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Elauhir

Some things

A) I used to be a member of a shared universe Trek writing club Star Trek: Engage.

B) Two of my stories, "Good-bye Ruby Tuesday" and "Black and White Issues" were written for Engage.

B1) The Elauhir appear in "Taking leave of Elvend"

C) Jay uses too many bullet points

D) The Engage club made up a Galaxy Class starship the USS Explorer and threw several characters together in this story line.

In response to this call I made up this -

> ***CLUB ASSIGNMENT***
>
> The first Engage Club Assignment for the New Year is:
> CREATE AN ALIEN RACE
>
> The USS Explorer will be coming into contact with
> several new alien races in her travels through the
> unexplored territories of space. If you would like
> to create an alien race for her to meet, please send
> me the following information:
>
> ALIEN NAME AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Elauhir, they look like humans except usually much slimmer of build, very willowy and smaller than the average human. men average 5'4" and 145 lbs while their women average 5'3" and 125- 130 lbs. They have delicately swept ears although these are easily distiguishable at a glance from the Vulcan oid pattern.

They are usually fair skinned with impeccable complexions. Their hair and eye colorations run the gamut of human types and styles with purple, gold and silver eyes being seen, as well as blue and pink hair being seen.

There are a few, rare individuals who are colored obsidian black with white hair. They are almost never encountered however. if they are, they seem to be engaged in some private tension with their fellow Elauhir. Neither side will speak of this to outsiders, though.

> ALIEN CLOTHES

They prefer natural fabrics and have very intricate filligreed designs. The official members of this race often dres in long flowing gowns with elaborate stiching and designs. Individuals engaged in personal business will wear a variety of clothing, but it will almost invariably be of a design reminiscent of medieval fashion. Soliers will wear leater like chest and back pieces and tights that allow for easy full ranges of moment as well as green dappled cloaks of a forrest comoflague pattern. Few members of their military will be encountered at any given time

Elauhir will often go armed prefering slim daggers, rapiers and precise energy weapons

Their design borders on the baroque with filligree and details, and refined artistic lines.

> ALIEN ATTITUDE ie: AGGRESSIVE, WARLIKE, FRIENDLY

Snotty. Arrogant and self assured. The Elauhir consider themselves the highest of all humanoid forms of life and aren't shy about saying so.

Part of this comes from the fact that an Elauhir will live (Barring accidents and violence) up to 30,000 Earth years. This makes their experience and perception of time, at best, weird.

As a whole Their reaction to the federation will be to smile indulgently and mention how quaint and amusing the little experiment of the Federation is. They will seek friendly contact and free travel agreements for Elauhir to the Federation. They will accept a trade trade agreement readily if a touch snottily. They will insist however that any Federation contact with their home planet , Askene be very carefully controlled and monitored. for reasons explained below.

Individually one will typically run into two broad categories of Elauhir. The first is the typical Elauhir. Calm, Contemplative and Serene. Confident of one's places in the cosmos, and ready to calmly contemplate one's position or to explore through thought and quiet experiment the nature of the universe around them.

Occasionally, an Elauhir will go temporarily nuts. A existential form of cabin fever. They becomes almost childish. Hyperactive, Living in the moment, seeking excitement and adventure. These Elauhir becomes adventurers, explorers, seekers, mountain climbers, great warriors and generally spend their time getting as far away from the quiet, proper and righteous Elahir lifestyle as possible. After a few decades of running loose like mad people, or after experiencing serious injury and surviving it the Elauhir individual is snapped out of his insanity and returns home to serenely contemplate the trees.

Elauhir individuals can almost be said to experience serial life times. They often experience vast personality changes during their times of insanity and the last thing they'd ever want to do is discuss "old news". While in serene contemplation mode they may remember previous adventures, but with distaste and definite sense of temporary problems now gone from mind. The next Elauhir insanity phase may see the individual pick up where they left off, or begin a whole new insane identity.

Once contacted by the Federation a very small but definite flow of individuals from Askene will flow into the Federation to see what's new, play tourist and seek new adventures.

> THEIR CURRENT LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY. ARE THEY MORE, LESS OR THE SAME AS
> THE UFP?

Elauhir scientists and engineers could with sufficient time and effort duplicate any technological feat of the UFP. Their knowledge of science is not quite as broad but is as deep as the UFP. Certain elements of the Elahir lifestyle make this unlikely however as they have very little industrial base. Most implements carried by elauhir are either hand made by expert craftsmen, or of much lower basic technology than the UFP. They could build tricorders. Indeed ince the see Starfleet models they will look at them and set about making a handful. But they would be much harder pressed to make a large locker full of them as might be found on the USS Explorer.

> THEIR SOLAR SYSTEM. HOW MANY PLANETS ORBIT AROUND THEIR SUN. WHAT ARE
> THEIR NAMES? IS THEIR SUN YELLOW, BLUE ETC. WHICH IS THEIR MAIN
> PLANET?

Their Sun is called Aton. Their home planet is called Askene. Aton is a yellow G3 sequence star similar in most ways to Earth's sun. Further details may be developed as necessary.

> WHAT ORBIT AROUND THE SUN IS IT IN? ie: FIRST, SECOND, THIRD ETC.

Askene is the third planet out from Aton.

> LENGTH OF THEIR DAY IN EARTH HOURS.

About 24 and some change. Loosing a few tenths of a second earch year because of the larger of Askene's two moons.

> DESCRIBE THE TYPE OF SHIPS THEY TRAVEL IN.

Usually small runabout class ships. They have at most a handful of smaller ships and nothing to match the Explorer in terms of size, available energy or firepower.

Needless to say this bugs the Elauhir a lot and is a project they will begin to work on.

> WHAT IS THEIR MAIN SOURCE OF INCOME? COMMERCE? TOURISM? AGRICULTURE?

The Elauhir have a gold based economy, self sufficient and self contained on their world. They do have latinum present although currently they consider it a scientific curiousity. Once they learn of the Ferengi (and one assumes other independant planets use of Latiunum as a monetary metal they will quickly and efficiently switch to that.


> THEIR TYPE OF GOVERNMENT. ie: DEMOCRATIC, MONARCHY, SEVERAL
> GOVERNMENT,
> NO GOVERNMENT ETC.

The main government of the Elauhir is a council of elders, picked by arcane political means based on the elder's contributions to Elauhir society and their percieved importance to it. Some Elauhir run feudal kingdons or city states on Askene but consider themselves subsidiary to the Elauhir Council.

> ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SUPPLY.

The punchline and the other shoe. The reason why the Elauhir are so under industrialized and want to limit and control Federation contact with Askene is because there are other native humanoids incluing humans native to Askene. The Elauhir have cuturally domainated these other races. They speak Elauhir language shape their society in Elauhir approved ways and all consider the lowest Elauhir the next best thing to royalty. They are kept in a medieval technological state and any further progress is ruthlessly obstructed and suppressed by the Elauhir,

Anyone who discovers something nifty like gunpowder on Askene either finds themsleves bought off, stricken with amnesia or quietly made to disappear.

Although they never show it to the UFP people, the Elauhir are shocked and surprised to discover a large technological nation of short lifers, and feel not a little threatened by it. They will launch a crash program to provide Askene with proper defenses against people like the UFP, then Klingons or th Kynah, all of whom the Elauhir consider equally unpredicatble and dangerous.

Some Elauhir elders have psionic powers which they have spent thousands of years developing to an extreme degree. (These are the one who strike intrepid inventors with amnesia when necessary.) They are not above using their powers to influence interstellar people too, although this will be avoided until they know more about such places as the UFP and the rest of known space.
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D) Anyone who has played D&D will recognize the Elves right away. Actually I borrowed from both D&D and Dragonquest which was Sunshines first system and game setting. I recycled Sunshine for another D&D game, I realized I liked the character.

After the second game fell over I recycled Sunshine for ST-OM. it was silly but the character worked surprisingly well.

F) So, when asked for an alien race I reached behind Sunshine and pulled her whole people into it. I was considering writing this up for Trekcreative at the time anyway. I am not shy about recycling good stuff if it makes for a good story.

 

Disclaimer: Paramount owns all things Trek. I claim original characters and situations in this material for me.

Jay P. Hailey

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