Orions

The Orion people come from the planet Orion and they have very good trading links to the Colonies and other races. The Orions themselves are humanoids, looking very much like a human save for their blue skin. Their hair and eyes contrast this light blue by being a dark brown to black colour. As a people, they are very intelligent and dextrous, but not overly fit.

Orion itself is a medium sized world that is cool in temperature. It circles its star at a far orbit and does not get a lot of light from the world. Orion has several small moons which always look pale and dim due to the lack of light from the star, and this has led to the expression "Pale as an Orion moon" indicating sickness usually. Despite this, and the fact that prices are usually quite high, Orion is high on the holiday lists of the Colonials, with cruises through their system a must for the serious holidaymaker. That and the fact that Orion holds some of the largest gambling chanceries in known space.

The Orions are a great manufacturing and merchant people. They are as advanced as the Colonies, possibly more so as their power plants, energizers and other electrical goods are in great demand, and they build their products to order - and usually at a great price too. They export a lot of technology from their planet to others, but again, at a price. And it is this that has made them a wealthy culture. That and the fact that they refuse to deal in any currency other than Orion Cheques, which has meant that as trade has increased with many races, these races (including the Colonials) have accepted the Orion cheque as legal tender within their own culture.

After the Thousand Yahren War, the Cylons would sweep down through the star systems and after taking Tucan would turn their attention towards Orion and the objective of making them a slave race working for the Cylons. This would take a while though, as while the Orions will not give military aid to other nations (although they will sell weapons and armour), they are not entirely defenceless themselves.

Character Generation:

Orions are essentionally blue skinned humanoids, but they do have a couple of unique traits in them.

Points: 37
Attributes: DX +1 [20] IQ +1 [20] HT -1 [-10]
Advantages: Fearlessness (1) [2], Talent (Mathematical Ability) [10]
Disadvantages: Curious [-5]

Orion Spaceships:

The Orions tend not to travel the galaxy in warships, leaving them for home, but they do travel around in freighters that are slightly better than Colonial ships.

Orion ships have military sensors, scanners and damage control (even civilian ships) and these are rated for the next size up in ship. Crew requirements are as the next ship down in size. Movement costs are also as for the next size down. Otherwise, ships are built as Colonial ships. The Orions do not tend to use armour, having more hull than normal, and they can mount an additional 50% worth of heavy weapons - although each heavy weapon above the normal amount counts as two smaller weapons (which are not increased in number).