Canon Sathar: Alpha Dawn File #2

CLASSIFIED INFORMATION (Game Related Details for the Referee)
The following material is secret and should not be given to players until they discover it in the course of a game.

Hypnotism. A sathar can hypnotize a character by talking to him in a non combat situation. The character must make a LOG check; if he fails, he is hypnotized. A hypnotized character will think the sathar is his friend, and will want to cooporate with it. He will see things the way the sathar sees them, if his other senses do not contradict what the sathar tells him. (For example a character will not believe that fire is a pool of water.) A sathar can command a hypnotized character to do something at a specific time, and to forget he has been hypnotized until that time. For example a character could be commanded to turn off a security system at midnight.

Sathar Ability Modifiers. A sathar's Leadership score must be 20 points higher than its Personality score.

Characteristics
 
 Average Size
 3.5 meters long
 Average Mass
 55 kilograms
 Average Lifespand
 unknown
 Reproductive System
 hermaphroditic, unknown
 Body Temperature
believed endothermic

SATHAR CHARACTERS

Ability Scores
 
 STR/STA+0
 DEX/RS -5
 INT/LOG -5
 LDR/PER +10*
* Must move 10 points from Personality to Leadership.

Movement
 
 Walking10 meters/turn
 Running20 meters/turn
 Hourly 3 kilometer/hour


Canon Sathar: Alpha Dawn file #3

History
...Then the sathar appeared. No one knows where they came from or why. They attacked and destroyed lonely systems on the edges of explored space, moving slowly inward. Survivors described the sathar as wormlike creatures 3 to 4 meters long. That was all that was known about them, because they would rather kill themselves then be captured. As the danger increased, the humans, dralasites, vrusk and yazirians formed the United Planetary Federation (UPF) to defend their worlds. The mysterious sathar were forced back, but before long they returned  in a more sinister form.

The sathar had learned that they could not beat the UPF in battle. Instead, they began hiring yazirian, dralasite, vrusk, and yazirian agents to sabotage interstellar trade and interfere with local governments.

Canon Sathar: Volturnus file #1

Slavebot Description
Slavebots were created to guard sathar installations. Slavebots are cybernetic combinations of living beings and machines. The biological part of the slavebot is the remains of a captured enemy. Most of the brain has been replaced by a cybernetic implant. The slavebot is controlled by a disembodied sathar brain kept in special liquid solution. The brian is almost immortal since there are no other body parts to age. The sathar brain is linked to a radio transmitter that sends coded signals. These are then recieved by the slavebot so that direct control is possible. The slavebots on Volturnus are eorna captured in the battle that nearly wiped them out. A supply of captured victims is kept in cryogenic storage to provide replacement for worn out slave bots.