Adnerem (Jedi Renaissance)

"The echo chamber within the Adnerem skull is a fascinating function of evolution. Rather then ears, the Anerem absorb sound through their cranial hollow similar to the montrals of the Togruta. A Adnerem strong in the Force can thus hone this skill to enhance their listening abilities and spatial awareness."

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

Adnerem were a humanoid species from the terrestrial world of in the  of the galaxy. Discovered during the Subterra Era, their people were anti-social and shunned interaction with the greater galaxy until the misery and chaos brought on by the New Sith Wars allowed for financially-minded politicians to develop a massive overhaul of commercial properties and establish the world as a major tourist destination. Catering to wealthy vacationers from within the Republic and the Empire, Adner flourished economically and the Adnerem learned to hide their disdain for offworlders. While many Adnerem did not trust Force-users, some did send their children to join the Jedi Order.

Biology and appearance
"Two Adnerem are a party, four a dinner and six a funeral."

- Common phrase relating to Adnerem.

Evolving from a scavenger-hunter beast native to the planet Adner, the Adnerem developed sentience and began to form societies on their homeworld. Comprised of two sexes, Adnerem females had a gestation period of ten months before giving birth to live young and nourishing them on lactation from their breasts. Bipedal humanoids, Adnerem stood upright on two legs and typically stood between 1.8 and 2.2 standard meters tall. Adnerem heads were triangular with a narrow face and wide brain pan; they had two eyes on the front of their face that appeared sunken, beady and completely black. Omnivorous, the Adnerem possessed a single mouth above their chin with grinding teeth for the consumption of plant matter, and sharp incisors used for tearing through meat. Oxygen-breathers, a wide flat nose with two nostrils was positioned above their mouth, with some races having a more pronounced nasal ridge then others. At the top of their skulls, the Adnerem had a unique mound of cartilage known as an echo chamber. Developing auditory sensation through the echo chamber, it was similar to the montrals of the Togruta as it provided information about vibrations and translated it as sound. An Adnerem's skin was wrinkled in texture, dark gray in color and completely hairless across their entire body, except for a single small vestigial patch of hair at the back of the skull. Each of their arms were long and thin, with three long fingers tipped with sturdy talons. While they lacked opposable thumbs, their fingers were joined in a way that made gripping and wielding tools possible.

Society and culture
Because of their scavenger-hunter roots, Adnerem culture was informed by their native traits. Semi-social and tribal, their clans ranged in size from five to twenty individuals which eventually translated to socioeconomic units known as steris. Consisting of five to one hundred members, the groups traditionally maintained sixty-four unrelated adults living within a single steri-house. Each steri-house was a two-storied disc-shaped building which spread heat across all rooms. There sterisi were fiercely loyal to one another and shared maintenance and house-keeping duties equally, holding no biases on the basis of gender or age. As the steri-house quartered many sterisi, it was divided into two areas: public rooms for guests and celebrations, and private sections that could only be occupied by a resident sterisi. Born into their individual steris, Adnerem were raised by care-giving sterisi before entering into an education-steris at the age of six. After receiving a broad learning experience, individuals were assessed at the age of fourteen and forced to chose a vocation. For ten years they would then train in that chosen field and pay back their steris for the cost of child-rearing. At the age of twenty-four, an Adnerem ceremonially left the steris and chose which steris to join as an adult. Most steri offered special incentives for their own sterisi to rejoin them, which resulted in roughly half of all Adnerem remaining with the steris they had been born into. Once the decision had been made, it was rare for an Adnerem to leave the chosen steris due to the fact that such a departure resulted in a forfeit of all assets associated with the abandoned steris and carried a slight stigma; although leaving was still seen as socially acceptable. Only Adnerem who had been promised far greater opportunity or status in another steris ever considered such a change.

Systematically pragmatic, any Adnerem who sought greater wealth or status would start by improving their steris. By increasing the capital of their steris through trade with other steri, they could fulfill their self-interested goals while also elevating their peers. While some steri would employ another steris to take on jobs within their household, some would opt to engage in raid-wars. These small conflicts erupted between two or more steri and were often short-lived with violent battles that ended just short of total annihilation of the losing steris. Despite this small exception, society on Adner was largely non-violent and social discrimination was almost non-existent. While status and honors were bestowed upon an entire steris, not an individual, particularly wealthy Adnerem grew their nails to an extremely long length to show that they need not work. Female Adnerem often differentiated themselves from the males by growing their single patch of hair long and braiding it. The species generally wore clothing typical of many other humanoid species throughout the galaxy, with nudity acceptable only within the confines of one's own steri-house.

Most Adnerem were cool and collected, having mastered their emotions and growing patient with life in the steri-house. Calm and dispassionate on the surface, Adnerem hid their emotions well. Deeply emotional, they were generally introverted and asocial and therefore seldom revealed their thoughts to outsiders. Public areas were often silent, as Adnerem became increasingly phobic of large groups and kept to themselves when out and about. Conversely, two Adnerem alone were highly conversant and would sometimes form sterika partnerships that were non-sexual when a pair became close. Only making up 10% of the population, these bonds were not romantic, simply functional. The longer the Adnerem interacted with the galactic community, the greater their technology became. While remaining separate from the galactic economy, they invested heavily in their own world by establishing vast centers of tourism on Adner and neighboring worlds. As hundreds of thousands flocked to the pleasure houses and casinos, the collective wealth of the steri grew astronomically.

History
The ancestors of the Adnerem originally lived in small tribes of five to twenty individuals. As the Adnerem developed socially, they remained highly group-oriented, and their groups became social units known as steri. Duros explorers first reached the area of space where Adner was located between early in the Subterra Era circa 7,000 BrS but were quietly asked to leave their planet alone. Taking no part in any galactic conflict, the Adnerem sent no representatives to the Galactic Republic and asked for not funds in return. Adnerem who left their homeworld almost always did so with other members of their steris. Some steri took up interstellar trading, running individual large cargo ships or fleets of smaller craft. A small number of steri hired themselves out to large galactic corporations as management teams on projects of small or medium size. Some steri turned their business skills to crime and operated small-scale criminal organizations, rarely larger in size than a few star systems. Such Adnerem criminals performed business quietly and eliminated threats and obstacles so as to draw as little attention as possible, often maximizing profit by having a broad range of small, easily hidable incomes instead of making big, risky attempts at a single large pay off, such as a bank robbery.

Adnerem Jedi
While only serving in limited numbers throughout the early history of the Republic and the Order, the Jedi Order renegotiated their dealings with the Adnerem after the Clone Wars. Remaining free from other galactic interests, the Adnerem agreed to blood test their children and send any Forceful infants to Ossus in exchange for Jedi protection should any government attempt to invade or challenge the Adnerem sovereignty. Like all species which served in the Order, Adnerem 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 Adnerem who had and who would serve. Erected far down the corridor among less represented species, the kneeling Master did not represent any one Jedi in particular, but gave future generations of Adnerem Jedi a place to find solace and peace. 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 memorialize any future Adnerem within the Order with paintings, monuments, or holodepictions.

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 * Alta Ranga||63 BrS||Year 15||Consular||Docent||Adan Shae||Xzara LeKit; Nicanas Tassu
 * colspan="8" align="left"|A stern Jedi Master and a hermit within the Order, Alta Ranga was proficient with a lightsaber and a master of illusions. Trained as a Consular, Ranga preferred the quiet of the Temple Archives and seldom took missions that would lead him to interact with others. Residing within the scarcely-populated, ancient north tower of the Temple's base, Ranga made a home within one of the Temple's long forgotten studies and took his meals here in silence. Traveling daily out into the Temple proper to serve in the Archives, Ranga was asked to take over the care of a Jedi Initiate clan later in his life. Capable of dealing with the young clan members, Docent Ranga took on several Padawans during his career and saw them all to the rank of Knight. His last student, Nicanas Tassu, perished on Geonosis when all of the Jedi stationed on Coruscant were called into battle against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Joining in the fighting himself, Ranga, hobbled into the arena with his cane in hand before drawing his green-bladed lightsaber and fighting admirably. Taking a blaster bolt to the leg, Ranga survived the battle and was rescued by clones after the fighting ended. Recovering at the Temple, Ranga remained to care for the younglings at the Temple while most of the Order's older members took to the battlefield. Never fully recovering from the battle on Geonosis, the toll of war caused Ranga's health to wane and he became one with the Force during the conflict's second year.
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