Greatings for everybody
I'm looking for a Ullian species profile, the Ullians appear in Star Trek TNG and they are a psionic race, i will really appreciate any help.
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Greatings for everybody
I'm looking for a Ullian species profile, the Ullians appear in Star Trek TNG and they are a psionic race, i will really appreciate any help.
Do you want to use them as a PC species or for an NPC?
Well the reason for the question is one player in group that I use to play , wants to play a ullian starfleet officer
• Ullia is a Federation member planet, joining in the early 24th century after years of trade and scientific exchange. It is a windy, harsh planet, except for the storm-wracked but fertile coasts where most Ullian settlements are built. Most Ullian societies developed around the city-state, similar to the 'mandala state' in SE Asia on Earth. Trade leagues connecting them laid the groundwork for their current planetary government.
• Ullians have rules about when they can contact other minds telepathically. Unlike Betazoids, who interact via telepathy sending and read emotions as a matter of course, Ullians reserve telepathic contact to trusted family and friends, and only then in certain circumstances.
• These rules reflect a time, three hundred years ago, when telepathic violence was common on Ullia, especially the form of telepathic rape known as memory invasion.
• Ullians are best-known by other species for their telepathic memory retrieval, wherein they use their telepathic abilities to retrieve faded memory engrams in others. The Institute of Ancient Thought on Ullia trains retrievers, who travel across Ullia and to other planets to gather memories, and archivists, who act as living repositories for chains of memories going back centuries. Some independent retrievers act as therapists or entertainers on Ullia or beyond.
SPECIES ADJUSTMENTS
None. Ullians fall within the same physical and mental ranges as humans.
SPECIES ABIILITIES
• Bonus Edge: Psionic. [cost: 2 - 2]
• Walled Minds: +2 Willpower reaction, and add their full Willpower reaction score to Mind Shield tests (see Mind Shield skill description, PG p. 127) [cost: 8 - 12]
• Bonus Skill: Mind Shield +4. Other telepathic species find it difficult to read Ullians, the result of biological telepathic regulatory structures, likely evolved as a response to telepathic predators on the Ullian homeworld. Even among groups of Ullians, telepathic contact requires either the consent of the contactee, or overwhelming telepathic force.
[cost: 8 - 18]
Author's Note — 'Violations' doesn't show us anything to indicate that Ullians would have different physical stats than humans. Their only distinctive feature was mentioned by Troi when she mentioned that she could not read Ullians, making them unusually closed-off among telepathic species we've seen. The telepathic memory retrieval technique featured in the episode is explicitly referred as something taking years of study, and would thus only be available to characters, specifically Scientists, who've learned it on Ullia in their Professional Development stage. Even if a PC explicitly creates a telepathic historian, unless each scenario features a little scene where they collect some random NPC's memory or it's an intrigue-heavy game a la DS9 it's not going to be very useful, as it would be a crime under Ullian and Federation law to apply it without the subject's consent.
Its not in CODA. But I did stat up Ullians in ICON for the Psionic Sourcebook. You might also want to have a look at that over on Owen's site if there are any ideas for you in there... #shamelessplug
http://www.coldnorth.com/memoryicon/netbook/netbook.htm
However the 'fluff text' for them;
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Ullians
The Ullians come from the Ullian homeworld an independent and neutral planet within the borders of the Federation. While they are not Federation members, they are advanced enough for full contact to exist between the two cultures, and a friendly state exists between the Ullians and the Federation.
Ullians are telepathic species and possess the ability to telepathically retrieve the hidden memories of other humanoids after years of specialized and intensive training. Using this skill, the people have embarked in amassing a library of history that is researched by retrieving personal memories of many worlds' individuals. Fellow telepaths can monitor each other, and often do out of fear of what has been termed "telepathic memory intrusion," considered to be akin to rape in their culture.
It is a legacy of one of the darkest times of the Ullian history that such an abominable occurrence is linked to their ability to share memories, dating back hundreds of years when a small few Ullians took their own pleasure from committing such a heinous act.
So dreadful is it considered that the harshest penalties are used on those that commit it, effectively lobotomising the criminal. A punishment that seemed to be successful in curbing and controlling this crime. For at least three hundred years this crime had died out, until Stardate 45429.3 when a similar offence was carried out against members of a Starfleet crew during transit.
The Ullans are a humanoid race, distinguished in appearance by lightly upswept eyebrows and a rough-textured membrane that covers the top of the ear and melds flush to the head along a line with their larger ears.
The Ullians are a race of Telepaths who have cultivated their natural ability for memory retrieval to help share memories, and even rebuild lost and forgotten memories. This is predominantly a learned capacity, using a combination of Psionic Stimulation and careful questioning of the subject in order to recreate the full perfect memory rather than rebuild and extrapolate from only a glimmer of memory.
To the Ullian culture, true history is that of memory rather than written accounts and records. They see memories as personal accounts of lives touching the times they pass through. And the Ullians are attempting to recreate a historical archive of such Psionic data, gathered from their own people and anyone willing to share their lives with such an archive. Whether it be a simple memory or a recollection of a series of important encounters… And since their encounters with the interstellar community, they have expanded this archive to include memories and experiences of those on neighbouring planets or that travel the stars, with plans to expand the Archive further as required.
Those that show interest in pursuing the path of building this archive, undergo years of training and study, in order to properly learn how to draw a true an accurate memory and to store such a memory for later addition to the archive.
After a pre-history that seems to echo the Vulcan ancient history of violence and telepathic terror, the Ullians have only claimed a peaceful heritage within the last few hundred years, and like humanity are still trying to live down such recent violence and disaster in their history. Perhaps it is these two aspects of Ullian history that explains their kinship with both Vulcan and Human members of the Federation.
One of the key elements of their new steps of peace, seems to have been the creation of their memory archive, and solid evidence of the loss of the historical lessons allowing a direct application of the memories of those that suffered war and violence to discourage similar actions.
However one oddity of the Ullian species, especially when considering their telepathic abilities, is that the complex structure of the Ullian mind, in conjunction with their sense of discipline makes them highly resistant to the scans of other psychics, with such attempts proving difficult and taxing to the Psychic.
Thanks a lot