Trumbloids

Humble origins

First discovered on *** by an exploration team in the early 2900's, they were an instant success with the (human) female members of the team. And soon they were the major export of the fledgling colony.

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Trumbles are gold!

The first harvests failed as the result of an unforseen appetite of the local fauna for earth-derived cultivars. Morale plummeted when it was discovered that the colony emergency foodsupplies had been plundered also. Thanks to the booming trumble-export however, enough money was made to support the importation of foodstuffs from neigbouring systems and life was good on ***.

Trumble in the Jungle

Luck soon ran out however, when agrarian systems accross the sector were overrun by escaped trumbles. Anarchy broke out like a rash across galaxy 5. *** was blamed for the calamity and warfleets set out from various afflicted planets to take revenge on the human colonials of ***. Only a few of them survived by converting a few old battered Adders and making a galactic hyperspacejump.

Gal Con

In the midst of this mayhem, GalCop reacted rationally by forming a pest-containment unit, dubbed GalCon. In the end it was decided to nuclear destruct severely afflicted planets from orbit.

• • • itself was spared this end by relentless lobbying by the environmentalist 'friends of the land' to preserve the unique ***ian lifeforms.

After the few emaciated colonials remaining were evacuated, a quarantine blockade was set around *** to prevent any other ***ian species escaping their gravitywell.

Current day

Only scientists and officials with special permit are allowed to visit the planet. Trumbles now pervade all inhabited space, but even on anarchic worlds customs officers scan immigrants and cargo for trumble-purrs. It is illegal to transport a trumboid lifeform to an inhabited planet surface. On agrarian worlds the usual penalty is death by meat-grinder or a simillarly gruesome end of existence.