Post by Red on Feb 4, 2007 15:34:58 GMT -5
Rodians were a humanoid species native to Rodia in the Tyrius system. They were infamous for their violent culture, which sprang from the difficulties of life in the jungles on their homeworld. Though they were often relegated to the fringes of galactic society as bounty hunters or criminal henchmen, Rodians were not merely simple-minded thugs. The Rodian people managed to produce artists, merchants, and politicians who were found even among the upper classes of the Core Worlds.
Rodians were humanoid reptilians with an average adult height of between 1.5 to 1.7 meters. Rodians typically had green skin, although variation in skin pigmentation was common, ranging from blue through to orange. Though very rare, some Rodians had a white pigmentation. This was distinctive among the race and could give rise to various appellations, such as "Jannik the White" or "Evo the Blue". Rodian skin had a pebbled surface, lumpy over most of their bodies, except for their snouts. Due to their love of fighting most Rodians kept in good condition, normally lean and wiry. However, some corpulent Rodians became rather obese, typically those that could hire others to do their fighting, such as Black Sun Vigo Avaro Sookcool or the Nar Shaddaa gangster Reelo Baruk.
With distinctive faces, Rodians had multifaceted eyes, trumpet-like ears, a flexible snout. Crinkling their snouts was the Rodian equivalent of a frown. A ridge of flexible spines adorned their skulls, differing in volume; some Rodians had a broad bush of spines, while others had a narrow band only. Instead of spines, some Rodians grew hair. This occurred more frequently among females, such as Neela and Greeata Jendowanian, but males also grew it, as exemplified by Evo.
Rodians had five long flexible fingers that ended in suction cups, and it was considered a gesture of brotherhood for one Rodian to raise his hand to another, suction cups outward. Rodians secreted distinctive, pungent pheromones, an odor which many species, such as Diollans and Humans, found unpleasant. This was not the case with all species however, as evidenced by the unsavory use of Greedo the Younger's pheromones: a Tatooine bartender by the name of Wuher ground up Greedo's body to use in the creation of a perfect Hutt liquor.