Chadra-Fan

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Chadra-Fan
HomeworldChad IV
LanguageChadra-Fan [1]
DistinctionsBat-like faces, rodent-like appearance, acute senses [1]


Biology and Appearance

Being small and nimble, the Chadra-Fan compensate in their spirit. These rodent like beings native to Chad IV have large ears, flat noses with four nostrils and have the ability to see into the infra-red range. They heavily rely on their sense of smell, even more since males and females project a pheromone aura, which can project extremes such as anger or fear. The larger of their four nostrils detects water-soluble odours, while the inner two nostrils contain specialized chemo-receptors.

Chadra-Fan were short, rodent-like humanoids (usually no more than one meter tall) with bat-like faces. They hailed from a watery planet. [1]


Chadra-Fan had seven different senses (sight, touch, taste, sound, smell, infrared sight, and chemoreceptive smell), all of which were much more acute than Human senses.[1] They were usually no more than a meter tall, some depicted with plantigrade two-toed feet, while others seemed to have four-toed digitigrade feet.[2] The metabolism of Chadra-Fan was amazingly fast, allowing them to work almost constantly. They only slept in two hour naps during the day. Because of their metabolism, the average Chadra-Fan matured by age fifteen and rarely lived more than forty years.[1]

Chadra-Fan were covered from head to foot in fur. Their species evolved from small, arboreal rodents. The two different sexes of Chadra-Fan were indistinguishable to other species, though the Chadra-Fan could readily tell the difference using their powerful sense of smell. If a male and a female Chadra-Fan were interested in one another they released special pheromones that relayed their feelings. Chadra-Fan also had involuntary pheromones that conveyed information about their family line and created an aura of attractiveness. Other voluntary pheromones often conveyed a Chadra-Fan's state of emotion-anger, fear, or joy. Chadra-Fan even created more complex messages using their pheromones, though the pheromones when mixed sometimes caused confusion.[1]

The race were small but quick witted creatures that resembled rodents. Their combination of infrared sight, hypersensitive sense of smell as well as keen hearing made them physically and mentally perceptive beings. [1]

Society and Culture

Their love for technological tinkering even surpasses their spirit. Every tidbit of technology in their reach usually gets disassembled and reassembled with high tendency of bizarre malfunctioning. Many droids, who have had the unfortunate circumstance of making the acquaintance of the Chadra-Fan, tend to have a pathological fear of them because of this bizarre trait. Due to Chad IV's bizarre ecliptic orbit and humid weather, tidal waves of great strength are usual on the Chadra-Fan homeworld. In recent history, tidal waves that swept across the land destroyed almost everything that the Chadra-Fan community was building over many millennia. Due to these almost regular disasters, the Chadra-Fan sleep in swaying open-walled structures that hang from the trees high above the water.

Chadra-Fan loved to tinker with mechanical devices, often disassembling and reassembling them into something completely different. Chadra-Fan living in the greater galaxy sometimes worked in industrial research, by creating unique devices which engineers of other species with more conventional talents attempted to duplicate. Their inventions were even considered collectible and pieces of art. Chadra-Fan constructed many of their creations individually, though they were capable of mass-production.[1]

The Chadra-Fan language relied on the ability of each Chadra-Fan to recognize differences in pitch. If a Chadra-Fan was tone deaf, he or she was unable to speak coherently. Their language also depended on the ability of each to understand pheromone messages. [1]

The society of Chadra-Fan is divided into a clan structure in which every member was responsible for parenting the clan's children and a fact of life was that every household was open at any time. Leadership within the clan was a temporary role that was passed from one individual to another as the situation called for a particular expertise. Children were the centerpiece of a Chadra-Fan community, and only left when wed, however the new Chadra-Fan couple remained with the smaller clan so it was possible that a Chadra-Fan never left his or her home.[1]

Chadra-Fan, if left alone, suffered from strong depression that would kill them in a matter of weeks. Thus, Chadra-Fan were not very picky when it came to friends and preferred complete strangers to loneliness. Many Chadra-Fan were taken offworld as slaves, but they took this positively by thinking of it as a big adventure. They were also a jovial race, who almost always got on well with others. Only the most evil acts against them would make them think otherwise. Chadra-Fan were generally excellent team members and were extremely forgiving or so ignorant that they forgot any failings within a group. Chadra-Fan, thus, could be found with various criminals because they were so unobservant or accommodating. [1]


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