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In Star Wars Legends and Canon, literature introduced a Chiss named “Mitth’raw’nuruodo” or core name: Thrawn from The Thrawn Trilogy novels from the early 1990s.
Just with Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn, the author, revitalized the Star Wars book franchise and Star Wars story by the late 1990s.
Currently, books written before 2012 are Legends Canon, according to Disney.
For media, outside the literature, Grand Admiral Thrawn is only seen in the “animated” video game entitled “TIE Fighter,” and gameplay followed the written canon in later novels.
Not until 2016 has a Chiss species appear on a major TV Show. Grand Admiral Thrawn appears in season 3 of Star Wars Rebels.
Our leading group, the Star Wars Actors Guild 77, was instrumental in the GET THRAWN IN campaign of 2014. Lucasfilm created a new character, Sabine Wren as an “explosive Mandalorian artist”.
Because Thrawn is an art critic and collector, we thought they would have a lot of discussions. We started our campaign to GET THRAWN IN.
Our goal was to GET THRAWN IN Star Wars, which would re-canonize Thrawn, but it would also include the CHISS species, and they would be re-canonized, too.
Moreover, there is a HUGE sub-fandom of CHISS fans because Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) generates a class of characters that fans could customize and play as CHISS. The graphics of these Chiss differ from Legends literature canon slightly. Disney Current Canon is dissimilar to what is in SWTOR.
There are not many references ABOUT Chiss, and the Lucasfilm Story Group has made the retcon changes to Thrawn’s physical appearance.
There are not many references ABOUT Chiss, and the Lucasfilm Story Group has made the retcon changes to Thrawn’s physical appearance.
LFSG member Matt Martin is remarking on the overall look of Chiss, such as the forehead ridges and the pupils of the red-eyes are visible.
Disney will retcon the basis of the Chiss Society and Canon timeline.
Timothy Zahn said The Hand of Thrawn duology discusses Chiss culture more than any other literature. But the story of the society’s structure, like the Aristocra and Ruling Families, is not in-depth. Not how these families function daily.
The introduction of the Mitth Family that controls the planet Copero is a new incident in SWTOR. However, is it current canon?
Thrawn says to his brother Thrass that they are commoners in the Legend canon book, The Outbound Flight. What would that mean to the current canon, then? It would mean that Thrawn is part of the “Aristocra” or the Ruling Class leader called the Mitth Family?
This meta says Thrawn is “exiled” for specific reasons.
The Disney Canon looks like Thrawn WILLING left Chiss Space and the Chiss Ascendancy for a mission. A mission to protect the Chiss from unknown threats in the Unknown Regions, in Star Wars: Thrawn. Why would Thrawn leave the safety net from Chiss Space?
The Chiss are xenophobic. Why? Chiss Space is very isolated in the Unknown Regions — like a tiny island in a large ocean. What aliens are they going to meet and have severe conflicts with given their technological advantage?
There have been only two enemies of the Chiss in Legends Canon: Vagaari and Killiks.
In Disney Canon, it is the Nikardun, Lioaoins, and the Grysks. Sometimes the Garwinians are Chiss enemies.
But for all the active encounters that the Chiss have had with “hostile aliens,” most of their opponents scamper away when the Chiss appear.
So the Chiss are not as xenophobic because they fear outsiders hurting them.
They are xenophobic because they think they are superior compared to other aliens.
The Chiss are Specieists (Nationalists) and Supremacists.
They think they are the best beings in the galaxy for reasons as taught by their indoctrination. They are rarely emotional. They criticize others as if they have superior intelligence. They are only respectful when they suspect other beings are just as intelligent or superior. They also are respectful to those who might have the Force, especially that of the Dark Side (source).
Since most Chiss lack the Force as adults, they determine force-sensitive by complex analysis by body language, communication, and voice inflection. This training is specific for Chiss. (Typically, this would be called a very high-level Neurolinguistic Programming).
Thrawn is not a specieist or a supremacist. Something about him helped him make that choice. In both Legends and Disney canon, Thrawn is open to meeting several other aliens (he considers aliens as humans) and learn from them.
In The Outbound Flight, he told his brother Thrash that they were commoners. Thrawn, a part of the military, knew his destiny to die. Then, he got “exiled” (on paper in Star Wars: Thrawn). He has enough military training to logically determine a Force user and not remain on the Chiss Supremacy bandwagon. Why?
There are apparent reasons why Thrawn chose not to be a Chiss Supremacist; one big reason is that Thrawn expresses too many emotions. He is too emotional for a Chiss. It may be the main reason for his exile because, in Legends canon, Thrawn is too emotional, not permitted in Chiss society.
Remember, a Chiss being emotional looks like a “disappointment” to a human. Humans would interpret Thrawn’s behavior as no different. Therefore, humans gave him “toys” in Star Destroyers and a fleet to play with, and he never expressed elated joy. He was cordial. But not an exuberance.
Then, many who write fanfics believe Thrawn may have been a Force user himself, but due to Chiss’s physiology, they lose their abilities by the time they are teenagers. By the time they’re adults, they have no Force powers. But Thrawn stated in Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances that there are hardly any Chiss males that have Force powers — well, he used to be one of them, and he was mighty, and the Chiss made him do a feat at his peak performance age that makes him go into some coma after he did it, and then lost his abilities. His coma caused him to have amnesia. He can’t remember his powers in the Force or his feats, but he can do many special forces types of feats with precision. (ALL OF THIS IS HEADCANON!)
Like most societies, a family teaches their children culturally appropriate behavior. Most children learn about strangers and outsiders from their parents. Their parents teach children how to be open-minded. The reason why some cultures encourage this behavior is a territorial equipoise and expansion of the knowledge base. It is an evolutionary savior because it helps the population advancement and species survivability from extinction factors.
This meta and headcanons part is of the concept of THE DECADENT CHISS by the Star Wars Actors Guild 77
Legends canon states that Chiss were created like clones by the Celestials for their use (source).
For our fanfic stories, we ASSUME that a group of renegade Chiss learned of this fact, ran away from the Celestials, and took flight in Starships to find a new planetary home. We also ASSUME that these Chiss were NEAR-HUMAN and not “blue-skinned humans” per Lucasfilm’s announcement.
We also ASSUME that the Celestials did this in Legends canon to many species, such as the Echani, Arkansans, Arkanian-offshoots, ThyChani, etc. It is not unusual to see that in most of the Legend’s canon stories.
We are unsure if Lucasfilm with keeping this logic or create a new one. This logic is SWAG77’s fanfic, headcanon, and meta. Nothing written in stone from this point on.
From a genetic point of view, we know in real life that the recapitulation of human traits is rarely intact, even with cross-species genetic comparisons. Very few genes hold in several species. One of them is what this writer has worked explicitly on as the Insulin Gene and the Receptors for insulin in an aging model. Insulin only varies by amino acid, but the receptors are the same in tertiary and quaternary structures. It would be strange to see this kind of presence on another planet. So, any alien manifestation would be markedly different than the observations on Earth. Bifocal eyesight, anatomy in similar locations, bone structures from a microscopic scale to be similar, everything would be statistically challenging to see on another planet a different species in real life.
So when it occurs, it means that in a galaxy, that conservation of the template throughout the galaxy.
For the Chiss to want to be so xenophobic to isolate themselves, they must keep phenotypes inherently Chiss. But life must evolve, and keeping phenotypes to that desired, stops evolution — and when evolution halts, extinction starts.
The Chiss allied with the Sith Empire and traveled in the galaxy in the game SWTOR. Then something happened to the Chiss. We think this meta states what happened.
The Polar Chiss live on Csilla in the polar regions of the planet. They live underground and hate the idea of Xenomania and open-mindedness.
Oppose to the polar Chiss; there were the Decadent Chiss who were artisans, philosophers, creatives, entertainers, and dreamers. They lived in the warmer climates of Csilla along the equator and sometimes lived above ground.
The Polar Chiss discriminated against The Decadent Chiss as lazy, elitist, and a mega-rich oligarchy. The Polar Chiss felt oppressed by the Decadent Chiss.
The polar Chiss had a robust industrial-military House, which was aggressive, tactical, and strategic in their precepts and thoughts. They decided to revolt and democide the Decadent Chiss. But, they did not catch all of the genetic isolates of the decadency. The Mitth family was one of Decadent Chiss because they were excellent starship builders.
This headcanon’s timeline is several hundred years before Thrawn was alive because we do not know how the Chiss were born. Are they born?
Our headcanons say that most Chiss are “born” by eugenics that the physician-scientists crafted together in IVF and artificial wombs. No one has a natural birth child anymore to keep “all genes are free and clear of dirty mutations caused by ‘illegal aliens.” (headcanon: also called static gene flow).
Our fanfic story thinks that Thrawn was born the natural way: His parents copulated, and the mother gave birth to him with the aid of a doula or a midwife. (headcanon).
THRAWN X SABINE 
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