Why Do the Vargr Have Hands?

 NOTE: This blog will have semi-random posts about the Traveller RPG and Charted Space.  With any luck, it can have useful notes I want to remember which are also not "spoilers".

And these will tend to be short, I expect.  Unless I post a completely speculative digression?

So onward.

The Vargr do not have paws, right?  AM03.  They have hands.  This is because the Vargr are specifically uplifted by Grandfather, and he saw human hands as being useful... more useful than paws.

I think this is because he already selected humans to help him out. Vargr were a second choice --- or if you prefer, once he had selected humans he realized that Vargr ought to have human hands. Thus the good-enough utility of human hands to handle equipment.