Sentientologist

A sentientologist (also referred to as a sapientologistGalaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, Second Edition or an anthropologistThe Essential Guide to Alien Species) was a scientist who studied the biology, culture, and history of the galaxy's wide variety of sentient races and species.Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races The University of Sanbra's Sentient Studies Department was one of the main centers for the study of sentientology.Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies Scholars at the University of Coruscant were also influential in the field. Under the New Republic, a multi-species committee of scholars at the University of Coruscant was responsible for classifying species as sentient, semi-sentient, or non-sentient.
Prominent sentientologists of the Imperial era included:
*Obo Rin, an Imperial functionary who wrote two editions of Catalog of Intelligent Life in the Galaxy under Darth Vader's sponsorship
*Ditwar Logas, a renowned scholar whom Obo Rin claimed to have worked with (though these claims were suspect)Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races, First Edition
*Tem Eliss, an Iyra professor at the University of Sanbra who wrote The University of Sanbra Guide to Intelligent Life
*Senior Anthropologist Mammon Hoole, an independent Shi'ido researcher who was the major contributor to The Essential Guide to Alien Species
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: The Old Republic
*Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan 
*Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu 
*The Jewel of Yavin 
*Splinter of the Mind's Eye 
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Category:Scientific occupations