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General What is the 'genus' of the Droyne?

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As the title says.
Are they reptile, bird, or amphibian? (not sure if 'bird' is a genus) Oviparous for sure.
Endo or Exo-thermic?

IMTU, the Droyne are setting up a colony/settlement five parsecs away from the Scout base of operations. Contact was initiated by the Droyne themselves.
 
None of the above. They are totally unrelated to terran species and difficult to classify in those terms.

Their skin is leather like, they have hollow lightweight bones, and as far as I can tell they are warm blooded.

They have compound eyes.

They have three sexes, although each caste is significantly biologically different.

The drones (females) lay a clutch of eggs.

Young droyne are all very similar, the casting ceremony causes actual biological change.
 
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If you HAVE TO force Droyne into a Solomani frame of reference for species, Droyne are something of a "chimera" that crosses over Solomani speciies traits.

It is (now) known that modern day birds (basically all of them) are the evolutionary survivors of dinosaurs.
So if dinosaurs are "lizards" and birds are "avians" then using that frame of reference, Droyne have more in common with "bird-like dinosaurs" without feathers (in Solomani species terms).

However, the compound eyes are more of an insectoid type of morphology trait. :unsure:

So Droyne REALLY don't "classify neatly" into a single branch of the Solomani species differentiation (because Droyne are ALIENS ... go figure :rolleyes:).

If you HAVE TO force Droyne into a Solomani species classification system ... they're basically a "chimera" type alien that blends saurian, avian and insectoid together that is OBVIOUSLY NOT your typical Solomani species. They're REALLY alien. 😓
 
As others have said, they're much more distant from any of those groups than a mushroom or gut bacterium and it doesn't add any reliable inference for other traits. In-universe science suggests "Omnivore/gatherer" should tell more about them.

It's a bit interesting that this group seems to be expanding. I don't think we see that often.
 
If you look as far back as the original CT Alien Module, and see the illustration of the Droyne skeleton, you see that anatomically they don't really match life as it evolved in Earth's biome. The Droyne equivalent of a ribcage is nothing like any ribcage we see in Terran chordates.
 
None of the above. They are totally unrelated to terran species and difficult to classify in those terms.

In Traveller, it is necessary to inude a minimum of one level in the Taxonomlc Classification System ABOVE Domain: "BIOME", with the name of the world of "Genetic Origin" (e.g. Humans and Vargr would both start with "Terran" or "Terragen" or something similar, before Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, etc . . . ).

Many groupings which are similar across Biomes might use a similar root-name with "-oid" suffixed and/or "pseudo-" prefixed.
 
The link between chirpers and droyne is a metagame secret, not common knowledge to anyone in the Third Imperium. Unfortunately everyone out of game knows it, along with the secret of the ancients. Which means it is no longer fit for purpose.

At least some canonical materials show that the Droyne know about their link with the Chirpers. It's probably known to researchers who specialize in the Droyne but it would be specialist knowledge even to most well-educated Imperial citizens.
 
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Game of Droynes.
 
As the title says.
Are they reptile, bird, or amphibian? (not sure if 'bird' is a genus) Oviparous for sure.
Endo or Exo-thermic?

IMTU, the Droyne are setting up a colony/settlement five parsecs away from the Scout base of operations. Contact was initiated by the Droyne themselves.
I believe you're misconstruing class for genus. In addition to the errors already pointed out.
They would be in a parallel to the vertebrata class, and an order, family, and genus within it... but unless serious panspermia, they're not even in one of the 4 current taxonimic kingdoms.

If forcing them into the terran system and ignoring the genetics, they're closest to either Aves (birds) or Reptillia, but the first geneticist runs the numbers, and puts them probably in at least a new Phylum, if not Kingdom, and goes to town on xeno-microbiota from a fecal...

They are partially scaled, leather skinned, warm blooded, egg laying, compound eyed (no Terran vertebrate is), 3 gendered, hexapoid-descended, flying omnivore gatherers with farming and massive psi. That they're considered playable is proof Marc's idea of playable is broad. (AM K'Kree Proves that Marc's idea of playable is well past my own.)

Much the same goes for Hivers, Ithklur, Viurushi, Ael Yael, Bwaps, Vegans, Aslan, Eiboken, Hlassani, Dandies/LLewelloly, Danin (decanonized - JG)...
It may even apply to the Darrians... I've not seen the official take on that. But Darrian culture includes multiple species, as does Aslan culture.

The few I can recall that can be fit nicely include Vilani, Vargr, Solomani, Zhodani, Sword Worlder, Ardenese, Uplifts (Chimp, Orangutan, Banobo, dolphins, orcas), severe genemods (including Lurani and Jonkerer), dozens of other human minors... because theyre descended from terran animals. Everyone else is in another kingdom.

 
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