Lasat are an obscure species from the far reaches of the Outer Rim. Their homeworld, Lasan, is a warm, arid planet with extensive desert and plains, separated by high mountains. The Lasat are well-adapted to this environment, with large, thin, pointed, heat-dissipating ears; a light fur that insulates against the cold desert night, small oral and nasal openings; and large eyes facilitating twilight vision. They are carnivores with canines in the forward section of the mouth and bone-crushing molars behind. They are covered with light-brown fur - longer in males than females. The face, hands and tail are hairless, and the males' heads tend to bald as they grow older.
Lasat tend to be furtive, self-centered, indirect, and sneaky. Though carnivores, they typically capture their food by trapping, not hunting. They always call themselves by name, but only use pronouns to refer to others.
Lasat technology ranges from late stone age to early feudal. More primitive tribes use stick-and-hair traps to catch small game, and nets and spears to catch larger game. The more technologically advanced Lasat keep semi-domesticated herds of herbivores. "Civilized" Lasat are in the process of developing simple metal-working. Lasat chemistry is disproportionally advanced - superior fermentation and, interestingly, simply but potent explosives are at the command of the city-states, under the control of precursor scientists-engineers (although the Lasat word for these professionals would correspond more closely to the Basic word "magician").
Little trade has occured between the Lasat and the galaxy. Some free-traders have landed there, but have found little to export beyond the finely wooven Lasat rugs and tapestries. | 
