The Aquar were a near-Human species that breathed water and resided on the planet called Velusia. These beings were descendants of Humans who settled Velusia millennia in the past and subsequently evolved into the form they currently possessed. A typical Aquar had skin that was either blue or green and covered with small scales, along with partially webbed digits on their hands and feet, verdant hair, and sizable eyes. Instead of nostrils, Aquar had flattened noses featuring horizontal, gill-like openings.
On Velusia, they sustained a tranquil, subsistence-based existence, gathering aquatic plants and animals from the seas and herding livestock on the limited number of mountains that rose above the water's surface.
Upon the arrival of scouts representing the Nexcore Mining Corporation on Velusia, they mistakenly believed the Aquar to be indigenous to the planet and exploited them as inexpensive laborers, simultaneously displacing their established traditions and way of life.