rinku]

"There's Geonee and Zhodani and Vilani and Answerin..."

 

[Condottiere]

And then there are Vegans.

 

[Galadrion]

Just remember, if you're forced into cannibalism, vegans are the closest thing to grass-fed you've got...

(Yeah, I know, poor taste.)

 

[rinku]

Oh, a bit of salt, some sauce...

 

[Condottiere]

Vargr should avoid traditionalist East Asian originating colonies.

 

[G'Naakbusters]

Humans and Vargr can eat one another if supplies run low. If you're the token Vargr in a Human group, or vice versa, you should be wary of this.