Androssi

• Appearance: Mammalian; generally human-like
  • Skin tones range from light to dark brown (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • Hair ranges from brown to golden (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • Men expected to grow beards (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
• Cultural notes
  • Androssi society divided into classes (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Unclear if caste-based or if passage from one caste to another is possible
    • Elite: controllers of society (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Officer: Those who enact the desires of the Elite in practice (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Subdivided into five levels of status, indicated by noserings
        • Fourth: Sub-Overseer
        • Fifth: Overseer
    • Worker: Little to no rights or status (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Widely considered interchangeable, expendable and easily replaceable (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • Incredibly depersonalized society
    • Nearly all inanimate references are numerical (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Names for vessels, and presumably other inanimate things, are uncommmon (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Purely aesthetic features are rare, generally dismissed as affectations (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Hair normally allowed to grow without trimming (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
        • Possibly considered acceptable only for Elites given close-trimmed beards are described as mimicking their appearance (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Uniforms are basic jumpsuits, vessels are essentially brown boxes (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • At least on space-going vessels by overseer class, sleeping in hammocks common (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Possibly more widespread
  • Food and drink
    • Anprat (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Fattening delicacy from Androssi homeworld (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
• Technological notes
  • Technology commonly associated with dimensional shifts, individual units emerging from or falling into shallow subspace domain as necessary (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Embedded units appear dark brown, with surface appearing to flow (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Artifact of field used to stabilize unit in normal space, prevent collapse back to subspace (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Phaser discharge of particular configurations capable of disrupting field; necessary configuration varies as Androssi technology develops (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • Known technology
    • Panshar (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Mobile aerial drone (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Attacks targets via electrical discharge (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Triovar field (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Net-like structure used similarly to forcefields by other races (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Dimensionally shifted in or out as needed (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
  • Alternate terminology
    • Navigational course (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Unlike standard heading/bearing system, referred to by specific numbers; possibly indicating destinations? (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
    • Overdrive (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Warp drive (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Fueled by "eldrak"; possibly either matter or antimatter flow (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
      • Speeds referred to simply as "FTL", values measured simply in number of hundreds of times c (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
        • e.g., Warp 4 (~102c) = "FTL of 1.02" (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")
        • Suggests either Androssi engines don't have transitional velocities or Androssi officers are expected to simply know them; either is viable (SCE Short Story: "Cold Fusion")