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The People of the Far Side

The Native Peoples of the Far Side

The various card sets have mentioned a wide variety of races. Most have been depicted on one card or another.

Argonian

The Argonians are gaseous beings capable of assuming a semi-solid state at will native to the Homecloud Nebula.

Illustration: R/A/T1 Shameless Argonian Sunbathing Nude
Illustration: R/C7 Doctor


Bolaar

The people of the Bolaar system seem to be essentially an offshoot the human race. They were forced into a subterranean existence when Indirigans attacked Bolaar and made the surface of that world uninhabitable.

Illustration: A7 Bolaar Negotiator
Illustration: C4 Pirate Captain
Illustration: C5 Weapons Officer
Illustration: R/C6 Science Officer


Clydon

Imperial Cldyon
© 1995 Douglas Chaffee.
The Clydon race is composed of several highly distinctive sub-races (called broods). Each brood type is bred to fulfill a specific need of the whole of Clydon society. The various brood affiliations also serve as the basis of the Clydon caste system. Drones are gigantic beings designed to do perform manual labor; the Blood are the warriors of Clydon society and are bred to be vicious and without fear in the face of the enemy; the Imperial brood are the elite caste of the Clydon race and rule all others.

Illustration: A3 Drone Clydon
Illustration: A5 Blood Clydon
Illustration: A7 Imperial Clydon (at right)
Illustration: R/C6 Commando


Drone

The Drone are a small segment of the Mechad home world which evaded control when the machine's sentient programming took over.


Human

Humans, too, exist on the Far Side. They do not appear to live within a single, cohesive society. Rather, they seem to have organized several competing empires of which the most notable are the Corporate Agressor and Plasma Occupied Territories.


Erodi


Filarian Infesters


Indirigan

The various Indirigan tribes constitute a race of brightly-hued, extremely aggressive humanoids. Their society is apparently patriarchial, treating females as little more than prized possessions. The presence of a much sought-after on an opposing ship has often brought doom to a ship as the crew finds itself unwilling to defend itself, lest the female be damaged. To avoid these situations, the Indirigans have developed for a fondness for face-to-face warfare. 'Social combat' has become their pre-emminent form of interaction.

Illustration: C1 Indirigan Female
Illustration: C9 Grand Chieftain - Marchias


Krebiz

Krebiz
© 1995 Darryl Elliot.
The Krebiz are a race of aquatic crusteaceans originating on a world with over 90% of its surface covered with water. They resemble a giant terrestrial hermit crab. Friendly traders by nature, they act only to protect their territory and access to various lucrative trading posts and lobster breeding grounds.

The design of Krebiz ships betrays the physical nature of the Krebiz themselves: the combination of carrier ship and capsule mimicks that of a hermit crab and its borrowed, and disposable, shell. The Krebiz themselves are formidable and surprisingly swift in personal combat.

Illustration: R/A4 Thick-Shelled Crab (at right)


Mazgar

The Mazgar people live beneath the surface of Bolaar. When the Indirigans razed that world, the Bolaar and Mazgar were force to live side-by-side.

Illustration: C6 Captain


Mechad

This race of machine-beings originated in a binary star system at the edge of the galaxy. The have to come to see the very existence of organic life-forms as a threat to their own well-being.

Illustration: C2 Ordnance Officer


Pakta'don

Illustration: C7 Boarding Party


Psycanti


Rhonkrek

Illustration: C5 Communications Officer


Scorpead

Scorpead look much like bipedal scorpions even to having large mandibles and stinger tail which produces a toxin deadly even to their own species. Their society is best described as an "elected dictatorship."

Illustration: R/C4 Security Officer


Suark Breed


Tarra'ki

Closely allied with the Argonians, the Tarra'ki once considered them gods. The continue to serve out of respect for their former masters. The Tarra'ki are an amorphous silicon-based race; their flesh is much like mud, clay or rock and their blood like lava.


Treglean

A race of arachnosauroid with a biological imperative to assist other races in distress. The origins of the imperative are unknown. It has channelled their social evolution along a communistic line in which scientific rationality is much prized.

Illustration: C7 Treglean Fleet Coordinator


Trochilidae

The Troch' are an avian race with a tenative alliance with the Leopan.


Tufor

Illustration: R/C4 Science Officer


Vektrean

Illustration: C2 Mercenary Illustration: C9 Adimiral


Visonic


Voldigar


The Invaders of the Far Side

Of course the Far Side has recently found itself the target of invasion by multiple Empires from the Andromeda galaxy or nearby star clusters. Very little information has come to light so far as regards these new races.


Aqaaran

Illustration: O4 Amphibian Desire


Gekonauak


J'x

Illustration: C2 Mad Chemist Illustration: C3 J'xar Gravitic Engineer Illustration: C7 Electronic Warfare Specialist Illustration: C8 Chief Engineer Illustration: C8 J'xar High Guard - J'x Yr-llite High Guard


Leopan

A Leopan would be described in average literature as a "leonine" humanoid.

Illustration: C3 Leopan Raiding Party Illustration: C7 Leopan Raiding Party Illustration: R/C8 Communications Supervisor Illustration: C8 Leopan Technologist Illustration: G4 Leopan Capture Mission Illustration: R/O2 Jungle Love Illustration: O5 Coffee Break Illustration: O10 General Quarters


Shon-ti

An insect-like race closely tied to the Zedan. At birth, the Shon-ti term themselves "brood." In this form they are small and agile. In their adult "elder" form they become large and slow-moving. They are rumored to be the only beings who know the Zedan's true form. They engage in an annual contest of assassination: the contests eliminate each other until only one remains. The purpose of this contest is unknown.


Zedan


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