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[[Category:Stubs]]</div>69.233.3.53https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Second_War&diff=10803Second War2006-01-16T02:10:20Z<p>69.233.3.53: sp. and slight rewording</p>
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<div>'''The Second War''' occurs twenty years after the [[First War]] pitting the [[New Alliance of Free Stars]] against an even more powerful (but distracted) [[Ur-Quan Hierarchy]].<br />
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The Hierarchy appears to have won. The old Alliance is in ruins. Only one member isn't [[slave shield]]ed or destroyed, and they became [[Battle Thralls]]. It is a dark time for the quadrant, but on a small planet in the [[Vela]] system named [[Unzervalt]] by its inhabitants, a secret weapon which may very well turn back the successes of [[The Ur-Quan Masters]] has been found.<br />
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[[The Captain]] commands his [[The Flagship|Flagship]] across the stars to win back freedom for all sentient life.<br />
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[[Category:Historical events]]</div>69.233.3.53https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Slylandro_Timekeeping&diff=10802Slylandro Timekeeping2006-01-16T01:39:25Z<p>69.233.3.53: ins. missing "of"</p>
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<div>The '''Slylandro Timekeeping''' system is based entirely on a single natural phenomenon, the rotation period of their homeworld, [[Source]]. Since the [[Slylandro]] lack any form of physical technology, this method of keeping time has persisted throughout the history of their race. <br />
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The principle unit of time in this system is the Drahn, equivalent to four million rotations of their home planet. A Drahn is sub-divided into two thousand Drahnasa. For even smaller periods of time, the Slylandro simply use the rotations of their homeworld as a unit of time. The following is an approximate conversion factors between Slylandro and Human units of time:<br />
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*1 rotation = 14.2 earth hours ≈ 0.592 earth days<br />
*1 Dranhasa ≈ 1180 earth days ≈ 3.24 earth years<br />
*1 Drahn ≈ 2370000 earth days ≈ 6480 earth years <br />
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In discussions with the Slylandro, they consistently make reference to events using these units of time. When converted to conventional units of time, the timing of these events corresponds fairly well with known historical findings. The following table lists these events with the Slylandro time and corresponding [[Human]] time:<br />
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!Slylandro Time<br />
!Human Time<br />
!Event<br />
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|a few 100 rotations<br />
|a few 59.2 days<br />
|time between visits of the [[Melnorme]] and [[The Captain]]<br />
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|500 rotations<br />
|296 days<br />
|mission duration of Slylandro [[Probe]]s<br />
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|1 Drahnasa<br />
|3.24 years<br />
|time within which all The Captain's visits occur<br />
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|half a Drahn<br />
|3240 years<br />
|length of time over which the Slylandro had contact with the [[Sentient Milieu]]<br />
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|3 Drahn ago<br />
|19400 years<br />
|regular visits from the [[Ur-Quan]] during the Sentient Milieu era<br />
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|3-4 Drahn<br />
|19400-25900 years<br />
|estimated lifespan of a Slylandro<br />
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|39 Drahn ago<br />
|253000 years<br />
|last visit from the 'shaggy giants' (the [[Precursors]])<br />
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|41 Drahn ago<br />
|266000 years<br />
|first contact from the 'shaggy giants'<br />
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|many 1000's of Drahn<br />
|many 6480000 years<br />
|historical extent of Slylandro species<br />
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:''Information about Source's rotation period and historical events was originally presented by [[User:Svdb|SvdB]] in this'' [http://uqm.stack.nl/forum/index.php?topic=1169.0] ''forum thread.''<br />
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:''Note that the numbers listed in this page come from data which was never intended to be shown in the game. As such, the numbers presented here may not have been intended and may actually be purely coincidental. Regardless, they do not contradict what we know from other sources about the [[Timeline|Star Control Timeline]].''<br />
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[[Category:Slylandro]]</div>69.233.3.53https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/index.php?title=Slylandro&diff=10801Slylandro2006-01-16T01:39:02Z<p>69.233.3.53: Fix last sentence</p>
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The '''Slylandro''' are the only known race whose homeworld, which they call [[Source]], is a [[List of planet types#Gas_Giant|Gas Giant]]. They cannot travel through space due to their physiology, though they have bought a self replicating [[Probe]] (Catalog Item 2418-B) from the [[Melnorme]] to explore space for them and report back to them. The Slylandro have had contact with the [[Precursor]]s, the original [[Ur-Quan]] and the [[Sentient Milieu]].<br />
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They are essentially sentient bags of gas that float through their homeworld's atmosphere. Their bodies are incredibly fragile. Their vision is in a range that is different from most races and it is to their great dismay when they realize that they are transparent to human vision. They evolved from simple, unimodular consumers which 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. Despite the variety of life on source, the Slylandro claim to be the only ones to have evolved intelligence.<br />
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They 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. Because of the limitations of their world the Slylandro have no native construction, technology or written records. Attempts to create objects from animal carcasses are futile, as the construction becomes too massive and dives into the Depths, its bouyancy being overcome by gravity. Unable to maintain written records, the Slylandro employ long songs called History Chants, whose patterns and rhythms help prevent the record from being corrupted. Also linked to their peculiar habitat and physiology is the [[Slylandro Timekeeping]] system, based solely upon the rotation period of their planet, Source. Their units of time are the Drahn, the Drahnasa, and rotations.<br />
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The Slylandro have very long lifespans. [[Content to Hover]], a Slylandro speaker, claims to have been a nymph when the original [[Ur-Quan]] visited their homeworld more than 20,000 years ago.<br />
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The current Slylandro Speakers are Content to Hover, [[Joyous Lifting]], and [[Sullen Plummet]].<br />
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==General==<br />
The '''Spathi''' are a cowardly race of "meta-mollusks." They have a colorful exoskeleton, a single jiggling eye, and jointed pinching claws, possessing the best qualities of both the clam and the [[dravatz]]. As a race, the Spathi are absolute cowards and paranoid. They live in constant fear of an undetectable phantom called the [[Ultimate Evil]], which the Spathi are convinced lives just beyond the reaches of their most powerful long-range sensors.<br />
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The Spathi evolved on the lone planet Epsilon Gruis I (their name for the star is [[Yuffo]] and the planet, [[Spathiwa]]). Recently, their home planet has been beleaguered by a race of ravenous creatures called the [[Evil Ones]] who enjoy eating Spathi, prompting the entire Spathi race to take refuge on Spathiwa's moon.<br />
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==Hierarchy Status==<br />
When the [[Ur-Quan Kzer-Za]] subjugated the Spathi, they offered them the same choice given to each race, as dictated by the [[Path of Now and Forever]]: be a fallow slave or battle thrall. The Spathi actually chose to be fallow slaves, being rather fond of the idea of being forever protected by an impenetrable [[Slave Shield]]. However, the Ur-Quan's [[Umgah]] servant who was to notify the Ur-Quan of the Spathi's choice mischeviously reported to the Ur-Quan that the Spathi had chosen to be battle thralls.<br />
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==Religion==<br />
The Spathi have a traditional daily prayer which reflects their general attitude towards life: "..Oh God... please don't let me die today! Tomorrow would be so much better!"<br />
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The Spathi also have a pre-death ceremony, the ritual of Wezzy-Wezzah. The completion of this short ritual ensures a place in their secure afterlife. A noted attribute of the Spathi's afterworld is the absence of immortal, devouring monsters. However, the ritual of Wezzy-Wezzah is invalid unless performed on the moon of Spathiwa.<br />
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The Spathi pilot the very nimble [[Eluder]]-class ships.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
*[[Black Spathi Squadron]]<br />
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