Originally posted here: https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2022/05/review-traveller-alien-modules-1984_11.html
Alien Module 6 - Solomani
PDF. 52 pages, color cover, black and white interior art.
This "alien" species has a familiar name and a familiar look. The Solomani are space-adapted humans. Maybe "space-adopted" humans is a better term. Like the Vargr and the Zhodani, the Solomani were from Terran stock, human in the case of the Zhodani and Solomani. While the Zhodani (and other humans) developed on other worlds, the Solomani or Terrans stayed on Earth and then went out to the stars on their own.
This book has much more history and background details than all the other Alien Modules. It also gives us some starting insight to the various other human races in the galaxy (45 total according to the internet). There is also quite a lot on the Solomani Rim Sector of space.
Like the other Alien Modules, this covers some new character creation details, but is not too different than the Traveller standard which assumed human.
We end with an adventure about a lost colony and the deaths of thousands.
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