Post by DarthFett on Apr 10, 2011 23:57:39 GMT -5
HUMAN: AN AVERAGE HUMAN BEING WITH 4 LIMBS, A BODY, AND A HEAD AS WELL AS NORMAL INTERAL ORGANS. CUSTOMIZATIONS ALLOWED FOR APPEARANCES.
MIRALUKA: THOUGH SHARING COMMON GENETIC HISTORY WITH HUMANS, MIRALUKA HAVE EVOLVED INTO A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT SPECIES BECAUSE THEY ARE BORN WITHOUT EYES. ON THEIR HOME WORLD OF ALPHERIDIES, THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIGHT IS A RED DWARF STAR WHICH EMITS LIGHT ONLY IN THE INFRARED SPECTRUM. OVER THE CENTURIES, THE MIRALUKA ADAPTED AND DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS THROUGH THE FORCE. THOUGH THEY RETAIN VESTIGIAL EYE SOCKETS, MIRALUKA WEAR DECORATIVE VEILS AND GENERALLY HAVE LITTLE TROUBLE ASSIMILATING INTO HUMAN SOCIETY. MIRALUKA HAVE LIVED PRIMARILY IN ISOLATION OVER THE MILLENNIA, BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR FORCE SENSITIVITY, THEY HAVE HAD RELATIONS WITH THE JEDI AND SOME MIRALUKA HAVE EVEN JOINED THE ORDER. IN THE YEARS OF THE GREAT WAR, ALPHERIDIES HAS REMAINED AN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM, BUT MANY MIRALUKA HAVE RALLIED TO THE REPUBLIC’S CAUSE. THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED THE JEDI ORDER HAVE PROVEN TO CONSISTENTLY BE STRONG IN THE FORCE AND EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED IN THE MARTIAL ARTS. SOME MASTERS SPECULATE THAT IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THEIR TRUST IN THE FORCE RATHER THAN THEIR EYES THAT THEY FIGHT SO FLUENTLY WITH LIGHTSABERS. REGARDLESS OF WHERE AND HOW THEY SERVE THE ORDER, THE PRESENCE OF THE MIRALUKA WITHIN THE JEDI RANKS HAS BEEN A BOON. MANY SITH LORDS HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY TO SEE THAT MIRALUKA CAN BE DANGEROUS FOES.
SITH PUREBLOOD: DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL SITH SPECIES, THE RED-SKINNED SITH PUREBLOODS INHERIT A LEGACY LONG INTERTWINED WITH THE DARK SIDE. THE ANCIENT SITH WERE WARLIKE, COMPETITIVE, AND AMBITIOUS, AND THEY PERFORMED ARCANE RITUALS TO CREATE POWERFUL FORCE ARTIFACTS. FOR THOSE SITH IN WHOM THE OLD BLOOD STILL FLOWS STRONGLY ENOUGH TO BE SEEN, THERE EXISTS A STRONG CURRENT OF INNATE DARKNESS, MAKING THE RATE OF FORCE SENSITIVITY AMONG PUREBLOODS NEAR ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, DARK JEDI, FLEEING REPUBLIC SPACE AFTER THE SECOND GREAT SCHISM, DISCOVERED THE SITH SPECIES ON KORRIBAN. THEY WERE SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THE COMPARATIVELY PRIMITIVE SPECIES DISPLAYED KNOWLEDGE OF THE DARK SIDE THAT THE JEDI THEMSELVES HAD NEVER ENCOUNTERED. THE DARK JEDI RESOLVED TO SUBJUGATE THE SITH AND WREST THEIR KNOWLEDGE FROM THEM. THOUGH THE SITH STRUCK BACK IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THEIR DARK SIDE SECRETS, THEY WERE ULTIMATELY OUTMATCHED BY THE SUPERIOR TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE INVADERS. THE SITH WERE ENSLAVED BY THEIR DARK JEDI OVERLORDS.
OVER HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS, THE TWO GROUPS INTERMINGLED. THE DARK JEDI FOUND THAT SITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE SUITED THEIR PHILOSOPHY WELL. BEFORE LONG, THE ELITE RULING CLASS OF KORRIBAN CONSISTED ALMOST ENTIRELY OF HYBRIDIZED OFFSPRING OF THE DARK JEDI AND THE HIGH PRIESTS OF THE SITH. THIS HYBRIDIZATION RESULTED IN AN AMBITIOUS, RUTHLESS RACE WITH A NATURAL STRENGTH IN THE FORCE. GENETICALLY SPEAKING, THE TERM “PUREBLOOD” IS A MISNOMER, AS ALL MODERN SITH ARE HYBRIDS, A PRODUCT OF THE UNIONS BETWEEN THE ANCIENT DARK JEDI AND THE ORIGINAL SITH RACE. HOWEVER, THE TERM IS USEFUL IN DISTINGUISHING THOSE WHO CARRY ENOUGH OF THE BLOOD OF THE ANCIENT RACE TO STILL BE EVIDENT IN THEIR FEATURES.
TWI'LEK: OFTEN STEREOTYPED AS SLAVES, DANCERS, AND CRIMINALS, THE TRUTH IS THAT TWI'LEK ARE REPRESENTED IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. NATURALLY QUICK AND CUNNING, THEY EXCEL IN BOTH PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE SKILLS, AND TWI’LEKS CAN GENERALLY PERFORM FEATS OF DEXTERITY THAT SIGNIFICANTLY SURPASS OTHER SPECIES’ CAPABILITIES. THEIR HUMAN-LIKE QUALITIES AND VARIED SKIN PIGMENTATIONS HAVE EARNED THEM A REPUTATION AS SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BEINGS IN THE GALAXY. THOUGH THIS HAS CLEARLY INCREASED THEIR VALUE AS SLAVES AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE EXPLOITATION OF THEIR SPECIES, MANY FREE TWI’LEKS HAVE LEARNED TO USE THEIR NATURAL BEAUTY AND CHARM TO GREAT EFFECT. ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING ASPECTS OF THE TWI’LEKS’ EXOTIC PHYSICAL APPEARANCE IS THEIR ‘LEKKU’ OR ‘HEAD TAILS’ WHICH ARE FAR MORE THAN SIMPLE COSMETIC APPENDAGES. THE LEKKU SERVE AS EXTRA-SENSORY ORGANS, GIVING TWI’LEKS HEIGHTENED AWARENESS AND A GREATER CAPACITY TO MASTER THE ARTS OF COMMUNICATION. HISTORICALLY, LEKKU AND SKIN COLOR WERE SYMBOLS OF SOCIAL STATUS AMONG THE TWI’LEKS. IN FACT, TO SOME EXTENT, SKIN PIGMENTATION APPEARS TO BE LINKED TO CERTAIN PERSONALITY TRAITS. TWI’LEKS WITH RED-COLORED SKIN, FOR INSTANCE, ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO HAVE VOLATILE AND VIOLENT NATURES, BUT JUST AS WITH ANY OTHER SPECIES, DESPITE SUCH GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS, CHARACTER TRAITS ARE VARIED DEPENDING ON THE INDIVIDUAL. THE DISTANT TWI’LEK HOMEWORLD OF RYLOTH HAS A TRAGIC HISTORY. THOUGH IT’S A COLD, ROCKY PLANET, THE TWI’LEKS HAD ADAPTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND LIVED IN RELATIVE HARMONY FOR MANY CENTURIES. SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HOWEVER, RYLOTH WAS DISCOVERED BY THE REPUBLIC AND SOON AFTER FOUND TO HAVE RICH STORES OF THE RARE AND VALUABLE RYLL SPICE. STILL NEW TO THE GALACTIC ECONOMY, THE TWI’LEKS WERE UNABLE TO LEVERAGE THE NATURAL RESOURCES TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. INSTEAD, CONTROL OF THE RYLOTH MINING OPERATION FELL INTO THE HANDS OF HUTT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES WHO ENSLAVED THE TWI’LEKS AND PUT THEM TO WORK IN THEIR OWN MINES. BECAUSE OF THEIR BEAUTY AND THEIR SKILLS, TWI’LEKS WERE ALSO SOLD AS SLAVES ON THE OPEN MARKET, AND TODAY THEY CAN BE FOUND IN ALMOST EVERY SYSTEM IN THE GALAXY. THOUGH MANY REMAIN SLAVES, COUNTLESS OTHERS HAVE ACHIEVED FREEDOM AND ASSIMILATED WELL INTO THE GALACTIC POPULATION. DESPITE THE NUMBER OF FREE TWI’LEKS ACROSS THE GALAXY, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY CREDIBLE ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE RYLOTH. THIS IS LIKELY BECAUSE AFTER GENERATIONS IN SLAVERY ACROSS THE GALAXY, MOST FREE TWI’LEKS HAVE LITTLE CONNECTION TO EACH OTHER AS A SPECIES AND EVEN LESS CONNECTION TO A HOMEWORLD WHICH THEY NEVER KNEW.
ZABRAK: INDEPENDENCE, CONFIDENCE, AND FIERCE DETERMINATION CHARACTERIZE THE ZABRAK PSYCHE. MOST ZABRAK DO NOT CONSIDER ANY CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE, NO MATTER HOW UNFAVORABLE THE ODDS, AND LOOK DOWN ON THE WEAK WHO FEAR DEFEAT. A TRADITION OF INTENSE MARTIAL TRAINING, A SECOND HEART, AND RESISTANCE TO PHYSICAL PAIN MAKE THEM EXCEPTIONAL WARRIORS AND EXPLORERS. THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PROWESS DEMAND RESPECT. ZABRAK HAVE AN INTENSE DRIVE TO EXCEL IN ALL THEY DO, A DRIVE THAT CARRIES WITH IT A PERSISTENT TEMPTATION TO USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS. IF ZABRAK SOMETIMES SEEM ARROGANT, IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE MUCH TO BE PROUD OF IN THEIR HISTORY. THE INHOSPITABLE CRAGS AND ACID POOLS OF THEIR HOMEWORLD, IRIDONIA, SHAPED THE ZABRAK’S TENACITY AND STRONG WILL. THE ZABRAK DID NOT MERELY SURVIVE ADVERSITY IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, THEY THRIVED, MANAGING TO BECOME ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SPACEFARING RACES. THEY HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED SEVERAL COLONIES BEYOND THEIR HOME SYSTEM BEFORE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE REPUBLIC. THOUGH SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO HUMANS, ZABRAK ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR VESTIGIAL HORNS AND HALLMARK FACIAL TATTOOS. HORNS DEVELOP AS INDIVIDUALS COME OF AGE AND TATTOOS ARE RECEIVED DURING A CEREMONIAL RITE OF PASSAGE THAT OCCURS SOON AFTER THEY APPEAR. THESE TATTOOS VARY IN DESIGN BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL’S OWN TRIALS AND EXPERIENCES. ZABRAK FROM IRIDONIA ARE RENOWNED FOR DEVELOPING STRICT REGIMENS OF MARTIAL TRAINING, AND THE DISCIPLINE AND PERSEVERANCE THEY TEACH ARE INSTILLED IN ALL YOUNG ZABRAK. THE ZABRAK COLONIES ARE SITUATED NEAR VITAL HYPERSPACE LANES, ENTICING THE NATURALLY INQUISITIVE ZABRAK TO FURTHER EXPLORE THE GALAXY. NEW WORLDS MEAN NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME AND OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN, ADDING TO THE STRENGTH OF THE SPECIES, AND NOW ZABRAK CAN BE FOUND AMIDST THE RANKS OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE EMPIRE BOTH, LEADING TROOPS TO VICTORY ON THE FRONT LINES, WORKING FROM THE SHADOWS TO SHAPE CONFLICTS, OR SIMPLY COLLECTING CREDITS AS GUNS-FOR-HIRE.
TRANDOSHAN: HAILING FROM A HARSH WORLD IN THE KASHYYYK SYSTEM, TRANDOSHANS HAVE BEEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE WOOKIEES EVER SINCE THE TWO SPECIES CAME INTO CONTACT. JOINING THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC FIRST, THE TRANDOSHANS ACTUALLY NEGOTIATED WITH CZERKA CORPORATION FOR THE RIGHT TO ENSLAVE THEIR FURRY NEIGHBORS, BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE MORE THAN A FEW AT A TIME, BECAUSE THE WOOKIEES ARE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF DEFENDING THEIR HOMEWORLD.
DUE TO THE LEGACY OF THEIR HOMEWORLD, HOWEVER, MANY TRANDOSHANS HAVE BECOME SLAVERS AND MERCENARIES AS THEY HAVE SPREAD OUT INDIVIDUALLY ACROSS THE GALAXY. THEY ARE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE WARRIORS, DUE TO THEIR KEEN EYESIGHT, THEIR SCALED HIDES, AND A REMARKABLE ABILITY TO REGENERATE. TRANDOSHANS ACROSS THE GALAXY WHO OBSERVE THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR HOMEWORLD ARE OFTEN PROFOUNDLY SPIRITUAL, ADHERING TO A VERY SPECIFIC SET OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. THESE TRANDOSHANS WORSHIP A FEMALE DEITY NAMED THE “SCOREKEEPER”, WHO BESTOWS BLESSINGS ON HER FOLLOWERS BASED ON THEIR VICTORIES IN COMBAT AND IN THE “HUNT”. THOUGH SOME TRANDOSHANS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED TO MAINTAIN SOME SENSE OF HONOR, THEIR NATURALLY PRIDEFUL INCLINATIONS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS MORE PRONOUNCED, AND THUS THEY HAVE EARNED A REPUTATION FOR FEROCITY AND BRUTALITY ACROSS THE GALAXY. THEY ARE SIMPLY KNOWN AS COLD BLOODED KILLERS IN MOST CASES AS THEY ARE A FORM OF LIZARDMEN WITH VARRYING SKIN TONES
RATTATAKI: THE PALE-SKINNED RATTATAKI ARE MADE FOR BATTLE. CENTURIES OF CONSTANT WARFARE HAVE WEEDED OUT THE WEAK, SHAPING THE REMAINDER INTO PROUD, PASSIONATE, AND DEADLY COMBATANTS. EVEN ENTERTAINMENT FOR THIS VIOLENT SPECIES IS COMBAT; THE GLADIATOR PITS OF THEIR HOME PLANET, RATTATAK, ARE THE PLANET’S MOST POPULAR AMUSEMENT, WELL-KNOWN FOR BEING THE MOST BRUTAL IN THE GALAXY. EXPOSED TO THEIR SPECIES’ COMPETITIVE CULTURE FROM BIRTH, RATTATAKI DEVELOP INTO FEARSOME WARRIORS. DEEP IN THE OUTER RIM, THE RATTATAKI SPECIES EVOLVED IN BLEAK ISOLATION FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, CLINGING TO EXISTENCE IN SPRAWLING CAVERNS BENEATH THE PLANET’S SURFACE. THEY WERE DRIVEN UNDERGROUND BY MONSTROUS BEASTS THEY BELIEVED WERE GODS AND SAVAGE STORMS THAT MADE THE LAND NEARLY UNINHABITABLE. IN THEIR SUBTERRANEAN EXILE, THE RATTATAKI TRIBES FOUGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES INCESSANTLY OVER SCARCE RESOURCES, AND MANY TRIBES EVEN RESORTED TO CANNIBALISM. THE WEAK AND THE SICK WERE SACRIFICED SO THAT THE STRONG MIGHT SURVIVE AND ONE DAY CLAIM THE SURFACE WORLD. EVENTUALLY, THE MIGHTY WARLORD RATTATAK MANAGED TO UNITE HIS PEOPLE LONG ENOUGH TO DRIVE BACK THE HORRIBLE BEASTS ON THE PLANET’S SURFACE AND ESTABLISH MIGHTY FORTRESSES AMIDST THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THOUGH HIS LIFE WAS LOST IN THE STRUGGLE ON THE SURFACE, RATTATAK’S NAME LIVED ON. THE UNIFICATION OF THE RATTATAKI WAS BRIEF, AND TRIBES SETTLED BACK INTO THEIR CONSTANT INFIGHTING, BUT AT LONG LAST THEY HAD EMERGED FROM THEIR DARK EXILE AND CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE GREATER GALAXY. THIS LED MANY RATTATAKI TO SETTLE ON OTHER WORLDS, BECOMING SOUGHT AFTER MERCENARIES, BODYGUARDS AND BOUNTY HUNTERS. SHORTLY AFTER THE EMPIRE RETURNED TO REPUBLIC SPACE, THE YOUNG SITH LORD DARTH VICH TOOK NOTICE OF RATTATAK AND ITS PEOPLE. EAGER TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF, HE JOURNEYED TO THE PLANET AND, CASTING ASIDE 1000 YEARS OF ANTI-ALIEN TRADITION, RECRUITED A HUNDRED TRIBES OF RATTATAKI TO POPULATE HIS OWN PERSONAL ARMY. THEIR PROWESS IN BATTLE MADE THEM A DANGEROUS FORCE, AND THE DOZENS OF FORCE SENSITIVE AMONG THEM BECAME HIS PERSONAL ACOLYTES. WITH THE RATTATAKI AT HIS COMMAND, DARTH VICH MADE A PLAY FOR POWER IN THE SITH EMPIRE THAT ULTIMATELY FAILED. IN THE WAKE OF THIS FAILURE, THE DARK COUNCIL ENSLAVED OR KILLED ALL OF RATTATAKI WHO FOLLOWED VICH. RUMORS ABOUT A SMALL GROUP OF RATTATAKI ACOLYTES WHO HELPED BETRAY VICH AND WERE FULLY ACCEPTED FOR SITH TRAINING REMAIN UNSUBSTANTIATED.
GORMAK: A MYSTERIOUS SPECIES ON A MYSTERIOUS WORLD, LITTLE IS KNOWN IN THE GREATER GALAXY ABOUT THE GORMAK. THOUGH THEIR TRIBAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATION PATTERNS ARE UNDENIABLY PRIMITIVE, THEIR ABILITY TO COMPREHEND AND MANIPULATE TECHNOLOGY IS UNCANNY AND RIVALS THE BEST MINDS OF THE REPUBLIC. THIS DYNAMIC MAKES THEM EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IS THE REASON WHY THE UNCIVILIZED PORTIONS OF VOSS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE EXTREMELY HOSTILE. BECAUSE OF THE GORMAK’S SEEMINGLY INNATE AND VIOLENT HATRED OF VOSS CIVILIZATION AND ALL THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, THEY ARE ENEMIES TO BOTH THE REPUBLIC AND THE SITH EMPIRE. INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SOURCE OF THE GORMAK’S AGGRESSIVE STANCE AGAINST THE VOSS HAVE BEEN LARGELY FRUITLESS. ALL THAT IS KNOWN IS THAT THE GORMAK CONSIDER THE VOSS TO BE A CORRUPT PLAGUE TO THE PLANET, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THE VOSS MUST BE DESTROYED IN ORDER FOR THE GORMAK TO FLOURISH. STRANGELY ENOUGH, THIS VIOLENT HATRED IS NOT RECIPROCATED. THOUGH THE VOSS PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE GORMAK AS A THREAT TO THEIR CIVILIZATION, THEY SPEND NO TIME STRATEGIZING TO WIPE THIS DANGEROUS SPECIES FROM THEIR PLANET. THIS IS BECAUSE OF A VOSS MYSTIC VISION THAT LED TO A LAW FORBIDDING THE ERADICATION OF THE GORMAK SPECIES. TO OUTSIDERS, THIS MAY SEEM STRANGE, BUT TO THE VOSS, THIS PROCESS IS COMPLETELY NATURAL. THEIR FACIAL FEATURES RESEMBLE MUCH OF A DESERT LIZARD WITH A HINT OF BOTTOM FEEDING FISH BUT MANY KNOW THAT THEIR APPEARANCES CAN BE A LARGE ARRAY OF THINGS.
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MIRALUKA: THOUGH SHARING COMMON GENETIC HISTORY WITH HUMANS, MIRALUKA HAVE EVOLVED INTO A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT SPECIES BECAUSE THEY ARE BORN WITHOUT EYES. ON THEIR HOME WORLD OF ALPHERIDIES, THE ONLY SOURCE OF LIGHT IS A RED DWARF STAR WHICH EMITS LIGHT ONLY IN THE INFRARED SPECTRUM. OVER THE CENTURIES, THE MIRALUKA ADAPTED AND DEVELOPED THE ABILITY TO SEE THEIR SURROUNDINGS THROUGH THE FORCE. THOUGH THEY RETAIN VESTIGIAL EYE SOCKETS, MIRALUKA WEAR DECORATIVE VEILS AND GENERALLY HAVE LITTLE TROUBLE ASSIMILATING INTO HUMAN SOCIETY. MIRALUKA HAVE LIVED PRIMARILY IN ISOLATION OVER THE MILLENNIA, BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR FORCE SENSITIVITY, THEY HAVE HAD RELATIONS WITH THE JEDI AND SOME MIRALUKA HAVE EVEN JOINED THE ORDER. IN THE YEARS OF THE GREAT WAR, ALPHERIDIES HAS REMAINED AN INDEPENDENT SYSTEM, BUT MANY MIRALUKA HAVE RALLIED TO THE REPUBLIC’S CAUSE. THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED THE JEDI ORDER HAVE PROVEN TO CONSISTENTLY BE STRONG IN THE FORCE AND EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED IN THE MARTIAL ARTS. SOME MASTERS SPECULATE THAT IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THEIR TRUST IN THE FORCE RATHER THAN THEIR EYES THAT THEY FIGHT SO FLUENTLY WITH LIGHTSABERS. REGARDLESS OF WHERE AND HOW THEY SERVE THE ORDER, THE PRESENCE OF THE MIRALUKA WITHIN THE JEDI RANKS HAS BEEN A BOON. MANY SITH LORDS HAVE LEARNED THE HARD WAY TO SEE THAT MIRALUKA CAN BE DANGEROUS FOES.
SITH PUREBLOOD: DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL SITH SPECIES, THE RED-SKINNED SITH PUREBLOODS INHERIT A LEGACY LONG INTERTWINED WITH THE DARK SIDE. THE ANCIENT SITH WERE WARLIKE, COMPETITIVE, AND AMBITIOUS, AND THEY PERFORMED ARCANE RITUALS TO CREATE POWERFUL FORCE ARTIFACTS. FOR THOSE SITH IN WHOM THE OLD BLOOD STILL FLOWS STRONGLY ENOUGH TO BE SEEN, THERE EXISTS A STRONG CURRENT OF INNATE DARKNESS, MAKING THE RATE OF FORCE SENSITIVITY AMONG PUREBLOODS NEAR ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.
THREE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, DARK JEDI, FLEEING REPUBLIC SPACE AFTER THE SECOND GREAT SCHISM, DISCOVERED THE SITH SPECIES ON KORRIBAN. THEY WERE SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THE COMPARATIVELY PRIMITIVE SPECIES DISPLAYED KNOWLEDGE OF THE DARK SIDE THAT THE JEDI THEMSELVES HAD NEVER ENCOUNTERED. THE DARK JEDI RESOLVED TO SUBJUGATE THE SITH AND WREST THEIR KNOWLEDGE FROM THEM. THOUGH THE SITH STRUCK BACK IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROTECT THEIR DARK SIDE SECRETS, THEY WERE ULTIMATELY OUTMATCHED BY THE SUPERIOR TRAINING AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE INVADERS. THE SITH WERE ENSLAVED BY THEIR DARK JEDI OVERLORDS.
OVER HUNDREDS OF GENERATIONS, THE TWO GROUPS INTERMINGLED. THE DARK JEDI FOUND THAT SITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE SUITED THEIR PHILOSOPHY WELL. BEFORE LONG, THE ELITE RULING CLASS OF KORRIBAN CONSISTED ALMOST ENTIRELY OF HYBRIDIZED OFFSPRING OF THE DARK JEDI AND THE HIGH PRIESTS OF THE SITH. THIS HYBRIDIZATION RESULTED IN AN AMBITIOUS, RUTHLESS RACE WITH A NATURAL STRENGTH IN THE FORCE. GENETICALLY SPEAKING, THE TERM “PUREBLOOD” IS A MISNOMER, AS ALL MODERN SITH ARE HYBRIDS, A PRODUCT OF THE UNIONS BETWEEN THE ANCIENT DARK JEDI AND THE ORIGINAL SITH RACE. HOWEVER, THE TERM IS USEFUL IN DISTINGUISHING THOSE WHO CARRY ENOUGH OF THE BLOOD OF THE ANCIENT RACE TO STILL BE EVIDENT IN THEIR FEATURES.
TWI'LEK: OFTEN STEREOTYPED AS SLAVES, DANCERS, AND CRIMINALS, THE TRUTH IS THAT TWI'LEK ARE REPRESENTED IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. NATURALLY QUICK AND CUNNING, THEY EXCEL IN BOTH PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE SKILLS, AND TWI’LEKS CAN GENERALLY PERFORM FEATS OF DEXTERITY THAT SIGNIFICANTLY SURPASS OTHER SPECIES’ CAPABILITIES. THEIR HUMAN-LIKE QUALITIES AND VARIED SKIN PIGMENTATIONS HAVE EARNED THEM A REPUTATION AS SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BEINGS IN THE GALAXY. THOUGH THIS HAS CLEARLY INCREASED THEIR VALUE AS SLAVES AND CONTRIBUTED TO THE EXPLOITATION OF THEIR SPECIES, MANY FREE TWI’LEKS HAVE LEARNED TO USE THEIR NATURAL BEAUTY AND CHARM TO GREAT EFFECT. ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING ASPECTS OF THE TWI’LEKS’ EXOTIC PHYSICAL APPEARANCE IS THEIR ‘LEKKU’ OR ‘HEAD TAILS’ WHICH ARE FAR MORE THAN SIMPLE COSMETIC APPENDAGES. THE LEKKU SERVE AS EXTRA-SENSORY ORGANS, GIVING TWI’LEKS HEIGHTENED AWARENESS AND A GREATER CAPACITY TO MASTER THE ARTS OF COMMUNICATION. HISTORICALLY, LEKKU AND SKIN COLOR WERE SYMBOLS OF SOCIAL STATUS AMONG THE TWI’LEKS. IN FACT, TO SOME EXTENT, SKIN PIGMENTATION APPEARS TO BE LINKED TO CERTAIN PERSONALITY TRAITS. TWI’LEKS WITH RED-COLORED SKIN, FOR INSTANCE, ARE GENERALLY EXPECTED TO HAVE VOLATILE AND VIOLENT NATURES, BUT JUST AS WITH ANY OTHER SPECIES, DESPITE SUCH GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS, CHARACTER TRAITS ARE VARIED DEPENDING ON THE INDIVIDUAL. THE DISTANT TWI’LEK HOMEWORLD OF RYLOTH HAS A TRAGIC HISTORY. THOUGH IT’S A COLD, ROCKY PLANET, THE TWI’LEKS HAD ADAPTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND LIVED IN RELATIVE HARMONY FOR MANY CENTURIES. SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS AGO, HOWEVER, RYLOTH WAS DISCOVERED BY THE REPUBLIC AND SOON AFTER FOUND TO HAVE RICH STORES OF THE RARE AND VALUABLE RYLL SPICE. STILL NEW TO THE GALACTIC ECONOMY, THE TWI’LEKS WERE UNABLE TO LEVERAGE THE NATURAL RESOURCES TO THEIR ADVANTAGE. INSTEAD, CONTROL OF THE RYLOTH MINING OPERATION FELL INTO THE HANDS OF HUTT CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES WHO ENSLAVED THE TWI’LEKS AND PUT THEM TO WORK IN THEIR OWN MINES. BECAUSE OF THEIR BEAUTY AND THEIR SKILLS, TWI’LEKS WERE ALSO SOLD AS SLAVES ON THE OPEN MARKET, AND TODAY THEY CAN BE FOUND IN ALMOST EVERY SYSTEM IN THE GALAXY. THOUGH MANY REMAIN SLAVES, COUNTLESS OTHERS HAVE ACHIEVED FREEDOM AND ASSIMILATED WELL INTO THE GALACTIC POPULATION. DESPITE THE NUMBER OF FREE TWI’LEKS ACROSS THE GALAXY, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY CREDIBLE ATTEMPT TO LIBERATE RYLOTH. THIS IS LIKELY BECAUSE AFTER GENERATIONS IN SLAVERY ACROSS THE GALAXY, MOST FREE TWI’LEKS HAVE LITTLE CONNECTION TO EACH OTHER AS A SPECIES AND EVEN LESS CONNECTION TO A HOMEWORLD WHICH THEY NEVER KNEW.
ZABRAK: INDEPENDENCE, CONFIDENCE, AND FIERCE DETERMINATION CHARACTERIZE THE ZABRAK PSYCHE. MOST ZABRAK DO NOT CONSIDER ANY CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE, NO MATTER HOW UNFAVORABLE THE ODDS, AND LOOK DOWN ON THE WEAK WHO FEAR DEFEAT. A TRADITION OF INTENSE MARTIAL TRAINING, A SECOND HEART, AND RESISTANCE TO PHYSICAL PAIN MAKE THEM EXCEPTIONAL WARRIORS AND EXPLORERS. THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL PROWESS DEMAND RESPECT. ZABRAK HAVE AN INTENSE DRIVE TO EXCEL IN ALL THEY DO, A DRIVE THAT CARRIES WITH IT A PERSISTENT TEMPTATION TO USE ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS. IF ZABRAK SOMETIMES SEEM ARROGANT, IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE MUCH TO BE PROUD OF IN THEIR HISTORY. THE INHOSPITABLE CRAGS AND ACID POOLS OF THEIR HOMEWORLD, IRIDONIA, SHAPED THE ZABRAK’S TENACITY AND STRONG WILL. THE ZABRAK DID NOT MERELY SURVIVE ADVERSITY IN A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, THEY THRIVED, MANAGING TO BECOME ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SPACEFARING RACES. THEY HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED SEVERAL COLONIES BEYOND THEIR HOME SYSTEM BEFORE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE REPUBLIC. THOUGH SIMILAR IN APPEARANCE TO HUMANS, ZABRAK ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR VESTIGIAL HORNS AND HALLMARK FACIAL TATTOOS. HORNS DEVELOP AS INDIVIDUALS COME OF AGE AND TATTOOS ARE RECEIVED DURING A CEREMONIAL RITE OF PASSAGE THAT OCCURS SOON AFTER THEY APPEAR. THESE TATTOOS VARY IN DESIGN BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL’S OWN TRIALS AND EXPERIENCES. ZABRAK FROM IRIDONIA ARE RENOWNED FOR DEVELOPING STRICT REGIMENS OF MARTIAL TRAINING, AND THE DISCIPLINE AND PERSEVERANCE THEY TEACH ARE INSTILLED IN ALL YOUNG ZABRAK. THE ZABRAK COLONIES ARE SITUATED NEAR VITAL HYPERSPACE LANES, ENTICING THE NATURALLY INQUISITIVE ZABRAK TO FURTHER EXPLORE THE GALAXY. NEW WORLDS MEAN NEW CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME AND OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN, ADDING TO THE STRENGTH OF THE SPECIES, AND NOW ZABRAK CAN BE FOUND AMIDST THE RANKS OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE EMPIRE BOTH, LEADING TROOPS TO VICTORY ON THE FRONT LINES, WORKING FROM THE SHADOWS TO SHAPE CONFLICTS, OR SIMPLY COLLECTING CREDITS AS GUNS-FOR-HIRE.
TRANDOSHAN: HAILING FROM A HARSH WORLD IN THE KASHYYYK SYSTEM, TRANDOSHANS HAVE BEEN IN CONFLICT WITH THE WOOKIEES EVER SINCE THE TWO SPECIES CAME INTO CONTACT. JOINING THE GALACTIC REPUBLIC FIRST, THE TRANDOSHANS ACTUALLY NEGOTIATED WITH CZERKA CORPORATION FOR THE RIGHT TO ENSLAVE THEIR FURRY NEIGHBORS, BUT THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE MORE THAN A FEW AT A TIME, BECAUSE THE WOOKIEES ARE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF DEFENDING THEIR HOMEWORLD.
DUE TO THE LEGACY OF THEIR HOMEWORLD, HOWEVER, MANY TRANDOSHANS HAVE BECOME SLAVERS AND MERCENARIES AS THEY HAVE SPREAD OUT INDIVIDUALLY ACROSS THE GALAXY. THEY ARE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE WARRIORS, DUE TO THEIR KEEN EYESIGHT, THEIR SCALED HIDES, AND A REMARKABLE ABILITY TO REGENERATE. TRANDOSHANS ACROSS THE GALAXY WHO OBSERVE THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR HOMEWORLD ARE OFTEN PROFOUNDLY SPIRITUAL, ADHERING TO A VERY SPECIFIC SET OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. THESE TRANDOSHANS WORSHIP A FEMALE DEITY NAMED THE “SCOREKEEPER”, WHO BESTOWS BLESSINGS ON HER FOLLOWERS BASED ON THEIR VICTORIES IN COMBAT AND IN THE “HUNT”. THOUGH SOME TRANDOSHANS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED TO MAINTAIN SOME SENSE OF HONOR, THEIR NATURALLY PRIDEFUL INCLINATIONS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS MORE PRONOUNCED, AND THUS THEY HAVE EARNED A REPUTATION FOR FEROCITY AND BRUTALITY ACROSS THE GALAXY. THEY ARE SIMPLY KNOWN AS COLD BLOODED KILLERS IN MOST CASES AS THEY ARE A FORM OF LIZARDMEN WITH VARRYING SKIN TONES
RATTATAKI: THE PALE-SKINNED RATTATAKI ARE MADE FOR BATTLE. CENTURIES OF CONSTANT WARFARE HAVE WEEDED OUT THE WEAK, SHAPING THE REMAINDER INTO PROUD, PASSIONATE, AND DEADLY COMBATANTS. EVEN ENTERTAINMENT FOR THIS VIOLENT SPECIES IS COMBAT; THE GLADIATOR PITS OF THEIR HOME PLANET, RATTATAK, ARE THE PLANET’S MOST POPULAR AMUSEMENT, WELL-KNOWN FOR BEING THE MOST BRUTAL IN THE GALAXY. EXPOSED TO THEIR SPECIES’ COMPETITIVE CULTURE FROM BIRTH, RATTATAKI DEVELOP INTO FEARSOME WARRIORS. DEEP IN THE OUTER RIM, THE RATTATAKI SPECIES EVOLVED IN BLEAK ISOLATION FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, CLINGING TO EXISTENCE IN SPRAWLING CAVERNS BENEATH THE PLANET’S SURFACE. THEY WERE DRIVEN UNDERGROUND BY MONSTROUS BEASTS THEY BELIEVED WERE GODS AND SAVAGE STORMS THAT MADE THE LAND NEARLY UNINHABITABLE. IN THEIR SUBTERRANEAN EXILE, THE RATTATAKI TRIBES FOUGHT AMONGST THEMSELVES INCESSANTLY OVER SCARCE RESOURCES, AND MANY TRIBES EVEN RESORTED TO CANNIBALISM. THE WEAK AND THE SICK WERE SACRIFICED SO THAT THE STRONG MIGHT SURVIVE AND ONE DAY CLAIM THE SURFACE WORLD. EVENTUALLY, THE MIGHTY WARLORD RATTATAK MANAGED TO UNITE HIS PEOPLE LONG ENOUGH TO DRIVE BACK THE HORRIBLE BEASTS ON THE PLANET’S SURFACE AND ESTABLISH MIGHTY FORTRESSES AMIDST THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THOUGH HIS LIFE WAS LOST IN THE STRUGGLE ON THE SURFACE, RATTATAK’S NAME LIVED ON. THE UNIFICATION OF THE RATTATAKI WAS BRIEF, AND TRIBES SETTLED BACK INTO THEIR CONSTANT INFIGHTING, BUT AT LONG LAST THEY HAD EMERGED FROM THEIR DARK EXILE AND CONTACT WAS MADE WITH THE GREATER GALAXY. THIS LED MANY RATTATAKI TO SETTLE ON OTHER WORLDS, BECOMING SOUGHT AFTER MERCENARIES, BODYGUARDS AND BOUNTY HUNTERS. SHORTLY AFTER THE EMPIRE RETURNED TO REPUBLIC SPACE, THE YOUNG SITH LORD DARTH VICH TOOK NOTICE OF RATTATAK AND ITS PEOPLE. EAGER TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF, HE JOURNEYED TO THE PLANET AND, CASTING ASIDE 1000 YEARS OF ANTI-ALIEN TRADITION, RECRUITED A HUNDRED TRIBES OF RATTATAKI TO POPULATE HIS OWN PERSONAL ARMY. THEIR PROWESS IN BATTLE MADE THEM A DANGEROUS FORCE, AND THE DOZENS OF FORCE SENSITIVE AMONG THEM BECAME HIS PERSONAL ACOLYTES. WITH THE RATTATAKI AT HIS COMMAND, DARTH VICH MADE A PLAY FOR POWER IN THE SITH EMPIRE THAT ULTIMATELY FAILED. IN THE WAKE OF THIS FAILURE, THE DARK COUNCIL ENSLAVED OR KILLED ALL OF RATTATAKI WHO FOLLOWED VICH. RUMORS ABOUT A SMALL GROUP OF RATTATAKI ACOLYTES WHO HELPED BETRAY VICH AND WERE FULLY ACCEPTED FOR SITH TRAINING REMAIN UNSUBSTANTIATED.
GORMAK: A MYSTERIOUS SPECIES ON A MYSTERIOUS WORLD, LITTLE IS KNOWN IN THE GREATER GALAXY ABOUT THE GORMAK. THOUGH THEIR TRIBAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATION PATTERNS ARE UNDENIABLY PRIMITIVE, THEIR ABILITY TO COMPREHEND AND MANIPULATE TECHNOLOGY IS UNCANNY AND RIVALS THE BEST MINDS OF THE REPUBLIC. THIS DYNAMIC MAKES THEM EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IS THE REASON WHY THE UNCIVILIZED PORTIONS OF VOSS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE EXTREMELY HOSTILE. BECAUSE OF THE GORMAK’S SEEMINGLY INNATE AND VIOLENT HATRED OF VOSS CIVILIZATION AND ALL THINGS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, THEY ARE ENEMIES TO BOTH THE REPUBLIC AND THE SITH EMPIRE. INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE SOURCE OF THE GORMAK’S AGGRESSIVE STANCE AGAINST THE VOSS HAVE BEEN LARGELY FRUITLESS. ALL THAT IS KNOWN IS THAT THE GORMAK CONSIDER THE VOSS TO BE A CORRUPT PLAGUE TO THE PLANET, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THE VOSS MUST BE DESTROYED IN ORDER FOR THE GORMAK TO FLOURISH. STRANGELY ENOUGH, THIS VIOLENT HATRED IS NOT RECIPROCATED. THOUGH THE VOSS PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE GORMAK AS A THREAT TO THEIR CIVILIZATION, THEY SPEND NO TIME STRATEGIZING TO WIPE THIS DANGEROUS SPECIES FROM THEIR PLANET. THIS IS BECAUSE OF A VOSS MYSTIC VISION THAT LED TO A LAW FORBIDDING THE ERADICATION OF THE GORMAK SPECIES. TO OUTSIDERS, THIS MAY SEEM STRANGE, BUT TO THE VOSS, THIS PROCESS IS COMPLETELY NATURAL. THEIR FACIAL FEATURES RESEMBLE MUCH OF A DESERT LIZARD WITH A HINT OF BOTTOM FEEDING FISH BUT MANY KNOW THAT THEIR APPEARANCES CAN BE A LARGE ARRAY OF THINGS.
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