Verrantin

A simian species with cultural focus on creativity and curiosity. The Verrantin are physically powerful and imposing, but very gentle and peaceable. They find trade and cultural exchange to be extremely congenial activities, and conversely find war to be a deplorable waste of lives and resources. The Verrantin, one of the founding members of the Trade Federation, sponsored the Skelash for uplift and subsequent inclusion in the Federation senate. They continue to promote the Skelash and represent them, even as opinion in the Federation swings more and more against them.