Editing Traveller (role-playing game) (section)

=== Sophonts ===
The setting features descendants of humanity who are collectively called ''Humaniti''. These include the ''Solomani'', humans emigrated from Earth within the last few thousand years, the ''Vilani'', humans transplanted from Earth tens of thousands of years ago by the Ancients (see below) who founded the First Imperium, and the ''Zhodani'', psychic humans ruled by psionically-gifted nobles.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2021/04/25/the-psionic-masters-the-zhodani-in-traveller/ | title=The Psionic Masters: The Zhodani in Traveller – Black Gate | date=26 April 2021 }}</ref>

Despite the thematic dominance of the human race, with most adventures taking place in human space, the ''Traveller'' universe is cosmopolitan and contains many technologically advanced ''sophonts'', a term borrowed from earlier science fiction material.<ref>{{CCBYSASource |sourcepath=https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/181787/where-did-the-term-sophont-originate |sourcearticle=Where did the term "sophont" originate? |author(s)=[https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/31393/lexible Lexible] at Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange |accessdate=27 August 2018 |publisher=Stack Exchange Network}}</ref> The setting principally concerns itself with six ''major races'' that developed faster-than-light travel independently. In addition to Humaniti, the standard list of major races includes the honor-bound catlike ''Aslan'', the winged lizard-like ''Droyne'', the sixfold-symmetric and manipulative ''Hivers'', the centaur-like militant vegetarian ''K'kree'', and the wolf-hybrid ''Vargr''.

Additional minor races are numerous. An early publication from GDW notes that "The minor races, of which there are hundreds within the area of known space, will be largely left up to individual referees." GDW's quarterly publication, the ''[[Journal of the Travellers Aid Society]]'' designed by Loren K. Wiseman, sketched out about one race per quarter, starting with the Aslan in Issue 7. Taken together with aliens casually mentioned or introduced in separate scenarios or adventures—often arbitrarily—there is therefore no indication that the number of minor races is limited in any sense.