Andorians

Blue skinned humanoids from the Epsilon Indii system. Characterized by blue skin, white hair, and a pair of long antennae on their head. These antennae are actually extensions of their sinus cavities, giving the Andorians a great sensitivity to minute variations in pressure and temperature. The antenna face forward and cannot rotate, causing Andorians to hear better from the front and sides than the rear. Each of the two antennae stalks are susceptible to damage and injury. Any hit will cause intense pain to an Andorian. If one stalk is destroyed, the Andorian can still "see" but at a loss of what was before. If both stalks are destroyed, the Andorian becomes deaf and color blind. They also have an enormously enhanced sense of smell, and their visual acuity is also well above human standards. While the eyes of an Andorian are actually color blind, their antenna have very good color receptors in them, and also hold their hearing apparatus. Their mechanisms for color vision and hearing are so good, they give Andorians the advantages of infravision and ultrasonic hearing. They lack visibal ears. They are ambidextrious.

They are a founding race of the Federation but have a history of political trouble. Most notably is their attempted tampering with the outcome of the Babel conference of 2267.

When provoked, the Andorians can become extremely savage. Generally however, the Andorians are a productive and benevolent race. Andorians sometime describe themselves as a passionate, violent people. They are warriors at heart. Their slim builds conceal the well-muscled bodies of warriors. Andorians are somewhat thinner than most humans, but weigh equivalently, and are somewhat faster in movement and reaction time

Andorians are extremely disciplined, possessing a strong sense of duty and personal honor, and so they make excellent military officers. Though they are stoic and largely unsentimental, they do respect and revere family ties. Andorians are fond of technology, but they insist on its use with respect for nature. Andorians are often incorrectly viewed as humorless. In fact, Andorians have a complex set of propositional "grammars" by which they express humor, and as such they do not tend to find human humor amusing.

Andorians are hard working and often feel uncomfortable when invited to pursue purely recreational activities or pastimes. Their curt refusals often make them seem prudish or unsociable, while in fact they simply don't have a strong cultural pragmatism for engaging in such activities. Andorians are also reluctant to enter into strong personal relationships. This lack of a social skill so common in almost all other Federation races simply reinforces the sense of isolation and distance that others perceive between an Andorian and themselves.


Andoria

Homeworld to the Andorian people, and a member of the United Federation of Planets. Andor is also known as Andoria, and is named Fesoan in the Andorian language. Andor is a Class-M planet in the Epsilon Indi system. It is a large, hot dry world with little surface water, and a gravity of 0.9g. The planet is located near Betazed, Vulcan, Tellar, Earth and Alpha Centauri. There are great mountains for climbing on Andor.

There are, however, vast underground reserves that feed surface geysers heated by geothermal energy. Oases surrounding these geysers are the centers of the planet's main population areas, since the great majority of Andor's plant life thrives where subsurface water is plentiful located in the system Epsilon Indi, with a thinner atmosphere than Earth, but with a cold climate. The population is actually around 21 milliard people. The planet circumpherence is about 56.500 Km. Andor has three moon orbiting around.


Biology

Anodrian Amoeba: variety of unicellular protozoan indigenous to planet Andoria. Andorian amobea reproduce by means of symbiogenesis.


Weddings

Marriage: Andorian marriages generally require groups of four people. These marriages are very complicated, and involve a great deal of ritual.


Food, Flora and Fauna

Andorian tuber root: Food from Andoria.

Andorian Ale: Beverage.

Andorian Redbat: A flying mammal of Andor considered a delicacy.

Andorian Zabathu: An animal similar to terrestrial horse.


Miscellaneous

Andorian transport: Spacecraft of Andorian registry.

Andorian Blues: Musical form. Popular with keyboardist Amarie.