Pliper

Plipers were an aquatic sentient race who were nearly originally from Zar'Zalp but later were relocated to Smolder.

History
Around 23,000 BBY, Zar'Zalp's sun began to dim and temperatures dropped on the planet. Although it would not be until 3,996 BBY before the star actually collapsed, the temperatures began dropping in the next few centuries and the Plipers started to die out as the seas froze and the planet entered an eternal ice age. By the time the Jedi hero Lio-Jun Nenokdol arrived on the planet in 22,723 BBY, there were almost no Plipers remaining. He was able to fund three survivors and he took them with him to. By 22,493 BBY, there were over three thousand descendants of the original Pliper survivors living on Ossus. With the help of the Jedi, they constructed a colony ship and moved to Smolder, a warm world in a region of space would eventually become part of the.

In 19,987 BBY, two brothers, Markon and Matium Jongrese, and their fellow prospectors, the two brothers Jonvaddi and Juhoas Pzeert, arrived on Smolder with corporate backing to help the Plipers modernize. However, the Plipers were quickly marginalized and oppressed. After their world was stripped of most of its resources the Plipers were mostly left alone, although their industry was still controlled by mega-corporations. During they sided with the  and under the  they were completely ignored. They were nominal members of the

Plipers in the galaxy
While the Plipers lived on Ossus, several became Jedi but it wasn't until they had lived on Smolder for about 2,000 years that a great number of Plipers began to be seen in the galaxy. After the Smolder Frictions of the 630s BBY, many dissatisfied emigrated.