Selonian

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• Homeworld:
  Selonia

• Size:
  2 meters

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From the Expanded Universe

Though human spacers are the most well known inhabitants of the Corellian star system, they are by no means the only ones who call the system of five planets home. The Selonians evolved on the planet Selonia, the second planet out from the Corellian star. It is a world of scattered island chains and wetlands.

A Selonian stands slightly taller than an average human, and has a long, slender body with a flexible spine that is as comfortable on all fours as it is standing erect. Selonians wear little clothing, since a coat of short fur covers the length of their bodies. Sensitive, bristly whiskers line their pointed muzzles. They have very sharp teeth and long, muscular tails that can be used in self-defense.

A typical Selonian is humorless, primarily concerned with the preservation of her family, or den, and her people as a whole. The needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few in their culture, and a Selonian believes that mistakes on her part could drastically affect the health of her den. Selonians even refuse to lie, fearing that it may be in some way detrimental to their people.

Selonians live together in genetically related dens in underground burrows. Each den is made up of one fertile female -- the queen who gives birth to all members of a den -- a few fertile males, and several hundred sterile females. All sterile females with the same father are said to be in the same sept, and members of a sept are genetically identical. The sterile females perform all the important functions of Selonian life, and are the ones that interact with off-worlders.

Despite their seemingly primitive trappings, the Selonians are at an information age-technological level and have their own shipyards where they can construct vessels capable of travel within the Corellian system. They have possessed the ability of space travel for many years, but have never developed hyperdrives nor shown interest as a people in venturing beyond the Corellian system, far from their dens.