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== History and Culture ==
Kroot live in kindreds, which function somewhere between mercenary companies, extended tribal families and nomadic warbands. A kindred can vary in size greatly, and each has its own codes, traditions, scent-variants, as well as skin pigmentations.{{Fn|18a}}
Bonds between members of a kindred are extremely close, and to attack one Kroot is to raise the ire of its entire kindred. Kroot within a kindred are able to identify each other by scent, vocalizations such as squawks and howls, and the rattle of their quills when they smell blood.{{Fn|18a}}
Kroot greatly revere their ancestors. Known collectively as the Roots, the ancestors are venerated for conserving the wisdom, knowledge and strands that enabled the Kroot of the present to live and continue their family lines.{{Fn|18a}}
Kroots operate in a clan-based culture across the various homeworlds. These clans are overseen by Elders, who dispatch Kroot across the galaxy, often to serve as Mercenaries in order to strengthen the clan via genetic absorption.{{Fn|12}}
