Nikto

Average Height: 1.75 meters
Average Lifespan: 75 years 
 
The Nikto come in a vast variety of specific shapes and colors, but despite a tendency towards a forbidding appearance (accomplished by a series of scaly ridges and spikes that rim most Niktos' eyes and faces) they are not unusually strong or agile for a sentient species. They are all covered in scaly plates, and have tiny ear-flaps, but are otherwise fairly standard bipedal, four-limbed humanoids.
 
Their homeworld of Kintan is not a very hospitable place. Located on the outskirts of the Outer Rim, near the Yidri system, it is a desolate world, growing more desolate with each passing century, as its red-giant sun slowly turns the planet into a wasteland of sulfurous rivers and deserts of glass-dust dunes. This rugged envionrment has made the Nikto people particularly resilient to hostile environs galaxy-wide, but no amount of biological adaptation can make the world more pleasant.
 
Thus, the Nikto have migrated off-world, and like most species native to the Outer Rim territories, they have quite a showing across the outskirts of the galaxy, especially on planets with environments that would prove too hostile for most sentients to manage. Still, the Nikto are given to strong wanderlust instincts, which often prevent them from staying in any one place for long, and have consequently developed a tradition of teaching their young the fine arts of operating starships and vehicles.
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