jeffers
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Here's a preveiw of the OGL Trek Project a Race... The Orions!
Occupying a large group of planets near the Klingon Empire, the Orion people, it is often supposed, all belong to the star-spanning Orion Syndicate. They are an ancient and powerful race, and can be found all across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. It is thought they once had a great empire ages ago, as many proto-Orion planets have been discovered.
Orions can be found at all Progress Levels, but far and away most live at PL7.
Despite the green skin (or perhaps because of it!) the females of the race are typically found to be beautiful by humans and similar races. They have +4 CHA. Males are huge and dangerous, mean and green. They have +4 STR.
The typical Orion is very aware of his ancient heritage, the galactic underworld and of the current state of galactic politics. They gain a +2 racial bonus to Knowledge (Orion Culture) and Knowledge (Streetwise) checks.
Their green skin is either a genetically engineered trait or a very persistant evolutionary adaptation. [Some theories suggest that the many near-human races found darn near everywhere in the alpha quadrant are simply non-green Orions, rather than Humans!] They receive a +2 racial bonus to Fortitude saves against radiation.
[Author's Note: It is possible that they are called Orions because they come from all over the Orion Arm? Certainly, hundreds of stars in the Orion Constellation can support life (none of the bright ones we see from Earth today, mind you) but they wouldn't call themselves Orions, would they?
In a similar bit of logic, There are not 10 planets in the Rigel Star system that support life, but 10 systems in a loose 'federation' of worlds called Rigel, it's not a word the translator in Enterprise could handle, so it must be an alien word... but I digress.]
Occupying a large group of planets near the Klingon Empire, the Orion people, it is often supposed, all belong to the star-spanning Orion Syndicate. They are an ancient and powerful race, and can be found all across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. It is thought they once had a great empire ages ago, as many proto-Orion planets have been discovered.
Orions can be found at all Progress Levels, but far and away most live at PL7.
Despite the green skin (or perhaps because of it!) the females of the race are typically found to be beautiful by humans and similar races. They have +4 CHA. Males are huge and dangerous, mean and green. They have +4 STR.
The typical Orion is very aware of his ancient heritage, the galactic underworld and of the current state of galactic politics. They gain a +2 racial bonus to Knowledge (Orion Culture) and Knowledge (Streetwise) checks.
Their green skin is either a genetically engineered trait or a very persistant evolutionary adaptation. [Some theories suggest that the many near-human races found darn near everywhere in the alpha quadrant are simply non-green Orions, rather than Humans!] They receive a +2 racial bonus to Fortitude saves against radiation.
[Author's Note: It is possible that they are called Orions because they come from all over the Orion Arm? Certainly, hundreds of stars in the Orion Constellation can support life (none of the bright ones we see from Earth today, mind you) but they wouldn't call themselves Orions, would they?
In a similar bit of logic, There are not 10 planets in the Rigel Star system that support life, but 10 systems in a loose 'federation' of worlds called Rigel, it's not a word the translator in Enterprise could handle, so it must be an alien word... but I digress.]
