Speciesist slurs & stereotypes

By Drubbels, in Star Wars: Force and Destiny RPG

I'm idly playing with ideas for a mission (F&D or AoR) where the players would have to go undercover at the Chancellor Eixes Valorum Campus of the prestigious Galactic City University. Since this is an aboveground part of Coruscant at the height of the Empire's power, I figured there should be some local scene-setting in the form of a radical COMPNOR student group on campus: wearing matching black uniforms, blasting the Imperial March from speakers, and throwing insults at any nonhuman students or faculty they encounter. With that in mind, I started thinking about how exactly they would go about insulting various groups:

  • Droids - take your pick: call them tinnies, bucket of bolts, rust bucket, rusty... even good guy characters do it all the time in Star Wars material. Plus the association with the hated Confederate battle droids could be played up.
  • Twi'leks - worm-heads or something? Plus, to twi'lek women, they could really let sexist remarks go into overdrive.
  • Wookiees - I dunno. Lots of growling?

Generally, I'm looking for any and all stereotypes - slurs they could call them by, but also cultural/historical things they could mock - regarding non-human species, whether based in canon (old or new), or entirely speculative.

Twi'leks - Tailheads is a common one

Ithorians - Hammerheads, throats

Wookiees - Walking carpet, talking about how nice the pelt would look on their wall, basically treating them like something to be hunted

Rodians - Bugeyes, insects

Cereans - Coneheads

I could do this all day

Also think about more "civilized" insult options. Mere name-calling is obvious hatered, more useful to role-play may be arguments about how a species or culture is "wrong" or "inferior."

So like Twi'lek culture considers indentured service to be acceptable. When done as a form of apprenticeship it's probably no big deal, especially to someone from Ryloth. To a coreward COMPNOR SaGroup member it's a culture that sells it's youth offworld to the profit of its elders...

Wee'Quays - Stinkers

Nautolan - Squidheads

Quarren - Squidface

Mon Calamari - Fish, Fishface

Any Sil 0 species - Shorty, Little one etc.

Any Insectoid - Bugs

Any Reptilian - Lizard, Scaleface

Hutt - Slugs

Shistavanen - Doggie

1 hour ago, Alisair Longreach said:

Any Sil 0 species

Edited by Edgehawk
disregard. wrong embed code.
1 hour ago, Alisair Longreach said:

Any Sil 0 species