What Skin Colors do Twi'leks Have?

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-03 12:28pm

NecronLord wrote:Yeah. If Afganistan exported belly dancers as slaves to the rest of the middle east, it'd be just like Ryloth.

we can always hope

the point was that Ryloth could forced tpo drug and slave trade to maintain it economy just like Afganistan was forced to use drug trade (though the reason why they're forced to do this could be different).

Post by **NecronLord** » 2005-06-03 01:11pm

We can hope not - non-consentual slavery is bad mmkay

. I believe the idea is that Ryloth has nothing of value - no minerals, and little food - but the Ryll and its women.

Master of Cards · Post by **Master of Cards** » 2005-06-03 02:35pm

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YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-06-03 06:24pm

Battlehymn Republic wrote:Hm. Can't believe no one mentioned Zeltrons.

Few Zeltrons are actually slaves.

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2005-06-03 09:10pm

Well, maybe they're so hedonist, they'll willingly join a harem.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-03 09:16pm

Are you mental? Or just that mentally immature?

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2005-06-03 09:31pm

Both, I'd wager.

Tychu · Post by **Tychu** » 2005-06-04 02:42am

The problem with female twileks are that most are from Ryloth, a very patriarchal ruled plannet. Many of the males tend to drug the females to make them more submissive, causing them to become dancers and slaves.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-06-04 03:06am

This sounds like a discussion as a whole that concerns the concept of species developing/evolving in responce to galactic influence.

Saxton's got a thread on that:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/humans.html

Basically, Ryloth's only major export besides Ryll are slaves, mostly female. Therefore, over the millenia the individuals and families with traits more resembling galactic (ie human) standards, the more prevalent and prosperous they are and provide for their descendants' success.

Same deal with Falleen and perhaps Togruta (of which Shak-Ti is the only example I know of, though WotC implies they only come in white & red due to camouflage with their planet's fauna), while to a lesser extent the facial features of the Cathar, probably the arms of the Saurin (subspecies of Trandoshan), as perhaps many other prevalent species in the galaxy with otherwise inexplicably identical anthropormorphic features. You're less likely to buy Corellian starships, SoroSuub blasters, and spread accross the galaxy if you're stuck with lobster claws afterall.

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2005-06-04 03:32am

What about the ones that basically look like humans completely, such as the Ubese? Hehe.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-04 03:34am

Human offshoots.

Battlehymn Republic · Post by **Battlehymn Republic** » 2005-06-04 03:37am

So, the whole interspecies off-spring is possible?

I'll just shut up and read the linked article.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-04 04:52am

Battlehymn Republic wrote:So, the whole interspecies off-spring is possible?

depend on what do by "interspecies", for example a base line Human and Near Human could possibly have children, but a human and a Mon Calmari could never have children.

Pseudo human belong Mon Calmari category (while they look human their genetic are different).

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-04 04:59am

No, Mon Cal are technically beyond psuedo-human. Twi'leks are a better example of psuedo-humans.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-04 05:01am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:No, Mon Cal are technically beyond psuedo-human. Twi'leks are a better example of psuedo-humans.

missed the point, which was dispite looking like humans pseudo human have as much in common with true humans as the Mon Calmari (which is nil).

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-06-04 05:06am

Bah, whatever. I think you missed the point.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-06-04 05:14am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Bah, whatever. I think you missed the point.

I chose a clearly non-human species for a purpose (to show that while some "species" can reproduce this ain't trek were two species can have children together if they both are sentient).

Kaintukee_Bob · Post by **Kaintukee_Bob** » 2005-06-04 11:41pm

One important thing to note:

As Darth Maul and the EU have proven, there are ways to change your skin color in the SW galaxy. Be it tatoos or the powder (or was it lotion) mentioned in I, Jedi, skin tone can be pigmented for human (and near-human) species with relative ease.

So, if you have a cadre of drugged-to-the-gills Twi'lek dancing girl slaves, and you think they'd bring in more money if they were purple or orange, they can be.

So far as natural color, I think blue (especially lighter shades) and green are the most common.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2005-06-05 12:04am

What I'd like to know is why so many of the Twi'lek women seem to wear that leather head thingy around their face and over their ears. It's like something they had on Jabba's dancing girl just spiralled into a brain bug.

Srynerson · Post by **Srynerson** » 2005-06-05 12:19am

Mark S wrote:What I'd like to know is why so many of the Twi'lek women seem to wear that leather head thingy around their face and over their ears. It's like something they had on Jabba's dancing girl just spiralled into a brain bug.

In-universe, I have no idea. Out-universe, it greatly simplifies the make-up process, since the headpiece hides the seams on their lekku.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2005-06-05 12:51am

I would guess it's got some kind of cultural significance, or maybe just a popular/important shape.

And I think the most common colors are dull shades of tan, yellow, and yellow-green. I recall blue being almost as 'valuable' as red.

Cykeisme · Post by **Cykeisme** » 2005-06-05 11:25am

I dispute parts of Saxton's hypothesis.

Attractive female Twi'Leks would be sold as slaves off-world, which prevents them from propogating their traits in the future generations of their community.

Anyway, check both pages of this thread for more stuff on that.
http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=70134

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2005-06-05 11:40am

Cykeisme wrote:I dispute parts of Saxton's hypothesis.

Attractive female Twi'Leks would be sold as slaves off-world, which prevents them from propogating their traits in the future generations of their community.

Genetic alteration is possible.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2005-06-05 12:06pm

Cykeisme wrote:I dispute parts of Saxton's hypothesis.

Attractive female Twi'Leks would be sold as slaves off-world, which prevents them from propogating their traits in the future generations of their community.

Unless they get sold back, or the lease ends or something, when they're age is showing and they start having kids then.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-06-05 12:57pm

Mark S wrote:What I'd like to know is why so many of the Twi'lek women seem to wear that leather head thingy around their face and over their ears. It's like something they had on Jabba's dancing girl just spiralled into a brain bug.

Maybe a super popular fashion accessory?