- Attributes
- Fitness 1 [4]
- Strength (-1)
- Vitality (-2)
- Coordination 1 [5]
- Intellect 2 [5]
- Presence 2 [5]
- Psi 0 [5]
- Skills
- Artistic Expression (choose) 2 (3) OR Craft (choose) 2 (3)
- Athletics (Diving) 2 (3)
- (Swimming) (4)
- Culture (Antedean) 2 (3)
- History (Antedean) 1 (2)
- Language
- Antedean (2)
- Persuasion (Storytelling) 1 (2)
- Planetary Survival (Ocean) 1 (2)
- Science, Planetary (Hydrology) 1 (3)
- (Oceanography) (3)
- World Knowledge (Antede III) 1 (2)
- Typical Traits
- Intolerant (Non-Icthyohumans) (-3)
- Appearance and Physiology
- An icthyohumanoid (fish-like) species, scale tones range from bluish-white to purplish-silver. Antedeans have no body hair but have head-fins. On their chin grow two long tentacles. They have large eyes and webbed hands.
Although the Antedeans are capable of spaceflight, they find space travel disorienting and extremely unpleasant, and survive the ordeal by entering a self-induced catatonic state. Their half-shut eyes fully open upon awakening, a process that takes several hours. Upon revival at the end of the voyage, Antedeans require large amounts of food to replenish their bodies.
- Society
- Seen by very few Terrans, Antedeans are introverted with little outside interests, very few ever leave their homeworld.
Living in cities beneath the wide oceans of their nearly landless planet, their level of technology is surprising considering their limited resources and barely amphibious lifestyle.
Antedean culture centers on their environment and communities. Practical and conservative they are a pragmatic people, unwilling to trust or embrace new ideas or lofty concepts. Despite their high level of technology they prefer simpler ways over mechanically based advancements, which they believe conflict with the balance of nature.
Living much as they did a thousand years ago, simple fish farming and kelp cultivation are the planets major industry, universal material for tools is stone, supplemented by bone and shell.
The visual arts are practiced with great vigor by all people of Antede, but little evidence of their prehistory has survived, as the materials used—wood, ochers, shells, feathers, and clay—are short-lived. Nevertheless, Antede is enormously rich in the arts of sculpture, and architecture, as well as in such highly refined crafts of pottery, weaving, and matting.
There is no marriage, and reproduction is decided based upon the needs of the community and resources available to support an addition to the population. The community raises the children and as a result no Antedean knows who their relatives really are.
- Political Structure
- Ruled by a senate (the leader of which is the planetary Prime Minister), communities of no more than ten thousand individuals are scattered over Antede. Elected representatives are chosen every year to govern these communities in accordance with ecological law.A small group of progressive government leaders were able to gain enough support to petition for Federation membership, but a resistance movement disrupted the negotiations and eventually re-established conservative leadership within the government.
- Submitted by Unknown
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