Human

Averaging 1.8 meters in height (with females averaging slightly shorter), humans are mammalian bipeds with an internal biology that handles a wide variety of oxygenated environments well. Their mostly hairless skin spans a wide range of color from very dark to very light; most range in the pale-tan to dark brown colors, but there are distinctive variants, especially among those offshoots considered nearhuman. As omnivores, humans have a wide range of available food sources, as well.

Though the Empire would make it otherwise, humans are far too diverse and widespread throughout the galaxy to represent a single society. Every form of government ever devised can be found in places where humans choose to live, and economic and sociological differences are just as varied. Although humans helped advance technological developments throughout known space, human cultures living as true primitives exist as well. Generally, humans yearn for independence and self-determination, yet there are countless billions who gladly subjugate themselves under tyrannical rule for the promise of prosperity and security.

Scholars continue to debate which of the Core Worlds actually stands as the true human homeworld; most claim it has to be Coruscant. Others are convinced humans did not even originate in the Core, instead coming from far away on sleeper or generation ships long before the advent of hyperdrive technology. Regardless, they now dominate the Core and are spread throughout the galaxy, claiming many worlds as their homes.

Basic was originated by humans, and with their ubiquity came the widespread use of it as a connecting language for the entire galaxy. Numerous human societies have variants and dialects, and there are entire human civilizations that have distinct languages with no connection to Basic at all.