A good set of books to read to get an idea of 'good' xenobiology and
'convincing' aliens are the Uplift series by David Brin. It is from these
books that I think the inspiration for the Solomani GenAssist programs were
taken. The Uplift universe was rather well adapted to the GURPS system some
while back (with David Brin himself doing the alien generation rules).
Traveller has a paucity of really interesting aliens, ok the Hivers and the
K'Kree are notable (but rarely featured) exceptions. There are meant to be
numerous minor races but they are just that, Minor. The Traveller universe is
rather humanocentric, I reckon this is due to the SF sources on which it was
originally inspired (Space Opera in the Niven/Asimov mold) what I would love to
see is the human races being taken down a peg or two....... a nice TL15 alien
civilisation or three to keep our arrogance in check. Hey space is big right..?
How about some Thenanin? Heh heh heh
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ul-orca ul-canis ul-elephant