Sneevel/Legends

Sneevels were a furry, humanoid species from the planet Sneeve. Known because of their caracteristic smell and their daredevil tendencies, Sneevels have shown little interest in galactic politics, although they did not like being restricted to their native world. One famous Sneevel was glimmik singer and podracer Boles Roor.

Biology and appearance
Sneevels were humanoids covered in fur. This could be any shade from blonde to black, but Sneevels tended to become white-furred with old age. Sneevels had big heads and portly muzzles. Their faces were surrounded with bristly strands of hair. They were a nimble and agile species.

Sneevels produce a strong smell, which was always present but varied depending on their emotional status. As such, a knowledgeable person could understand the emotions of a Sneevel by sniffing. Their native language, Snee, was partially based on these "mood musks". However, other species commonly considered that Sneevels were stinky creatures, and could even collapse if they stayed too long with a Sneevel.

Society and culture
Sneevels commonly felt a need to live adventures and feel thrills or other strong emotions. Many of them died needlessly in their pursuits. Sneevels commonly tend to follow dangerous professional careers, such as hyperspace-route exploration or extreme sports, or the most hazardous fields in other jobs, such as scientific research on quantum fields. Sometimes, Sneevels have performed perilous feats for a noble cause, but commonly they were following more egoistic goals, mostly personal reward in form of excitement.

Even although Sneevels felt little interest for galactic politics, they commonly learn Galactic Basic Standard as a second language.

History
Sneevels achieved a technological society by themselves in Sneeve. Their pioneering interests led them to explore the summits of their highest mountains and the bottoms of their deepest trenches. They developed a tricky sub-light space travel using shoddy submersible vehicles with attached rocket-boosters, and began exploring their own system.

In 13,975 BBY, Duros explorers found Sneeve, and the Sneevels joined the galactic community. Duros, and later Human, traders provided the Sneevels with other, more efficient space travel technology. Although the Sneevels found this safer vehicles to be more boring than their own, they adapted to it to settle their system, and then to expand.

Sneevels enjoyed the pursuit of further sensations through the galaxy, and they became leading figures in their daredevil occupations, including podracing and horizon skimming. They also excelled in creative fields, including visual arts, holovid and music. However, politics was too prosaic for their interests, and they rarely showed real talent in it; nevertheless, Sneeve had representation in the Galactic Senate.

During the Separatist Crisis, Sneeve was an active partidary of the Military Creation Act, campaigning to attract other potential allies under senator Jollin Resbin. Sneeve also joined the Refugee Relief Movement, a non-profit organization to aid people who had displaced due to the conflict. With increasing immigration becoming a problem due to the seccession of more and more worlds, Sneeve and other nine planets formed the Refugee Resettlement Coalition and relaxed their local immigration restriction, to shelter refugees.

After the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire disfavored the presence of Sneevels outside Sneeve, and tried to hold them back in their planet. This caused the opposite effect, as running the metaphorical blockade would instill intoxicating agitation in the Sneevels. The Empire then instaured a local governor and approved laws to tighten the interstellar travel. The Sneevels felt unnamedly oppresed, and many of them joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic, not because they had any interest to restore a Republic, but because they felt jailed up in their own planet, and they thought it would be exciting. As Sneevels felt a daredevil need to look for adventure even if it costed them their lives, more than a few died heroically and were remembered as martyrs of the cause. However, many more Sneevels died gratuitously when it could have been avoided.

Sneevels in the galaxy
Exploring Sneevels commonly felt restricted in their planet and jumped to hyperspace looking for adventures. They were prominent scouts, artists, scientists and athletes, including singer and podracer Boles Roor.

Although Sneevels and politics simply did not mix,, Sneeve senator Jollin Resbin was mentioned in galacticwide press as of 22 BBY.

Behind the scenes

 * Inside the Worlds of Star Wars Episode I and Alien Anthology place Sneeve in the Expansion Region, while Star Wars Insider 65 and the website HoloNet News locate it in the Mid Rim.


 * Alien Anthology gives the Sneevels a +6 natural bonus to Dextery (with several mali to compensate it). It is the second highest ability bonus to a player-character species in all of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game (after the +8 to Strenght for the Mantellian Savrip), and the only use of that exact number (Other species commonly have +2 or +4 as their bonus).

Appearances

 * Podracing Tales
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace comic
 * Star Wars: Episode I Racer