Woolies:Type: (sentient race) large
herbivores (1.98 to 2.13 meters)Number appearing: 1-20Move: fastM/RS: 5/45STA: 50Attack: by weapon type, or
claws 45%Damage: 1 D10 per claw, or
weapon typeWoolies are the native
sentient race and culture of Janus. Woolies have a protected status on Janus.
Woolies are not to bothered or harassed in any ways. If a Woolie gets hurt by a
non-Woolie the planetary police automatically hold the non-Woolie involved on
attempted murder charges until the problem can be investigated. Woolies though
tall are not very strong and are basically non-aggressive.These creatures are bipeds
covered with shaggy wool like fibers standing about six and a half to seven
feet tall. The civilization of these people is described as nomadic and
semi-tribal, although some larger tribal units of relative stability have been
observed, primarily on the northern continent.Woolie is a pun on the
phrase the Pango tribe used when asked by explorers what they called themselves
Woloi means in Pango linguistic group “from this place”. Woolies are covered
with a wool like fiber except for their lower forearms and hands, lower legs
and hands and face. The “wool” of the Woolie protects their body skin and is a
very strong fiber. Woolies come in a variety of colors such as purple, red,
blue, pink, white and black, some are bi colored in that there lower arms,
lower legs and faces are a different color than their coat. Woolies have a very
short face with large nostrils and a flexible overhanging lip. Woolie have two
eyes, the eyes are on the side of the head large and bulbous. The eyes
themselves are a constantly changing pattern of colors on black, best described
as like watching colored oils move on the surface of dark water. The Woolie
does have protective eye-lids. Woolies can not be hypnotized. Woolies have
extremely good eyesight and are extremely hard to surprise, are excellent
marksmen with any ranged weapon.Woolies shave patterns into
their wool and weave feathers and baubles into their “coats”, some tribes wear
their coats in long cords. Woolie neck is long and about one third their
height. The arms and legs are long flexible muscular limbs similar to elephant
trunks. The legs and arms are surprisingly slender ending in a large two-toed
foot and an extremely dexterous three-fingered hand. Their limbs are extremely
flexible. The Woolies do not have a skeleton but an interconnecting web if
strong fibers that help support their slender body. Woolies are not as strong
as humans, yazirians, vrusk or dralasites because of their unique biological
structure.Woolies are not mammals
(they look like it from a distance) but a unique form of life found on Janus
that possess both plant and animal characteristics. Woolies do not nurse their
young. Woolies have a light pink blood that does contain a type of plant-animal
red blood cell, but have significantly less of these O2 carrying “red blood”
cells than say Humans. Woolies must wear an O2 boosting breathing device, or be
given O2 boosting drugs to function on planets with lower O2 content than
Janus.Multi-Cap maintains that the
intelligence of the Woolies has been tested as low. The long term survival
potential of the Woolies without intervention of a more advanced culture has
been judged as low as well by Multi-Cap scientists. However their ability to learn indicates rather they have no cultural points of reference for certain concepts the more advanced races take for granite rather than a lack of intelligence.Woolies worship the Mirror
Plant. Woolies feed their dead to the plant as a burial ceremony. The Mirror
Plant is central to their mythologies and various tribal beliefs.Woolies have a symbiotic
relationship with the Mirror Plant. The Woolie’s life cycle is tied to the
presence of the Mirror Plant, prey and predator is uniquely connected. Woolies
who are not around Mirror Plants are sterile and will produce no children till
exposed to the vapors of the Mirror Plant. Only after exposure to vapor will
the reproduction of an adult Woolie become active and express it’s self as
either male or female “flower” that grows from their chest on a tether. Once
the pollen of a male flower has fertilized a female flower, a fruit forms
connected to a sort of outside umbilical cord from the female flower, which
then gradually matures into a child Woolie as it grows towards the ground.
Female Woolies often wear slings to help keep the child contained. The baby
Woolie clings to its mother scampering around on the end of its nutrient
tether. When the tether is long enough that the child can walk beside their
parent the umbilical falls off. The male Woolies flower after releasing its
pollen dies and falls off within 24 hours. Woolies (male and female) “bloom”
about every 4 months with the exception of a female with child, who will not
bloom again till her child’s nutrient tether falls off at about 8 months.