Alien species

When you're writing a story and you mention what species a race is, do you captilize the species' name or not?

 

I think so. It is the name of a race (like the name of a planet and so on), so I assume that you would capitalize it.

However, don't take my full word on it, rather wait until people with better grammar then I come along

Kit

 

I know proper names and places are capitalized but lets say i said this: the twi'lek Randy ran away. now would i stil capitalize twi'lek or not?

 

I don't think I've ever seen a Star Wars novel where the names of alien species weren't capitalized. And I suspect if I read something where alien names weren't capitalized I'd be confused.

-Moogle
Wookiee v. wookiee - no contest

 

Yeah thanks Moogle I was sort of thinking the same thing to myself, after typing up "noghri" it just didnt look right so i went and changed it back to "Noghri". At least, I hope that is the right way to do it.