Pau'an

The Pau'ans were a race of tall, gray-skinned humanoids native to the planet Utapau. It was believed that the Pau'ans, like their cousins the Utai, were descended from the colonists who first settled Utapau, some 57,000 years before the Galactic Civil War. For many generations, the Pau'ans lived on the surface of the planet, separate from the Utai. They were eventually driven underground by the increasingly arid enviroment of the planet's surface, in the wake of the climate change that caused scouring winds to blow across its surface.

Although the Pau'ans made up just thirty percent of Utapau's population, their size and longevity gave them the ability to dominate the rulership classes of the planet. The average Pau'an had a lifespan of more than 200 years, and preferred to eat raw meat. Double rows of sharp teeth filled the upper and lower jaws of the average Pau'an, allowing them to rip apart their food. Interestingly, Pau'ans preferred the darkness of the underground cities, despite their natural history as surface-dwellers. Because of their long lifespans, the Pau'ans were often referred to as Ancients.

The head of the Pau'an displayed evolutionary adaptations to living on the planet's surface, including vestigial ear-disks that lacked lobes which might have been damaged by wind-blown sand. The appearance of the average Pau'an instilled fright or fear in many beings, despite the fact that most Pau'ans were among the most friendly races in the galaxy.