Alien Biology

Biology gives a cursory description of where the alien fits into its ecological system. The biome describes the alien’s preferred terrain that the alien. The remaining tables provide some insight into what makes an alien tick. For alien species that use tools and have vocations, these biological descriptors merely inform the species' nature. Advanced species may embrace or eschew this evolutionary heritage.

Landscape of futuristic wall in front of planet and stars.

Biomes are not just trees and dirt.

Biome

A biome is a the weather, flora, fauna, biology, and geography of where the alien species is most comfortable. Most aliens can survive outside their biome, and the biome offers no special benefits to the persona. The alien biome is a descriptive tool that helps build the species. The biome is for an entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics.

Each biome benefits from a characteristic. An alien from a High Gravity Coniferous biome would be at home in such a biome.

Steps to Biome Creation

Moisture
Temperature
Vegetation
Characteristic

**Biome Moisture Table**
Tends to have this amount of moisture most of the time.
Die Roll (1d100)	Moisture	Mundane Terra
01-05	Arid	Arrakis
06-20	Dry	Sahara
21-45	Moist	Amazon
46-70	Wet	Vancouver
71-95	Rainy	Tofino
96-99	Torrential	LV-426
00	Ref’s Own Table	Choose
Die Roll (1d100)	Moisture	Mundane Terra
Moisture levels on mundane terra and beyond.

**Biome Temperature Table**
Tends to be this temperature most of the time.
Die Roll (1d100)	Temperature	Mundane Terra
01-15	Freezing	Polar
16-30	Cold	Boreal
31-50	Cool	Temperate
51-70	Warm	Temperate
71-85	Hot	Mediterranean
86-99	Scorching	Tropical
00	Ref’s Own Table	Choose
Die Roll (1d100)	Temperature	Mundane Terra
Temperature levels found on Mundane Terra.

**Biome Vegetation Table**
Tends to have this amount of vegetation.
Die Roll (1d100)	Vegetation	Description
01-05	Denuded	Not even small plants
06-15	Desert	Small and rare plants
16-30	Tundra	Grasses or short plants
31-45	Tundra	Grasses and clumps of short plants
46-60	Steppe	Deep grasses, taller plants
61-75	Copse	Patches of tall plants and trees
76-95	Forest	All trees and tall plants
96-99	Jungle	Impassible dense trees and plants
00	Ref’s Own Table	Choose
Die Roll (1d100)	Vegetation	Description
Tree > Tall Plant > plant > bush > grass.

**Biome Characteristic Table**
Unique biome characteristic.
Die Roll (1d100)	Characteristic	Description
01-04	Atmosphere, Heavy	Constant fogginess
05-08	Atmosphere, Thin	Minimal oxygen
09-12	Boggy	Thick bogs
13-16	Bright	Hard on the eyes
17-20	City	Anthro high rises
21-24	Dark	Light needed to see
25-28	Farm	Resource growth location
29-32	Flat	No hills or mounds
33-34	Gaseous	Lacking terra firma
35-36	Gravity, absent	Floating around
37-40	Gravity, high	Heavy hangs thy head
41-44	Gravity, low	Light on the feet
45-48	Hilly	Up and down
49-52	Lentic	Pond living
53-54	Megalopolis	Multilevel enormous city
55-58	Mountainous	Don’t fall off
59-60	Oceanic	On or under water
61-64	Ruin	Unoccupied city
65-68	Sandy	Endless beach
69-61	Steep	Always uphill not mountainous
62-63	Stormy	Radical departures from biome
64-74	Standard	No particular
75	Subterranean	Biome is underground
76-79	Swampy	Shallow waters
80-83	Toxic, air	Don’t breath the air
84-87	Toxic, land	Don’t stand still
88-91	Toxic, Vegetation	Don’t eat the grass
92-95	Toxic, water	Don’t drink the water
96-99	Village	Small living space
00	Ref’s Own Table	Choose
Die Roll (1d100)	Characteristic	Description

Food Source

Energy source is what the alien biologically requires to sustain their existence. An absence of energy leads to alien death. The energy source is usually from their biome, but it could also be from the local grocery store. The nature of what the alien must consume for sustenance is determined on the below table. The energy source is for an entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics.

**Alien Energy Source Table**
Determines what the alien consumes for food.
Die Roll (1d100)	Energy Source
01-30	Herbivore - flora
31-50	Carnivore - fuana
51-80	Omnivore - flora and fauna
81-85	Chemovore - specific chemical
86-90	Photovore - specific light
91-95	Detritovore - decomposed flora or fauna
96-98	Psionovore - psionic life force
99-00	Ref’s Own Table
Die Roll (1d100)	Energy Source
Psionovores eat Mind (MND) and this energy source has implications for other personas.

Psionovore requires a bit of extra attention. A psionovore drains the Mind Attribute of biological (anthros, aliens) in order to survive. The referee or table may give the alien volition over what it eats as a psionovore. Most importantly does the player persona drain the Mind (MND) attribute of fellow expedition members. A psionovoric alien can be the basis for entire milieu or young adult literature property.

Food Procurement

Thick skinned toothy worm bursting from ground.

Boo!

Energy procurement is all that matters to flora or fauna aliens. Energy procurement for a creator tech species may be no more interesting than a button push. The energy source is for an entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics. Contradictory energy source and procurement combinations are intentional to reflect the peculiarity and diversity of biologic entities

**Alien Energy Procurement Table**
Determine how the alien acquires it’s energy source.
Die Roll (1d100)	Procurement Strategy
01-15	Ambush - surprises dinner
16-35	Chase - wears down dinner
36-75	Hunt - tracks down dinner
76-85	Trap - comes back for dinner
86-88	Infect - drains dinner’s energy
89-90	Infest - consumes dinner’s body
91-98	Store - holds dinner for later
99-00	Ref’s Own Table
Die Roll (1d100)	Procurement Strategy

Reproduction

Overly large egg in tiny nest balancing on limb out over cliff.

Out on a limb prodigy reproductive strategy.

The reproductive strategy is for the entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics.

**Alien Reproductive Table**
How the alien makes more aliens.
Die Roll (1d100)	Reproduction
01-10	Fissionarity - baby splits off the alien
11-15	Endoparasitism - baby grows inside another alien
16-20	Exoparasitism - baby grows attached to another alien
21-25	Exotransformism - another alien transforms into baby
26-30	Gamatocorpic - baby arises from two fused aliens
31-50	Marsupality - baby born into a sac inside the alien
51-70	Oviparity - baby born from a sac outside the alien
71-90	Placentality - baby born live from the alien
91-98	Sporogenesis - baby born from a deposit outside the alien
99-00	Ref’s Own Table
Die Roll (1d100)	Reproduction

Grouping

Many gigantic spider crab aliens rushing the viewer.

They are probably coming to play.

The alien grouping indicates how the aliens organize themselves on a granular level. More simply put, how is the expedition most likely going to encounter this alien? The alien grouping applies to flora, fauna, and advanced civilizations. As for combat encounters in the dangerous wildlands, the referee will consider a fair balance between the expedition and aliens.

**Alien Grouping Table**
How aliens of a feather number together.
Die Roll (1d100)	Group Size	Description
01-20	Solo	Prodigy over progeny.
21-42	Family Unit	Caring for youth
43-80	Pack	Related group.
81-95	Herd	Safety in numbers.
96-99	Swarm	Progeny over prodigy.
00	Ref’s Own Table	Choose or create.
Tool Score	Tool Usage	Description

Dwelling

The dwelling type is for the entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics.

**Alien Domicile Table**
The alien’s preferred place of rest.
Die Roll (1d100)	Habitation Type
01-10	Burrow
11-20	Cave
21-25	Dam
26-35	Hive
36-45	Hole
46-50	Hollow
51-65	Nest
66-70	Web
71-80	Foliage
81-90	Trees
91-97	None
98-00	Ref’s Own Table
Die Roll (1d100)	Habitation Type

Aroma

The aroma is for the entire species and is used to inform the species behaviour, culture and politics. Aroma can play a role where aliens are big bads and their mere smell informs the game play.

**Alien Aroma**
What the alien smells like to other personae.
Die Roll (1d100)	Alien Aroma
01-03	Alcohol
04-06	Apples
07-09	Ashes
10-12	Bananas
13-15	Beans
16-18	Beer
19-21	Bologna
22-24	Bread
25-27	Chives
28-30	Chocolate
31-33	Cigarettes
34-36	Cinnamon
37-39	Corpses
40-42	Estrogen
43-45	Grease
46-48	Hay
49-51	Hemlock
52-54	H.P. Sauce
55-57	Ink
58-60	Leather
61-63	Lemons
64-66	Methane
67-69	Oats
70-72	Oranges
73-75	Pork
76-78	Rubber
79-81	Salmon
82-84	Sawdust
85-87	Spruce
88-90	Swamp
91-93	Tar
94-96	Tuna
97-99	Whiskey
00	Ref’s Own Table
Die Roll (1d100)	Alien Aroma

Sounds

The sounds that the alien make will inform it’s language whether it is part of a society with education or flora and fauna scraping out it’s existence.

**Alien Sounds Table**
Die Roll (1d100)	Sound
What the alien sounds regardless of how the sound is made.
01-02	Baaing
03	Barking
04	Bawling
05	Baying
06	Bellowing
07	Bleating
08	Blubbing
09	Burping
10	Booming
11	Braying
12	Buzzing
13	Cackling
14	Chattering
15	Cheeping
16	Chirping
17	Chortling
18	Chirruping
19	Chittering
20	Chucking
21	Churring
22	Clanging
23	Clapping
24	Clicking
25	Clucking
26	Cooing
27	Coughing
28	Creaking
29	Croaking
30	Crowing
31	Crying
32	Dinging
33	Donging
34	Droning
35	Drumming
36	Flashing
37	Gibbering
38	Glugging
39	Gobbling
40	Groaning
41	Growling
42	Grunting
43	Hissing
44	Honking
45	Hooting
46	Howling
47	Huffing
48	Humming
49	Krinkling
50	Laughing
51	Licking
52	Lowing
53	Massaging
54	Mewing
55	Miming
56	Mooing
57	Mumbling
58	Murmuring
59	Neighing
60	Oinking
61	Peeping
62	Pheromoning
63	Piping
64	Purring
65	Quacking
66	Radar-ing
67	Rattling
68	Rawring
69	Roaring
70	Ruffling
71	Screaming
72	Screeching
73	Shrieking
74	Simpering
75	Singing
76	Snapping
77	Snorting
78	Snuffing
79	Squawking
80	Squeaking
81	Squealing
82	Swishing
83	Tattering
84	Telepathing
85	Thumping
86	Troating
87	Trumpeting
88	Twittering
89	Ultrasounding
90	Uttering
91	Wailing
92	Warbling
93	Wheeking
94	Whining
95	Whinnying
96	Whispering
97	Whooping
98	Yapping
99	Yelling
00	Yelping
Die Roll (1d100)	Sound
Often rolled in pairs: Yelping and Baaing