Inleshat The Inleshat were a water - breathing race indigenous to Drexel II . Due to a natural disaster , a group of mysterious spacefaring benefactors relocated them to Iskalon , within the Trans - Nebular sector . On this planet , the Inleshat became part of the Iskalonian School , a community of unrelated aquatic species who shared a unique cultural identity . With time , the Inleshat became the dominant species within the School . By the time of the Galactic Civil War , an eldery Inleshat named Primor had become the spiritual leader of the Iskalonians . Biology and appearance . A water - breathing species , the Inleshat were sentient fishes , and they hatched from eggs . They were humanoid in shape . They a torso with a head , two arms and two legs . They usually had three digits on each of their webbed hands , though some individuals were known to have four or even five fingers . Most Inleshat were tall and muscular . The species had two sexes : male and female . Male individuals sometimes sported tendrils that descended from the cheekbones and chin in the manner of fleshy " beards " . Females were physically distinguished by their breasts and thinner build . The top of the Inleshat ' s heads were covered with long , silky hair , ranging in tone from white to green , and a marked V - shaped growth of hair descended towards the center of their foreheads . Their noseless faces featured wide , pupilless eyes of the color yellow , red , blue , or green . They had poor eyesight out of the water , but their long and pointed ears could hear underwater sounds from kilometers away . The Inleshat also possessed a set of white , properly lined - up teeth that made up a brilliant smile . The Inleshat were water - breathers , which means they had the natural ability to extract dissolved oxygen from water . When taken out of the water for too long , they could not breath air and would die from an abnormally low amount of oxygen in their body . In the event of prolonged exposure to open air , Inleshat wore tanks filled with water . Society and culture . The Inleshat comprised the majority of the School , the interracial Iskalonian society . They were a spiritual and principled people , ready to defend a cause they knew to be upright . Highly political beings , they were concerned with the common good . Even the young Inleshat named Mone , who was considered an " irresponsible pleasure - skeer " , spent much of his time trying to content others . Member of this species were easy - going and friendly to strangers , although in a way that could seem awkward to other races . When Mone greeted the heroes of the Rebellion , he splashed Chewbacca with seawater , thinking the Wookiee must have been hot and miserable with all that fur . Chewbacca first saw this behavior as an outrage , and both his friends Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker had to hold him down before he fell upon the poor water - breather . Much to the amazement of Humans like Leia Organa , the Inleshat did not have the concepts of shyness or physical privacy . The lovers Mone and Kendel would hug and exchange sweet words in public , with no shame or embarrassment whatsoever . Similarly , the concept of spying was a foreign idea on Iskalon . Despite possessing their own Iskalonian language , which they shared with other races within the School , most Inleshat commoners could speak Galactic Standard fluently . History . The Inleshat evolved in the seas of Drexel II , located in the Outer Rim Territories . Thousands of years before the Galactic Civil War , a series of cataclysms on Drexel II put its inhabitants , the Inleshat , in jeopardy . When all seemed lost , an unidentified species of space travelers reached out to the Inleshat and helped them relocate to another planet . Now established on the world of Iskalon , the Inleshat united with other aquatic species and contributed to building the Iskalonian School , the cultural fusion of seventeen distinct races that made up the Iskalonian civilization .