INFO: Battrachs were sentient, amphibious chelonoids indigenous to the planet Arrakan.
RACE: Battrach (Sport)
HEIGHT: 2 Meters Tall
SKIN: Green
DISTINCTION: Bio-engineered race created by the Duors
LANGUAGE: Battrach
HOMEWORLD:Arrakan was a waterworld in the Sulphis system of the Outer Rim, on the opposite side of Celanon from Lennax. Its name meant the Blue Pearl. Arrakan's skies were filled with violent atmospheric storms and glowering clouds connected to the water surface by "vast whirlwind twisters of air and water."
The indigenous Battrachs maintained a floating harbor at a coral-like island, where starships landed in moored giant bivalves, which then closed their shells and carried the craft to the underwater capital city, Kearleonis. Animals could travel underwater in giant jellyfish. The Battrachs, the bivalves, and the jellyfish were all genetically engineered by the indigenous Duors, who themselves believed they had been made by a millennium-old Leviathan named Kithnarrock.
Kithnarrock was a contact for the Alliance to Restore the Republic. A number of survivors of the Jedi Purge contacted the Alliance through Kithnarrock; however, this resulted in an Imperial fleet attacking Kithnarrock.
BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:The Battrach are a bio-engineered race created by the Duors. They resemble Snapping Turtles without the shell, they have a strict caste system they adhere to.
CULTURE AND HISTORY:A Battrach society, be it large as a world or as small as an isolated enclave, is called an Oytrip. These oytrips are divided into rigid castes determined when an individual reaches adolescence. The six castes of the Battrach all serve different functions within Battrach society. Although identical at the time of caste selection, caste members develop pronounced physical and mental differences by maturity. Different genetic programs are awakened by differences in diet and environment among the various castes. Young leaders, for instance, experience a nearly 30 percent increase in brain size in the first year after casting; drones develop sexual organs; and so on. The following are descriptions and definitions of the castes:
WORKER: Manual labor and mundane ordinary activity are the province of the worker. Workers are not too smart and are temperamentally suited to contentment with ordinary labor and subservient tasks.
WARRIOR: Trained for combat and possessing comparatively well developed muscles and reflexes, the warrior is the security troop, the soldier, the marine, and the policeman of the Battrach culture. They are common in frontier bases, and less numerous in civilized areas.
DRONE: Drones have a variety of purposes in Battrach society. They perform a reproductive role which makes them both fathers and mothers to Battrach young, and they have a role in the ceremonies which determine caste for maturing young. In addition, drones comprise a sort of middle management caste, which is responsible for many of the routine functions in business. trade, and administration.
TECHNICIAN: This caste is the science-oriented portion of Battrach society and is concerned with both research and practical implementation of technology.
SPORT: Although the caste system of the Battrach is rather rigid, the sport is the deliberately accepted exception to caste structure. Sports are special individuals who cross caste lines to become individual scouts, messengers, representatives, hunters, prospectors, and to take other occupations that require individual initiative or separation from Battrach society for long periods of time. A sport is the most encountered Battrach away from the Battrach homeworld.
LEADER: Leaders are required to manage and direct society. They are ultimately responsible for everything that the Battrach as a whole do.
There is little individual freedom in Battrach society, and as a result, society and government join into one concept. Workers work. Leaders lead. All of society is dedicated to continuing the existence that provides all members with food, shelter, and the other amenities that make life enjoyable. In addition, there is little discord in Battrach society when things are running smoothly, as each member of society has its own function to perform. Only when disaster happens is the group forced to strain.
A typical Battrach group consist of a variety of Battrach from the different castes. There will be many workers, few drones and leaders, and technicians and warriors based on current needs. Each group will also have several sports, although they may not be present; instead they may be occupied with their own solitary tasks.
This is not to say that Battrach are mindless. Leaders are quite capable and responsible; warriors have strategic and tactical senses; technicians are inventive and clever. But all accept the central group as a part of their lives and work for its benefit above their own.
Although the Battrach are well known as a race, and have been the subject of extensive research by academics, it is only recently that the relationship between the Duor and the Battrach has been even partially understood.
APPEARANCES:None
SOURCES:"Flight of the Jedi" - Valkyrie 20
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