Furthermore, they are probably Subjugated by the Ur-Quan. (-20 points)

Build "average" Androsynth on 75 points, and others on 125+.

Most Arilou are in the 150-250 point range.

Chenjesu are physically sessile and have no physical manipulators. However, they are capable of projecting and manipulating electrical fields from their bodies that serve them as fine manipulators. It is unknown how primitive Chenjesu moved about on the surface of their worlds: It is known that they now use grav-lifts (controlled by directly manipulating the circuits) for all their transportation.

Chenjesu are unusual in that they can naturally sense the HyperWave spectrum. Most of the Chenjesu language is in HyperWave and the natural receivers of this species far surpass even the most sensitive mechanical detectors. These transmissions are augmented by patterns of electricity on the Chenjesu's surface.

Chenjesu have no natural predators and do not feed on any other life form.

The wisdom of the Chenjesu is unrivaled throughout the Free Stars, or, indeed, the entire Galaxy. Their philosophies, refined over eons, have proven enlightening to all races. Their leadership in the Alliance (though they refused the title) would have led it to victory over the Ur-Quan had they not employed their Sa-Matra.

In many cases the Chenjesu appear to be unthinking or unfeeling beings. This is not the case. Chenjesu are capable of empathy and similar emotions, but they realize that emotional outbursts prevent constructive work from being done.

Nothing whatsoever is known about the Chenjesu religion, or if they hold any sort of conventional religious belief.

Also, when something really important (and almost massively impossible) needs to be done, the Chenjesu are usually the ones who do it. "There's no way we can handle this, but I know a Chenjesu on Vela II that has studied this for 300 years!"

Chenjesu make great Patrons. It is unlikely that one could make an Enemy of a Chenjesu, given their generally peaceful nature, but `evil' player characters might find that a Crystal had known their plans ahead of time (if they use HyperWave, the Chenjesu can hear it!) and will thwart their plans at the last minute.

Build most Chenjesu on 200-300 points.

In a 200-point campaign, however, they will be available as a PC race, and can be a powerful one, if the player doesn't mind not having legs and only being able to talk in HyperWave. Chenjesu make perfect 'calm' characters; eternally unruffled by everything, calmly suggesting solutions.

Given the anti-technology, pro-psionic bent of Star Control III, the Chmmr are much weaker, more fragile, and more annoying in SCIII than in SCII.

At least, if you listen to the end of Star Control II, where the Chmmr lead the final fleets against the Ur-Quan. If you prefer SCIII's approach the Chmmr are mostly there to get into trouble and to have powerful starships. The Chmmr Avatar remains one of the most powerful ships in space.

For any other level of campaign, the point cost is just way too high.

The Clairconctlar are physically massive, weighing sometimes in excess of a metric ton. They move and speak fairly ponderously.

The Clairconctlar are split into two groups: the Queens and the Workers. The Queens rule the workers and also are the only ones capable of reproduction. Every century or so a Queen will produce a "conc rock" that gives off small blue flakes that, properly tended, will form new Clairconctlar. These conc rocks are prized beyond belief by the workers.

Queens are the size of mountains, are sessile, have extraordinary psi powers, and are rarely seen; the Workers are much more common. This page is dedicated to the Clairconctlar Workers.

While honor overrides all other considerations, the Clairconctlar are not an emotional species. They carefully consider everything, but honor and obeying their Queen are their two inviolable tenets.

They have a powerful Code Of Honor(-15 points) which the Crux has used to Subjugate them (-20 points).

The Daktaklakpak were supposed to watch over the Precursors' artifacts while they were gone from the galaxy; they now think that they are the Precursors' chosen, and thus the most intelligent, most superior race in the universe. They also are obsessed with the Precursors' artifacts and spend much time in a mad search for knowledge that they never use.

The Daktaklakpak speak in terms of mathematical expressions. They are impossible to understand without special code in the translation programs. Even then, most conversations with the Daktaklakpak sound something like this:

"Wait! What are you doing? You can't just vivisect him! He's a sentient being for crying out loud!"

"Emphatic negation: 'Just' vivisecting equals incorrect. Observation: Minimally sentient being has anomalies in behavior. Avowal: Anomalies must be studied. Assertion 1: Minimally sentient being equals inferior. Assertion 2: Daktaklakpak equals superior. Assertion 3: Vivisection defined as most efficient plus most direct method. Conclusion: Vivisection equals acceptable method."

The name "Daktaklakpak" is the beginning of the mathematical expression that defines the construction and maintenance of the Daktaklakpak. They believe that this practice (similar to that practiced by the Eternal Ones) makes them closer to the Precursors and the Eternal Ones.

Oh, yes, and one other thing... don't call them Daks.

The Daks are really screwed up mentally. Their weird perversion of language qualifies as Stuttering (-10 points). They also suffer from Bloodlust (-15 points), a Major Delusion (the Daktaklakpak are the universe's most sentient extant race, not counting the Eternal1s, -10), Fanaticism (Precursor relics, -15 points), Obsession (Precursors and Eternal1s, -10 points), Intolerance (all sentient beings, -10 points), and Sadism. They also hate being called Daks (-1 point).

They are also Subjugated by the Hegemonic Crux for -20 points.

The Dnyarri brain is immensely complex and powerful, capable of high reasoning as well as incredible psionic ability. The Dnyarri's most feared ability is a Telecontrol powerful enough to take over an entire planet. Several hundred Dnyarri were all that were necessary to completely destroy the Sentient Milieu. See the History page for more information on the Dnyarri and the Sentient Milieu.

After their defeat, the Dnyarri were genetically modified into subsentience, charged to use their psionic abilities to translate alien tongues for their Ur-Quan masters.

Before their discovery by the Ur-Quan, the Dnyarri had no real technology to speak of, their compulsion powers effectively bending their environment to their will.

Nevertheless, Dnyarri rank well above human super-genius on standard intelligence tests and Mark IV Pan-species psychological profiles place them deeply within the Furtive-Hateful domain.

At the height of their empire, the Dnyarri stopped using their powers on each other and used them instead on the races of the Milieu.

The Dnyarri's psychic compulsion is the most powerful in Galactic history. Any carbon-based life-form is subject to irresistible compulsion. The Taalo developed a device that could counter the Dnyarri's compulsion, but it was destroyed in the battle against the Sa-Matra.

The only other way to break a Dnyarri's compulsion is death or near-death. When a slave dies, the Dnyarri removes his mental control so that he is not also dragged down to death. Devices called Excrutiators were developed to combat the Dnyarri that cause the recipient to live in constant screaming agony. The Dnyarri cannot bring themselves to connect to these minds.

The one Dnyarri that was brought to full sentience during the Hierarchy Wars knew of the history of its species back through Milieu times. He explained that these memories were "imprinted upon his very genetic structure." This implies that some form of racial memory is at work.

The Dnyarri are very small and have no technology of their own; they therefore are Dwarfs (-15 pts) and have Decreased Life Support (10 pts). They have four legs and two arms (5 pts).

Dnyarri are fearsome psionicists: They have Telepathy power 20 (100 points) and the skills Telesend, Telereceive, and Telecontrol at IQ and with Interstellar Range (24 pts: see GURPS Lensman for information on this). They also have Racial Memory (40 pts).

Dnyarri are also pretty much evil incarnate: They are Intolerant (-10), Jealous(-10), Bullying(-10) Sadistic (-15) Megalomaniacs (-25) with Bad Tempers (-10). Psionic enslavement of all sentient creatures is an Odious Racial Habit worth -15.

What do you mean, are they really extinct? Of course they are. Didn't you really mean to ask about flowers?

While they believe that they must serve the Crux, they don't particularly like their bosses. However, they are unwilling to leave them in the lurch and just leave.

They are also Subjugated by the Crux (-20 points).

On the other hand, that probably doesn't appeal to many players.

All Druuge have the skills Merchant, Accounting and Economics at IQ (10 points) and Law at IQ+2 (8 points).

Forcing the PCs to deal with the Druuge can be entertaining; there are a few things that they will take in exchange, instead of slaves. These include Mycon Deep Child Egg Case fragments.

Exquivan are carnivores, eating small creatures from Exquivo, their homeworld.

Nothing is known of the social hierarchy on Exquivo, but the Great Sage seems to speak for the race in external affairs.

If Yorn breeding is left unchecked, they will completely deplete the food resources of a planet in a matter of days. To forestall this, the Harika prey upon the Yorn. The Yorn do not mind this arrangement; their life-cycles are quite short, and given their gestation period of minutes and maturation period of hours, there is no real loss to either the population or the individual (who has lived a comparatively full life when he is gobbled by the Harika).

If the Harika are hosts to an Xchagger colony, the Harika will fall into a coma. The Daktaklakpak learned this, and unleashed the Xchaggers onto the Harika worlds. This has decimated their planets and turned them into suicidal warriors for the Crux.

The Yorn are wily and clever. While they as a race do not mind being preyed upon by the Harika, each individual is going to struggle to stay alive as long as possible. The Yorn are excellent diplomats because of this: they managed to get the location of the Owa homeworld out of an elder of that extremely secretive race.

The Yorn are ST -6 (-50), IQ+1 (10), and tiny enough to qualify as suffering from Dwarfism (-15). Their life cycles are very short; they have three levels of Short Lifespan (-75 points) and thirteen levels of Early Maturation (130). This means that they achieve maturity after roughly five hours and begin to age at roughly 12 years of age.

Well, actually, one thing does bear out mentioning. Humans are fairly small compared to some other species (like the Thraddash), and furthermore, we are "monkey-boys." The manipulators of Humans are built for climbing and grasping small things. That means that surfaces that other races would consider sheer a Human could climb with ease.

Humans are also an extremely industrious species; Earth supplied most of the war materiel during the Crucible of Sentience. The Alliance would not have had a chance if it was not for Earth's support. Earth's industry is an exception to the generally primitive nature of Human technology (Humans were not uplifted, a point that grants them much honor from the Yehat) in that it can construct anything of any TL, provided the proper blueprints are available. They will not, however, understand the principles at work behind them. Humans are often able to build things that they cannot operate. (Captain Fwiffo exhibits knowledge of this fact in Star Control II, in his speech which begins, "I am sure that you will wish to reverse-engineer my vessel, the StarRunner...") This does not apply to weapons; Humans will quite happily use advanced weapons technology, though they prefer stuff that they can field-strip and repair without having to talk to some Yehat engineer or Chenjesu scientist.

Since Humans are rather slight physically, and definitely inferior technologically, they often resort to subterfuge to acheive their goals. Finding weak points and boldly attacking them are hallmarks of the Earthling style. The destruction of the Sa-Matra with nothing more than scavenged parts is a prime example of this.

Ilwrath are basically evil incarnate. They enjoy inflicting pain and suffering onto other sentients. Prolonged torture and self-mutilation is their primary form of entertainment. Yuck.

Ilwrath are Subjugated by the Ur-Quan (-20 points) though they usually like this arrangement.

Build Ilwrath on 25-100 points.

These suits of power armor are most impressive. They double the K'tang's strength and give them access to vast amounts of extraordinarily lethal weaponry.

Most races are unaware of the true nature of the "mighty-thewed K'tang."

These rather horrid personality traits make them perfect fodder for the Hegemonic Crux, which they think they rule.

The K'tang are fairly unintelligent. However, they think they are very smart (or "intellectified" as they call it) and they tend to use (or rather misuse) lots of big words.

When in their armor they have three legs (5), Increased ST (50), and Vacuum Support (60).

In the unlikely event that a K'tang character is out of his armor he will have four maniplators (60) and they will suffer from their Invertebrate nature (-20).

The K'tang Kaktorri are also Subjugated by the Hegemonic Crux (-20).

The Lk slightly resemble terrestrial flatworms in shape, though the biologies are completely different. This means that the Lk can only manipulate things with their "tails."

The Lk are a secretive race, and nothing is known about the Lk diet or life cycle.

The Lk don't particularly trust anybody; they consider everyone out to betray them at the first opportunity and will do so themselves, though "this is, of course, in self defense." Nothing would astonish an Lk more than honest dealing.

The Lk also have a +2 bonus to the Research skill (4).

They have one eye that changes pupil orientation. It appears to be extremely sensitive to color.

Since "Mael-Num" sounds like "Melnorme" and the Kohr-Ah described the Mael-Num as having only one eye, it is suspected by some that the Melnorme and the Mael-Num are one and the same. Confirmation from the Melnorme is available for the usual (exorbitant) price.

Mmrnmhrm (pronounced MERN-mehrm) are intelligent, self-aware robots that resemble large mechanical worms. (I am hereby assuming that the picture in the captain's window is actually three Mmrnmhrm and not one.) As such, they can be exposed to vacuum with no discomfort and require no food other than occasional refueling.

Build most Mmrnmhrm on 100-150 points.

A sub-race of the Mycon, the Deep Children, are used to transform worlds that other races like (that is, oxy-nitro worlds, 0-100 C) into planets that the Mycon like (sulfuric acid, 150-250 C). The Deep Children penetrate the surface and drop all the way to the mantle. Then tendrils from the Deep Child burst through the surface at nearly all points, spewing volcanic gases into the air and basically shattering the crust. They did this to Syra long ago; the Syreen wreak their vengeance upon the Mycon during the Liberation War.

1. The Mycon are capable of editing their memories, and passing them on to their offspring.
2. Any Mycon may be 'possessed' by its ancestors at any point in time.
3. All Mycon are obsessed with Juffo-Wup. Juffo-Wup is somewhere between a God and a state of being. The Mycon consider themselves to be "Agents of Juffo-Wup" and refer to all that isn't Juffo-Wup as either Non or Void. If the Non refuses to become Juffo-Wup, the Mycon will turn the Non to Void. (i.e. they destroy them.) Once all is Juffo-Wup, and there is no more Non or Void, then the Mycon believe that the Creators will return and they can finally rest.
4. The Mycon sought out the Ur-Quan to become their slaves. This probably indicates a slave mentality of some sort (and if they are constructs this would make very good sense.)

1. Elder Mycon are non-sentient, but have all of the abilities listed above.
2. Child Mycon are fully sentient, but this was not part of the original Mycon design. The Elder Mycon imprint their memories upon them, and then the sentience is suppressed and enslaved.
3. The Precursors built a device to 'switch off' Mycon. This works on Elder Mycon only. It once turned them into inert lumps of fungal tissue, but now it unleashes the child again.
4. After the events in Star Control III, the Elder Mycon are extinct and only the 'Child Mycon' live. They are simply called Mycon. For unknown reasons, their Podships are green where the Elder Podships are red.

Most Mycon are in the 100-150 point range.

On the other hand, the sentient Mycon might be playable. The life support required by these guys (they thrive at temperatures near the melting point of lead) might make it tough for them to hang out with the others outside of the ship and such.

The Orz language cannot be translated into any normal language, even by superior translation systems. They refer to most sentients as *campers* and refer to their origin place as **Frumple**. Nobody knows what **Frumple** means, except that it is not good. Well, the Orz say that it is *hard* and yet *lumpy.* Asking about the Androsynth is a good way to make a mortal enemy of all the Orz.

The Orz are usually considered to be responsible for the disappearance of the Androsynth. The hypotheses about this vary widely: conversations with the Orz hint that in order for the Orz to enter this universe dragged the Androsynth down into the Orz' home dimension, while some crackpots claim that the Orz ate the Androsynth. Others hint that the Orz were the guardians of the Androsynth the way the Arilou are the guardians of the Humans.

Events in Star Control III show that the Orz are on good terms with the Eternal Ones, referring to them as *friends*. They also tried to stop the Humans from preventing the arrival of the Eternal Ones. It is also rumored that the Orz have a mental attack of some sort, but the Syreen can stop it by themselves, so it cannot be too powerful (though it will defeat an unprotected sentient quite rapidly.)

Nothing is known about the diet of the Owa or their natural forms of reproduction.

The Owa believe themselves inheritors of a higher fate, and (like most other races) they claim to be the true inheritors of the Precursors, because only they are capable of the proper restrained appreciation of Precursor aritifacts. Despite this restrained ideal, however, they do use the Rainbow Worlds as dumping sites for the anti-matter wastes produced by their highly advanced anti-matter research.

The Owa are Tech Level 12 (50 points) and all have a strong Noble's Code of Honor (-10 points).

Their speech also translates into The King's English for some reason (-1 point).

The Pkunk are slighter of build than the Yehat. Cosmic radiation (cosmic in the sense of, "Whoa, that's really cosmic, man. Trip out.") is what mutated the Pkunk into their present state.

Turn-of-the-century Earthlings would say that the Pkunk's belief system has all the bad qualities of the "New Age" movement, (Pyramid Power, UFOs, etc., etc., ad nauseam) taken to the nth degree. The fact that it works for them makes them even more annoying.

The "spiritual attunement" that the Pkunk have make them unwilling to fight. They certainly never start fights, unless they are extremely provoked. It takes a lot of provocation, though, and anybody watching this "provocation" would consider the provoker to be the one who started the fight.

In general, the Pkunk are weird, but harmless. Or maybe they just look harmless...

As usual, the warm-fuzzy atmosphere of Star Control III turns the Pkunk from comic relief to critical allies. The psionic abilities of the Pkunk are quite adequately demonstrated in SCIII.

Pkunk are extremely powerful psychics. They have ESP at Power 15 (75 points) and Telepathy at Power 10 (50 points). They have all ESP and Telepathy skills except Telecontrol at IQ (48 points). All these links with the universe, however, give them respect for all living things. This doesn't stop some sentients from being nasty and hostile, though, and the Pkunk realize that sometimes force is necessary. This gives them Pacifism (self-defense, -15 points). They are also Impulsive (-10 points) and their attunements to the spiritual worlds makes them Weirdness Magnets (-15 points).

The Ploxis are currently rather rare: the current ruling class eradicated 99.999997% of their species in an "acceleration of natural selection."

But anarchies are unstable. A group of Ploxis--the Plutocrats--realized that they could achieve vast wealth at the expense of everyone else. They swiftly took control of everything on the Ploxis homeworld and proceeded to completely deplete the homeworld's resources and ravage the ecosystem so that only those who were living in the Plutocrats' biodomes survived. These Ploxis are basically the most corrupt, greedy, grasping creatures in the galaxy. Even the Purulu of GURPS Aliens don't even come close to these guys.

The Ploxis are the real rulers of the Hegemonic Crux. The Daktaklakpak and the K'tang Kaktorri both think they are the leaders of the Crux, but both are wrong.

A group of Ploxis rebels is rumored to have escaped the homeworld and evaded the Plutocrats these past few centuries. The truth or fiction of this is yet to be uncovered.

The Ploxis Plutocrats are also all Greedy, Jealous, Sadistic, Filthy Rich Megalomaniacs (-15, -10, -15, 50, -25). They have the racially learned skills Merchant, Acting, and Fast-Talk at IQ+3 (24 points).

The Ploxis Rebels, on the other hand, are fervent fighters for the League and will have no problems with fighting the Plutocrats. The Rebels are not going to bother anybody in the League and will have valuable information on how to defeat the Plutocrats.

The ultimate example of this was when the Ur-Quan invaded the Shofixti's home system, Delta Gorno. The Shofixti and the Yehat were preparing a final defense against the Ur-Quan when the Veep-Neep Queen of the Yehat switched her allegiance and ordered the Terminator fleets back to Gamma Serpentis. The Shofixti left fought valiantly but soon, the entire fleet was gone. As the Ur-Quan fleet approached the Shofixti's homeworld, Kyabetsu, the Shofixti caused their sun to flare into a giant supernova, destroying 30% of the Hierarchy's total forces. This also incinerated all the Shofixti worlds. The species was considered dead until a certain Earthling captain brought together Shofixti males and females, thus resurrecting the species. They will then once again be a force in the universe.

Shofixti have extremely rapid maturation rates and short life spans, reaching maturity at roughly 4 years of age, beginning aging at 40 years and accelerating at 55 and 70. (Rapid Maturation x 2, 20 points, Short Lifespan, -25 points).

The Slylandro are based on a gas-bag physiology in the same way that most other species are based on liquid-holding coeloms. This fragile structure, combined with the fact that their planet has no surface, makes it nearly impossible for them to leave their planet.

Slylandro are all insatiably curious, as is to be expected from a species that has no real stimulation outside of clouds, food, other Slylandro, and inclement planet weather. Once they learned of the outside universe, they couldn't get enough of it.

Although even the History Chants have forgotten this, the Slylandro were once very different beings. The Eternal Ones cannot feed on the Slylandro's sentience energy; they find it unpalatable. This was not always the case, however. The Slylandro modified themselves into their present form to escape the harvest.

Of course, when the Melnorme sold them Catalog Item 2418-B (Remote Self-Replicating Robot Explorer Probe) that they misprogrammed so that it goes around zapping ships into their component compounds for replication materials. The players can run afoul of those, too, if the game is in the same time frame as Star Control II. This, however, is unlikely unless the players are serving aboard the Precursor flagship. By the time the slave shields are lifted, the probes have been stopped.

Most Slylandro have about 25 points.

The Spathi were actually kicked rapidly along their evolution when some entity deposited extremely fierce predators on their homeworld Spathiwa. The Spathi advanced from bronze to atomic age in 100 Earth years and evacuated their planet en masse to live on their moon. The Spathi were returned to their homeworld when a certain Earthling captain cleansed the Evil Ones from Spathiwa.

Since the Spathi are total cowards, it is odd that they have chosen to be Battle Thralls, or as they put it, "Ur-Quan star-thugs." As it turned out, an Umgah switched the communications rod that signified their choice. By the time the Spathi leaders realized what had happened, it was too late to change their decision.

Of course, they are also Subjugated by the Kzer-Za (-20 points).

After their freedom (from Ur-Quan enslavement, that is, before they shield themselves) Spathi are going to be built on 0 points.

There are 'rumors' in Star Control II that imply that there was a rogue group of courageous Spathi that broke away from the main fleet. The "Black Spathi Squadron" is built on 100 points and has bought off Subjugated and Cowardice. Maybe Paranoia.

The Supox are symbiotes; they could not compete directly with the other species on Vlik but the Supox supplied other species with reproductive assistance in exchange for food and shelter. When the Utwig landed on Vlik the Supox swiftly attained starfaring technology and, in exchange, gave the Utwig moral support and guidance in exchange for technological ideas and cultural definition (Note: Due to the symbiotic nature of the Supox, they are only one TL behind the Utwig instead of the usual two.)

Supox are autotrophic; given sunlight, water, and basic minerals, they can produce their own food.

Build Supox on 50-100 points.

The chances against this being just chance are astronomical. It is likely that the Arilou split one or the other race away to serve as a 'control' to their experiments. The Arilou refuse to confirm or deny this allegation.

There are a few differences, however. The most obvious are skin coloration; Syreen skin is tinted blue instead of brown. Their hair ranges from black through bright mauve. Their eyes flash in dim light. This indicates an activity cycle peaking in the twilight hours (dawn and dusk), as opposed to Humans, whose activity cycle peaks in mid-morning and mid-afternoon.

While the Syreen are peaceful, this does not mean they are pacifists. Syra (their original homeworld) was destroyed by what they thought was a natural cataclysm: a meteor struck the surface and penetrated all the way down to the Mohorovic Discontinuity. Later, huge volcanic calderas sprung up all over the surface of Syra, destroying most of the population. The (mostly female) Syreen Space Patrol gathered up as many survivors as they could find and became a race of wandering space gypsies. The VUX and the Ur-Quan began raiding their Habitats and they were forced into the Alliance out of necessity. After the Alliance lost, the Kzer-Za gave them a homeworld, Gaia, that was very similar to Syra. Because of this the Syreen were unwilling to help the New Alliance until they realized that the Mycon were responsible for the destruction of Syra. After this they engineered a plan that annihilated more than half the Mycon forces.

Most Syreen (like Humans) are 50-point individuals, with heroines being in the 100-point range and up.

• "Thraddash have little or no respect for anything but force, which they admire greatly."
• "To make a Thraddash your friend, kill him; but then, of course, he's dead, so what's the point?"

Thraddash believe that armed conflict is the only way to advance a society. The Thraddash had changed civilations through global war seventeen times before Culture Eighteen was subjugated by the Ur-Quan, sparking the war for who would lead Culture Nineteen. The twentieth culture was named by the Human who devastated their battle fleets and eventually stole their Aqua Helix. After the Helix was stolen the twentieth culture saw the error of its ways and Culture Twenty-One is currently being formed.

The Umgah are accomplished biological engineers; only the Mycon even come close to their skills. They outstrip even the Arilou here. (Consider Umgah bioscience to be TL13 (!)) It is unknown whether or not the Umgah evolved into their present form or if they engineered themselves onto what they considered "the next phase of evolution". If the latter is true, then there is no information whatsoever about the nature of their original forms.

Notable jokes by the Umgah include:

• Once the Spathi were subjugated by the Ur-Quan, they gave a servant (yep, you guessed it, an Umgah) a white rod, indicating that they wished to be fallow slaves (imprisoned under a slave shield). However, the Umgah switched the rods so that a black rod was given to the Ur-Quan Masters. Now the Spathi are fighting slaves. Har! Har! Har!
• Sending HyperWave broadcasts into Spathi space warning of the approach of the 'Grand Master Planet Eaters' thus basically causing the entire species to wet its collective pants. In this way the Umgah are partially responsible for the shielding of the Spathi.
• Impersonating the Ilwrath gods Dogar and Kazon, telling them to attack the "Bird Beings." The Umgah wanted to make the Ilwrath attack the Starship Clans of the Yehat; anyone who's taken an Ilwrath Avenger against a Yehat Terminator knows that if the Ilwrath did it (and they would if not for chance) they would be completely burned off the face of the universe. Har! Har! Har! As it turns out the Ilwrath misinterpreted the Umgah's bogus commandments and moved to prey upon the Pkunk.
• One of the Ur-Quan's Talking Pets was recovered by an Arilou and given to the Umgah to heal its severe injuries. The Umgah noticed that the Talking Pet had an extremely sophisticated brain; they then restored it to sentience. As this was a Dnyarri, this was very bad. Once rescued by a certain Human captain, however, the Umgah were overjoyed at their Great Hero. Too bad that that was boring, though... they then elected to make him the "Great Enemy" who all Umgah must attack on sight. Pretty funny, eh? Har! Har! Har!

Umgah are Subjugated by the Ur-Quan (-20 points).

Build most Umgah on 50-100 points.

This has greatly unbalanced the Ur-Quan mentally. All Ur-Quan believe that they must ensure that they will never again be slaves. They do this in one of three ways:

1. The Kzer-Za before StarCon III followed the "Path of Now and Forever" which says that all races must either be imprisoned under an impenetrable force shield or fight along the Ur-Quan as slaves.
2. The Kohr-Ah before StarCon III followed the "Eternal Doctrine" which called for the cleansing of all other sentient life from the Galaxy.
3. After the events in StarCon II all Ur-Quan follow the "Path of Ceaseless Vigilance" which is basically the Path of Now and Forever minus the pre-emptive strike aspect: They will not enslave or annihilate any species until the other race actually threatens the Ur-Quan.

Afterwards, I suppose the Ur-Quan could be handled like any other paranoid but somewhat cooperative species. They were valued members of the Milieu, and after they are vanquished, they may want to return to something like the old status quo.

Build Ur-Quan on around 200 points.

The Utwig believe that their race's appearance on the galactic scene corresponds precisely with a device of unrivaled power: the Ultron. This 'Ultron' would give them the Second Sight and numerous other nifty powers. The Druuge somehow got the Ultron (really a Precursor Artifact, the 'Appendages of Dawn') and traveled to Fahz (the Utwig homeworld) to sell it. While they wanted a Precursor bomb capable of destroying a small planet, the Ultron fed the Druuge's thoughts to the Utwig High Proctor and she thus gave him a vast number of Precursor artifacts, though not the Bomb. The Ultron does work, kind of; it's just not perfectly accurate.

Immediately preceding the events of Star Control II, the Utwig High Proctor dropped the Ultron and broke it. This immediately sent the Utwig into paroxysms of depression. They all donned the Mask of Ultimate Emberassment and Shame with a vow to wear it forever. When a certain Human Captain repaired the Ultron, the Utwig were again festive and joyful.

Theories abound that the Utwig are really the Sentient Milieu race, the Faz, based on the similarity of Fahz and Faz, and that the Faz are known to have survived the fall of the Milieu under a Kzer-Za slave shield. The Utwig have yet to confirm or deny this theory.

Utwig culture is either extremely joyous or extremely depressed: this makes most of the members of the race Manic-Depressive (-20 points). Also, the Utwig tend to have bad things happen to them. Nobody really knows why the Utwig are always so Unlucky, but, they are (-10 points).

Utwig also wear masks at all times (-1).

VUX have green scaly skin and a fixed head, upon which is a very large eye and a snout with a proboscis. Their arms are tentacular, though their legs aren't. Tiny writhing tentacles surround the Vux's head.

VUX hate Humans, Androsynth, and Syreen on the grounds that they're just "too ugly to live." Most other races think this about the VUX.

Like all Battle Thralls, they are Subjugated by the Ur-Quan. (-20 points)

Build most VUX on 0-25 points.

There have been some hints that the Vyro-Ingo and the VUX are the results of failed Precursor genetic experiments. Any attempts to convince either the Vyro-Ingo or the VUX of this will result in an immediate attack.

The Xchaggers are parasites: they must have a warm-blooded host to survive well. Actually, Xchaggers are harmless to warm-blooded creatures. However, if an Xchagger colony is transplanted into a cold-blooded creature (like the saurian Harika) the host will sicken, fall into a coma, and eventually die. This also kills the colony unless it can find a new host.

Individual Xchaggers do not die: the act of reproduction splits their individual bodies into two or more individuals so that the parents live on as their offspring. Their generations follow one another every five minutes or so.

The Xchaggers are a feisty species: "Small be their resolution, but large be their resolve." The Xchaggers are eager to help anyone who recognizes them for what they are--intelligent beings. Unfortunately, these species are few and far between.

The Xchaggers are Parasites that can only survive on warm-blooded animals (-15). Their mindset shows a typical Overconfidence as well (-10).

Yehat are sentient raptors (birds of prey) with brilliant yellow and black plumage. Their forelimbs are wings with clawed tips, permitting both flight and fine manipulation.

The Yehat are unified under one Queen (The Veep-Neep family, before Star Control II, Braky Girdy the First afterwards). The actions of individual Yehat are (at least in theory) to bring honor to the Queen, their Clan, and themselves, in that order.

The Veep-Neep queens united the Yehat Starship Clans with a single promise: that under her wing, the Yehat would never be defeated. When the Ur-Quan fleet came to the Yehat Homeworld, however, the Veep-Neep Queen switched allegiance before a shot was fired (thus preventing the Yehat from being defeated.) This action was seen by most of the Starship Clans as incredibly dishonorable, and when a certain Earthling proved the resurrection of the Shofixti species, the shame it inflicted upon them was such that a bloody revolution began.

This revolution ended, coincidentally, almost immediately before the final attack on the Sa-Matra. After this the Pkunk Braky Girdy the First brought new wisdom to the Yehat.

Yehat have DX+1 (10 points) and claws (+2 damage in hand to hand, 15 points). They have Winged Flight (30 points) and are Fragile (-20 points). They are also TL11 (20 points). Yehat have a Warrior's Code of Honor as well (-10 points).

Yehat are usually going to be showing up in the campaign as soldiers. They are the elite warriors of the Alliance: They will provide leadership in the Alliance where the Chenjesu or the Mmrnmhrm would not fit in (like, say, in a Scout team). Build "average" Yehat on 100 points, and leaders on 150+.

The relatively high point cost of the Yehat means that in a 100 point campaign the player will be very limited in his choices of advantages. He will probably kick up his attributes a little or buy a few advantages and then dedicate the rest of his points to skills.

If the player can live with that, however, the Yehat are a great race for players who want to get into the action but don't feel quite like they want to be a Shofixti or a Thraddash. The Yehat's ability to fly makes them a potent addition to any team.

There is some confusion now as to which of the three is the Fot or the Pik. The Zoq appearks to be an odd head with a single eye. One of the others is a green being with a circular gullet and black armlike things. The third looks like half an accordion with steam shooting out holes in the top. Only the Fot and the Pik are capable of speech.

The national sport of the Zoq-Fot-Pik is Frungy. Nobody really knows anything about it, but the grey guys are usually very excited about it and the green guys don't like it at all, excepting, I suppose, the ones on the Frungy Teams. In general, the only generalization one can make about how a triplet acts with the outside world is that there is no generalization possible.

Due to the fact that they are a triplet, GMs are encouraged to permit ZFP triplets to take up to 60 points in disadvantages and 10 points of quirks (5 Quirks per speaking member).

With two players, it gets more interesting. The two players themselves should get along pretty well or total chaos will result. They'll have to agree on their actions, but their triplet will always act in concert. Enforce this! The players shouldn't agree with each other all the time, though; they should bicker constantly and bother everyone else. "I don't see why they wouldn't want to know about Frungy..." "Because I don't even care about Frungy!"