Ardennians were a sentient species that were native to Ardennia. Due to their physical nature of being extremely agile and quick in combat, they were well-suited to military professions. They had four arms and prehensile toes. The Ardennian Rio Durant operated as a pilot and criminal with Beckett's gang, and Chio Fain worked as a slicer.
Their prehensile toes and multiple limbs meant that Ardennians were well-suited to military professions, as they could be extremely agile and quick in combat. These traits also made tasks such as preparing food easier, suggesting that many if not all Ardennians were good cooks. Members of the species could be capable pilots, skilled tacticians, and lovers of good stories. Ardennians enjoyed mynock roasts on Ardennia.
The Ardennian Chio Fain
Several Ardennians were passengers aboard the Legacy Run when it became involved in the hyperspace accident known as the Great Hyperspace Disaster during the High Republic Era. Retar and other members of the Ardennian Guild of Technicians attended the Valo Republic Fair.
Rio Durant, a fighter with Freedom's Sons in his youth, operated as a criminal in Tobias Beckett's gang. He posed as an Imperial Army mudtrooper on Mimban during the Mimban Campaign, as part of a heist to commandeer a Y-45 armored transport hauler. Though Rio attempted to blend in as a humanoid, his strange gait and surprising number of arms were noticeable, and fellow mudtrooper Corporal Han Solo correctly identified him as an Ardennian after watching him use his lower arms to hike up his pants. Durant participated in a heist on Vandor, but was fatally shot by one of Enfys Nest's Cloud-Riders.
During the era of the Galactic Empire, the Ardennian Chio Fain worked as a slicer alongside his partner Rone until Rone's death in a skirmish with TIE fighters, after which Fain joined Beilert Valance's team in an effort to hunt down and kill Darth Vader.
In the New Republic era, an Ardennian was present as a prisoner on the New Republic Correctional Transport Bothan-5 when Ranzar Malk's crew launched a rescue of the Twi'lek prisoner Qin.
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