Shawda Ubb are diminutive amphibians from Manpha - a small, wet world located on the Corellian Trade Route in the Outer Rim Territories. The frog-like aliens have long, gangly limbs and wide-splayed fingers. Their rubbery skin is a mottled greenish-gray, except on their pot-bellies, where it lightens to a subdued lime-green. Well-defined ridges run across the forehead, keeping Manpha's constant rains out of their eyes. The females lay one to three eggs a year - usually only one egg "quickens" and hatches.
Shawda Ubb feel most comfortable in small communities where everyone knows everyone. Hundreds of thousands of small towns and villages dot the marshlands and swamps of Manpha's single continent. Life is simple in these communities; the Shawda Ubb do not evidence much interest in adopting the technological trappings of a more advanced culture, though they have the means and capital to do so.
There are exceptions. Many of these small communities engage in cottage-industry oil-refining, pumping the rich petroleum that bubbles up out of the swamps into barrels. They sell their oil to the national oil companies based in the capital city of Shanpan. There, factories process the oil into high-grade plastics for export. A large network of orbital transports and shuttles have sprung up to service these numerous community oil cooperatives. Shanpan hosts the only spaceport on the planet.
Shawda Ubb subsist on swamp grasses and raw fish. Industries have grown up all around transporting foodstuffs from place to place (particularly to Shanpan), but they do not take well to cooked or processed food. | 
