The Revised Revised Minor Races List

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>Archive-Message-Number: 1347
>Date: Thursday 21st June 1990 10:15:31 BST
>From: Alan Huscroft [email removed]
>Subject: The Revised Minor Races List


>Here is the revised Minor Races List.  I managed to unearth about 30 new

...and here are even more revisions.

>races that weren't on the Miller list.
                           ^^^^^^
If here you mean Marc Miller, then you should know
that this list actually started its existence as the
"Fugate" list -- Miller had nothing to do with it.

>If anyone can supply additions or corrections I would be pleased to hear
>from you.

Here goes:

>Bolth                /Zachrisson/Fulani [possibly]                vr

not official (Paranoia Press)

>Chirpers             [various]                                    am5,adv2

Chirpers have also appeared in several of the
Travellers' Digests, most notably number 11.

>Dolphins             Terra/Sol/Solomani Rim(1827)                 td13,boj2

The dolphins in td13 and boj2 are not the same race.
The td13 dolphins are now the official ones.  (The
differences are very slight.)

>Eslyat               Elliador/Trelyn/Vanguard Reaches(3110)       vr

not official (Paranoia Press)

>Geonee (H)           //Massilia                                   mtie,mta1

The Geonee have also appeared in td11.

>Iasat                Zurr                                         tea,wbh

Now this is an interesting one.  The actual name of
this race, as far as I know, is the Lasat.  DGP uses
a typeface without serifs, though, so it is easy to
misread a small "l" as a capital "I", I guess.
Also, sad to say, the lasat should not be on this
list anyway.  They are only an intelligent creature,
not a race with sentience.  They are like the
dolphins of 20th-century Earth in this respect.

>Mal'Gnar (H)         Mal'Gnar/Mal'Gnar Radiant/Beyond(3002)       beyond
>Murians              //Vanguard Reaches [Altarean Confederation]  vr

not official (Paranoia Press)

>Prt'                 Prt'//Spica                                  ch26

There was a guy who wanted to play one of these in
Joe's campaign, and Joe wouldn't let him -- he and
Gary say these are "just housecats", and evidently
Marc Miller agrees with them.  They said this is a
variant rule that should not be in "real"
MegaTraveller.

>Sabmiqys             Sabmiqys//Antares(2117)                      ch28

Reading the Challenge article carefully (and not
that I am -- this is all from memory), I have this
annoying feeling that the code (E) for extinct
should appear somehow on this entry, even though I
know that wouldn't be exactly right -- this one
slips into the cracks very well.  These guys also
appeared in 101 Robots and were mentioned in passing
in Book 8: Robots.

>Sred*Ni              I'Sred*Ni Nest/I'Sred*Ni Heptad/Beyond(1923) beyond

not official (Paranoia Press)

>Virushi              Virshash/Urlaqqash/Reavers Deep(2724)        jtas12

I vaguely remember some Library Data in a
Travellers' Digest.  Maybe number 15, but I don't
really recall -- somebody else can look it up for
me.  There is also a drawing of a Virushi in World
Builders' Handbook, with a caption about a mishap in
language translation.

>~~~~~~~~~~

>Index to references:
>  beyond   Beyond (Paranoia Press)
>  vr       Vanguard Reaches (Paranoia Press)

Books by Paranoia Press are *not* official according to GDW and DGP.

>  td#      Travellers Digest (DGP)
>  tea      The Early Adventures (DGP)

The Early Adventures contained material from the first four issues
of Travellers Digest -- I guess DGP didn't print very many of the
early magazines, and got lots of requests for them.  You might
want to make the list consistent in referring to both of these
where appropriate (although maybe you already have -- not
everything in the first four issues was reprinted, because some
had appeared elsewhere, such as in Book 8: Robots).
This would affect the following entries from above:

>Cafadans (H)         Cafad/Sashrakusha/Corridor(3135)             td3
>Gl'lu                Kubishush/Inar/Deneb(0917)                   td1
>Iasat                Zurr                                         tea,wbh
>Irdu                 Ishirdu/Two Worlds/Corridor(0338)            td3

>  tsg      The Space Gamer (series)

For point of future reference, you all might want to know that
the only articles in this series that GDW and DGP consider
official are those written by the Keith brothers.

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Hope this is useful,

Bayliss
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