Akio Kahoshi
Peace through Order
Name: Asha’ladier (Children of Asha)
Designation: Sentient
Homeworld: Hebrides (Life Craddle)
Language: Rakata Language, Asha’rec (Words of Asha)
Average height of adults: Average is one meter, no noticeable difference between male and female.
Skin color: White, grey, brown, white with grey spots
Hair color: White through black, and brown/reddish brown
Breathes: Type 1
Strengths:
- Strong for their size-Given the high gravity of their home world, Asha’ladier are naturally stronger to compensate. This is only really noticeable on standard or low gravity worlds.
- Denser-Asha’ladier are harder to hurt by physical blows, as their tissue and bones are denser to hold up against the higher gravity of their world.
- Master Engineers-The species has a natural gift for understanding the mechanics of everything they see, and so are naturally gifted engineers.
- Strong senses-The species has large eyes and ears, and a sensitive nose. Because of this their senses are naturally greater than humans, though not significantly so.
- Short- The high gravity has caused the species to be naturally shorter as they evolved. This prevents them from falling very far if they trip, and so lessening damage, but becomes a disadvantage when encountering taller enemies with longer reach.
- Dense-Asha’ladier cannot swim in water unassisted, as their bodies are naturally denser than water. Drowning is an ever present fear on their home world.
- Cannot speak Basic-The species has never encountered Galactic Basic, and their vocal cords can only pronounce many syllables with great difficulty. Most Asha’ladier would need protocol droids with them if they ever traveled off world.
- Tech obsessed-The Asha’ladier tend to over complicate issues, building overly complex contraptions to solve simple problems.
Distinctions: Short stature with large eyes and ears, and a rabbit like shape to their faces.
Average Lifespan: 65
Races: All Asha’ladier consider themselves the same race, after the Rakata united them by force.
Diet: Fungi is their primary nutritional source, but most plant life can be digested. Meat can make the Asha’ladier sick.
Communication: Voice, telecommunications, comm units
Culture: The Asha’ladier revere technology as both the life giver and life taker. Every aspect of their culture is affected by technology, and the advancement of it. The planet is led by a council of Tech Elders, all of whom in some way advanced technology in their life. All technology is seen as a gift from Asha, the God of Fire. They were given the ability to understand Asha’s gifts, and see improving Asha’s gifts as their cultural duty. The Rakata are seen as the messengers of Asha. While the original ideas of their faith have been lost to time, they continue to serve Asha faithfully.
Family units are not as strong among the Asha’ladier, because the Asha’ladier have large litters. Family is used more for genealogy identification in conjunction with regions than the traditional sense most off worlders have. Once a Asha’ladier reaches adolescence they will typically live the litter and start their own lives. Mating is the only long term ties normally kept, as they do mate for life. The male and female actually form a chemical bond during mating that makes them unable to be attracted to others of their species.
Names typically consist of a given name followed by region apostrophe surname. So it takes the appearance [Given Name] [Region Born]’[Surname]. The great Asha’ladier inventor Kiht Heidjr’Oshan. Kiht, of the Oshan family, born in the Heidjr region.
Technology level: In line with modern technology, it has been stagnant for thousands of years with most advancements being minor in nature. However the ancient basis of their technology has caused it to feel very different from other species. In many cases it has a more mystical feel, despite functioning in a similar manner.
General behavior: The Asha’ladier find themselves more comfortable surrounded by technology than nature, despite their herbavorial nature. Planets like Coruscant are seen as wonders, where the less advanced planets are avoided except by the rare Asha’ladier that sees an opportunity to advance the world. To them a problem is just a new invention away from a solution, and will often go out of their way to invent something new to solve a problem that could more easily have been solved by less advanced means.
History: The Asha’ladier evolved on their high gravity world, struggling to survive the long and harsh winters. Eventually their minds evolved to its current state, and the Asha’ladier quickly set out to rebuilding their world to better suit them. Despite lacking advanced forging techniques, they used whatever materials they could to build shelters from the cold and planetary predators.
Eventually they were discovered by the Rakata who enslaved them for their engineering abilities. This brought them new technology like they could never have imagined before, it was the moment their species changed from a number of separate tribes each fighting for survival to a single united species serving Asha’s will.
When the Infinite Empire collapsed, the Asha’ladier were left stranded on their home world. Locked from the rest of the Galaxy by a Rakata shield. To fill the void of their Rakata masters, they created a council of elder made up of individuals who contributed to the advancement of Asha’s gifts. These elders lead the people in all cultural and political decisions, but largely Asha’ladier keep to themselves and their work.
The Asha’ladier as a people long to leave their planet behind, and to explore the Galaxy. To find new problems that need solving and new materials to build wonders never known before.
Notable Player-Characters: None yet
Intent: To populate the planet Hebrides with an interesting species. It fills a possible role in Star Wars history, while remaining separate enough as to not interfere with canon. This gives the Atrisian Empire a new culture to interact with in the Unknown Regions, and the possibility of new and interesting alien PCs.