Generally considered to be strange by other species, the Bith were a sentient humanoid species whose most distinguishing features were their large eyes, high cranial bone and lack of a prominent nasal organ. These features made them one of the most recognizable species in the galaxy, although they otherwise resembled other humanoids in possessing a torso with two arms, two legs and a single head. A Bith’s two large eyes contained large black pupils that were capable of picking up a large range of wavelengths and so gave the species remarkable eyesight.

Beneath a Bith’s eyes were a series of olfactory facial folds, although these were not used for respiration by the species, which instead absorbed air through its skin. Along with their lack of a nose, Bith lacked any visually obvious auditory organs, but despite this the species had very sensitive hearing, with loud noises causing them a great deal of pain.

Bith society on their homeworld of Bith was divided into city-states, a governance system that functioned smoothly despite being so chaotic. Bith culture changed radically following the Nozho–Weogar War that devastated their homeworld, with the population split between those quarantined permanently on Bith, and those out in the galaxy who were unable to ever return.

Following the terrible cost of the conflict, the species became pacifistic, not through any cultural tradition, but instead due to historical exhaustion with conflict. The offworld members of the species experienced losing a home without it physically being gone, and a cultural split formed between them and those still on the planet, who eventually managed to stabilize their culture and government. Despite this split, all Bith use their species civil war as an object lesson on the futility of violence.

The Bith were a colonial species who had migrated and adapted to dominate many worlds,[13] but many of those unable to return to the quarantined world struggled to make a living after migrating to the Outer Rim. Due to species’s strong history of adaptation, some of those struggling eventually became musicians. Those that did became well known in the field despite Bith possessing no greater innate talent for music than any other species. Never-the-less, through misconception and exaggeration by the galactic community, the species quickly gained a reputation for its musical skill alongside its intelligence and peaceful ways.