Ghorhal

The Ghorhal are a sentient race of bear folk, native to the planet Selruu VI, in the Tangoa System (Mid Rim, on the route towards Tatooine). Simplistic in nature, they send their days wandering around, eating, and sleeping (one of their favorite pastimes). When the Old Republic first came across this world (and later the Trade Federation as well as the Empire), they all left it alone, as there were no natural resources to milk, or any strategic value to the planet. This suited the bears well.
Three years before the Empire's rise, some slavers fleeing the Old Republic security forces, made their way to this planet. Needing to land for food restocking, they landed. Of their 74 slaves, 17 were children, and 7 made a dairing escape. When most of the slavers ran after, they came face to face (one literally) with the Ghorhal. When they started to shoot at the children (some of who were hiding behind the bears), they enraged them, and only two slavers escapped. Eleven years later, when the fledling Rebellion was leading hit and fade strikes against the Empire in this region, several bulk transports made an emergency landing on this planet. Three dozens of the bear-folk, curiose to find out what was happening, 'waltzed on board' and stayed, when the ships took off.
Now, with some of them in the Rebellion's ranks, the Empire has actually taken an interest in their planet. News of their healing abilities, has sparked three different races universities desire, to be the first to capture one alive, and disect one for study. The Rebels are trying their best to get them all off the planet.

Special Abilities/Hinderances:
The Ghorhal Cannot benefit from a med pack, other than for stabilization if getting too mortally wounded. The have and inability to use nearly all modern items, such as blasters, firearms etc. They can understand most spoken languages, but can only speak their own, Defel, Shishaven, and Wookie.

Healing Tounge:
Due to anathesitic nature of Saliva (as well as other things in saliva), the Gorhal may lick a person's wound area for 5 minutes, allowing the patient to make a 'natural healing roll' at +1D. For each additional 5 minutes of 'licking', an additional roll is allowed. If a Ghorhal stops licking, the character still heals at normal natural healing rate, and still gets +2 to each roll, but is unable to benefit from a med pack or Bacta tank, until reaches full health, or is wounded again. If wounded again, he can have med pack used on, but only up to the level of health that the licking initiall took him to.

Food Requirements:
Ghorhal need 2 kilograms meat and 4 kilograms vegetables (tree branches will do) per day. If getting half rations, roll a difficult Stamina check (18), or they lose 1D from all stats until eating double the daily rations. If getting even less than half rations, the check goes up to very difficult (27), and failure results in -2D. When Strength reaches 0D from starvation, character will die in 1D days if does not get at least 2 full days worth of food, to "stabilize".

Ghorhal

Home Planet: Selruu VI
Attribute Dice: 19D
DEXTERITY 2D/4D
KNOWLEDGE 2D+2/4D+2
MECHANICAL 0D/2D
PERCEPTION 3D/5D
STRENGTH 5D/7D
TECHNICAL 2D/4D
Special Abilities:
Claws: STR+2D+2
Bite: STR+1D
Naturally thick hide: +1D+2 physical, +1D energy
Perception: Checks involving smell are at +1D, involving sight or hearing are at -1D
Move: 4 (on hind legs), 6 (swimming), 12 (on all fours)
Size: 1.60/1.70 (on all fours), 2.70/2.80 (on hind legs)