Species lifespans

Is there any place that lists all the species and their lifespans?

 

I very highly doubt it. We have to first understand the very fast number of just sentient species in the galaxy that we have so far been introduced to. Both WEG and WotC have introduced us to well over a hundred different sentient species. And while I can't say so for WotC, I know for a fact that WEG introduced us to many species we never see on screen or who we have yet to meet in the novels and comics. Plus we are still being introduced to new species, some of whom we only ever get a bare glimpse of.

 

I wonder why we've never read in a book:

Stupid human! Ah well, he'll be dead in 50 years and not even a memory in 200!

 

The Guide to Alien Species.

If you [-o| nicely, someone could provide the age spans of yor requested species. I was asking this myself a few months back, about the exotic aliens of TOTJ: Thon, Ordan-Urr and Vodo-Siosk Bass. They all had years in the hundreds.

 

one of the WotC Alien Species guides l isted the lifespan of a species along with the rest of the traits, definning what ages were considered infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age, etc. don't have the book myself, so can't be more specific. sorry.

 

Are there species with life spans shorter than humans? we have a huge number of species that have lifespans over 100 years, but which ones have a shorter livespan than humans, if any?

 

The Star Wars RPG Ultimate Alien Anthology actually breaks the species ages down by child, young adult, adult, middle age, old, and venerable. As an example, it has the following for Hutt:

Child 1-70, young adult 71-90, adult 91-650, middle age 651-844, old 845-925, venerable 926+.

 

yeah, I couldn't remember what they specifically called each age group.

 

In the guide humans 80+ are venerable, but can´t recall the source, I read somewhere that in the GFFA humans can reach 200 years of age. and with force use maybe even twice the age. is this true? I read it in an official source, novel I think, or WEG material.

 

Devlikks (Wan Sandage's species) live to be 10 years old.

 

For most of my discussion a will use humans as the focal species but only for reference. The reason for my question is many fold and I will try to explain as much as I can before I go to work:

1. When dealing with characters in literature their lifespan, child bearing years, and growth period are essential to developing characters. Some of us are considering humans in GFFA like us but look at the advancement our species had made in the last 50 years. So, in the GFFA can a 70 year old man/woman look and have the same genetic ability as a 40 year old?

2. Now you throw in humanoid species that are compatable with human species. What happens when you have a humanoid species that can have live to be 200 and have children at 150 years and they mix were a human species and have offspring? Can their children now live to be 170 or so and have children to 130 years?

3. How does the force affect longevity and other things in species? Does the force in able a human to live a extra 100 years and be able to bare children at life's later stages. Does the force slow the age process?

I have to go but a have a few more ideas that I would like to discuss with everyone.

 

1. I think, the authors have these troubles, and it is not officially made clear, just in a reference it was stated, and some sources threw the ages around.

I think livespan doesn´t only depend on how one lives (healthy or not), but, too, on where he lives!

Different planets show different gravity and nature etc. and those effects count as well. So I think to solve this problem, humans in the GFFA could be treated like humans in real world, but depending on planet of origin the standart human livespan varies. (f.e. there are lots of humans who have special abilities only because of their birthplace. Hapans lack of night vision, Bonadan body language, etc.)
So the 200 years, or 100+years could be explained by such effects.
As for how do they look with 150? can they get children still? I think that´s not an easy answer.
They look younger definitely (maybe that explains Luke, Leia and Han's faces on the novel covers still looking like in ANH lol). But how much depends on the given factors. So there possibly are humans at age 140 who look like 50, some like 30 some like 60, etc. epending on place of birth. Same goes with the possibility of child birth, a scale would be needed that transforms the standart human lifespan into all the planetary different special lifespans.

2. As for lifespan of their children, I don´t know, but continuing my theory, that depends on their birthplace.
example:

Fathers lifespan is 150 years, mothers is 180, both from different planets, and child is born on one of the two worlds, then it inherits the lifespan of this worlds humans, depending of how long it lives on the world, because it is importand how long you stay in the environment that causes the lifespan, if you move around the galaxy you´ll get a different lifespan, I think.


3. The Force can slow the aging process, accellerate it, like it accellerates the healing, or slowes the breathing for meditation, survival in cold space, etc.
But general force use doesn´t really affect the age, I think, or not to a degree that it would be noticed. Only if healing or life extending techniques were used very often. In some novel there was a Life witch mentioned, which can live up to thousands of years, but only if she can get anothers life energy (not anzati but similar^^). Anzati live longer than 1000 years, the more often they get their 'soup' the longer they live, reaching legendary ages.

 

I don't see humans as being older than normal. All the old humans so far have been pretty frail, wrinkly, and age spotted.

 

The Dark Woman looks quite young and we know she's at least 90 years old in the Clone Wars.

 

jep, and she still is a beauty when Vader kills her in TALES.

And Mace Windu looks like 40 though he trained already lots of students and is around 50 or 60 I read somewhere.

 

Yes Mace is only 50 in AOTC. But Samuel Jackson is 57 at the moment. Maybe he really has the Force.

 

Samuel and Mace seem to polish their head very often lol *gg* the older they get the younger they look! I woudln´t wonder if some day you can see your mirror image on his head!

 

If the Force doesn't help people live longer, how did Palpatine end up living as long as he did? People are living a lot longer now in 2004 than they were in 1960. There are more 80 year olds still working and being active than ever before. So, as advancements in science, medicine, and other things become available human's have been able to live longer and healther lives. This would have to be true for the GFFA.

4. It is possible and likely that their are still Jedi alive in GFFA, who were Jedi before/during the Clone wars regardless of species! Fallen's have a lifespan of 500 years so why couldn't a Fallen Jedi, who became disillusioned of Yoda's Jedis just disappeared into the unknown regions during the Clone Wars. There were 10,000 Jedi at one time, who would know them all.

 

thats a fact, ub, Jedi are around from before.. some appeared in the EU material, were either collected by Luke into his New Jedi Order, or they decieded to stay apart of it, some are still not yet discovered.