Bitthævrian The Bitthævrians were warlike , bipedal sapients native to Guiteica , in the Kadok Regions . Biology and appearance . The Bitthævrians were tall creatures with heavily muscled bodies . They had a leather - like skin protecting them from physical damage . The color of that hide was typically sandy pink or a rusty brown , but variations were wide , including tan - colored Bitthævrians living in equatorial areas and dark brown - or black - colored Bitthævrians living in the north . Bitthævrians also had a row sharp fangs , which jutted from their mouths . These fangs were used in personal combat . The knees and elbows of Bitthævrians were covered with sharp quills used in personal combat as piercing weapons . The quills were not particularly hard , and they were often broken or lost , but they were constantly replaced . As the Bitthævrian aged , those quills became more resilient and larger . Bitthævrians vision ranged into the infrared , allowing them to see heat sources ( such as living beings or recently fired sidearms ) in complete darkness . Society and culture . Bitthævrian culture was based on personal combat and fighting readiness . The status of a Bitthævrian was based on his or her personal skill as a fighter , with the greatest warrior becoming the leader of their people . The leader was absolutely respected . People dishonoring a leader would be chased by Bitthævrians even if they left Guiteica . Being highly isolationist , Bitthævrians tended to leave only to pursue the most serious offenders . The personal weapon of a Bitthævrian was commonly the dematoil , a customized morningstar with Bitthævrian joint quills attached to the ball . Every time a Bitthævrian was defeated by another in personal combat , the winner was allowed to take the loser ' s biggest quill from his arm and attach it to his dematoil . Naming convention . Bitthævrian naming convention was atypical , with a Bitthævrian having three or four names . The first name of a Bitthævrian was the season when he or she was born . There are seven seasons in Guiteica : Giil , Quul , Aul , Zuol , Tweil , Jael and Quaal . The second name is the family name , which was inherited from the mother ' s maternal surname . A male Bitthævrian adopted a third name when married : His wife ' s surname . The fourth name ( third in females and single males ) was the Bitthævrian ' s personal name , used normally only as a form of familiar address , by friends , family , and cohorts . History . At least five decades before the Battle of Yavin , the Bitthævrians started a war in protest of Republic interference in the Kadok Regions . Right from the start the Republic played - up the threat posed by the Bitthævrians in order to gain allies to bolster its increasingly small armed forces . At length the Republic defeated them with an army of Jedi and Kaleesh . The m ' Yalfor ' ac Order , one of the biggest Bitthævrian armies , killed several Jedi Knights , but they were eventually defeated . The Bitthævrians afterward hated the Republic as a whole , despising its values and methods . Although they were also unhappy with the Galactic Empire , they considered it to be the lesser of two evils . Bitthævrians also felt hatred towards any Force - user , due to the Jedi implication in their defeat , and towards Bothans because of the Bothan tendency to mislead , lie and avoid direct conflict , behavior which was anathema to the Bitthævrian beliefs . The Bitthævrian planetary defense force , the Guiteica Militia , was rebuilt around 2 ABY , led by Colonel Quaal Tavier Catharius of the m ' Yalfor ' ac Order as a continental army in l ' Quart ' a with support from the other fifteen continents of Guiteica . The m ' Yalfor ' ac Order considered the Rebel Alliance , as official heir of the Old Republic , to be an inherited enemy . However , their isolationist tendencies and use of obsolete equipment made them little threat to the Rebel Alliance ; they mostly just became a headache for Moff Rhain Towith of Kadok Regions . Vulca Minerals tried to perform yttrium mining activities in Guiteica , but the pushy attitude of Vulca officers led to a more aggressive attitude from the m ' Yalfor ' ac Order . The crisis was witnessed by a Vulca officer and later Rebel lieutenant Ayla Shar . After that crisis , Kadok Resources , a Bitthævrian - controlled operation , managed all of Guiteica ' s exports .