Amanin (Jedi Renaissance)

"A burgeoning species on the Outer Rim, it is fascinating to see each generation of Amanin experience a life more involved in the galaxy then the prior. While no Amani has made it through the Academy yet, their Force-sensitives have qualified for Jedi training and will further expand the Order's diversity and cultural richness."

- Jedi Knight Horen Hote, writing about Amanin trainees in the Jedi Order.

The Amanin were a race of planarians from the terrestrial world of Maridun in the of the galaxy. A primitive species, the Amanin valued their cultural and tribal histories and passed them down through oral traditions and adorned their bodies with trinkets and jewelry representative of the past. As the Republic and the Jedi established ties with the Amanin people, they began to set out into the galaxy and establish small pockets of colonists on other planets. Entering into both the Jedi Order for training and the academies and universities of the Republic, the Amanin showed signs of quickly modernizing once away from their homeworld.

Biology and appearance
A race of sentient planarians, Amanin were a sentient species evolved from slug-like creatures native to the plains of Maridun. Developing a bilateral symmetry, Amanin had a front and a back end, as well as an upside and downside. Their body was comprised of a head, neck, torso, four limbs, and a short tail. Their long and spindly upper limbs, called arms, ended in hands which had four long fingers each. Each finger had multiple points of articulation, and one of them was an opposable thumb that allowed for fine manipulation. Because they dragged their knuckles, their skin on their hands was tough and strong. Alternatively, the lower limbs, called legs, were short and stubby and ended in large, flat feet with four digits. Although they appeared ungainly when walking, their large hands and feet were ideally suited for an arboreal lifestyle on their homeworld where they made their homes in the high treetops. Rather then walking long distances, Amanin were able to curl their long and flexible bodies into a ball and roll at speeds of up to 50 kilometers per hour across flat terrain. In this form they could not perceive the world around them but were able to use the technique to hurtle past a target and uncoil to deliver an effective attack. Finally, they had one head perched atop a torso and a long, strong neck. Like other planarian species, the Amanin had evolved from a species that did not have distinct segmented bodies, and instead flowed continuously from their tail to their head. Their face was flat and located under the hooded curve of their head. Small red eyes adapted to see well in the dim light of Maridun, and were able to see far along the plains of the dry world. Situated just above the mouth was a small nose that provided them with a keen sense of smell, such that they were able to detect strangers from ten kilometers away.

A hairless species, Amanin were exothermic, requiring warm temperatures to maintain their body functions. Carnivorous, their small mouth widened to engulf raw game and contained numerous sharp teeth and a long tongue that plunged into their prey and sucked out nutrients. Like other worm species, Amanin expelled their biological wastes through their mouth. Amanin had small vital organs spread throughout their body and employed a redundant organ systems that included multiple versions of major organs such as the heart, liver, lungs, and even brain. These characteristics meant that an Amani could withstand devastating injuries and still survive. Even something as fatal as decapitation would not end an Amanin; the head would eventually grow another body, while the headless body would develop one of the rudimentary nerve clusters in its body to form a new brain and head. Possessed of physiological uniformity, Amanin did not vary greatly in appearance and looked exactly alike. One of the only diversity factors was height, which typically meant an injury had shortened a certain individual and they would eventually regain their full height of 2.5 meters. While gradiation of skin tone was also seen among Amanin, the patterns of the coloration were nearly identical, with their backs being a dark green and their fronts being yellow. Their skin coloration helped them blend in with their forest and grassland environment as well as being a signal of the skin's poisonous nature. Their skin was wrinkled and tough, secreting a poisonous slime that served to keep the skin moist as well as serving to deter predators on their homeworld. The only creature from Maridun that was not discouraged by the slime was the charnoq, which was consequently the only predator that the Amanin feared. Due to the susceptibility of their skin to drying, the Amanin preferred to build their shelters in humid environments such as rain forests.

Amanin were hermaphroditic, possessing both male and female reproductive organs. While there were no outward physical differences, each individual could switch between male and female personalities. A sexually-reproduced species, two Amanin would line up against one another facing opposite directions to begin the mating ritual. In this position, both Amanin excreted enough mucus to form a tube of slime around their bodies. Each Amanin would then excrete the necessary chemicals to fertilize each other's eggs, which were located in a thin band around the Amani's neck. Once done, the pair separated to finish their own part of the ritual. Finding a dark and damp area, usually in a ceremonial cave network, the individual Amani would push the mucus tube up over their head where it catch the fertilized eggs and form a sort of cocoon for the four to twenty eggs. For four months, the eggs incubated in the dark. Additionally, Amanin eggs could lay dormant in the moist soil for years before hatching in the right conditions. The period during which a young Amani developed from a child into an adult was known as adolescence. According to tribal laws, the legal transition from childhood to adulthood was only attained after sixteen standard years of life when the Amanin underwent a ritualistic hunt. Amanin had an average lifespan of 80 standard years, though Force-sensitive Amanin could live up to 200. At any rate, individuals past the age of 90 were considered to have reached an age worthy of veneration. Natural signs of ageing in Amanin included the the loss of teeth, appearance of deep lines, wrinkles and dark blemishes on the skin, and the slow of movement. Old Amanin would experience a decline in many cognitive processes, as the separate nerve clusters making up their brain stopped communicating effectively with one another.

Members
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