We are ancient, we have existed for 90 million years, I am 679,102 years old! We have watched life evolve into sapience. Before us were non-sentients. We could very well be the first ever truly sapient beings.
—Jiku introducing his kind to the Coruscant Republic
The N'Akkiarlian Dragon was a species of wise, extremely intelligent and generally peaceful sentient dragons from the N'Akkiarl Sector, believed to have come from the planet "Dragon's World" (N'Akkiarlian name - actual name unknown) they were a very ancient race believed to have evolved around the year 90,000,000 BBY (though N'Akkiarlian legend says they had existed since the universe began). They were able to live in space and had colonised a quarter of the N'Akkiarl Galaxy by 89,796,000 and ruled it for many tens of millions of years until around 33,382,741 BBY when they started dying out by unknown causes.
By 33,381,000 BBY their kind only remained in the N'Akkiarl System, their original home and even there they were dying out. Fortunately they managed to breed enough to out-last the extinction event, they had survived "by the skin of their teeth" but they never left the N'Akkiarl Sector for fear that another extinction event would happen which would wipe them out.
Around the year 50,000 BBY they watched the N'Akkiarla evolve and were enslaved by the Eoki, they saw the N'Akkiarla revolt against the Eoki.
It was believed that the Ancient N'Akkiarlian religion, which had a pantheon consisting of dragon gods, was created from mythologised encounters between N'Akkiarlian Dragons and early N'Akkiarlians.
Biology[]
The rarer Greater N'Akkiarlian Dragon were gigantic dragons, their wings spanned to 12 feet wide at full span and they stood 15 feet tall, they towered above all other sentient beings and humans look tiny next to them. Their height means they have trouble getting through doors on places like Coruscant which are populated by tiny humans and similarly-sized aliens, to get through doors they have to bend over, bending over made them about 11 foot however there were still many places they cant enter even bent over - which is one thing they hate about their height. Their wings stretch 10 feet from point to point when fully extended but they hardly ever extended them because there aint many places to fly on Coruscant without crashing into traffic. Though they can be seen flying around the tops of skyscrapers where there aint much traffic for them to crash into.
There more common N'Akkiarlian Dwarf Dragon cousins were a lot smaller, there wings spanned abowt 7 feet and they stood arownd 6 feet tall. Unlike the Greater N'Akkiarlian Dragon cousins they rarely had difficulty walking through doors as they were human-sized.
The N'Akkiarlian Dragons had an exceptionally long lifespan of an average of 500,000 years, the longest-lived sentient species ever discovered, but force-sensitives could greatly extend this, a force-sensitive called Ma 'Bah managed to live until he was 1,000,000 years old, the longest-lived individual of all time. It was believed that the N'Akkiarlian Dragons' massive intellect and wisdom came about because of their enormous lifespans.