Race: Fordans

Personality
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The Fordans are an extremely science-minded and logical people.  They believe the answers to all things are in science, written in the language of mathematics.

Physical Description
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Fordans are a tri-gendered species, but their outer appearance doesn't bely the fact.  To outsiders, they look almost identical to one another, but Fordans are able to identify one another by means of pheromone signatures.  Fortunately, it is undetectable by those who have fairly dull senses of smell, like humans.  Fordans have an average height of 180 cm with exactly a +/- 1 cm deviation and weigh 80 +/- 0.1 kg.  Their skin is hairless and a uniform pasty white.  They have long, lanky limbs and hands with thin fingers twice as long as a humans.  Each digit has four joints from the palm, except the thumb that has three, similar with their feet.

Homeworld
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The Fordans live on a world they call, in translation, "k" meaning constant, for it is the only constant in their eyes.  The planet is a rogue planet, artificially constructed by an ancient benign race as an experiment.

Culture
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A. Motives
   The Fordans are highly motivated to learn all there is about the
   universe and to hopefully unravel the mystery of the emergence of their
   existance.

B. Technology
   Base TL     TL 8
   Energy      TL 8
   Information TL 7
   Transport   TL 9
   Weapons     TL 7
   Materials   TL 8
   Environment TL 9

C. Government
   The Fordan's government is a technocracy, governed by three (one of
   each gender) who are genetically predispositioned for the positions
   before birth.  They have total power over the entire government.  The
   individuals that are conceived for this purpose serve as advisors to
   their progenitors until its death.

Language
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Fordans communicate through logic and mathematical equations.  To them
language is a tool and for them, tools are to be precise and without
extraneous meanings.

Common Names
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Individuals are given names expressing their version of the stardate upon
birth down to the quantum time.

Favored Profession
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Scientist.  Every Fordan is scientist regardless of anything else.  They
can acquire other professions, but can never leave the Scientist
profession.

Racial Specifications
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Attributes: +1 Agility, +2 Intellect, -2 Vitality

COST: 5

Bonus Edge: Innovative
   Fordans are able to use their logic and experience to apply concepts
   from one area of expertise to another quite easily.

COST: 2

Scientific
   Fordans gain a +2 bonus to Science: Physical (Mathematics) and Science:
   Physical (Logic) tests.  They also gain 2 ranks to spent on one Science
   skill or split between two Science skills.

COST: 6

Psi Void
   Due to their extreme scientific nature, Fordans are devoid of emotion
   and their rigid structure of society and the mind doesn't lend them to
   be influenced psionically.  Fordans are immune to all Psi effects
   except for Telekinesis and similar powers that act on the body from
   without.

COST: 5

TOTAL: 18