Niktos

Perhaps the most well known slaves of the Hutts, the fierce and humourless Niktos of Kintan have served their masters for thousands of years, though not always with unwavering loyalty. Hardy and stoic, the five Nikto subspecies are a common sight throughout Hutt Space and the Outer Rim Territories.

Physiology

Reptilian humanoids with tough, leath­ery skin and standing roughly the height of an aver­age human, the Niktos are a product of their harsh environment. Bombarded for thousands of years by gamma radiation from a nearby magnetar star known as M’dweshuu, life on Kintan has had to adapt rapidly or face extinction. The frequency of mutation among the Niktos has sped up their evolution, altering their genome thousands of times faster than would oth­erwise be the case. The Niktos are capable of only very limited facial expression due to their lack of well developed mimetic musculature, and their eyes are protected by a thin, transparent membrane. Their seemingly blank expressions and unblinking stares often cause others to underestimate their intelligence.

Society

Nikto civilization grew from necessity. Band­ing together to survive against their homeworld’s fearsome, mutated predators—vicious spine drag­ons, enormous trogwhales, and ferocious tuskbeasts among them—the Niktos learned the value of coop­eration as they worked together to tame and conquer their harsh world. Though racial tensions between the various subspecies of Niktos resulted in several bloody, planetwide wars prior to the Treaty of Vontor, the Hutts imposed a unified peace on the Niktos. While there are certain long-standing taboos against interbreeding among the subspecies, children are occasionally born of mixed parentage. Most offspring of such couplings display only the characteristics of one parent or the other; relatively few genuine hybrids are born.
Life for most Niktos is harsh, in spite of the “benefi­cence” of the Hutts, and they toil hard in the service of their callous and cruel masters. Few Niktos are natural leaders, and servitude is simply a way of life—relatively few aspire to anything more than bondage to a Hutt who has fewer sadistic tendencies than a Dark Lord of the Sith. Even so, there is an undercurrent of yearn­ing for freedom among the Niktos that has not been entirely extinguished by millennia of slavery. Occasion­ally a Nikto will escape his master or purchase his free­dom, but such an emancipated slave must remain ever vigilant lest he fall into the clutches of another Hutt.

Homeworld

The Niktos evolved on Kintan, a planet in the Si’klaata Cluster. It is a world of varied climates and environments, from vast deserts and dry tundra to forested mountains and tropical archipelagoes. The unifying factor on Kintan is M’dweshuu and its radiation, which permeates the whole planet, causing strange mutations among the ecosystems. While the radiation levels are not lethal (at least not immediately), Kintan is still a dangerous, violent world.

RPG Datasheet

Niktos

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Rulebook page	Br	Ag	Int	Cun	Wil	Pre	Wounds	Strain	Starting XP
NA	3	2	2	2	2	1	11 + Br	10 + Wil	100

Special Abilities

Kadas'sa'Niktos begin the game with one rank in coordination. They still may not train Coordination above rank 2 during character creation.
They also gain 1 boost dice to Athletics checks made to climb trees and other surfaces that claws can pierce.

Claws

When a Green Nikto makes a brawl check to deal damage to an opponent, he deals +1 damage and has a critical rating of 3.