INFO: Adnerem were tall, thin humanoids native to Adner. They had large, triangular heads with wide eyes and a large knob in the center of the forehead. Their thin arms each ended in four talons with no opposable thumb. Adnerem were not gregarious, preferring small families known as steri (singular, steris) whom dwelt together in steri-houses.
The members of a steris were known as sterisi. Individual couples often formed a close friendship known as a sterika. Two steri often engaged in a battle for balance of power known as a raid-war. Despite the race's anti-social tendencies, their homeworld was a tourist trap with over 2,000 theme parks and casinos. Individuals of the race included Etsero.
One Adnerem mercenary and acquaintance of Colonel Quaal Tavier Catharius, became a member of m'Yalfor'ac Order four-person leading committee and one of the two only non-Bitthævrians in all the Order.
RACE: Adnerem
HEIGHT: 2 Meters Tall
SKIN: Dark-gray
DISTINCTION: Triangular head with wide brain pan
LANGUAGE: Adnerian
HOMEWORLD:Adner was a planet in the Expansion Region. It was the homeworld of the Adnerem. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the planet for the casinos, theme parks and pleasure houses that the Adnerem have been running for over two thousand years.
The Adnerem Etsero, an associate of Theol Dunoche, owned the biggest casino on Adner, The Red Lisken.
BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:Adnerem are a tall, slender, dark-gray species dominant on the planet Adner. The Adnerem's head is triangular with a wide brain pan and narrowing face. At the top of the head is a fleshy-looking lump, which may appear to humans to be a tumor. It is, in fact, a firm, hollow, echo chamber which functions as an ear. Adnerem are bald, except for a vestigial strip of hair at the lower back of the head. Female Adnerem often grow this small patch of hair long and decorate their braids with jewelry.
The Adnerem hand has four-digits and is highly flexible, but lacks a true apposable thumb. Adnerem can grow exceptionally long and sturdy nails, and the wealthy and influential often grow their nails to extraordinary lengths as a sign of their idleness. Their eyelids are narrow to protect against the overall brightness of Adner's twin suns and the eyes are lightly colored, usually blue or green.
CULTURE AND HISTORY:Adnerem are decended from a scavenger/ hunter precursor species. Their distant ancestors were semisocial and banded together in tribepacks of five to 20. This has carried on to Adnerem today, influencing their modern temperament and culture. They remain omnivorous and opportunistic.
Outwardy calm and dispassionate, inwardly intense, the Adnerem are deeply devoted to systematic pragmatism. Each Adnerem increases his position in life by improving his steris(Adner's primary socio-economic family unit; plural steri). While some individual Adnerem work hard to increase the influence and wealth of their steris, most do so out of self-interest.
The Adnerem have no social classes and judge people for the power of their steris and the position they have earned in it, not for accidents of birth. Having no cultural concept of rank, they have difficulty dealing with aliens who consider social position to be an important consideration.
Adnerem are fairly asocial and introverted, and spend a great deal of their private time alone. Social gatherings are very small, usually in groups of less than five. Adnerem in a group of more than 10 members are almost always silent (public places are very quiet), but two interacting Adnerem can be as active as 10 aliens, leading to the phrase "Two Adnerem are a party, four a dinner and six a funeral."
Sometimes a pair of Adnerem form a close friendship, a non-sexual bonding called sterika. The two partners become very close and come to regard their pairing as an entity. There is no rational explanation for this behavior; it seems to be a spontaneous event that usually follows a period of individual or communal stress. Only about 10 percent of Adnerem are sterika, Adnerem do not usuallly form especially strong emotional attachments to individuals.
Adnerem steri occasionally engage in low-level raid-wars, usually when the goals of powerful steri clash or a coalition of lesser steri rise to challenge a dominant steris. A raid-war does not aim to annihilate the enemy (who may become a useful ally or tool in the future), it seeks simply to adjust the dynamic balance between steri. Most raid-wars are fast and conducted on a small scale.
For the most part, the Adnerem are a stay-at-home species, preferring to excel and compete amongst themselves. Offworld, they almost always travel with other steris members. Some steri have taken up interstellal trading and run either large cargo ships or fleets of smaller cargo ships. A few steri have hired themselves out to corporations as management teams on small- to medium-sized projects.
The Adnerem do not trust the whims of the galactic economy and invest in maintaining their planetary self-sufficiency rather than making their economy dependent on foreign investment and imports. They have funded this course by investing and entertainment industries, both on-planet and off. Hundreds of thousands of tourists and thrill-seekers flock to the casinos, theme parks and pleasure houses of Adner, which, after 2,000 years of practice, are very adept at thrilling and pampering the crowds. These entertainment facilities are run by large steri with Adnerem management and alien employees.
APPEARANCES:None
SOURCES:Alien Encounters
Wanted by Cracken
No Disintegrations
The Essential Atlas
The Essential Atlas Online Companion
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