Human/Legends

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{{quote|Mark my words, Raith. Humans are the future.|Wilhuff Tarkin to Raith Sienar}}

Humans were the most numerous and dominant sentient species, with apparently millions of major and minor colonies Galaxy-wide. Believed to have originated on the galactic capital of Coruscant, they could be found anywhere, engaged in many different pursuits: mercenaries, pilots, smugglers, merchants, stormtroopers, assassins, farmers, crime lords, laborers and many others.

Origin
Having a recorded and civilized history reaching back far beyond the foundation of the Galactic Republic c. 25,000 BBY, the origin and early history of humans is lost in the depths of millennia.

It was believed by many humans of the Galaxy that their species' planet of origin was Coruscant, and that they therefore descended from the ancient Zhell species. Coruscant's ground, however, had been several kilometers below its inhabitants' feet for millennia, with the lowest depths of its planet-wide city dating back to 100,000 BBY. Thus, it was impossible to carry out the historical study and archeological research on the planet's prehistory necessary to prove or to disprove that humans originated on Coruscant.

According to an inscription found on Seoul 5, humans originated on Notron. It is possible that this could have been an alternate name for Coruscant, though the two have never been linked. There were also at least four other planets that claim to be the human homeworld.

Expansion
It is possible that some ancient civilization, such as the Celestials, transported early humans from their original home planets. However, humans discovered space travel early in their history&mdash;in fact, they were already present on a few scattered colony planets of the Core Worlds even before the development of hyperdrive with the use of sleeper ships. From the planet-wide city of Coruscant, they spread to such Core Worlds as Alderaan, Corellia, Corulag, and Chandrila.

Some of these early colonies eventually diverged genetically from the human baseline, giving rise to various Near-Human races and species.

The first human colonies expanded through the Core Worlds through slower-than-light travel, later establishing themselves in the Colonies region. At one point, humans made first contact with a mysterious alien species who taught them the secrets of hyperdrive. Corellian humans were one of the first societies to develop hyperdrive starships sometime before 25,200 BBY, spreading the technology to other Core Worlds.

With the hyperdrive, their scouts and explorers travelled and met with other species, in a time known as the Expansionist Era.

During the last pre-Republic years, they reached the Outer Rim and populated planets as far as the Tion Hegemony.

The Republic
Humans always played a prominent role in the development of the Galaxy and in galactic politics. With the hyperdrive, their scouts and explorers travelled and met with other species, in a time known as the Expansionist Era. The humans were eventually responsible for the Unification Wars, which resulted from their expansionistic views. The wars themselves led to the formation of the Galactic Republic, a Galaxy-spanning affiliation of worlds and species.

Most humans lived on predominantly human worlds, although many populations lived alongside aliens on other worlds, or together with several other species&mdash;something which was most common either in the cosmopolitan Core Worlds, or on the frontier at the Outer Rim of the Galaxy, such as on Tatooine. Predominantly Human worlds outside of the Core included Eriadu, Naboo, Socorro, and Bakura.

Human population levels and significance inevitably led to a humanocentric Galaxy. Humanocentrism was pervasive and in many cases, subconscious. Humanocentrism was the source for the human use of the term "alien" to describe non-human species. In some cases, this led to overt and even violent outbreaks of speciesism.

Although explicit humanocentrism was outlawed by the Rights of Sentience clause of the Galactic Constitution, human-led companies such as Czerka enslaved entire nonhuman races, while planets such as Taris reserved the best sections of the world for humans, while forcing non-humans into ghettos. The majority of slaves in the Galaxy were non-humans.

The Clone Wars may have worsened relationships between humans and aliens, since the Republic's leadership was led by Humans while that of the Confederacy of Independent Systems was dominated by aliens. This was evident by the formation of several pro-human groups within the Republic, including the Republic Youth Brigade and Commission for the Preservation of the Republic (COMPOR). COMPOR pressured the First Minister of the Coruscant Ministry of Ingress, Tannon Praji, into deporting all members of species whose homeworld had joined the CIS, thus decreasing the non-human presence in the capital.

Galactic Empire
At the time of the foundation of the Galactic Empire, there were several active, large populist groups on Coruscant that advocated concepts of human supremacy, or Human High Culture. These were quickly assimilated into the nascent Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR).

The tenents of Human High Culture were that humans were the only truly intelligent and productive members of any society, prime examples being that it was almost exclusively humans who had formed and led the Old Republic and the human worlds of the Core were some of the oldest, richest, and most advanced in the Galaxy.

As such, through the repealing of such laws as the Rights of Sentience and the creation of new acts, all non-humans were made second-class citizens. Slavery was re-legalized, with the majority of slaves being non-humans. Only 'pure' works of art (such as operas, holovids, books, etc) were allowed to be produced, viewed, and spread, since only human culture was worthy enough to be allowed to prosper in the New Order. Nonhumans were "actively discouraged" from participating in government or joining the Imperial military, and human governors and moffs were placed in command of nonhuman worlds and sectors.

The views of Human High Culture would be kept alive in the New Republic for years after the Empire's defeat, by fringe groups such as the Human League. At the same time, Admiral Daala strongly weakened this concept within the Imperial Remnant by allowing aliens of all kinds to join the Imperial military.

After the Empire's fall, the Human League kept the humanocentric ideals of the New Order alive in New Republic space.

Near-Humans
Many species in the Galaxy appeared to be very closely related to humans, as they shared many physical traits. These were described as being Near-Human, and were believed to have descended from humans that evolved along distinct lines on other worlds. Among the most prominent near-human races were the Chalactan, the Chiss, the Hapans, the Kiffar, the Miraluka, the Mirialans, the Sith, and the Zeltrons. All of these were mostly human in appearance, but had a few distinct defining characteristics. Often, the biological differences were small enough that humans and near-humans could interbreed. In many cases, it was difficult to tell whether a given population represented a distinct species, or merely a race or ethnic group of baseline humans.

The term near-human was more specific than humanoid. While near-humans were biologically related to humans, other humanoid species merely shared broad external similarities such as upright bipedal posture.

Behind the scenes
Despite several references to Earth-related topics, there is no canonical relationship between the humans of Earth and the Star Wars galaxy. Some fans have created theories about a mysterious species of extragalactic aliens who transported early humans from Earth to the Galaxy Far, Far Away for some purpose. A proposed novel, Alien Exodus, would have explained the origins of humanity and their connection with Earth, but it was never published for a variety of reasons. Other fans suggest that parallel evolution could have produced humans in the Star Wars galaxy as well as in ours.

Humans have appeared in all six Star Wars films, as well as in nearly every Expanded Universe story. Notable exceptions include every episode of Star Wars: Ewoks except for the final episode (Battle for the Sunstar,) and the Star Wars Tales comic George R. Binks. Ramón F. Bachs, the author of Star Wars Starfighter: Crossbones was explicitly asked not to include any humans in his story, but he convinced the rest of the team to include a single human as a background character in a cantina.

Appearances

 * Almost the whole Star Wars corpus.