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>Bundle: 543
>Archive-Message-Number: 6773
>From: [email removed]
>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 11:38:30 EST
>Subject: Name that Minor Race (A Game for CT alums)
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>Hi!
>
>I'm sure someone out there can answer this:
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>What was the name of the minor race that looked like big rhinos with
>arms? They were good medics, and a small pic of them was featured in
>every medical section of the Traveller Digest. The Travellers Aliens
>boxed set also had one, along with an Ael Yeal (sp??), another
>"popular" alien race.
>
>Where is the original material on them? I think it's in An Issue of
>TAS that I don't have...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Matt
>
They are (were?) the Virushi. Home planet in Reaver's Deep sector, as
far as I recall. They appeared in a Contact: article in JTAS #16 or
thereabouts -- I don't know if it ever got reprinted elsewhere.
They were interesting as NPCs and to add colour to a campaign, but
nobody in the campaigns I was involved in ever made use of them as PCs
- -- they were extreme pacifists and not too maneouvrable to boot. Hope
this helps ...
- Arthur Green
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