Agorffi (Jedi Renaissance)

"While they deny it, the Agorfii undoubtedly have some relation to the Koorivar species. While lacking the distinctive cranial horn of the Koorivar, Agorfii' cranial spines are similar to some offshoot races of Koorivar that inhabit planets between Kooriva and Shibric. I would theorize that early scouts from the Koorivar homeworld colonized Shibric and either adapted without a horn, or had parted ways with the Koorivar before developing them."

- Jedi Knight Horen Hote, writing about the Agorfii and their relationship to the Koorivar species.

Agorfii were a mammalian species native to the terrestrial world Shibric in the region of the galaxy. Discovered by the Republic and the Jedi during the Great Manifest Period, the Agorfii quickly joined the Republic and found work as athletes, strongmen, and engineers. Because of their strength and brawn, Agorfii were often harassed by slavers eager to sell them as laborers or guards. Finding a place within the Jedi Order and eventually even the Sith Empire, Force-sensitivity among the Agorfii was not extremely common but several members showed great aptitude each generation.

Biology and appearance
A space-faring race of mammalians, the Agorfii were a sentient species that belonged to the primate order of mammals. Agorfii 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 which had five clawed fingers each; the lower ones, called legs, ended in feet with three clawed digits. Agorfii fingers had multiple points of articulation, and one of them was an opposable thumb that allowed for fine manipulation. Finally, they had one head perched atop a torso with a humanoid skull comprised of two forward-facing eyes, a nose, ears on either side, and mouth full of grinding and tearing teeth. Agorfii had a four-chambered heart consisting of two atria, one variably partitioned ventricle, and two aortas that lead to systemic circulation of oxygen-rich blood. A warm-blooded species, they had varied physiological means of keeping their body temperature constant and relied on both plant and animal matter to keep their energy high. Agorfii hair was grown, cut, and styled for aesthetic or ritualistic reasons— females generally braided their hair in a long coil down their back while men only had facial hair above the lip. Both male and female Agorfii had dense tufts of hair that grew on their arms, which they styled with rendered fat to resemble flames or spikes.

Agorfii had two sexes: male and female, with the latter being distinguished by their overall smaller stature and lack of facial hair. Members of the Agorfii race could interbreed naturally with Koorivar. Despite overall physiological uniformity, Agorfii varied greatly in appearance, and no two Agorfii looked exactly alike. One of the diversity factors was height. Agorfii averaged 2 meters in height, although males were usually taller and heavier than females. A diurnal species, the Agorfii had red eyes adapted to daylight conditions, with color vision and advanced visual depth perception. Because of the color of the star over Shibric, Agorfii traveling the galaxy often donned goggles to protect their eyes from the light of yellow and red stars. Agorfii were sexually-reproduced animals, requiring the mating of an opposite sex couple to produce offspring. Male Agorfii impregnated females through the insertion of a single penis into the vagina of beneath the hips of the female. While developing in their mother's womb, the child gave her a distinctive "baby bump" accompanied by a significant weight gain. Being mammals, Agorfii females gave birth to live young, either one or several at a time. The delivery itself normally took place after nine months of pregnancy when a woman was asked to enter into the Walled Shrine of Deification where they would deliver. 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, Agorfii babies were usually fed with milk from their mother's breasts. The period during which a young Agorfii developed from a child into an adult was known as adolescence. According to the Creed of the Divine Right, the legal transition from childhood to adulthood was only attained after twenty two standard years of life. Agorfii had an average lifespan of 55 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 Agorfii included the whitening or fall of the hair, the loss of teeth, appearance of deep lines, wrinkles and dark blemishes on the skin. Old Agorfii 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.

Agorfii Jedi
Like all species which served in the Order, Agorfii were represented in the Grand Temple on Ossus. Within the main entrance of the Temple, known as the Hall of Meditating Masters, a larger-than-life bronzium statue was erected in dedication to all Agorfii who had and who would serve. The kneeling Master did not depict an actual Jedi, but served as a rallying point for Agorfii Jedi to attain mastery. In the Sword of the Jedi tower, the lightsabers of all Jedi were placed in memory of fallen warriors and scholars alike. The Edifice of Heroes stood ready to adorn its halls with paintings, monuments, or holodepictions of all future Agorfii Jedi.