[ICON] Species Database and Antedean Template
Species Database for ICON.
As some of you may know I am making a species database for the ICON system. While it was not my original intent, I am looking into making it available to the public. But first I need a clarification: Adobe is not a word processing program? I would need to create the database on my word program then save it to Adobe? How would I go about revising and polishing the work once it was already saved to Adobe if it is not a word processing program?
Antedean Template
This is just speculation and guesses on my part (except for the attributes section which comes from TNG: Corebook). Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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Antede III
Star System Data
---System Name: Antede
---Affiliation: Independent
---System Type: G3 v [bright, yellow dwarf]
---Inhabited Planets: Antede III ([Class M]).
---Other Planets: Five other planets, one a gas giant.
---Other Stellar Objects: A typical star system, Antede has many satellites, including planets, comets, asteroids, and other spatial debris. An asteroid belt orbits between Antede III and Antede IV; and there is an average Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt.
---Artificial Objects: The system is void of artificial satellites or habitations.
Planetary Data
---Class: M
---Position in System: 3
---Distance from Star: 1.7 AU [254,155,100 km]
---Planetary System: Antede has three moons.
---Planetary Size
------Diameter: 15,042 km
------Equatorial Circumference: 47,259 km
------Total Surface Area: 710,869,878 sq km
---Planetary Conditions
------Gravity: 1.2 g
------Year and Day: 100 d/44 h
------Atmosphere: Nitrogen-oxygen, density 1.15 bars [thick].
------Hydrosphere: 80.5%
------Climate: A planet of tumultuous oceans and endless storms. Few features mark its surface, save for a few islands. The climate of Antede III is always thudery and rainy with high winds. [11c]
Lifeform Data
---Sapient Species: Antedean
------Population: 3.5 billion
------Tech. Index: Level Five/Six [Atomic/Antimatter]
------Government: Democracy
------Culture: Closed but peaceful
------Affiliation: Independent
---Animal: Sparse
---Vegetation: Moderate
---Aquatic: Extensive
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[Picture of an Antedean]
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 industries, 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, ochres, 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 reestablished less progressive leadership within the government.
Antedean Template
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)
Steven "redwood973" Wood
"Man does not fail. He gives up trying."