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The Chiss Species, most known by Grand Admiral Thrawn, is one of the most important species in the Star Wars universe. They are the protectors of the galaxy at large in ways most would never understand. Holding back the demons of the Unknown Regions. See a complete history and breakdown of their species, how the Chiss relate to humans, how their society works, the Chiss military in the form of the Chiss Expansionary Defense Force and the Chiss Ascendency. Know everything there is about the blue skinned red eyed Star Wars species made famous by Grand Admiral Thrawn.

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@MetaNerdzLore Creator 5 years ago Pinned

If you liked this video, check out the breakdown of the Sith species.
Sith Species COMPLETE History | 100,000 Years of Darkness
https://youtu.be/OQHaiv9WOY8

@Finn_7117 5 years ago

Chiss be like: we aren’t better than you, you’re just lesser than us

@Skye_Writer 5 years ago (edited)

Okay, Thrawn says specifically, "My eyes see a slightly different spectrum than yours," and every source says that Chiss eyes "edge slightly into the infrared spectrum." You gotta take that word SLIGHTLY into account. Thrawn says to the Afe clan leader Joko that he wanted to "observe the crops in the moonlight...Sometimes the altered spectrum offers clues."
All this tells me that Thrawn likely does not see human faces as glowing orange and red blobs. He's not a FLIR camera. I suspect it's not much different as when our own eyes see someone visibly blush.

@paulsteinhauser434 5 years ago

The species that views knowledge as the greatest weapon of all.

@novashnova1232 5 years ago

The Chiss are like, a species that almost take the mindset of a scp style universe, all boiled into protecting the galaxy at large.

@GalacticRepublic_CT-1977 5 years ago (edited)

A Swiss Chiss named Chris was full of bliss when he fell into an abyss. He chooses to dismiss this ominous fact, not wanting his happiness to go amiss. He fell down the abyss when he got distracted while he threw diss after diss at his enemy, who happened to be his sis. It was only then that this Chiss was to miss a step and come crashing down, giving him bliss as he chose to reminisce.

Edit: Not sure what this was, just kind of popped into my head.

@lights126 5 years ago

It is brilliant that their name Chiss is basically Chess with an i instead of an e. Understandable because Chess requires a lot of thought and the Chiss are a very intelligent species.

@eltoxicdog7587 5 years ago (edited)

I want to hear Grand Admiral Thrawn say, "Becky please. Let me smash."

@murdostuart7299 5 years ago (edited)

Me after watching this video: “but it was so artistically done”

@toganium4175 5 years ago

Thrawn was briefly mentioned in season 2 of the Mandolorian. He better be in the Ahsoka series.

@madestmadhatter 5 years ago

Based solely off of Thrawns appreciation of art in Rebels, I'm gonna guess that their infrared vision is likely a little subtler than that.

@coltwest6858 5 years ago (edited)

Thrawn is my favorite character in the EU(Legends). The Thrawn trilogy really should have been episodes 7, 8 and 9. They were some of the best books in the EU, not to mention they were the ones that introduced us to Mara Jade.

@Echo_Isles_Cheesemonger 4 years ago

In canon, the Chiss are depicted as maturing at a similar rate to humans. In Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy, Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn (canon), some of the characters are Chiss sky-walkers between 8 and 13 years old. They definitely not described or treated as equivalent to humans of twice their ages. They needed caregivers, as any human child would, on the ships they served. They were referred to as children, and other than the fact that they had roles of such great importance to safe navigation, they were treated much as human children of a similar age might be.

@pendrake40 5 years ago (edited)

One of my most memorable summaries to the lethally duplicitous nature of Chiss society comes from [Star Wars: the Old Republic (2011) MMO-RPG] (SW:TOR). This came from passing through a Sith Empire base on Hoth, from a trio of NPC Imperial Snow Troopers in casual conversation (SW:TOR was fully voiced)...

- [Snow Trooper #1]: I never thought I could feel any colder on this blasted ice rock, until I caught a couple of those Chiss looking down upon me with those creepy blank eyes of theirs.

- [(younger) Snow Trooper #2]: I don't know, I find their women to be rather...exotic.

- [(older) Snow Trooper #3]: Trust me, lad. If you don't want to be found lying dead somewhere, with a couple of daggers buried in you, you'll steer well clear of that lot.

Even years after having left SW:TOR, that casual (NPC) conversation stuck in my memory. :)

Thanks for uploading this, MetaNerdz Lore. :)

@Anglomachian 5 years ago (edited)

The issue of their force connection being a result of their culture is still viable if you take into account the values the Chiss seem to have. Generally speaking the Force does not respond well to methodological approaches, such as overt scientific investigation. Attempts to clone force wielders, or use the blood of force sensitives, or to try and use the force in larger predictable ways is usually either viewed as a dark side ability, or simply fails because it's not reliable.
The Chiss are an archetype of a race who value (in general) logic and more secular forms of cultural expression. In no book that I'm aware of do the Chiss engage in any domestic religions or spiritual activities connected to religious practices. This may be (in a way) a sort of cultural blind sot for them brought about by a racial disposition towards a more sensible grasp of a universe that has an aspect to it that defies sensibleness (the Force).

Therefore, even though they want for there to be a means by which their skywalkers can extend their precognition into adulthood, they may be on the whole actually incapable of seeing how to do it. In the most recent of the Thrawn books, it is several times mentioned that study into the means by which skywalkers actually work is standardised and largely unexplored. Basic things like how long they can be expected to use their abilities before tiring is known, but not applied individually, and a deeper understanding of the cycles skywalkers operate in when using their abilities is apparently largely not understood.
From this I determine that the largely systematic approach Chiss seem to employ, which gives them great cultural cohesion in a system based on ambition and meritocracy, and lethal military prowess, also seems to at least partially blind them to an aspect of reality that simply does not work the way the rest of the universe seems to.

@natedorney7032 5 years ago (edited)

Thrawn is one of the few Imperial officers that I would willingly serve under... He wouldn't needlessly sacrifice his men's lives and he wasn't unnecessarily harsh. Everything that he did had purpose and reason behind it. If his subordinates failed in their tasks, he would help them to see their errors and would allow them the opportunity to redeem themselves in later engagements. He is what I would class as a "good" imperial.

@cocoemelie8541 5 years ago

When MetaNerdz uploads after 1 month: A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

@angelusumbra5741 5 years ago

The Chiss are all around hella cool, and Thrawn is just a legend in every way. Blue bro is physically and socially exceptional, and is mentally god tier.

@zamoragera13 5 years ago

Imagine what a mandalorian chiss could do.

@UATU. 3 years ago

I hope we see in future appearances of Thrawn how unique he was among his own species, not just being a representative of the Chiss among Imperial humans. Only a handful of Chiss truly appreciated his special mind and protected him from political machinations he didn’t understand.