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Cerean

Category: Alien Races
Planet of Origin: Cerea

This race of near-humans was native to the planet Cerea. In nearly all aspects, Cereans resembled humans. Their heads, however, were much larger than a human's, with a cranial cavity that extended up to twenty centimeters above their foreheads. This elongated skull was topped with a flowing knot of hair. Contained within the skull was a binary brain, which gave a Cerean an advanced capacity for thinking and meditation. The biological needs of this second brain were supported in the Cerean physiology by a second heart, which was also protected inside the skull. Because of their cranial structure, many older Cereans suffered from back trouble, after many years of keeping themselves upright while supporting their heads.

As a race, Cereans tended to be isolationists, preferring to live in a low-tech environment away from the bustle of the Old Republic. However, in the last years of the Old Republic, the younger generation of Cereans decided that they wanted to have things that were commonplace in the rest of the galaxy, life starships and speeder bikes. This led to a generational battle that was decided by the Jedi Ki-Adi-Mundi, who managed quell the uprisings. During the height of the Clone Wars, Ki-Adi-Mundi relinquished his watchman role to fellow Cerean Tarr Seirr, but Seirr was called away to fight as well. This left the planet largely unprotected, and both the Republic and the Separatists tried to wrest control of the planet for themselves. In the battles, many Cereans were killed by stray blaster-fire, and the civilian death toll quickly rose beyond one million after Separatist forces destroyed a Republic military base. This led the Cereans to withdraw even further from the galactic community after the Clone Wars ended.

As a people, the Cereans existed in a matriarchalk society that was predicated by the fact that females outnumbered males by a ratio of nearly twenty-to-one. The Cereans came to accept polygamy as a way of life, with males choosing a single bond wife and several honor wives to complete their families.

Source Abbreviations Listing - PTR, IG1, JQ4, SWDB, LFCW, NEGA, DSTR

For more information, please read or view the following material(s):

Death Star, by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry, copyright 2007, from Del Rey Books

Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise, by Jude Watson, copyright 2002, from Scholastic Incorporated

Living Force Campaign website (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=starwars/swlfwelcome), by Various, from Wizards of the Coast

Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide, copyright 1999, from LucasArts Entertainment Company

Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion (issues 1 through 6), by Jan Strnad, copyright 1998, 1999, from Dark Horse Comics

Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species, by Ann Margaret Lewis and Helen Keier, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books

The Star Wars Databank (http://www.starwars.com/databank/), by Paul Ens and Pablo Hidalgo, copyright 2000, 2005, from Lucas Online

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