Melodie

The Melodies were a race of intelligent, amphibious humanoids inhabited the warmer climates of Yavin 8's equatorial mountains. They hatched from eggs that were laid by elder Melodies and guarded by Melodie youths until they emerge, starting out life as air-breathing beings which resemble human children. At the age of twenty, all Melodies underwent a transformation - known as the Changing Ceremony - in which they metamorphosed to become an amphibious creature. The metamorphosis could only take place in a ceremonial pool on Yavin 8, and involved the Melodie changing into a mermaid-like creature that was destined to live out its life in the pools of Yavin 8. Their legs merged to form a fish-like tail, and they grew gills on their ribcages. As newborn children, and as newly-transformed adults, the Melodies consumed trico mush until they could digest the silver-backed fish. As a people, the Melodies were unassuming unless provoked, which often happened when a traveler was stranded on Yavin 8. The Melodies valued their privacy, and chose to remain anonymous to the rest of the galaxy. If provoked, Melodies could prove to be skilled hunters, and used their natural ability to move about in the water to track and kill their enemies. Some eighteen years after the Battle of Endor, the Melodies decided to make their presence known, after Anakin Solo befriended the young female known as Lyric. However, during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Yavin 8 was devastated by the alien invaders, and the Melodie civilization was all but exterminated. Only a handful of Melodies were offworld during the attack.