Star Wars Universe Roleplaying Game

Kaminoan

Kaminoans are tall, gaunt amphibious beings who have reshaped both themselves and their world in the pursuit of survival and genetic perfection. When a planetary climate catastrophe swallowed Kamino’s landmasses beneath a rising ocean, the Kaminoans refused to beg the wider galaxy for help. Instead, they turned inward, redirecting their intellect and resources toward radical adaptation—engineering towering domed cities above the endless seas and refining their own genetic lines through generations of selective breeding.

Today, Kaminoans are best known as the galaxy’s foremost cloners and bio-engineers. To them, a genome is just another system to optimize, tune, and, if necessary, discard. They design bespoke lifeforms, regiment entire populations through careful coding of traits, and treat flaws as problems to be culled rather than tolerated. This mindset has made them indispensable to powerful governments, criminal syndicates, and anyone willing to pay for a perfectly tailored army or specialist.

Despite the clinical coldness of their work, Kaminoans are not openly cruel; they are distant, polite, and impeccably professional. They view most offworlders as short-lived, genetically messy curiosities—worthy of study, occasionally of respect, but rarely of true kinship. Only those who relentlessly improve themselves, in body or mind, earn their quiet admiration. A Kaminoan who leaves Kamino is almost always tied to research, diplomacy, or some precise agenda, carrying with them an eerie calm, a surgeon’s detachment, and a perspective shaped by decades of looking at people as data points and design problems.

Home Planet: Kamino, an ocean world in Wild Space beyond the Outer Rim
Physical Description: Kaminoans are tall, slender humanoids with pale, almost porcelain skin and elongated necks that support small, smooth heads. Their large black eyes dominate their faces and can perceive into the ultraviolet spectrum, giving them an unblinking, alien gaze. Their limbs are long and fine-boned, ending in three-fingered hands and narrow feet adapted first to firm seabeds and later to the hard floors of elevated cities. Males typically wear a finlike cranial crest, while females lack this feature and often accent their elongated silhouettes with elegant head crescents and flowing garments. Their overall appearance is graceful, ghostlike, and unnervingly uniform.

Average Height: 2.1–2.7 meters (females shorter, males taller)
Average Weight: 65–70 kilograms
Age of Adulthood: 11 standard years

Personality & Customs: Kaminoans are reserved, controlled, and quietly convinced of their own superiority. They value precision, efficiency, and flawlessness in all things, from social interactions to genetic templates. Outwardly, they are courteous and composed, rarely raising their voices or showing strong emotion. Inwardly, they harbor little patience for chaos, improvisation, or what they see as avoidable imperfections. Entire "batches" of clones may be deemed failures over subtle deviations, and individuals who cannot or will not improve are simply written off. Kaminoan society revolves around rigorous roles and designed lineages; most are bred and trained toward a specific function. They are isolationist by habit, preferring to work behind sealed doors and controlled environments rather than immerse themselves in the unpredictable wider galaxy. Pilgrimages to the sunken ruins of their pre-flood cities preserve a faint spiritual thread, but even their reverence for the past is filtered through the lens of analysis and adaptation.

Languages: Kaminoan and Basic

Example Names: Ava Lim, Lama Su, Maru Lan, Tau Shei, Taga Sai, Seva Ke, Taun We