Artiodacs were a fearsome-looking sentient species native to the cold, swampy planet Artiod Minor[5] with tough hides, bulging arms, and deep, rumbling voices[1] whose members could live for several centuries.[4] Although most were quiet, solitary beings by nature, centuries of enslavement by the Zygerrian Slave Empire,[1] who overran Artiod Minor,[5] forced upon them the reputation of serving as gladiators in galactic arenas, hired muscle for crime lords, and janissaries in private armies.