what species is she?

Riij Skootu · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:33 am Post subject: what species is she?

Ok I found this pic on swag. Usually there is like a paragraph of information below the pics. This one had only a short line.

I am trying to figure out what species she is. The only aliens I can think of with horns is either Devaronian or Zabrak. They seem
too small for Devaronian and not enough for Zabrak. Anyone have any thoughts?
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:38 am Post subject:

No idea. Any way you can contact the original artist on SWAG and quiz him? If not, you could probably just make up your own...
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Ankhanu · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:51 am Post subject:

My guess is that it's just something random; something the artist did with creative artistic license... not an actual SW alien species.
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garhkal · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:31 pm Post subject:

From the looks of it, she is a young girl. so that might explain why her horns are small for a zabrack.
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Whill · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:28 pm Post subject:

Or possibly a Zabrak-Human hybrid
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Riij Skootu · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:42 pm Post subject:

Whill · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject:

Zabraks and "Zabrakian Hybrids" are player character species in my game. Zabrak are considered near-humans in my game, although with the horns they are not likely a completely natural divergence from baseline humanity, so I theorize genetic engineering lead to Zabrak. (The Elomin may have evolved from the Zabrak but are far enough diverged to not be considered near-humans.)

In my game, most near-human species are genetically compatible enough with each other to produce hybrid offspring. Wroonians (another PC species) are near-humans. Pantorans and Chiss are cultural offshoots of Wroonians but genetically still Wroonians. Wroonians, Pantorans and Chiss all still near-humans, and thus capable of producing hybrid offspring with Humans and Zabrak.
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FandomComics · Ensign Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 47 Location: Chicago

Zabrak in general seem to come in a variety of horn patterns. Eeth Koth vs Darth Maul vs other examples in the witches of dathomir episodes all seem to have some sort of variety. Zabrak would certainly be the easiest way to go. Devaronian females actually look very different from males, and have a bit of fur on them, and different horns. So I would throw Devaronian out.
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Riij Skootu · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:11 am Post subject:

I guess that seals it then. She is zabrak-human hybrid.
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FandomComics · Ensign Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 47 Location: Chicago

I'm not sure she needs to be a hybrid, she looks like a standard Zabrak to me. She has a few horns, hair, even some facial tatooing. Why hybrid?
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:40 pm Post subject:

Why does a unknown alien species have to be a hybrid anything? Why can't it just be a new race? In a galaxy with a million or more inhabited planets, it seems far more likely that she is a member of a new, unknown species. Reproductive genetics are a highly specific thing, and the possibility of any sort of hybrid would be exceedingly rare.
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:49 pm Post subject:

On a related note, I never liked the idea of Boss Nass being a "different species" of Gungan. It seemed like a throw-away solution for the obvious physical differences, as if someone simply didn't want to devote time to it. I was taking sociology and anthropology classes around the time E1 came out, and I came up with a solution that is, IMO, more likely than having two separate species of Gungan.

My theory is that a Gungan's skull grows continuously over the course of its lifetime. Younger Gungans' eyes are mounted on eyestalks, which makes their eyesight highly adaptable for both hunting and perception. However, as a Gungan ages, its skull grows and the eyestalks (which are fixed in length) slowly retract into the Gungan's skull until they gain the recessed appearance similar to humans (as seen on Boss Nass). As their skull grows, their brain increases in size to match, and older Gungans increase in intelligence and wisdom over time. As such, Gungan society has come to be dominated by the elderly, who in turn depend on the younger Gungans for food and protection.
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Riij Skootu · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:27 pm Post subject:

that is a really cool idea.

as to why not a new species: IMO we have enough species Wink

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Fallon Kell · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject:

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