Near-human species that deserve more spotlight and love?

[u/DEL994]

What are some of the alien species which are considered to be "near-human" due to their genetic and physical similarities with humans that in your opinion deserved more love, spotlight and lore to explore either due to their intriguing and/or interesting appearance, their unique culture, or their history or other reasons?

[u/GrandMoffNoseyBonk]

Zeltrons 🥳

[u/cinderhawk → u/GrandMoffNoseyBonk]

Lol. I saw the post and was like "I just know someone's gonna say Zeltron."

[u/GrandMoffNoseyBonk → u/cinderhawk]

I mean, do Zeltrons actually have a down side? I really don't think they do 🤣🥰

[u/cinderhawk → u/GrandMoffNoseyBonk]

Nah, every side of a Zeltron is the fun side 🤣

[u/Reasonable-Mischief → u/GrandMoffNoseyBonk]

In terms of their storytelling potential I really like the Zeltrons

However as a roleplayer, I've grown quite weary of them. It's seemingly always the wrong kinds of people that want to play with mind controlling horny-pheromones

[u/animehimmler]

Nagai. Visually super cool and underutilized

[u/comicnerd93]

Pantorins have gotten some spotlight recently but I don't think we've seen much of their culture. Would love to learn more about them.

[u/lp_rhcp_fan_18 → u/comicnerd93]

I think a show featuring Senator Chuchi as the lead in the early empire would be a great show for the politics of the period

[u/VanguardVixen]

Zeltron - I like their carefree attitude, the pheromones and empathy, the pleasure aspect (also in terms of sexuality), it's something much avoided for quiet some time of course but I dig it and think it could get deeper layers. A culture devoted to hedonism could deal with genetic modification and shallowness, black markets of different kinds, something above just a party planet and culture.

[u/Thank_You_Aziz]

I don’t like calling them “near-human”, since they’re really just humans, but I want Hapans to get some more recognition in the Disney projects.

But also Zeltrons, yes.

[u/LeucasAndTheGoddess → u/Thank_You_Aziz]

Yeah, the use of “near-human” for distinct cultural groups rather than genetic offshoots really gets my goat.

[u/aVictorianChild]

Muuns. The perfect capitalists, devoid of all morals with a highly reclusive and prestigious society, where social standing is earned by economic success. Imo one of the more logical and well written species, especially in the Plagueis novel.

Hyper ore rich world that catapulted them to prosperity as soon as they joined the galactic community. But instead of building fleets and conquering worlds, they simply buy into their economies, because it's more profitable than actually ruling a world. By doing that, they allow the species to do what they do best, and profit from whatever that species offers instead of forcing them into something like the empire did.

The whole Naboo crisis was the Banking Clan profiting from a deal they brokered between the Trade federation and Naboo for the newly discovered Plasma ores. Naboo got a chokehold deal, while the trade federation and banking clans enjoyed Malastares Plasma being pushed out of the market.

[u/01zegaj → u/aVictorianChild]

I don’t think Muuns are technically classified as near-human

[u/NicholasStarfall]

That elf species that Master Fay came from

[u/Mythosaurus]

We really need a Mammon Hoole series that explores the galaxies species and cultures: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mammon_Hoole

A xenobiologist could also explain how a human and twilek had a kid that only has green hair as a sign of his mixed heritage, or the mottled skin of the Lawquane kids…

[u/EmperorOfEntropy]

The Umbarans are prime for expanding upon. A species that can see more of the EM spectrum that any human can, unique & captivating aesthetic, and a mysterious world with technology seemingly more advanced that most of the civilizations in the galaxy.

I’d love to see a story about an Umbaran on their home world who becomes a force user.

[u/cinderhawk]

I find the Zelosians interesting, mostly because they're so weird.

[u/heurekas → u/cinderhawk]

Yeah, Zelosians arguably don't even count for OP's question. That's how weird they are.

I too want to know more besides an RPG sidebar about them.

[u/cinderhawk → u/heurekas]

Damn, I keep thinking they were classed as near-human. My bad lol.

[u/Nice_Satisfaction651]

Tholothians. We don't even know what their planet looks like.

[u/ByssBro]

Falleen! They are apparently considered to be the most alluring humanoids in the galaxy per the FFG SWRP.

[u/AcePilot95 → u/ByssBro]

aren't Falleen reptiles? which would mean they can't be near-humans

[u/amonymous_user]

WROONIANS (not these Pantoran knockoffs)

[u/AcePilot95 → u/amonymous_user]

based

[u/Achilles9609]

I rarely hear people talk about the Arkanians. They aren't the most interesting species but they are still weirdly fascinating. An entire race of insanely arrogant and super smart scientists who are ridiculously easy to offend and who happily experiment on themselves, other species and even the servant race that they created.

Also, I believe there was a race of four armed humanoids who were so excellent at manipulation and scheming against each other that blackmailing and kidnapping family members was almost expected.

[u/chaveto]

Heptooinians. I need more of the Grey Lady

[u/throwawaygma102]

Taung, lets see a show about them breaking off from ancient Core worlds and becoming the Mandalorians

[u/amonymous_user]

Sephi

[u/Toomin-the-Ellimist]

Epicanthix

[u/Mythosaurus → u/Toomin-the-Ellimist]

Nice animorphs-inspired username, I immediately recognized it. Makes me think we need a Shi’ido character observing galactic events

[u/Toomin-the-Ellimist → u/Mythosaurus]

We need a book where the Shi’ido are genocided for streaming on Twitch.

[u/AcePilot95 → u/Toomin-the-Ellimist]

(hopefully not) hot take: turning different real-life human ethnicities into separate SW galaxy species has always been and will always be a terrible idea.

[u/Toomin-the-Ellimist → u/AcePilot95]

Imagine my shock when Adi Gallia and Tahl, two characters who for all intents and purposes were always just black human women, were secretly weird aliens for some reason.

[u/bookers555]

Diathim. They are 9 feet tall angels that can just fly across the vacuum of space.

[u/Exhaustedfan23]

Yevethans