 June 18, 2015 - 9:40pm | The following is basic Woolie info: Woolies: Type: (sentient race) large herbivores Number appearing: 1-20 Move: fast IM/RS: 5/45 STA: 50 Attack: by weapon type, or claws 45% Damage: 1 D10 per claw, or weapon type Woolies are the native sentient race and culture of Janus. Woolies have a protected status on Janus. Woolies are not to bothered or harassed in any ways. If a Woolie gets hurt by a non-Woolie the planetary police automatically hold the non-Woolie involved on attempted murder charges until the problem can be investigated. Woolies though tall are not very strong and are basically non-aggressive. These creatures are bipeds covered with shaggy fur standing about six and a half to seven feet tall. The civilization of these people is described as nomadic and semi-tribal, although some larger tribal units of relative stability have been observed, primarily on the northern continent. The intelligence of the Woolies has been tested as low. The long term survival potential of the Woolies without intervention of a more advanced culture has been judged as low as well by Multi-Cap scientists. Woolies are consistently in the module called dumb, but they can't be all that dumb, primitive society/cultural perspective yes, and as a species evolved from a prey animal I think dumb needs a rethink. First they make tools, weapons, can learn tasks better than a robot for the ag business, are capable of organizing attacks, have religions and languages... they are taking advantage of the protection of more advanced races. They can attack as a group and are capable of self organized group activities. They can build as well, primitive structures. They don't really sound that dumb, just not knowledgable by a high tech culture's standard. I think they are a flight first then fight race. I also think their non aggressive tendencies might not just be biological, as some info in the module indicates they can go on the war path... They are weaker (so not wookies that can rip arms off), and require a higher oxygen then the core 4 races.
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 June 19, 2015 - 7:17am | I think the word "dum" should be treated as the local prejudice and not their actual mental acuity. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 19, 2015 - 7:22am | If the planet is like earth with slightly higher gravity does is make sense for the woolies to not be very strong? Or to be tall? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 19, 2015 - 10:30am | I had the same questions, The gravity is slightly higher... so I am figuring maybe 1.1 G, with O2 levels higher. I started thinking about life on this planet, not all creatures are fast or slow, not all creatures the same size or weight are equally strong either. They are furry shaggy creatures and tall and weaker than humans or yazirians that is all we have... are they even mammals? Though it is implied they somehow something in common with Humans & Yazirians that allows the Sathar to weird science them into goo and then make organic Human or Yazirian android clones from the goo, that might not mean that much though. But they could be a plant creature, or some sort of hybrid creature from our ideas of life, possessing mammal, insect & plant aspects as they are so vaguely described. I was thinking about just how weird real creatures can be on this planet... I am going to take a look at some of the other "ape" type species in the game... but if the woolies are retained as a separate species I think they need to be very unique and fleshed out a lot more. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
June 20, 2015 - 9:34am | I'd be all for that- better fleshing out . I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 20, 2015 - 6:31pm | I am think Plant-Ape/sloth-Men, might barrow some weird plant-man ideas from ERB. Shaggy gives us no color description, I say we go with something other than Terra "fur" colories of brown, black. "Fur" "shaggy" appearnce could be from modified plant-animal inbetween cells as they are neither. I say the woolie look wooly and all fuzzy wuzzy but they need not be mammals with mammal fur at all, that would make them way different, explain maybe STR differences too. I am thinking as many of the other critters have wild colors on Janus why not them too? Yellow, Oranges, Purples? "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
June 22, 2015 - 6:24pm | Some Ideas for the Woolies: Woolie is a pun on the phrase the
Pango tribe used when asked by explorers what they called themselves Woloi
means in Pango linguistic group “from this place”. Woolies are covered with a
wool like fiber except for their lower forearms and hands, lower legs and hands
and face. The “wool” (actually more of a plant fiber than fur, and comes in a
variety of colors such as yellow, orange, purple, red, blue, and pink) of the
Woolie protects their body skin and is a very strong fiber. Woolies shave
patterns into their wool and weave feathers and baubles into their “coats”.
Woolie arms and legs are long flexible limbs similar to elephant trunks. The
leg trunks of a Woolie are thick, while the arm trunks are more slender ending
in a three-toed foot and three-fingered hand. Their limbs are extremely
flexible. The Woolies do not have a skeleton but an interconnecting web if
strong fibers that help support their main body. Woolies are not mammals (they look like a mammal from a distance) but a unique
form of life found on Janus that possess both plant and animal characteristics.
Woolies do not nurse their young. Woolies have a light pink blood that does
contain a type of plant-animal red blood cell, but have significantly less of
these O2 carrying “red blood” cells than say Humans. Woolies must wear an O2 boosting
breathing device, or be given O2 boosting drugs to function on planets with
lower O2 content than Janus. Woolie eyes are on the side of the
head large and bulbous. The eyes themselves are a constantly changing pattern
of colors on black, best described as like watching colored oils move on the
surface of dark water. The Woolie does have protective eye-lids. Woolies will often focus one eye on the
person they are speaking to, while using their other eye to look around,
however it is impossible for other races to tell where a Woolie is looking.
Woolies have extremely good eyesight and are extremely hard to surprise, are
excellent marksmen with any ranged weapon. Woolies worship the Mirror Plant. Woolies feed their dead to the plant as a burial ceremony. Woolies have a symbiotic
relationship with the Mirror Plant. The Woolie’s life cycle is tied to the
presence of the Mirror Plant, prey & predator is uniquely connected.
Woolies who are not around Mirror Plants are sterile and will produce no
children till exposed to the vapors of the Mirror Plant. Only after exposure to
vapor will the reproduction of an adult Woolie become active and express it’s
self as either male or female flower. Once the pollen of a male flower has fertilized
a female flower, a fruit forms connected to a sort of outside umbilical cord,
which then gradually matures into a child Woolie as it grows towards the
ground. Female Woolies often wear slings to help keep the child contained. The
baby Woolie clings to its mother scampering around on the end of its nutrient
tether. When the tether is long enough that the child can walk beside their
parent the umbilical falls off.
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June 23, 2015 - 4:40pm | The other thought I had was to have them be Mammals but basically more sheep/antelope like versus primate? There could still be a symbiolic relationship between the plant and them... what do you all think... plant/animal people or animal only? "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
June 23, 2015 - 6:21pm | well I'll like anything that makes the woolies not one more primitived ape in the Frontier I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 23, 2015 - 7:04pm | Well I could go with less plant but weird animal herbivore that has a life cycle linked to the Mirror Plant... I am thinking if I go that dirrection they could be weird mammals... lets see part of their height could be a long slender neck, be two toed, have two long and very manipulative & strong fingers, they would have a skelton but long limbs,... maybe Llama like but biped? "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
June 24, 2015 - 5:13am | I think I am sticking with Plant animal people, but will make them more Llama like, I will try and fiddle with the idea, I want them alien, not nokey people, there are too many monkey people in SF. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
June 30, 2015 - 5:03am | Okay I need to work on these guys average stats... how much weaker are they, in the 30's? I pretty much feel they are not "dumb" but have a very primative world view, maybe some genetic or cultural quirk that makes them less violent in general, so to the UPF races they cower more, run away more BUT they can and will attack and kill, so the quirk is something they can over come, based on the module religion seems to play a role in them going from mild to kill them all, and mirror plants appear to be part of the equation... Maybe culturally there relgion is non aggressive towards all sentient life? What if mirror plants have a sort of group mind? What if they can & do talk to the Woolies, the Mirror Plants would be of some sort of IQ as well... "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
