Most Koorivar found jobs as merchants or nobles, ascending to the top of corporations across the galaxy and locking in a controlling interest in many different enterprises. Marriages on the planet were handled in the same fashion, with love considered to be unprofitable. It was not uncommon for children as young as ten standard years old to have begun working or to have started their own business. Society and culture Īs a society, the Koorivar prized financial prowess so much that all schools and academies on their home planet focused on the business arts. Despite the biases towards non-Humans prevalent during the reign of the Empire, the Koorivar were swift in taking up leading roles in the corporate world of the New Republic and despite the setbacks of the Yuuzhan Vong War, the species continued to thrive under the Galactic Alliance not withstanding the added scrutiny of the Galactic Alliance Committee on Corporate Oversight. On Koorivar Republic soldiers, now under the banner of the Galactic Empire, persecuted the Koorivar for their involvement in the war and sent their economy into a downwards spiral. With Argente dead, the Alliance fled to the Corporate Sector and quickly faded away. At the war's height, the Separatist Council was slaughtered by Darth Vader, killing Passel Argente and spelling the demise of the Confederacy and the Corporate Alliance. Despite the illegality of their presence, many Koorivar refused to leave the planet and were forced to stroll the streets with caution and fear. Ī lone Koorivar wanders the streets of Coruscant during the Clone Wars.ĭuring the war, Koorivar were deported in droves from Coruscant because of the species' affiliation with the Confederacy. To protect their interests on foreign worlds during the Clone Wars, Argente raised an army of his own people known as the Koorivar Fusiliers, a pivotal fighting force during the war. During the Separatist Crisis, Argente withdrew Kooriva from the Republic and took up a seat on the ruling council of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. As the Republic began to decline, the Koorivar elected Corporate Alliance Magistrate Passel Argente as their planet's representative in the Galactic Senate. To get the Republic to back off, the Koorivar took great strides to comply with all of the Republic's demands and hide any illegal deals more thoroughly. Despite such successful strides, when the Koorivar attempted to sell war machines to battling peoples on both sides of planetary conflicts, their reputation was ruined and their market crashed following a Republic investigation, blockade and sanctions. To keep Kooriva's market high, the species seeded the galaxy with agents, trading stocks and selling shares to increase their profit. The Koorivar were ultimately successful in their endeavors and were able to return to Koorivar, gaining membership in the Galactic Senate and becoming closely tied with the Corporate Alliance. įor over half a millennium the Kooriva traveled from planet to planet scheming and working to gain enough votes to overturn the decision that lost them their home. Instead of being defeated, the Koorivar strove to gain sway over members of the Senate through bargaining and corporate trickery. Upon being turned down, the Koorviar were ousted by Kooriva's indigenous people and were forced to wander the galaxy. After centuries of living on the world, they adopted the name Koorivar and petitioned the Galactic Senate to allow them to purchase the world. Traveling the galaxy, the Koorivar settled on the tropical Inner Rim planet Kooriva, formally leasing it from the Galactic Republic. Native to a lost world, the Koorivar were forced to abandon their home when its life-giving star became unstable. History Ī member of the Koorivar Fusiliers adorned in red armor. This aided them in the business world when communicating in Basic, as they could pick up on others gestures more acutely. Appearing in a riot of colors, Koorivar spoke in a soft whispering language which focused on body language. In addition to their cranial horn, the Koorivar were marked by banded ridges that studded their brows and nose. The horn itself developed in adolescence during puberty, and would continue to grow taller and thicker until reaching adulthood. Consisting of many shades of color, the spiraling horn was a mark of status in Koorivarn culture those Koorivar with a genetic disposition to growing larger horns dominated the upper class of society. A tall humanoid species, the Koorivar craniums were studded with several small twisting horns, all of which surrounded a central spiraling one.