Entu

The Entu were a species of violent insectoids who were native to Karax.

Physical description
The Entu stood at 1.90 meters tall and had chitonous skin four arms and spiracles holes in their side. They had tear shape heads, silver teeth, a set of pincers on either side of the mouth and a set of antenna. Being insects they had very unusual organs, they breathed through spiracles located in their side, had a special gland that protected them from fungi and spores, instead of a heart they had tubes along their backs called dorsal aortas and their nervous system was replaced by ventral nerve cords. Males and queens had meter long wings that the males used frequently and the queens seldom used. The entire species were hive minded, although the males had more individuality than most females. The Entu were noted to be incredibly durable, being able to survive drowning, intense cold, being frozen and even surviving decapitation, if only for a short time (4 hours). If drowned they would simply have to be removed from the water and allowed to dry out, at which point they would simply get back on their feet, the same goes for being frozen. They have an interesting life cycle, starting out as larvae, then grubs before maturing into adults. After their deaths they are used in the expansion of their hives.

Society
The Entu were hive minded creatures were incredibly violent. The species lived underground in vast caverns dug out by the drones of the species. They were incredibly intelligent and were known to be able to solve complex problems in short amounts of time. They had different roles in their colonies, such as drones, soldiers, elite and queens. The females made up the bulk of the drones and army while the males served as the elite guards for the queen. They had an expansionist culture and attempted to expand their empire as often as possible, almost always through brute force. The queens served as the leader of Entu colonies and could live up to 400 years. Despite being hive minded the males of the Entu had some individuality and the queen had high intelligence. If seperated from the colony for too long the females would go into a comatose state while the males could lose their hive mind altogether.

History
Once the Entu had developed spacefaring technology they began to expand their territory. They quickly colonized the neighbouring planets and enslaved the inhabitants of Eraan, eventually driving them to extinction. Their empire continued to expand until they made contact with the Doph, a cyborg race. Despite their numbers they were repelled by the Doph because of their superior technology. The Doph the launched a crusade against the Entu, driving them out of their system and back into Entu space. Shortly before the Clone Wars they attacked a Doph and succesfully captured it, but lost it to a later battle. In the aftermath a Jedi discovered a force-sensitive grub and decided to take it back with him to be trained as a Jedi. During the Clone Wars they attacked a downed Victory-class Star Destroyer and killed most of the surviving soldiers, the rest being rescued. They fought both the CIS and the Republic when the CIS invaded one of their planets and the Republic attempted to drive them out. The CIS never attempted to invade any Entu controlled planets afterwards. During the Galactic civil war many of their planets were captured by the Empire and their people enslaved. Because they were seperated from their colonies, any escapees joined the Rebellion.

Famous members
The most widley known Entu was a Jedi Knight known as Thanacine who survived both the Clone Wars and the Great Jedi Purge.