Chadra-Fan
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| Chadra-Fan | |
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| Homeworld | |
| Language | |
| Average height |
1 meters[1] |
| Hair color |
Brown[1] |
| Eye color |
Dark[1] |
| Distinctions |
Bat-like faces, rodent-like appearance, acute senses[1] |
| Average lifespan |
80 years[2] |
| Famous members | |
- "I don't know what it does—that's the beauty of it!"
- ―Anonymous Chadra-Fan engineer[src]
Chadra-Fan were short, rodent-like humanoids (usually no more than one meter tall) with bat-like faces. They hailed from the watery planet Chad.
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[edit] Biology and appearance
Chadra-Fan had seven different senses (sight, touch, taste, sound, smell, infrared sight, and chemoreceptive smell), all of which were much more acute than Human senses.[1]. They were usually no more than a meter tall, some depicted with plantigrade two-toed feet, while others seemed to have four-toed digitigrade feet.[source?] The metabolism of Chadra-Fan was amazingly fast, allowing them to work almost constantly. They only slept in two hour naps during the day. Because of their metabolism, the average Chadra-Fan matured by age fifteen and rarely lived more than forty years.[3]
Chadra-Fan were covered from head to foot in fur. Their species evolved from small, arboreal rodents. The two different sexes of Chadra-Fan were indistinguishable to other species, though the Chadra-Fan could readily tell the difference using their powerful sense of smell. If a male and a female Chadra-Fan were interested in one another they released special pheromones that relayed their feelings. Chadra-Fan also had involuntary pheromones that conveyed information about their family line and created an aura of attractiveness. Other voluntary pheromones often conveyed a Chadra-Fan's state of emotion-anger, fear, or joy. Chadra-Fan even created more complex messages using their pheromones, though the pheromones when mixed sometimes caused confusion.[3]
[edit] Society and culture
Chadra-Fan culture was greatly affected by the tendency of hurricanes and tsunamis to wash away their bayou homes (as happened in 10 BBY, when a "Death-Wave" wiped out much of their civilization). As a result Chadra-Fan slept during the midday in their temporary dwelling that hanged from cyperill trees.[3] They all had an instinctive fear of drowning in water. They regarded very few things as permanent, seeking only to enjoy themselves in the moment.[1] Many Chadra-Fan that left their homeworld went to arid planets, in order to escape any chance of drowning.[3]
Chadra-Fan loved to tinker with mechanical devices, often disassembling and reassembling them into something completely different. Chadra-Fan living in the greater galaxy sometimes worked in industrial research, by creating unique devices which engineers of other species with more conventional talents attempted to duplicate.[1] Their inventions were even considered collectible and pieces of art. Chadra-Fan constructed many of their creations individually, though they were capable of mass-production.[3]
The Chadra-Fan language relied on the ability of each Chadra-Fan to recognize differences in pitch. If a Chadra-Fan was tone deaf, he or she was unable to speak coherently. Their language also depended on the ability of each to understand pheromone messages.[3]
[edit] Society
The society of Chadra-Fan is divided into a clan structure in which every member was responsible for parenting the clan's children and a fact of life was that every household was open at any time. Leadership within the clan was a temporary role that was passed from one individual to another as the situation called for a particular expertise. Children were the centerpiece of a Chadra-Fan community, and only left when wed, however the new Chadra-Fan couple remained with the smaller clan so it was possible that a Chadra-Fan never left his or her home.[3]
Chadra-Fan if left alone suffered from strong depression that would kill them in a matter of weeks. Thus, Chadra-Fan were not very picky when it came to friends and preferred complete strangers to loneliness.[3] Many Chadra-Fan were taken offworld as slaves, but they took this positively by thinking of it as a big adventure. They were also a jovial race, who almost always got on well with others. Only the most evil acts against them would make them think otherwise.[1] Chadra-Fan were generally excellent team members and were extremely forgiving or so ignorant that they forgot any failings within a group. Chadra-Fan, thus, could be found with various criminals because they were so unobservant or accommodating.[3]
[edit] Chadra-Fan in the galaxy
Kabe was a regular at Chalmun's Cantina where she befriended Ponda Baba and Dr. Evazan.
Tekli, was a Jedi apprenticed to Cilghal. She became a member of the Myrkr strike team during the Yuuzhan Vong War. At the end of the war she became an Magister-in-training for the Yuuzhan Vong on Zonama Sekot. After a few years on Zonama Sekot, she left for the Unknown Regions with other surviving members of the Myrkr strike team and temporarily was a Joiner. After treatments by Cilghal she decided to remain a Jedi.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Sources
- Star Wars: The Power of the Force (1995)
- Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races (First identified as Chadra-Fan)
Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Jabba's Palace Limited (Card: Chadra-Fan)
- The Essential Guide to Alien Species
- Alien Anthology
"Rogues Gallery: Fringers" - Star Wars Gamer 7 (Picture only)
- Ultimate Alien Anthology
- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- The Art of Revenge of the Sith
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- The Essential Atlas
