KAMINOANS: Cultural Index
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Why do the Kaminoans have nostrils?
Why do they see in UV?
Why did you make me research these freaky fish people?
From the water world of Kamino, the minds behind the Clone Army of the Republic have a long past with genetics and their own struggles at a near-extinction level event.
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Fun fact: There was a Kaminoan Jedi in Legends named Kina Ha who was given a millennia long lifespan through genetic augmentation. She helped cure the accelerated aging of Clone Troopers affiliated with the Mandalorians of Clan Skirata.
I know that the clone troopers aren't their own race but they do have a culture of their own. I would love see an cultural index on them.
He did it for the Jem'hedar.
that's true, they are indeed a culture
The UV vision might have been added to allow more visual info to be perceived in Kamino's frequently cloudy environment, considering a higher percentage of UV light goes through clouds vs visible light. There might be more UV light hitting the water than visible light.
This was gonna be my answer too.
When I first saw Episode 2, I assumed that the Kaminoans were in league with Palpatine. I thought they were going to reveal that the Kaminoans replaced members of the Republic Senate with clones who voted in line with Palpatine, giving him the power to become Emperor. It would have been cool of they had done that.
KingOfMadCows I can see your point but it also lessons one of the main themes in the movies. The Republic willingly embraced the Empire. Yes Palpatine pulled the strings, but people willing voted him in to office.
Fear was the main tool Palpatine used to influence people.
@@MandalorV7 but that was not well developed in the film's. The Republic didn't even want to create an army until after the war had started, not the actions of people who were afraid.
Also, Palpatine gained power through trickery. He gathered support by doing "the right thing." But he specifically engineered situations where he was "forced" into making the "hard choice." Like how he was against war but he manipulated events so that the Republic was drawn into war and he was "forced" to become a war time leader. Also, since he controlled both sides of the conflict, in the end it didn't really matter who won. If the Republic had decided against using the clone army and lost or chose to surrender instead of going to war, Palpatine still wins since he's secretly controlling the Separatists.
I literally love the cultural index so much even if it’s a show/movie I’m not interested in you make it so interesting the way you do it and put the videos together, thank you for making them
Thanks for watching them! I wouldn't make them otherwise, lol.
@@CertifiablyIngame I ONLY WATCH AND WAIT FOR CULTURAL INDEX
same, not into star wars or mass effect but I've watched most of the videos for both lol
They’re so beautiful (in a purely aesthetic sense).
there like a human fused with the classic orginal aliens the grays its in apperance and ideals the common technocratic cold logic of the idea of the gray aliens with humanitys bigotry and cruelty in response to hard lives
"Kinda just drifts there in wild space kinda just drifts there in wild space"
Rather rude.
I wanted to point it out first :P
Editor's last gig.
In wild space.
It's a shame Lucas felt he had to mess with it. Do you remember the scene where the kaminoan woman turned around to leave Jango Fett's quarters? She had this wonderfully light multicolored skirt, digital of course, that caught every current of air and made lovely ripples in the fabric as she moved. How many hours of programming went into that? It was only in the theatrical release.
And Lucas just took it out of the film before it hit video.
I bet he has a version with the scene included in a copy in his private library.
Nausicaans, please.
Also, the idea of "superiority" can take many forms. It's quite possible for the Kaminoans to accept that they depend on others for resources while still considering themselves superior in other ways, such as spiritually or, indeed, genetically. The arrogance of a supposedly "superior" culture doesn't really need to be based in objective fact.
Exactly. We rely on insects pretty heavily but I'd still say we were superior.
I agree with you on both counts.
Maybe there isn't all that much visible light and the planet lacks a strong ozone layer so more UV gets through, making the UV spectrum more viable to see with
Did I stroke out or did he say “it just drifts there in wild space” twice?
I must have as well cause I heard it.
Plot Twist : from a version of Earth's oceans ascended the Dolphins who reached into the Stars and travel back in time to settle on their Homeworld evolving into this new race.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
canon
Yeah right, and the mos eisley cantina is the restaurant at the end of the universe 😄
"Wild Wild space" so wild they named it twice.
Digging the @GenerationTech shout out
How about Narn from Babylon 5.
Always loved their gracefulness.
Love these videos! Nausicaans would be awesome, don't know much about them except you don't start bar fights with them . . . Unless you're Picard, if I remember correctly
5:13 Generation Tech showout.
Their videos have me grinning like a dolph- never mind.
Certifiably Ingame Humanity First and all that.
Certifiably Ingame Oh no your with the dolphin empire !!
Please, please, PLEASE cover the Rakata from Star Wars!
Hi Rick thank you for keeping me entertained during the lockdown you are a Lore Master *pun intended😃*
Kamino may be home to deep sea benthos that use UV light for communication similar to certain earth lifeforms. The ability to see these would have given pre historic kaminoans a significant advantage over other predators who may lack the ability to detect U.V light.
Man I feel so stupid. For some reason I thought this was a Star Trek video. I'm over here like I've never seen such a beautiful alien in Star Trek before. Look at those eyes. Awesome, and then I see a lightsaber. Womp waaaa.
If Kaminoans existed in Star Trek the Federation would be harassing them to end their cloning industry despite it being their people's livelihood.
@@MajorGeneralVeers assuming they were from the Alpha or Beta Quadrants. It could well be that they'd be Gamma Quadrant natives, and thus probably in the Dominion.
Of course, the Feddies probably SHOULD be in the Kaminoans' case, slavery is kind of frowned upon in the Federation.
Kaminoians the third best cloners in sci-fi. First is the Tlelaxu from Dune and second is the Protoculture/ Zentradi from SDF Macross.
Imagine having a space transport fleet and them paying you to remove a bunch of water from their planet...then taking it, and selling it to Tatooine.
I think the Kaminoans like much about the Prequels were wasted. A very intriguing race and culture but ultimately never reaching their potential. Thanks for this video.
Would not be surprised if us Humans started to augment everything eventually as well.
*neo-eugenics and bio/cybernetic augmentation would a very scary and dangerous tangent to follow*
Many marine organisms on Earth reflect or bio-lumpiness in ultraviolet.
We have species here on earth that can see into the ultraviolet spectrum. The examples I'm aware of all have to do with pollinators and the plants they share a symbiotic relationship with. As I understand it the ability to differentiate to see in color across any particular band of the EM spectrum evolves when those gradients will be valuable. Perhaps their food source or predators were better detected by individuals who evolved to see into the UV.
I'm thinking the nostrils may be a vestigial aspect that has not been selectively bred out or modified in their genetic code, as they also dwell outside of their ocean world. For the UV seeing I'm guessing this is useful in other situations outside of their home world, they probably keep it as it is not a common trait in their universe. This would make sense since they feel superior to others and being able to see UV helps them justify that superiority.
we have been expecting you
The kaminoans look very much like our modern era depictions of tall gray aliens, and their backstory also sounds much like what some people theorize the motives of such aliens are in abducting people and visiting. The two stories fictional and real or not seem to be very similar. There are similar themes of cloning, survival through genetic manipulation, and the merciless arrogance to see other species as tools for their science, even the idea of improving others through genetics.
They had to get rid of that long neck Jedi master because people might get confused. I think it's a bad idea. Long neck Jedi looks way different
Character pitch. Kaminoan's learn that prevalence for the force stem from midiclorians. They use their genetic modification to create conditions right to attract the most midichlorians into their cells. Their lightsaber? Emits ultraviolet light, invisible to most species
There's also the idea that aiwha aren't native to Kamino, instead being related to the thrantas from Alderaan
I can supply a specimen for dissection if needed. 1,000 republic credits.
The kaminoans may have ultraviolet markings on their skin.
Does anyone else remember when Kal'Buir threatened to eat a Kaminoan with his special hot sauce?
Can't wait to see the Nausicaans vid
Great Index! I would like to know about the Nausicaans.
To distinguish between legends and canon u could have like a badge in the corner that says legends or cannon and switch between them so u don't need to specifiy
Maybe they saw into ultraviolet because they had a bluer sun. Maybe their suns light output peakeed in blue so instead of seeing red, green and blue they saw green, blue and UV.
*the Kaminoan's eyes must have adapted or are well suited to stronger UV light than human eyes could tolerate over an extended time... for humans extended exposure to UV light increases your risk of developing macular degeneration...could explain why the stormtroopers were such bad shots...but that's just a personal theory and may be totally inaccurate within established and accepted canon*
I seem to remember a legends source that said the Kaminoans are quite obsessed with manners, and because of their unfamiliarity with humans, they assume Obi-Wan’s confusion about the clone order is a strange politeness ritual, which is why they play along with it. Hutts please, but Nausicaans would be ok. Hutts are cooler.
these guys are one of only two races i find interesting,
in episodes 1 2 and 3,
the basilisks being the other one,
i would like to hear more about them,
some day.
(the race that Dexter Jettster is a member of.)
0:59 did you mess up editing there?
I would love to learn more about the Huts.
If you don't pick the Nausicaans, you have no guramba!
how about you cover some of the races from the Stargate universe?
uv light could be a close range communication under water, as other type of light could be seen from furthure away making it a bad social option in evolution.
Naughty Nausicaans next, neighbor!
I wish we had more data on the Umbarans
So if they're extragalactic in origin, and if we're to assume they're taller 3m form is the result of genetic manipulation to adapt to a water environment, then could we assume that their original form more closely resembles that of an Alien Grey and that they may have spread to many galaxies from their own?
UV Sight is rather common in legends:
scifi.stackexchange.com/a/81446
Apparently those species can color their ships in UV color paint, resulting a coloration that humans can not see. Every species without UV sight just sees the white baseline color.
However it may also be beneficial for some genetic engineering parts. Similar to a dark room - just using UV instead of Red lighting.
How awesome! 👍🏻👍🏻
Perhaps, there is a set of Gill's concealed within the nostril slits.
I would have loved to see a Kaminoan as a member of Krayt's One Sith. Yellow eyes, tatted up all to fuck, maybe helping create more stormtroopers
I'd like to see an index on the visitors from V
Heh. P. Rime minister ( visual text issue ) good video tho
I think you would like the andalites from the animorphs books and show they are a honorable race that has interesting and understandable laws about dealing with alien races. Then there arch enemy the parasitic yerks have a parliament of 13 that is interesting
Loved the Generation Tech joke, dolphins try to have sex with me all the time and I don't even live near the ocean.
The UV thing would help seeing blood in the water.
Generation tech has entered the chat.
Humanity First! Don't let the dolphins catch you off guard.
Do you think it's worth it to do a cultural index on the Tarellians from the TNG series? I don't know how much information is out there but I am interested in their bio weaponry capabilities and history.
Hehehhe them generation tech bois know something we don't
In Legends the only known Jedi Kaminoan is called Kina Ha and is over 3,000 years old.
501st by Karen Traviss
I did come across that, but I think it was mentioned her lifespan was due to genetic modification.
@@CertifiablyIngame Yeah she was modified for early hyperspace travel.
were is this cominaity tab? also since its being a while since i mentioned this. i hope one day we get an index on the zerg from star craft
Go to his home page, and a tab that says Community will be right about in the middle of the screen..ish. Depends on the screen size and resolution i suppose. it's the fourth one over from the left.
please do a video about the hutts & their slaves & the slaves costumes in star wars
Is that the Jupiter 2 at 10:22?
Does it just drift there in wild space?
Legends is the real cannon anyway.
think I heard something about animals seeing UV light to hunt better
Nausicaans would be better as there are like hundreds of hutt culture vids
White walls or Extra Wavelength projected 3D computer code art.
Could do cultural index on the saiyans of Dragonball Z?
They look like more youthful prophets.
Kamino, huh? "Clonedyke"?!?
Hutts would be fun
There is something fishy about the Kaminoans
The Naasicaans. Especially given the DS9 episode of Klingon mutual aid involvement. Much to the chagrin and horror of Federation onlookers, after a critical battle, Mortog brazenly complimented the Naasicaans on their tactical efforts in that moment of interstellar diplomacy, and offered the entire species empirical [something like equality for them.] The non-xenophobic moment was downplayed majorly due to the fact that Kling and Naasic are often seen as the enemy of the Federation. For STO advocates however, these are our allies and crew members in galactic defense who we rely on a daily basis in the 25th C. Hey, the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the True Way are extremely problematic for the Alpha and Beta quadrants alike, to say nothing of Gamma, etc. That shameless act of non-xenophobia by [was he chancellor by then?] General Mortog is of course one of many such exemplification on Star Trek, and that sounds like a very long video Ric!!!! In today's time though, perhaps a much needed critical analysis.
Do they drive caminos?
You know, uv light can easily pass through clouds
Y'know, if you think about it, the Kaninoans are just as reprehensible as the Zygerrian Empire. The only difference is the Kaninoans GROW their slaves instead of abducting them.
Hutts please.
Wha galaxy are these from?
👍
Hutts next
Legends is better than cannon material, by far.
Nausicaans please!
The thing is, if it wasn't for Disney's BS Power Grab...everything in the Expanded Universe was considered canon. It wasn't Legends before Disney proclaimed it to be so. I SO wish this video could have been made back then! Yes, I'm still VERY salty after what Disney abolished, so there wouldn't be a "canon" source to contradict their BS about a Dark-intent Force Witch (Nightsister), who were HUMANS, somehow giving birth to and raising a Dark Side Zabrak (Maul). If you want more on my reason for loathing Disney's establishment of the EU as "Legends" and non-canon, read The Courtship of Princess Leia.
Just like the simulations
I vote for the Hutts
Is someone dropping hints of a future gen tech crossover I wonder
Legends are more canon than the new fanfic movies.
Humanity First!
Do nausicaans
Nausicaans please.
Norsicans
Awwww yes the Fish Mengele.
I vote nausicans