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Slylandro gasbags
Homeworld: Beta Corvi IV (Source)
Coordinates: 033.3 : 981.2
Member of: None
Ship: Probe

The Slylandro are the only known race whose homeworld, which they call Source, is a Gas Giant. They are physically incapable of leaving their planet and travelling thru space, which prompted them to purchase a "Catalog Item 2418-B: Self-Replicating Robot Explorer Probe" from the Melnorme to explore space for them and report back to them. The Slylandro have had contact with the Precursors, the original Ur-Quan and the Sentient Milieu.


They are essentially sapient bags of gas (and a limited quantity of solid and/or liquid) that float through their homeworld's atmosphere. Their visual range is different from most races and it is to their great dismay when they realize that their bodies are transparent to human vision, revealing their reproductive organs, which look like "glowy bits".

They evolved from simple, unimodular consumers that thrived in atmospheric convection currents. Originally mindless but social creatures, they developed language to better coordinate efforts to herd their food source into dense concentrations. Source has a great biodiversity for a gas giant—hundreds of species, some producers, others consumers, hunters or parasites—but the Slylandro claim to be the only ones to have evolved intelligence.

Because of their unique physiology, the Slylandro inhabit only a 500 kilometer thick layer in the the atmosphere of Source. Ascending above this layer, into what the Slylandro call "Void", causes them to become giddy and behave inappropriately. Descending below this layer into "the Depths" can be fatal as the increasing pressure can eventually rupture a Slylandro's gas bag. In a common feat of courage, youths will sink into the Depths just enough to damage but not rupture their gas bags, producing tissue scars which last for many rotations and are thought to make the individual more attractive to potential mates.



The Slylandro have an egalitarian society, but this, as Content to Hover comments, "doesn't stop some people from being stupid fools or jerks." Inhabitants of Source deal with bothersome individuals by simply going somewhere else on their massive planet.


Relations with other races[edit]

The foreign relations of the Slylandro depend on other races visiting them, which occurs rarely, even by Slylandro standards. They are always very friendly when dealing with alien visitors and are eager to learn as much as possible from any new "Traveller". This has kept the Slylandro neutral in galactic affairs because they are physically unable to join any alliance and no race is known to have the technology to move them. The isolation is was led them to purchase a Remote Self-Replicating Robot Explorer Probe from the Melnorme and to increase the priority of its Replication behavior, inadvertently creating an ever-growing menace to space travel.



Yuli & Drall[edit]

While the Slylandro speaker Content to Hover offers little information about the Yuli and Drall, he does note that both races were members of the Sentient Milieu and would commonly engage in conversation with the Slyandro.





New Alliance of Free Stars[edit]

The Slylandro Probe ship spread throughout our corner of the galaxy and terrorized fleets belonging to both Alliance and Hierarchy worlds. No one was certain who was responsible for the aggressive and powerful probes, but the Thraddash and Zoq-Fot-Pik gathered evidence that pointed towards the far northwest sector. When The Captain arrived, he was perhaps surprised to meet such a cordial and curious race. After fruitful discussions that included all aforementioned information on Slylandro diplomatic history, the Captain alerted the gaseous people to the damage their ships were causing. The Slylandro promptly provided the Captain with a self destruct code to transmit to the Probes.

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