Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 21:35:22 -0500 (EST)
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Here's a new race I've created to fill a gap I've noticed.  I've always
seen aliens based on specific animals, mammals in general, reptiles,
insects, birds, and the like, but I've never seen animals made that really
fit into the extinct class of mammal-like reptiles, evolutionary forbears
to real mammals.  So, here's my attempt (I only wish I could send the
picture I drew of it).


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Alarians

Dice: 11D
Dex: 1D+1/3D
Kno: 2D/4D
Mec: 1D+2/3D+1
Per: 1D+1/3D+2
Str: 2D/4D+2
Tec: 1D/2D+2

Move: 7/9
Average Height: 1.2 - 1.7 meters
Special Abilities:
Claw: Str+1D+2 damage
Resilient: All Alarians get +2D when rolling Str vs. intoxication, poison,
sickness, etc.
Primitive: Native-born Alarians cannot start out with any space level
skills (i.e. any starship, computer, blaster, or droid skills).
Story Factors:
Oppression: The Empire enslaved this race and almost wiped it out.

        Alarians are mammal-like reptiles, an evolutionary crossroads
between the two kinds of animals.  They have an ursine appearance, but
below their fur is a layer of pebbly scales.  They have a rough, hairless
ridge running up the top of their heads.  Their hands and feet are
hairless, as are the tough elbow and kneecaps.  Their hands have opposable
thumbs, two main fingers and a smaller end digit, while their saurian feet
are three toed.  All digits have large claws.  They are also relatively
thin, but short.  Their fur ranges from black to light brown, and their
eyes are yellow and slitted like a reptile's.  They subsist completely on
meat, preferably eaten cooked.  They wear little clothing, for their planet
is warm and comfortable all year round.  Alarians fear the cold, but they
can survive in it.  Alarians are born in eggs, but these eggs are incubated
and hatched inside the female, so the young are "born" fully able to
survive.
        Alarians are surprisingly peaceful for a carnivorous species.  They
have had no major wars, and they only use their primitive firearms to hunt.
Alarian homes are usually one level, and their villages are small, with no
agriculture.  They only used their planet's vast fertile areas for raising
livestock.  They have a complicated writing system, and their language is
unpronounceable by humans (though Alarians can speak Basic perfectly well).
        This species was on the verge of discovering electricity when
discovered by the Empire.  They were enslaved an almost driven extinct.
The Rebellion never found this system, and the natives are still under
human control.  The Empire may be gone, but Imperial humans remain a strong
factor on the planet.

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Eric Lee Cline, college student and galactic hitchhiker (elclin0@pop.uky.edu)
Eildath the Dark, Emperor-apparent of the New Imperium
Raptor One, pilot of The Raptor (a Marauder) and displaced in the SW galaxy