Nazzar (Jedi Renaissance)

Nazzar were a race of equine mammals from the terrestrial world of in the  of the galaxy. Evolving from grazing ungulates, the Nazzar formed society in the wake of the Infinite Empire's collapse. Discovered by scouts from the Galactic Republic during the Great Manifest Period with the paving of the Lesser Lantillian Route, the Nazzar joined the Republic but had little interaction with the galactic society beyond sending representatives to Coruscant. Highly xenophobic, the Nazzar seldom left Nazzri and did not take well to outsiders who did not adhere to the state religion of Ulriza. While initially rejecting the Jedi Order's pleas to send Force-sensitives to Ossus, the Nazzar eventually began to view Forceful individuals as far to willful to serve the Ulriza and exiled them offworld.

Biology and appearance
Nazzar were a sentient species that belonged to the equine, a subgroup of the perissodactyla order of mammals. Nazzar evolved from four-legged ungulates which roamed the grassy plains of Nazzri. Once achieving sentience, Nazzar were bipedal beings with a bilateral symmetry, having a front and a back end, as well as an upside and downside. Their body comprised a head, neck, torso, and four limbs. The upper limbs, called arms, ended in hands evolved from hooves which had four fingers each; the lower ones, called legs, ended in hooves with three digits. Nazzar fingers had multiple points of articulation, and the two outer fingers were opposable thumbs that allowed for fine manipulation. Finally, they had one elongated head perched atop a torso. Well adapted for a herbivorous diet of grasses and grain, their incisors are long and sharp for clipping tough grasses while their molars are especially strong and have high crowns. Nazzar were keen sighted as their eyes were set on the side of the head and could move independently of each other allowing them to see forward with one eye and backward with the other allowing for 350-degree vision. Because of this, Nazzar could not see directly in front of them and were forced to turn their head if being approached from the front. Unlike other mammalian species they had only a light covering of body hair, ranging in color from brown, light gray, and dark navy. Nazzar were warm-blooded animals, meaning they maintained a constant body temperature independent of the environment using the energy from their food. Nazzar had two sexes: male and female, with the latter being distinguished by their slight breasts and overall smaller stature. Despite overall physiological uniformity, Nazzar varied greatly in appearance, and no two individuals looked exactly alike. One of the diversity factors was coat, which ranged from spotted, shaded, or solid colors. In addition to those varied coat colors, their eyes came in shades of brown and green.

Nazzar were sexually-reproduced animals, requiring the mating of an opposite sex couple to produce offspring. While developing in their mother's womb, the child gave her a distinctive "baby bump" accompanied by a significant weight gain. Being mammals, the Nazzar females gave birth to live young, one at a time. The delivery itself normally took place after eleven months of pregnancy

when a woman would take up residence within a local Temple of Life where professional healers would attend her every need. It was a painful process that could take as much as ten hours; in some circumstances, women could die during childbirth. During their first months of existence, Chalactan babies were usually fed with milk from their mother's breasts. The period during which a young Human developed from a child into an adult was known as adolescence. According to the High Laws of Chalacta, the legal transition from childhood to adulthood was only attained after eighteen standard years of life. Chalactans had an average lifespan of 100 standard years. Those who were keenly attuned to the Force could live up to 200. At any rate, individuals past the age of 81 were considered to have reached an age worthy of veneration. Natural signs of ageing in Chalactans included the whitening or fall of the hair, the loss of teeth, appearance of deep lines, wrinkles and dark blemishes on the skin. Old Chalactans would experience a decline in many cognitive processes, frequently losing track of time, misidentifying people or places and, in extreme cases, momentarily forgetting about their own identity or state.

Averaging roughly two meters tall, Nazzar were bipedal, sentient humanoids, with distinctly elongated equine heads, and were known to have been a physically powerful and agile species. Likewise, Nazzar had dark skin covered with a thin coat of fur, which usually ranged in color from light gray to dark navy. The species were distinguished by two long ears that lay limp at the sides of their heads, and strong, four-fingered hands.[1] A common piece of a Nazzar regalia was a harness-like set of straps worn around the muzzle.[3] Nazzar had an average lifespan slightly longer than those of most sentient species in the galaxy. Considered younglings until they were eleven standard years old, Nazzar became adults when they reached eighteen. At around fifty-six years, Nazzar were regarded as middle-aged, while those who reached ninety were thought of as old. Anyone older than one hundred twenty-five years was considered venerable, and demanded much respect from society.[1]