N'Akkiarla

"These people are highly proud of their heritage and ancestry, their top priority appears to be to show their warrior ancestors that they are worthy of the warrior-blood flowing their veins. An example of this is the most common pre-battle speech "Ny Grooxi, um ress deo bresk tra gambra jri'volarinapo a'shtrulkahyo k'e'ratroa" which means "My cousins, on this day we prove we are worthy of our glorious ancestor's respect". This militaristic pride means they usually put conflict over diplomacy."

- The Encyclopaedia of Members of the Galaxy (100th edition) by Brena Jerla c. 7,000

The N'Akkiarla (N'Akkiarlian for a member of the N'Akkiarla) were a warm-blooded species of mammal-like reptilian descent who came from the N'Akkiarl system, a system far beyond the boundary of the galaxy. They fought many wars to create their large empire, the most famous being the N'Akkiarlian-Jussk'Ravgarok War several thousand years before they invaded the galaxy.

Biology
These people are Reptomammals (see above). Like most sapient species the males are generally more muscular than the females.

Like their human counterparts males have high amounts of testorone which gives them a high libido, which is partly responsible for their need of an empire (they had a population explosion).

Diseases
As with all living things these people suffer from diseases, it seems that humans can catch them as well. When the N'Akkiarla joined the galaxy then they brought their diseases to galactic worlds and they spread fast around the human populations. Some known diseases:


 * Arrowlung
 * A viral infection that infects one of the lungs, causes a terrible "stabbing" pain in a small patch of the lung, as if pierced by an arrow.
 * Notable sufferers:
 * Kadran Lopra, senator of Coruscant during the 77th Century ABY


 * Brronigar's leg
 * A viral infection which causes the infected limb (almost always one of the legs) to turn a blood-red colour which doesn't leave the victim once infected. Named after Brronigar 'Vrigo-Tzazagravuldena, a N'Akkiarlian doctor with blood-red skin who researched the illness.


 * Swollen heart
 * A bacterial infection of the heart which causes severe inflamation. The only symptom is severe chest pains, the disease is deadly as it can cause a Heart attack or Cardiac arrest.


 * Mad coughing disease
 * A bacterial/viral/fungal infection of the lungs which caused very severe coughing, it is named because the non-stop coughing has been known to make many sufferers angry and mad. Can cause Pneumonia.


 * Starving disease
 * A disease which is caused by a parasitic protozoan in the stomach which "eats" food in the stomach before the food has the chance to release energy, giving the sufferer a feeling of perpetual hunger. If severe can cause malnutrition, hence the name.

History
Not much is known about their origins but it has been concluded that they are Reptomammals (e.g. they are scaly like Reptiles but they give birth to live young like Mammals do) of both Synapsid and Sauropsid descent. They are related to the other sentient Synapsid species which calles the N'Akkiarl System "Home", the N'Akkiarlian Humans, because their two species has had inter-species relationships and offspring for thousands of years.

From the amount of war legends and odes to soldiers it is clear that they are very proud of their militaristic ancestors and honour them. About 3,000 years after the N'Akkiarlian-Jussk'Ravgarok War the N'Akkiarlians entered the galaxy, the Galactic Federation of Sentient Species sent them a message of good-will but the N'Akkiarla responded with an invasion.

For 5 months the N'Akkiarla carved a path to the core worlds (the centre of politics in the galaxy) through the Perlemian worlds. The N'Akkiarla enslaved the populations of conquered worlds, used them as labourers, and slave-soldiers. After subjugating the Perlemian Trade Route worlds the N'Akkiarla came up against the Neimoidian Purse Worlds. They invaded Koru Neimoidia and quickly defeated the Neimoidian and GFSS defence forces. However the Allied forces regrouped and launched the Battle of Koru Neimoidia. However in the end the N'Akkiarlian army was defeat by Neimoidian super-artillery. The dreadnought Ezkrva 'Utiazrupanata-Xurgilgranarr bombarded the Allied army from orbit after the battle was won by the Allied forces and destroyed it. Fortunatly the GFSSNS Courage at Yavin was about 5 parsecs was away and agreed to the request for help by the Koru Neimoidia Commanders. The bombers were launched against the dreadnought, despite taking heavy casualties (about half of all bombers) the dreadnought was severly damaged by the proton bombs, however the dreadnought was not completely destroyed, rather put out of action. The Courage at Yavin bombarded it and destroyed it.

The battle had finally been won by the Allies, and the galaxy finally realised that the N'Akkiarla were not invincible, slaves all over N'Akkiarla-conquered space began a revolution against their "masters", however there were no-where near as well equipped and trained as their owners. The total death toll at the end of the war was about 3 billion. However the revolution distracted N'Akkiarlian attention away from vital targets, making it easier for the Allies to attack them. Eventually the jackpot was in reach, the N'Akkiarlan Grand Fleet over Cato Neimoidia. The Allies decided to take the gamble, at exactly 12:32 Coruscant Time the Allied fleet left hyperspace near Cato Neimoidia starting the monsterous Battle of Cato Neimoidia. The Allies won the battle and the N'Akkiarla was forced to surrender, their punishment for their war crimes was banishment from the galaxy for 5,000 years. Because of the slavery and attacks upon civilian vessels Anti-N'Akkiarlianism continued until around 4,000 ABY - a full 3,000 years after the war had ended.

In the year 6,000 the ban expired and the N'Akkiarla once again entered the galaxy, by this time a new sub-species had appeared, the "Homo-N'Akkiarla". This sub-species was comprised of N'Akkiarla with Human ancestry, many members had inherited traits from their distant Human ancestors (like hair and human skin). The sub-species was created from the Human slaves which were taken back to the N'Akkiarl System during the war who bred with their N'Akkiarlian owners (whether this was voluntary or forced is currently unknown). Because they were of alien ancestry this species was considered "dirty-blooded" by the N'Akkiarlian pure-bloods and were the lowest social class, being treated only marginally better than slaves. They had no right to take part in any N'Akkiarlian culture and any part of N'Akkiarlian life. Despite being of part-N'Akkiarlian descent. Fortunatly most humans of the galaxy sympathised with their less-fortunate cousins so they took the Homo-N'Akkiarla in and treated them as equal citizens. After this the Homo-N'Akkiarla became firm friends with the baseline Humans.

The Galactic Federation of Sentient Species were angry at the N'Akkiarlians over their treatment of the Homo-N'Akkiarla, which was in gross violation of the Sentient Rights Charter. The arguments raged for 90 years until the N'Akkiarla, finally, backed down and promised to treat the Homo-N'Akkiarla, equally, in return, the GFSS accepted their request to enter the Federation. Upon entry into the Federation many N'Akkiarla immigrated into the galaxy where they led relatively normal lives and force-sensitive individuals were trained by the Jedi.

In the year 17,299 ABY the descendants of the Jussk'Ravgarok who manged to flee from the Jussk'Ravgarok system before it was absorbed into the Star Empire attempted to invade the N'Akkiarl system as revenge for the N'Akkiarlian-Jussk'Ravgarok War and to free Jussk'Ravgarok slaves, starting the Second N'Akkiarlian-Jussk'Ravgarok War, in which the N'Akkiarla and GFSS both took part, eliminating the final traces of free Jussk'Ravgarok, who utilised suicide charges because they'd rather die than become like their slave bretheren.

Possible relationship with Galactic Humans
"You think yourself as better than us? Do not forgt it was us who discovered you, civilised you and taught you how to build, not to mention create you - your species only became civilised and intelligent after you got some of our blood in your veins. How does it feel knowing you and I are cousins and you are one of our children?''" "We are not related! We have nothing in common, you are my enemy!" "You are our children, for eons we have watched you - fathers watching their sons. We are impressed at how you have created a galactic civilisation, join us and together our species' will rule all other life-forms! You cannot deny your genetic heritage! You and me are of the same blood, we are brothers." "Rubbish!" "Argue all you want, my child, but you cannot escape from your history or your parentage!" "I am a pure human!" "Hahaha! Oh, the irony! You "pure humans" are mutants! You are just a mutant form of us!" "Oh, I'm bored of this argument! I'm leaving! ''"Good bye, cousin. One day your people will return to us, your brothers, we are your history and your future! Together we will run the N'Akkiarla system."

- An argument between a N'Akkiarlian (who tries to get the Anti-N'Akkiarlian to join them) and an Anti-N'Akkiarlian (who believes the N'Akkiarlians are only good for slaves), referencing the many different theories that Humans were civilised by the N'Akkiarla and are descended from them.

Ancient human legends from many milennia ago (estimated to be many hundreds of thousands of years before the formation the Republic and the Jedi Order) tell of "multi-coloured Gods", Gods of all different colours: white, black, red, purple, green etc who lived on numerous planets in The Galaxy and civilised Humanity and built a society with them and apparently relationships with the Gods were common (Historians now know this to be the earliest documented evidence of interspecies relationships) and a new race was created. Upon acquiring the knowledge to build, Humans built temples to their Gods. Prior to the discovery of the N'Akkiarla Scholars and Historians had concluded that humanity had actually encountered an alliance of different alien species (hence the "multi-coloured Gods") but one of the greatest mysteries was the language the legends were written in, which was language which had not been seen anywhere in the Galaxy (Study of N'Akkiarlian shows remarkable similarities between the two languages, meaning the language the legends are written in could be Ancient N'Akkiarlian). Once discovering the N'Akkiarlians and their language and studying them for many years, Scholars and Historians came up with the conclusion the the N'Akkiarlians used to have colonies in the Galaxy, discovered Humanity, saw their capability for intelligence and thus civilised them and forged a society but for some unknown reason left the galaxy, leaving humanity to their own devices.

Some claim that the Honourable warrior, militaristic and bloodthirsty traits many Humans show could be inherited from the N'Akkiarla which lived alongside humanity many thousands of years ago, the same people also claim that if this theory is true then the "N'Akkiarla" could be "Living Ancestors" of all of the Humans of the Galaxy, these claims are currently being investigated. If these claims turn out to be true then the old classification of "Baseline Human" will be obsolete, because the seemingly "pure" Humans wedould have at least a little alien blood, meaning there would be no such thing as a "Baseline" Human.

The theories were commonly used as counter-arguments by N'Akkiarlians arguing with Anti-N'Akkiarlians, claiming that according to the theories the Anti-N'Akkiarlians hate their own forefathers.

However it appears that it wasn't just the earliest humans who wrote legends about aliens, ancients texts from N'Akkiarlian temples say that the earliest N'Akkiarlians found mysterious beings on some of the planets they colonised, the description given sounded a lot like a description of a human, further re-inforcing the theories.

Politics and galactic relations
The N'Akkiarla were well known by the members of the galaxy for putting conflict before diplomacy, because of their military-based society. They were most infamous for the Great N'Akkiarlian War, a war which the galaxy would never forget.

After the war, they were banished from re-entering the galaxy for 5,000 years, so proper Galactic Relations were not established until 6,090; the GFSS argued with the N'Akkiarla over their treatment of the "Homo-N'Akkiarla" for 90 years after the N'Akkiarlian banishment expired and they were allowed to enter the galaxy. Despite being a combat-orientated society, the N'Akkiarla did have representatives in the Galactic Senate and an embassy on Coruscant. The first Senator was named "Jyoznarr 'Burr-Hureg", he held his position for 50 years until he retired from the position in the year 7,040, becoming a senior advisor to the second Senator, a young, head-strong N'Akkiarlian named "Vlorinag 'Zzyan-Kunimarzabezkando" who believed more on increasing the influence of the N'Akkiarlian sentients in the galaxy rather than improving relations which was his predecessor's top priority. Apparently he frequesntly sought 'Burr-Hureg's advice and took 'Burr-Hureg's advice more seriously than that of his other advisors, seeing him as a wise old man who could help him stay in good stead with the Senate and as someone who had a lot more experience in the political arena than he had.

After joining the Federation the N'Akkiarla had either good or neutral relations with all of the species they had discovered apart from their mortal enemies, the Jussk'Ravgarok, whom they had the deepest hatred of.

Relationship with the N'Akkiarlian Humans
Because they evolved together, the N'Akkiarla were friendly towards their Human bretheren; the two species rarely fought each other as they felt a kinship, since they both hailed from the same planets. There were a few arguments throughout history, but these were very spaced out.

Most N'Akkiarla treated the Human natives as cousins because, several millennia before their relations, many N'Akkiarlians interbred with the Humans, meaning most of the Humans were partially of N'Akkiarlian ancestry.

When the two species joined the Galaxy they both elected Senators for the N'Akkiarl system, both Senators fighting for the good of the two races and to give their two races a greater part in galactic politics, which they were now part of. They also fought to increase their own influence in the Galaxy.

Culture
N'Akkiarlian culture was based around combat. The N'Akkiarlian Warriors had to fight in battle to prove their Warrior ancestors that they were worthy of the warrior blood in them. It was the greatest honor for a N'Akkiarla to serve in the military. One of their favourite things to do was to march to the sound of deep booms of war drums, something every N'Akkiarlian does at some point in their life, the deep booms of war drums apparently awaken the warrior spirit within them, since many Humans and N'Akkiarlian Humans have the same experience when marching to war drums some outlandish claims have developed about this trait (like many other militaristic traits shown by many Humans) being inherited from the N'Akkiarla.

Prior to joining the GFSS they were very xenophobic, only having respect and admiration (and even love) for their Human cousins. However after joining the Galaxy and becoming a member of the Senate their xenophobic nature was mellowed alot, though they still show xenophobic tendancies they are no-where as xenophobic as they were in the Pre-Great N'Akkiarlian War days.

Distinctions
The N'Akkkiarla had a number of distinct features. They were one of the few species to be of both Synapsid and Sauropsid descent. Despite being reasonably xenophobic against other species, they had good relations with the Human natives of the N'Akkiarl system. Many members of this species were the ancestors of H'Akkiarlian Humans

Black and White N'Akkiarla were considered separate sub-species as they evolved differently; the Black N'Akkiarla evolved in the inner worlds, close to the star N'Akkiarl, whereas the White N'Akkiarla evolved in the outer worlds, furthest from the star. Prior to joining the Federation and agreeing to the Sentient Rights Charter Non-Black/White N'Akkiarla were considered genetic mutants, which caused a lot of racism. However after signing the Charter racism became rarer, a purple N'Akkiarlian even became the first senator for the N'Akkiarla.

Other distinctions included their high resistance to Force lightning and other Force powers, as well as their long names.