Xhasa

"I've seen the fall of the Rakata, the Sith Wars, the Jedi Civil War and the horrors of the Galactic Empire. You'd be surprised at the great heroism and great evil the galaxy is capable of."

- Malakai Madora

The Xai'athi were a mysterious Near-Human species originating from the ice world of Solaris, deep within the Unknown Regions. The Xai'athi were advent travelers and scientists, and spent their time observing the countless species throughout the galaxy, with the intent of using that collected knowledge to create multiple races that were to serve them. They were amongst some of the most powerful and most advanced races in the galaxy, with their history having been traced back as far as 5,000,000 BBY, though some scholars believed it went back even further to 10,000,000 BBY. The Xai'athi also held a deep understanding of the Force, which they called the Virtua, and it was believed that they were once the most powerful race in the galaxy, though the Xai'athi had vehemently denied this claim.

The Xai'athi were infamous for avoiding giving a direct answer to a question or sometimes giving multiple answers, all of which were deeply terrifying to know. The Xai'athi were ruled by the Kaizari, the head of the Great Houses which made up the species. The Kaizari had the final say in any matter regarding the Xai'athi species and could be trusted to make the right decisions. The Xai'athi were noted for being silent observers, waiting to hear all sides of a story before they say a word, which was usually correct and decisive. They had taken part in many political situations in the galaxy and even had members of the race in the Galactic Senate during the time of the Galactic Republic. Their most visible member, Malakai Madora, had been an active participant in the on-goings of the galaxy and led Xai'athi troops on the side of the Republic during the Clone Wars.

Biology and appearance
The Xai'athi were considered rather odd by many species that encountered them for the first time. The aging process for them stopped abruptly around the age of 300&mdash;equivalent to a Human in their mid-20s. Xai'athi could expect to live for quite a long time, as their most famous member, Malakai Madora, stated that he was 60,000 years old. The only known cases of a Xai'athi having died was in the case of death through combat, usually in the many wars they waged with neighboring species. As a general prevention to overpopulation, Xai'athi rarely had children, though marriage itself was quite common. This was due to millennia of genetic and biological expertise, as well as their highly advanced nanotechnology, allowing them to live well beyond their natural lifetimes, and stopping the aging process in it's tracks, by carefully modifying several important functions in their body. Xai'athi nanotechnology itself had help to pave the way for many of their other physical attributes.

Xai'athi had dark brown skin, which was soft to the touch, though very resistant to cuts and bruises. Their blood was jet black, and extremely acidic when exposed to the air, oxygen, nitrogen, or otherwise, in addition to the nanites that were designed to eat away at anything other than a Xai'athi when removed from their host. The Xai'athi were also well known for their rather attactive bodies and looks, a direct result of their genetic modifications. Males were noted for their chiseled features, and imposing stature, while female Xai'athi had been known to disarm entire armies with their ungodly beauty. The Xai'athi were born with luminescent eyes that had a blue, purple, or red glow to them. Xai'athi are also born with tattoo-like birthmarks called alama, indicating family, sex, and rank, changing as their nanites added or removed the alama over the course of their life.

Another biological distinction was their genetic memory and the ability to control their nervous system and every muscle in their body, right down to the individual fibers. The Xai'athi had mastered the abilities of the mind, and to safeguard the knowledge their people had discovered over their long history, the Xai'athi spent centuries working on the concept of genetic memory, which made vast libraries and databases obselete. They succeeded in their venture, and the result was that every child born to a Xai'athi would have all of their memories and personalities. The downside to this was do to the multiple personalities a Xai'athi would inherit generation after generation, one of those personalities, controlled by the Force ghost of a deceased Xai'athi, would attempt to take over the body of an untrained Xai'athi mind bearing their personality.