Traveller Aliens

I've put up some information about the Simioids in a previous post and on the LOH Traveller wiki.    That's really not a huge issue for integration in the Official Trav universe, since various uplifted species are present in small numbers (there may even be official uplifted apes somewhere).

I also added our old friends the Span-Kee and Mavorians to the mix over at the wiki.  It's not too much of a stretch to figure that the Zhodani might have a few allied minor races, especially psionic ones.

I guess I should explain Minor/Major Races in Traveller.    A species that invented Jump Drive all on its own is called a Major Race.  The Major Races include 3 sub-species of humans:  The Vilani, The Zhodani and the Solomanni (i.e Earthmen);  also the Vargr (dog-men), Aslan (lion-men), K'kree (a centaur-like race), Hivers (weird octopus-like aliens) and the Droyne (small flying winged lizard-like guys).   All the major races have their own space empires except the Droyne who exist only on scattered planets across the galaxy.  The Imperium the players live in is most a mixture of Vilani and Solomani humans, with a huge number of minor races here and there.    In the corner of the galaxy we are playing, we will likely encounter Zhodani, Vargr and Droyne, but it is vary unlikely that we'll see K'kree or Hivers, who are on the other side of the empire.

I left the Aslan off the list.  They have colonies nearby, but they are the ones I'd like to change.   Instead of a race of Klingon-like Lion men,  I think I'd prefer to change them into a coalition of various reptilian and amphibian type aliens.  For one thing, I have lizardmen aplenty in miniature, but only like 3 lion men.  For another thing, what's more fun than blasting space lizards?  I know it sounds pretty weak sauce, but I guess the Aslan always seemed super-lame to me.