Kegan

The Kegan are a race of sentient, humanoid, reptomammals that are native to the planet Acra.

Physical description
Kegan are extremley humanoid and casual glancers often mistake them for humans, however there are several important ( and somewhat obvious) differences. They have reddish skin, a long sinnous tail with a pendulum shaped blade on the end, a mouth filled with two rows of razor sharp teeth, retractable claws, bird like legs and most notably of all two leathery wings that are so large that Kegans can wrap them around their bodies like cloaks. They always have straight black hair and hawk eyes with a stunningly large amount of colors ranging from purple, green, brown, yellow and rarely, black.

Society
Kegans live in the mountains of Acra and build large cities into the sides. Being creatures of the wing they have little use for transportation and only use vehicles for particularly long distances which they couldn't cross on their own. SOme form small villages off of the larger cities and herd Hagrats, a form of livestock that can be sold as pack animals, for their warm fur or just for meat. They are somewhat wary of outsiders and most act quite cold to foreign strangers but hold grudging respects for those that somehow earn it. They are explorers by nature and often travel to larger planets and because of this strange sense of adventure some become archeologists. They also have an extremley large military which obviously, consists mainly of aerial troops and trained creatures as mounts. They are very technologicly advanced. Their diets consist of fish, berries and eels.

History
During the clone wars the Kegan believed themselves to be safe from the marauding CIS and galactic army because of their remote locations but sadly they were wrong. The CIS temprarily moved in for bases, something which greatly angered the Kegan who took to arms and fought for their freedom. They were aided by the Galactic army and quickly managed to drive away the separitist plague and the Jedi won the Kegan's respect. During the rise of the Empire Acra was once more invaded and once more the Kegan launched an attack. This time however their former allies were against them and despite their best efforts were defeated with crushing losses. Shortly after Acra was placed under Imperial supervision. Many Kegans were outraged and many more joined the Rebellion and were rejoicing as much as they could when it finally fell to the rebellion. Representitives were sent to join up with the New Republic and the Kegans stopped being so weary of outsiders.

Famous members
Perhaps the most well known Kegans are the famous Commander Krogant who fought in the clone wars and helped destroy a CIS base and Maverick Tegonta, the aprentice to Jirachi Kna.