Ithorian

Average Height: 2.25 meters
Average Lifespan: 300 years 
 
Large, strong, and ponderously slow, Ithorians can seem to the unwary eye like massive grazing beasts. They are bipedal, with large, stocky, suckered feet, and huge, long-fingered hands. Their rotund bodies support a wide, flat neck, which hunches forward above the shoulders before extending in thinner, erect face with "hammer head" eyes. Their skin is often mottled with greys, browns and greens, and their eyes are black. They have two mouths, and deep, guttural voices which produce harmonic grunts from their several throats.
 
No one knows what happened to the Ithorian homeworld, though Ithorian legends, which are long, detailed, and only slowly spoken in the strange dialect of the Ithorian species and thus little known by outsiders anyway, hold that it was destroyed before the dawn of the Republic by a plague of evil mystics from beyond the galaxy.
 
Regardless of their origins, the Ithorians now travel the stars in massive starships which preserve their sacred architecture and plantlife of the marshy environs that tradition holds were prominent on their homeworld. Their culture has centered around a reverence for terrestrial natural environments, and their preservation. As a nomadic species, their rearing practices teach every young Ithorian the basics of the operation of their massive city-ships, and they have been disparaged by more "civilized" denizens of the Galaxy for their trash-diving habits. They are always on the look-out for abandoned salvage to keep their city-ships running.
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