INFO: Nelvaanian males became warriors and scouts while the females were builders, gatherers, and raised the children. The tribe was governed by one shaman who claimed spiritual rites within a clan, and one chief, elected through a series of religious tests and mutual admiration.
RACE: Nelvaanian
HEIGHT: 1.5 Meters Tall (Females), 3 Meters Tall (Males, Mutant), 2 Meters Tall (Males)
SKIN: Blue
DISTINCTION: Wolf-like appearance, black hair, long snouts, sharp teeth
LANGUAGE: Nelvaanese
HOMEWORLD:Nelvaan was an icy planet in the Koobi system in the Outer Rim Territories and the homeworld of the Nelvaanian people.
A planet in the Koobi star system, Nelvaan is a primitive world of low gravity experiencing the onset of an ice age. Three moons orbit Nelvaan. It was in close proximity to Tythe. A world without a terrible amount of gravity, it was home to several massive life forms, including the vicious Horax.
Nelvaan is also dominated by a landscape of precarious mesas that would have fallen in standard gravity worlds. These mesas are home to the primitive Nelvaanians—blue-furred lupine humanoids. Lacking a planetary government and holding no allegiance to either the Separatists or Republic, it was a rarely visited world useful only to Bothans, who regularly siphoned water from the glacial fields, a practice that did not concern the Nelvaanians.
During the Clone Wars, it was home to a Techno Union laboratory that experimented on the warriors of the Nelvaanian tribes, unhappy with the progress of the Confederacy droid army and in awe of the prowess of General Grievous. Their experiments, based around a siphon generator that drained thermal energy from the surrounding area, resulted in the endless winter experienced all over the planet. The base was destroyed by Anakin Skywalker and freed the mutated yet liberated Nelvaanian warriors in the Battle of Nelvaan.
It was on this planet that Anakin Skywalker experienced visions inside a cave, symbolically depicting his corruption by the dark side of the Force. These visions came true as Darth Sidious transformed Anakin into his new apprentice, Darth Vader.
Later, before the Battle of Coruscant, Count Dooku, having fled Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tythe, made a brief stop at Nelvaan in order to discourage pursuit by Republic forces.
Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi may have visited the planet, assuming Obi-Wan's remark about he and Jinn traveling together and learning about Nelvaanians was true.
Fauna: Nelvaan cat, Nelvaan riding beast, Nelvaan rodent, Nelvaan squirrel, Nelvaan wolf, Giant Nelvaan bird, Nelvaan bird, Horax.
BIOLOGY AND APPEARANCE:The Nelvaanians, or Nelvaans, were a race of blue-furred lupine humanoids native to the planet Nelvaan. The Nelvaanians called their planet the 'Great Mother', which they worshiped.
CULTURE AND HISTORY:During the Clone Wars, Nelvaan was the location of a CIS base run by members of the Techno Union. General Grievous lured warriors from the Rokrul village by having them believe he was a prophesied figure out of Nelvaan mythology. Techno Union scientists then captured them, and physically and mentally altered them into cyborgs for the war.
Anakin Skywalker, who was referred to by the race as Holt Kazed (Ghost Hand in their language), freed them and destroyed the Separatist base. Although initially frightened by the appearance of their warriors, the females and children soon grew to accept them. Future generations of males retained the traits of their mutant progenitors, and as a result were larger than the females, who did not inherit the aforementioned characteristic.
APPEARANCES:Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 22" (First appearance)
Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 23"
Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 24"
Star Wars: Clone Wars – "Chapter 25"
The Traitor's Gambit (Mentioned only)
SOURCES:Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
The Clone Wars Campaign Guide
Horax in the Databank
Nelvaan in the Databank
Nelvaanian in the Databank
Techno Union in the Databank
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