Gamorreans and space piracy

[bobenhotep]

I had an idea many years ago to have Gamorrean space pirates. Hear me out.

The description of the Gamorreans indicates that the females may have different stats than the males. I thought about making them have 11D+2 for attributes, a lower max strength, but higher max technical, mechanical, and knowledge.

With that in mind they could be a matriarchal society where the females would actually be somewhat more intelligent and able to plot and scheme, make stuff, etc.

So anyway the pirates have a mining ship. It has a tractor beam and the male Gamorreans board and do the heavy lifting, while the females maintain the ship, operate the various systems, and are in charge of things. The males even have mining helmets with lights on them for some reason. The leader is a crafty and surprisingly intelligent female. Thats about all the further I got. Maybe someone else can run with this.
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The Chijawa said so, that's why.

[MrNexx]

They have mining helmets with lights because they use a lot of ion weaponry... pummel the ship into ion lock, and it's easier to deal with. However, ion lock has a tendency to knock out lights, so giving the Gamorreans headlamps (which may double as cameras, so the females can give them tactical suggestions) means that they can see when subduing the crew.
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[bobenhotep]

The scene where the lights go out, and you see the beams of the mining helmets and hear grunting noises.

Female Gamorreans actually sound kinda scary.
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[CRMcNeill]

There's no reason sexual dimorphism in an alien species would automatically favor males. Female Gamorreans could easily bigger and tougher than the males, but also more levelheaded and intelligent (unless you piss the off).

The novel adaptation for the original Alien vs. Predator comic went a similar route, with Yautja (Predator) females being far more formidable than the males, with the males' hunting activities being an essential part to attracting a mate (since males outnumbered females by 3 or 4 to 1). There is a section where the main Predator character speculates that a fight between a well armed and experienced Yautja warrior and an enraged Yautja female would be about even (although he would be more inclined to bet on the female).

The same could be true of Gamorreans...
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[Sutehp]

[ZzaphodD]

For some reason this came to mind...

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[bobenhotep]

[CRMcNeill]

That doesn't explain how the more physically powerful males wouldn't dominate them and simply force them to do everything. There needs to be some reason why war-like males who fight amongst each other for dominance would go along with women being in charge.
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[Whill]

I'm totally down with Gamorrean females being smarter than males, but their technology level is middle ages at best so a group of Gamorreans running their own ship would be a rare oddity. But it wouldn't be impossible in my SWU. Perhaps a ship landed on Gamorrea and the crew captured and enslaved a whole clan. Maybe after many years the females had time to learn the technology and they orchestrated a mutiny, using the ship to go into the pirating business.

It's like an adventure I had where a crime lord had three spice-crazed Ewoks in his goon squad that hopped around and took turns shooting a light laser cannon at the PCs. It doesn't really make sense, but it's fun anyway.
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[CRMcNeill]

The novel Children of the Jedi features some warring Gamorrean tribes that have been mistakenly shanghaid by the Eye of Palpatine's AI. Might be some social clues there...
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The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[Sutehp]

[MrNexx]

The why of Gammorean male acquisence of female leadership, it might be cultural or biological... an interesting option, if we're going with largish sexual dimorphism between the two (enough to warrant separate write-ups for the species) is that female Gammoreans might get bonus Command dice with male Gammoreans, even not of their own clan or tribe... some biological or cultural imperative.
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[CRMcNeill]

[Telsij]

Already have an image for one of your Gamorrean space pirates picked out for ya, Bob!
Gamorrean-Badass artwork by Mr. Jake Parker http://mrjakeparker.tumblr.com

[Whill]

Nice art! I like! It will be easy to remove the battle ax if needed. Thanks for sharing.