Agee (Jedi Renaissance)

"Unlike the Rishii, the Agee are less social, non-tribal and solitary. Any and all recordings of Agee Jedi seem to back up this account, as they tended towards solitude and served the Order as hermits, and roamed the galaxy tending to the will of the Force."

- Jedi Knight Horen Hote, writing about Agee in the Jedi Order.

Agee were a humanoid species from the terrestrial world of on the  of the galaxy. Discovered during the Rianitus Era, their people were anti-social and shunned interaction with the greater galaxy. While not aggressive or violent, the Agee were quiet and pacifist, preferring not to be involved in society and left to their own devices. Even their fellow Rishi natives, the Rishii, did not maintain much contact with each other. When the Republic came to power on Rishi, the Agee asked to be left alone, and would only rarely send any of its children to serve the Jedi Order.

Biology and appearance
Evolving from small lowland predators native to the planet Rishi, the Agee developed sentience and began to develop on their homeworld. Comprised of two sexes, Agee females had a gestation period of three months before laying two eggs. Bipedal humanoids, Agee stood upright on two legs and typically grew to stand one standard meter tall. Agee had a small, bony beak below four eyes spaced evenly in a row around the front side of their heads. Carnivorous, the Agee fed on the flying insects that swarmed over the hot and humid marshlands where they made their home. Oxygen-breathers, Agee had two nose slits in their beaks for inhaling and exhaling the warm marsh air. Originally, the Agee had four small wings used for hovering over the bogs and marshes of the planet's lowlands; overtime the lower wings developed talons and eventually opposable thumbs for manipulating tools. Caught in the middle of their evolutionary development, scientists believe the Agee are in the process of loosing flight all together, with some members already finding their wings to be vestigial.

Society and culture
Isolationists, Agee society is strictly based on need-based relationships. All relationships begin with a common necessity and end when that need has been fulfilled. Friendships and romance are virtually non-existent, and Agee will avoid communicating with each other unless verbal discussion is vital to a project's completion. While the majority of Agee can still fly, they build their homes low to the ground and walking paths traverse the bog cities. Living in small makeshift huts isolated on small islands, Agee only gathered during emergency situations such as ecological disasters, plague, or planetary invasion.

History
Eight millennia before the Clone Wars, the planet Rishi was discovered by pilgrims of a variety of species. Largely Humans, these colonists soon made contact with the two sentient species inhabiting the mountainous world: the Rishii and the Agee. While the Rishii were initially misunderstood and feared by the H'kig, the Agee were quick to form an agreement with these newcomers to ensure their mutual survival. While the Rishii kept to their aeries high in the mountains, the Agee maintained residence in the habitable lowlands. While the Humans and the other settlers sought out the arable plains, the Agee kept to themselves in the marshes and bogs that the H'kig found unpleasant. Striking up an easy alliance, the Agee continued to flourish in their native habitat and eased relations between the settlers and the Rishii.

As peace was kept throughout the world's regions, trade began to take shape and a successful economy formed. Trading with the Rishii and the H'kig periodically, the Agee continued to remain aloof and not interfere in the affairs of their co-inhabitants of the world. As the centuries passed, pollution from the H'kig settlements began to threaten the habitats of both the Rishii and the Agee. While the bogs served as a self-cleaning environment, the Agee constantly led clean-up efforts to reduce the waste water runoff into their waters and the leakage of chemicals from factories and cities. Much to their aggravation, the Agee were constantly forced to work in groups to accomplish these goals and began to feel animosity towards the H'kig for bringing this new plague unto their society. When the Confederacy of Independent Systems sent forces to invade Rishi during the Clone Wars, the Agee took refuge while the Galactic Republic sent military assistance to drive the droid armies offworld.

After Jedi Master Kit Fisto arrived on the planet and drove out the Confederacy, the Rishii and the Agee both greatly respected the Order and remembered Fisto's deeds on the world. When a Jedi delegation arrived on the world following the war, both the Agee and the Rishii agreed to blood-test their young and send all Forceful children to Ossus for training in the ways of the Force.

Agee Jedi
While no records remain indicating any early involvement with the Order, the Jedi renegotiated their dealings with the Agee after the Clone Wars. Remembering Master Kit Fisto's heroism while liberating the planet from Confederate control, the Agee agreed to blood test their children and send any Forceful infants to Ossus in exchange for Jedi protection and representation. Like all species which served in the Order, Agee were represented in the Grand Temple on Ossus. Within the main entrance of the Temple, known as the Hall of Meditating Masters, a larger-than-life bronzium statue was erected in dedication to all Agee that would serve in the Order's ranks. Erected far down the corridor among less represented species, the kneeling Master did not represent any one Jedi in particular, but gave future generations of Agee Jedi a place to find solace and peace. In the Sword of the Jedi tower, the lightsabers of all Jedi were placed in memory of fallen warriors and scholars alike. The Edifice of Heroes stood ready to memorialize any future Agee within the Order with paintings, monuments, or holodepictions.

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