TEXT: Caitians
  Personality
  The average Caitian is calm, collected and strongly individualistic. They dislike crowding, dirt, 
  noise and commotion. Some Caitians seem finicky or prickly to outsiders and they remain non-
  demonstrative of even strong friendships. However, many Caitians put a veneer of flirtatiousness 
  over their private core, especially with out-worlders
     Caitians are moved by beauty, horrified by violence and anger, and wrestle constantly with 
  their potential for each. On the whole, they are a peaceful people, who turn nasty only when 
  their feelings are seriously wounded.
  Physical Description
     The Caitians are a bipedal feline race with thick manes, long tails, and large golden eyes that 
  provide excellent low-light vision. Caitians have excellent hearing along a far broader range than 
  terrestrial standard.  
     Physically, Caitians are extremely agile and fast. Their language is a tonal one, which utilizes 
  many low-pitched noises like growls or purrs. Consequently, they have trouble adapting to 
  human-style phonetic languages.
     Caitians have a range of height and weight comparable to humans (some are slightly heavier). 
  Their fur ranges from the short and glossy to the thick and shaggy, with any number of colors and 
  patterns possible- a bewildering variety of races and subspecies that led to racial wars late in their 
  development.
     Caitians are born as twins or triplets, a fixed number depending on subspecies (the female 
  Caitians are either double- or triple-breasted, accordingly).
     Caitians have blunt claws that can be sharpened as dangerous brawling weapons, but most 
  Caitians find the practice abhorrent and repulsive. Caitian fur is highly sensitive to both touch 
  and temperature, though the Caitians themselves are adaptable to a wide variety of climates.
  Culture
     The felinoid Caitians were a sizeable interstellar culture for more than a century before the 
  Federation made First Contact with them, having discovered warp travel at around the same time 
  as humanity. The fourteen systems inhabited by Caitians were as populous as any of Earth's 
  colonies at the time, and each controlled by a stable, global government.    
     When the U.S.S. Pardalis first entered Caitian space in 2240, those worlds were locked in a 
  vicious interstellar war.  What had started primarily as an economic squabble (over  the highly 
  limited supply of Caitian dilithium) had devolved into a tangle of racist and religious intolerance– 
  the Caitians had discovered that their distaste for war was less powerful than their distaste for 
  each other.  
     Although the Pardalis was crippled and ultimately destroyed by Caitian forces, the  survivors 
  returned to the Federation with assurances that the missile had been fired despite orders, and 
  Federation negotiators found parties on all sides nervous, but eager to be friends- and peace with 
  the Federation (and each other) came swiftly.
     The creation of the Caitian Trade Alliance less than three years after the loss of the Pardalis and 
  most sociologists now agree that the Caitians desperately wanted to break the cycle of war – but 
  lacked the focal event needed to bring them to the table. The Federation provided that, along 
  with FTL radio technology, and enough economic incentives to encourage even the most prideful 
  Caitian to stop shooting for a while to talk. Introduced to their many neighbors via subspace 
  radio, the Caitians set their talents to the long-term project of building what is now one of the 
  most prosperous alliances within the larger umbrella of the UFP.
     Caitians are sensualists in every sense of the word- relishing in activities that excite the senses 
  (especially their eyesight and sense of smell), but favor physical artwork over the ephemeral.  A 
  Caitian might enjoy dancing as a kind of sport, for instance, but don't really regard it as art unless 
  it makes something permanent that can be touched.
     Each of the Caitian allied worlds prides itself on local variants of the strovothra, a form of 
  organic-matter sculpture meant to stimulate the nose as well as the eye. A 60-meter column of 
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  twisted fruit-bearing vines, bonded by damp clay, was erected as a centerpiece display at a 
  Caitian exhibition in Paris, on Earth.
  Language
     Caitians Common
  Homeworld
  Cait II ("Dralaph" in the native shanifir tongue) is a heavily-forested world with several dozen 
  small continents and thousands of large islands. The climate is on the cooler edge of temperate; 
  the equatorial regions straddle the line between subtropical and tropical conditions. Nearly every 
  island on Cait II is inhabited, and the world features many fine cities and excellent starport 
  facilities.
  While unquestionably the Caitian homeworld, Dralaph is only one of more than a dozen long-
  settled Caitian worlds, clustered across seven sectors of Federation space.
  Favored Profession
     Starship Officer, Scientist, Diplomat.  Caitians are born explorers, and a well-motivated Caitian 
  is capable of great tact and understanding.  Their personal warmth provides a much-needed 
  complement to the cool logic of the Vulcans, especially in the touchy conferences which can 
  follow First Contact with new species.
  Species Adjustment
     + 1 Agility, + 2 Perception, -1 Vitality, -1 Presence
  Species Abilities
  Bonus Edge: Night Vision: Caitian eyes are optimized for light intensification thanks
  to their ancestor's night hunting habits
  Wide Spectrum Hearing: Although not as sharp as Vulcan hearing, Caitians can
  hear into the ultrasonic and subsonic frequencies. They have excellent sound 
  discrimination and get a species adjustment of +4 to all Observe (Listen) tests.
  Noted Characters:
     Lt. M'Ress served on the U.S.S. Enterprise as the assistant chief communications officer from 
  2269 to 2271.  Sculptor Shehi Pleth's bio-sculptures are gawked-at (and sniffed) in every part of 
  the quadrant
  Notes:
     The Caitians first appeared in Star Trek The Animated Series.  
  Author unknown.
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