Echani/Legends

History
The Echani were a culture of warriors who gave rise to the Sun Guard of Thyrsus. They held a long-standing rivalry with the Mandalorians. Unlike the Mandalorians, the Echani focused on light weaponry and armor, relying on skill and technique rather than brute force. Sources indicate that females played a large role in their society.

Communication through combat
Echani culture held the belief that to know one fully, you must fight them. Echani fighting was not only self-defense, but a form of self-expression, a means of communication similar to art. For the Echani, it was not at all unusual for children of the same parents to be born so as to be completely indistinguishable from one another to outsiders. Thus, being able to distinguish between like individuals through reading of body movement became an essential requirement.

The Echani were also known to be able to read feelings and emotion through combat. To an Echani, a combat between two people said more than hours of talking. They saw a certain purity in the way techniques were used in battle. The Maktites learned this to their own sorrow circa 3,951 BBY, when their stores of thermal weaponry were rendered ineffectual by relatively simple adjustments in the traditional Echani light armor.

Weaponsmiths
Echani were also known of creating blades of great quality, such as swords and vibroswords. Special, double-bladed Echani vibroblades were used by Royal Guard as their second weapon, one of many ways they influenced Emperor Palpatine's elite force.

Notable Echani

 * Brianna - One of the Echani handmaidens in the service of Atris.
 * Raskta Fenni - The most skilled duelist of her time.
 * Yusanis - The father of Brianna who fought alongside Revan during the Mandalorian Wars, only to be killed by Revan during the Jedi Civil War. Fathered the Sisters of the Echani.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
 * Crimson Empire