Quarren

Average Height: 1.75 meters
Average Lifespan: 75 years
The Quarren species, disparagingly called "squid-heads" by the crass or insensitive, is as recognizable as it is unimposing. With rubbery, mottled skin of pinkish hue with brown spots, their faces sport watery, squinty eyes, a pair of pointed gill-flaps that stick out of either side of their head, and a mess of tentacles that hang like beards around their sharp, triple-beaked mouths. Instead of hands or feet, they have large, three-appendaged flippers with strong, gripping suckers, which, for all their unweildy appearance, are actually rather quick.
The Quarren are the second-class species of Mon Calamari, an ocean world and old-guard member of the Galactic Republic. The Calamari race, with whom they share a homeworld, claim that they allowed the Quarren race to migrate to their world millenia ago, when the oceans of the Quarren world were drying up. Some Quarren hold to this story, and others have claimed that they were always a part of the Mon Calamari ecosystem, evolving in the deeps of the planet's oceans and only coming up to the surface in later years to help the fledling Calamari society.
This conflict over Quarren origins underlies the Quarren culture, which has struggled with its own identity for nearly as long as it has been around. Some Quarren wish to join the Calamari culture, and some do with limited success--for the Calamari are a proud people. Others emphasize their differences with the Calamari, and these have created the prevailing forces of Quarren civilization. Separating themselves from the Calamari, all Quarren are born in underwater cities that have slowly but surely becomes centers of crime and violence as the Quarren race has thumbed its nose at Calamari decorum and honor. As a result, even the Quarren who wish to leave their chaotic society behind emerge from their youthful years with some experience in the underbelly of Mon Calamari's civilization.
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