Shuumar

Species: Shuumar
Home Planet: Shuumar

Shuumar
The Shuumar are a heavy gravity race that has recently broken the yoke of Imperial control. Having recently cast off one overlord, the Shuumar feared immidiate absorbtion by one of the other powers of the sector. The Shuumar treated the offers of allience by the Yaeger and the New Republic with equaly serious consideration. However, they descided to strike out on thier own. During their rebelion, they captured three Victory class Star Destroyers. With these ships as the nucleos of thier fleet, the Shuumar and several other indipendants formed an Alliance, known as the Confederation of Unaligned Worlds.

The Shuumar have recently developed a high powered fighter that maximizes their natural abilities. Using this Wulfen Heavy fighter, the ISDs, and the ships of their allies, the Confederation has held off the Empire, the Chakh allience, and the occasional Yaeger pirates.

The Shuumar are a fairly short and squat species, bowed by the weight of the heavy gravity of thier homeworld, whose gravitational pull is 4.5x times standard. They stand around 1.5 meters tall, and nearly as broad, with powerfull muscles covering thier entire frame. They are hairless, with green irridescent pebble like skin covering thier entire body, except for a yellow irridescent patch on their head and chest area. The Shuumar are philosophers, who tend to move slowly and contemplate every possible course of action. This is one of the reasons that thier descision not to join the New Republic or the Yaeger Nation has been considered so important. If the Shuumar think that total independance is the best option, it very well might be.

Attribute Dice: 12D
DEXTERITY 1D/2D+2
KNOWLEDGE 2D+1/4D+1
MECHANICAL 1D/3D
PERCEPTION 2D/3D
STRENGTH 3D/6D
TECHNICAL 1D/3D

Special Abilities:
Heavy Gravity Homeworld: As the gravity of Shuua is 4.5x standard, they have a remarkable resistance to the effects of the pressures of of acceleration. They treat 9g as 2, and so on. In addition, they move on the surface of standard gravity worlds in powerfull bounding leaps that cover a remarkable amount of ground.

Swimming: The Shuumar's high density muscles and bones makes it impossible for them to swim no matter how much training they have. In fact, they sink like a stone in liquid H2O, and will drown if not rescued.

Story Factors:
Reputation: Shuumar are known as being sagacious individuals with a clear grasp of complex situations. However, they are known for their accuracy of thought, and not for their quickness of thought, and fast talking con-men often see Shuumar as easy marks.

Lifespan: Shuumar are long lived, with an average lifespan of around 500 standard years. They mate for life, and have an average of 7 children over thier entire lifespan.

Move: 12/16
Size: 1.5 meters tall
Source: Aliens N-S (For the Shuumar Description)