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Starweird

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Starweird

Physical characteristics

Hair color

White^[1]

"Aphra, what is that?!"
"No way—it looks like aStarweird?! All the records say they'reextinct—"

―Luke Skywalker and Chelli Lona Aphra^[2]

Starweirds were ancient creatures that resonated withthe Force and were considered a great and terrible power. These creatures were capable of attacking by emitting a powerful sound that could reach a height comparable to that of astarfighter engine, causing great pain to their victims and perhaps even making their ears bleed. It was considerably difficult to injure Starweirds in a way that really affected them.Blasters were not very effective. Even having practically its entire body impaled, a Starweird could continue to pursue its target. They inhabited the vacuum of space and were considered extinct until the last years of theImperial Era.^[2] During the time of theClone Wars, one wassealed away byJedi Masters Aayla Secura andShaak Ti in theJedi prison known as theSason Temple onSason.^[1] Between3 ABY and4 ABY,^[3] the roguearchaeologist Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra and the JediLuke Skywalker accidentally released the Starweird during Aphra's attempt to recoverKythoo's Bell, which she believed to be aJedi artifact, but was in fact a security system installed at the temple to help keep the Starweird sealed.^[1] After a difficult confrontation, the duo was able to defeat the Starweird.^[2]

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Behind the scenes[]

Starweird, although unnamed, was initially revealed through a variant cover done byKyle Hotz onApril 10,2023, duringCelebration Europe.^[4] However, it was brought back intocanon through thethirty-third issue of the2020 comic book seriesStar Wars: Doctor Aphra,^[1] which was written byAlyssa Wong, illustrated byMinkyu Jung, and published byMarvel Comics onJune 28, 2023.^[5] The species was later identified in thethirty-fourth issue of the same series,^[2] which was also written by Wong and published by Marvel onJuly 19, 2023.^[6]