| rdfs:comment | - Nosaurians were bipedal reptillian species of native to New Plympto.
- The Nosaurians were a horned sentient species that had red eyes and orange, white, and yellow skin. Clegg Holdfast, a male Nosaurian from New Plympto, worked as a journalist for Podracing Quarterly in the last decades of the Galactic Republic.
- As a species, Nosaurians can only see visible light on varying degrees of black and white. They characterize most colors by their particular shade of gray. The inside of a Nosaurian's mouth can be lit with a phosphorescent glow at will, a trait which even the Nosaurians can not describe in terms of an evolutionary need. However, it provides them with a way to communicate across distances at night, without giving away their position by making noise. Individuals have exceptionally fast reflexes, a trait which allows Nosaurians to excel as pilots or athletes. Nosaurians are also noted for a specific quirk: they always bay at the setting sun. This response seems to be almost involuntary, and results in seemingly strange behavior among those Nosaurians who travel offworld.
- The Nosaurians are a sentient, bipedal, reptilian species native to the planet New Plympto in the Core Worlds. A Nosaurian was easily recognized by a row of long horns, a covering of tough scales, and a beakful of sharp teeth. Members of the species had the ability to produce a brief flash of light from inside their mouths, a knack they used for silent, long-distance communication. Nosaurians are colorblind, although few found this bothersome. Their language's phonemes consisted of hisses, barks, and warbles, and its syntax commonly used metaphors related to weather, nature, and the seasons. They are capable of speaking Basic yet generally chose not to. When on their homeworld, they had an inexplicable ability to tell when the sun was setting and an overwhelming urge to "sing it down" by
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| abstract | - As a species, Nosaurians can only see visible light on varying degrees of black and white. They characterize most colors by their particular shade of gray. The inside of a Nosaurian's mouth can be lit with a phosphorescent glow at will, a trait which even the Nosaurians can not describe in terms of an evolutionary need. However, it provides them with a way to communicate across distances at night, without giving away their position by making noise. Individuals have exceptionally fast reflexes, a trait which allows Nosaurians to excel as pilots or athletes. Nosaurians are also noted for a specific quirk: they always bay at the setting sun. This response seems to be almost involuntary, and results in seemingly strange behavior among those Nosaurians who travel offworld. As a people, the Nosaurians supported Count Dooku and the Separatists during the Clone Wars. Unfortunately, this put them in a bad position when Supreme Chancellor Palpatine declared himself Emperor and ushered in the era of the New Order. Because the Nosaurians had supported the Separatists, they were targeted for immediate subjugation by the clone troopers of the Galactic Empire. Relatively few individuals actually escaped the fighting, and those soldiers who surrendered were brutally executed. Huge numbers of refugees were captured and sold into slavery, as part of Emperor Palpatine's plan to make them an example of what would happen to any people or world that opposed the Empire. Over time, however, the Nosaurians were able to reclaim their homeworld, and re-establish their society on New Plympto. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, the Nosaurian race resisted the subjugation of their homeworld with ferocious wills. Unfortunately, the Nosuarians were wiped out by a bio-engineered plague unleashed by the alien invaders, in retaliation for their resistance. Only a handful of Nosaurians were offworld at the time, and represented the very last members of their race.
- The Nosaurians are a sentient, bipedal, reptilian species native to the planet New Plympto in the Core Worlds. A Nosaurian was easily recognized by a row of long horns, a covering of tough scales, and a beakful of sharp teeth. Members of the species had the ability to produce a brief flash of light from inside their mouths, a knack they used for silent, long-distance communication. Nosaurians are colorblind, although few found this bothersome. Their language's phonemes consisted of hisses, barks, and warbles, and its syntax commonly used metaphors related to weather, nature, and the seasons. They are capable of speaking Basic yet generally chose not to. When on their homeworld, they had an inexplicable ability to tell when the sun was setting and an overwhelming urge to "sing it down" by braying. This behavior persisted offworld, but the disturbance in a Nosaurian's internal rhythms often brought it on at inopportune times with no real tie to New Plympto's day night cycle. Nosaurians were naturally even-tempered. However, a long history of what they viewed as marginalization and exploitation at the hands of Humans left them bitter and angry. This began soon after the Nosaurians met their first offworlders, the Corellians. These Human neighbors became enmeshed in New Plympto's trade of rikknit eggs, a valuable component in ji rikknit and other recreational substances. As the rikknit population on New Plympto plummeted and the Galactic Republic imposed sanctions on the trade, the economy crumbled. The Nosaurians saw little choice but to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After the group's defeat in the Clone Wars, the Nosaurians tried to carry on the fight, only to be crushed by the 501st Legion and enslaved by the Galactic Empire. Decades later, when they opposed an invasion by beings known as Yuuzhan Vong, the aggressors unleashed a deadly virus on their homeworld and rendered it uninhabitable. Nosaurians who made their names on New Plympto included the resistance leaders General Rootrock and Fefar Blackeye. However, economic hardship and enslavement forced many Nosaurians to emigrate over the centuries. Some gravitated toward thrill-seeking professions, as exemplified by the podracer pilot Clegg Holdfast. Others drifted among the galactic fringe, as in the case of Bomo Greenbark, who left his homeworld searching for his family after the end of the Clone Wars.
- Nosaurians were bipedal reptillian species of native to New Plympto.
- The Nosaurians were a horned sentient species that had red eyes and orange, white, and yellow skin. Clegg Holdfast, a male Nosaurian from New Plympto, worked as a journalist for Podracing Quarterly in the last decades of the Galactic Republic.
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