Chadra-Fan culture was greatly affected by the tendency of hurricanes and tsunamis to wash away their bayou homes (as happened in 10 BBY, when a "Death-Wave" wiped out much of their civilization). As a result Chadra-Fan slept during the midday in their temporary dwelling that hung from cyperill trees. They all had an instinctive fear of drowning in water. They regarded very few things as permanent, seeking only to enjoy themselves in the moment. Many Chadra-Fan that left their homeworld went to arid planets, in order to escape any chance of drowning.

Chadra-Fan loved to tinker with mechanical devices, often disassembling and reassembling them into something completely different. Chadra-Fan living in the greater galaxy sometimes worked in industrial research, by creating unique devices which engineers of other species with more conventional talents attempted to duplicate. Their inventions were even considered collectible and pieces of art. Chadra-Fan constructed many of their creations individually, though they were capable of mass-production.

Chadra-Fan, if left alone, suffered from strong depression that would kill them in a matter of weeks. Thus, Chadra-Fan were not very picky when it came to friends and preferred complete strangers to loneliness. Many Chadra-Fan were taken offworld as slaves, but they took this positively by thinking of it as a big adventure. They were also a jovial race, who almost always got on well with others. Only the most evil acts against them would make them think otherwise. Chadra-Fan were generally excellent team members and were extremely forgiving or so ignorant that they forgot any failings within a group. Chadra-Fan, thus, could be found with various criminals because they were so unobservant or accommodating.

Responsibility:

When Teshi was only 5 years old, the cataclysm known as "The Big One" rocked his homeworld of Chad. As the water rushed out to sea, it revealed a veritable treasure-trove of salvage in the form of crashed ships and containers that had previously been too difficult to recover. In the excitement, his family raced out to gather as much as they could from the exposed sea floor, leaving Teshi to take care of his newly born sister and his aging grand-matron. Nobody was prepared for the water to return as a tsunami. The Death-Wave and its resulting destruction, caused severe famine, drought, and disease.

Though young, Teshi found he had a knack for engineering. Even for a Chadra-Fan, his constructions were astoundingly robust and efficient, but had a side of simplicity and elegance to them. He quickly found his talents were in demand building shelters and other infrastructure in the wave of the cataclysm. He took advantage of his innate ability to provide enough for his sister Tenada and his Grand-Matriarch Tekli, the only surviving relatives he had left.

10 years later, when Grand-Matriarch Tekli passed away, the responsibility of leading their rebuilt village passed to his sister Tenada.

Knowing his village was stable under the quiet and thoughtful Leadership of his sister, Teshi adventured out into the great black of space to find a more profitable way of providing for his village. He now sends back as many resources as he can spare and as often as he can, to support the village under his sister's Leadership.

Chadra-Fan had seven different senses—sight, touch, taste, sound, smell, infrared sight, and chemoreceptive smell—all of which were much more acute than Human senses. They were usually no more than a meter tall, some depicted with plantigrade two-toed feet, while others seemed to have four-toed feet. The metabolism of Chadra-Fan was amazingly fast, allowing them to work almost constantly. They only slept in two hour naps during the day. Because of their metabolism, the average Chadra-Fan matured by age fifteen and rarely lived more than forty years. Teshi is 20 standard years of age.

Chadra-Fan were covered from head to foot in fur. Their species evolved from small, arboreal rodents. They were unique in the fact that they had clear blood.
The race were small but quick witted creatures that resembled rodents. Their combination of infrared sight, hypersensitive sense of smell as well as keen hearing made them physically and mentally perceptive beings.