Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:07:46 -0400
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Subject: T'Karran background
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T'Karran
- Sapient species
- Homeworld: T'Karra
                Glacial world recently contacted by the Rebel Alliance

Attribute Min/Max
Dexterity:  1D+2/3D+2
Strength:   2D+2/4D+2
Mechanical: 2D/4D
Perception: 1D+1/3D
Knowledge:  2D/4D
Technical:  2D/4D

Special abilities:
- Light furs and tough hide provide +2 Str vs. Physical attacks
- Perception skills involving vision are at -1D due to eye-film
- Grappling and Brawling skills are at +1D due to elongated arms

T'Karrans are a race of intelligent bipeds which stand approximately 2.1
meters and are covered with a layer of thick skin and white fur.  T'karrans
have large eyes which are covered with a semi-transparent lens which provides
protection from glacial reflection and have vestigal tusks which protrude
from beneath their powerful jaws.  They are equipped with long, powerful 
arms which reach below their knee-joints even when fully upright and they
use these arms with great efficiency in combat.  Although T'Karrans are a
relatively peaceful race, they have a natural combat ability and physical
presence that gives them a fearsome contenance.

T'Karra is a cool, glacial planet of standard gravity, a type I atmosphere, 
and no moons.  The planet itself offers little in the way of significant  
resources other than a rich supply of meteoric metals trapped in the ice
layers (due to a period of long meteor bombardment and the eventual fall
of T'Karra's small moon).  Food resources are unusually rich; there are wide
varieties of marine life as well as avians - plants are restricted to a
few types of sea-kelp and thick algaes.

The culture of the T'Karran people is a fairly straightforward one of 
survival and advancement.  Since the first of their kind made tools from
the bones of sea mammals and pounded meteoric metals, they have rapidly
developed into an advanced tool-using culture.  T'Karrans have developed
an advanced metal-working science as well as an engineering science based
on the use of glacial ice and basaltic rock - the lack of burnable plant
material has been offset by the presence of a great number of natural heat
and magma vents scattered around the inhabited areas of T'Karra.
T'Karrans have little knowledge of the Force but their animistic belief 
system meshes nicely with the Jedi system.

The T'Karrans have developed an info-tech level society that was on the verge

of space flight when discovered by Rebel Alliance scouts.  They have rapidly
adapted to the notion of a galaxy populated by various alien races and have
eagerly made arrangements with the Rebellion to allow them access to advanced
technology in exchange for mineral and land rights on their world.  Even now 
the Rebellion has constructed an enormous secure base within a glacial
plateau on the planet.