#Neimodian

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Trade Federation Bridge

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:03:41

#Saak'ak #Lucrehulk-class LH-3210 #control bridge #control signal computer #Trade Federation #OOM pilot battle droid #pilot navigation station #Viceroy Nute Gunray #Lieutenant Jull Dremon #TC-14 #Captain Daultay Dofine #underfloor navigation computers #Star Wars #Episode I #The Phantom Menace #Trade Federation battleship #Neimodian

[strzygiiupiory]

Rebel moon be like

#rebel moon #rebel moon the scargiver #zack snyder #that admiral is like if amon goeth and bald guy from dune had a child #and the red dudes are like red pretorian guard but kind of moder talzin x cato neimodians that are sith #star wars #and they're quite literally talking through holocrons #and then there's the “chłopi” vibes #peasants 2023

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Star Wars and racism

Normally I don't like to talk about this topic and given Tumblr's reputation I might as well have a ''kick me'' written on my back but just like those people are allowed to write pages upon pages about how star wars is ‘‘problematic’‘ I’m  allowed to disagree. And I'm sure a lot of people have similar opinions but are too afraid to show it.

1. ‘’An alien has an accent therefore it's a caricature of whatever people have this accent.’‘ It's a huge galaxy with thousands of different species, planets, and cultures. Of course, not everybody will speak the same way. I think it's pretty cool and accurate. 

2. ‘’Toydarians, Muuns and Trandoshans are Jewish stereotypes.’‘ It's just like the Orc argument. If you think any of those creatures and your immediate thought is, Jew, maybe you're the racist.

Watto is the poster child of the Jewish star wars stereotype and I never understood that. Because of his accent? Because of his nose? When we see more Toydarians in the Clone Wars, we see they are nicer and nobler than Watto. Their clothes and their king's saber remind me of Polish szlachta. And even Watto has a great backstory that explains his selfish and greedy behavior. Basically, he took part in a war that left him traumatized and he took it out on others.

Random person: Then why didn't they explained it in the movie?

Me: Because that's not what the movie is about.

Random person: How was I supposed to know that not every single member of this species is an asshole?

Me: Basic logic. Just because a white person, a man, a Chinese person, or whoever was mean to you doesn't mean that everybody is like that.

Muun noses help them warm up to the cold air in the mountains that they live in. Their architecture is similar to that of Greece. In the clone wars, we see that they have somewhat of a clockwork theme. Because they're so good at math. That's more of the Alps and the Switzerland inspiration.

Neimoidians have Asian accents and hats. But their clothes and jewelry is more similar to the European aristocracy. Even their guards look Spanish to me.

Long story short the star wars aliens aren't supposed to represent one single group of people. They’re a mishmash of multiple things to create something completely new and alien.

Trandoshans were never a Jewish allegory. The voice actress for Cid is Jewish and some dumb people come to the conclusion that now all Trandoshans are Jewish. Cid is a Trandoshan! She's not even the villain. The actress was chosen because her voice fits the character. Also, Cid has a bar and her VA played in the show Cheers. This is grasping at straws to create a controversy.

3. ‘’But there are bad guys who are racist.’‘ ''But this guy was a victim of speciesism! Why is he a bad guy?'' ''But these are good guys why are they racist to other species?''

It's almost as if things aren't so black and white.

Someone can spontaneously be discriminated against and discriminate against other people. Chiss think of themselves as the best in the galaxy. Meanwhile, Thrawn is being looked down upon for being not human. A taste of his own medicine in a way. And it doesn't look like he thinks ''This is terrible! No one should be treated this way!'', it's more like ''I'm going to put up with this until I get to rule you all, you pathetic humans.''

That one episode of the rebels in which pretty much everybody calls the last Geonosian ''the bug''. Or during the Umbara arc when our beloved clones call the Umbarans ''shadow people''. Or how in the unfinished Utapau arc Anakin is a dick to a Toydarian because he reminded him of Watto. Or how Anakin hates Hutts, even a baby.

It's almost like the characters can have grudges against their enemies or form their opinions on their worst experiences.

Besides, in a galaxy where you can die any number of ways, be enslaved, full of alcohol, drugs, crime, and other terrible things name calling isn't that big of a deal.

It also shows the tragedy of it all. Every species suffered in some way and if they were allowed to talk about it and bond they might've been friends.

It’s getting long. I might write a part 2 or responses if I get any comments.

#star wars #star wars the clone wars #star wars rebels #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #Toydarian #muun #neimodians #tbb cid #agent kallus #Garazeb Orrelios #zeb #star wars the clone wars season 7 #Trandoshans #neimoidians #Neimoidian

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#star wars campaign #campaign star wars #sw campaign #campaign sw #campaign podcast #campaignpod #neimodian sparks #neemo #bacta

[yiliy]

I'm really curious how other people interpret this scene.

OBI-WAN: I have a bad feeling about this.

QUI-GON: I don't sense anything.

OBI-WAN: It's not about the mission, Master. It's something... elsewhere... elusive...

QUI-GON: Don't center on your anxiety, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs.

OBI-WAN: But Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future...

QUI-GON: ...but not at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the Living Force, my young Padawan.

My first impression is that Qui-Gon Jinn is right and the point was to show Obi-Wan Kenobi is still a Padawan and has more to learn. This was confirmed in a book I read (can't remember which one right now since there are several) written by a Buddhist analyzing Star Wars, where he confirms one's focus should stay on here and now.

On the other hand, Obi-Wan was 100% right here. They were about to be poisoned, attacked by droids, discover a whole invasion army, and on top of that Neimodians are chatting with a Sith Lord just a few bulkheads away.

It's not clear which of the things that happened are what Obi-Wan sensed, especially as he says it's not related to their mission, but it was definitely something real (my best guess is Sith revealing themselves), but if Qui-Gon had heeded Obi-Wan's warning they could have gained an upper hand instead of only manged to react once the bad things already happened.

Equally interesting is the choice to have Qui-Gon say: "I don't sense anything." He could have confirmed Obi-Wan's feeling and then said it's important not to let those feelings distract them. Instead we learn he doesn't manage to sense what Obi-Wan, a mere padawan, does, and even blames it on Obi-Wan's "anxieties."

[stagbeetleboy]

Sending my freakish half neimodian grub half human infant son to the Jedi so I don’t have to deal with it anymore.

[roseaesynstylae]

Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact, Chapter 3

"The Neimodians had a taste for elaborate and wholly inappropriate grandeur, and Ghez Hokan despised them for it.

Lik Ankkit's huge villa was set on top of a hill overlooking a kushayan plantation -- a foolish choice given the prevailing winds, but it seemed to satisfy the Neimodian's need to show he was boss. The location might have made sense from a military perspective, but -- as Ankkit was a bean-counting coward like all his kind -- he didn't need defensibility, either.

No, the Neimodian was a di'kut. A complete and utter di'kut."

Say what you like about Hokan, but he's a great person to kick off the Di'kut Count.

I've always felt that the Neimodians get way too much hatred in-universe. The novel Brotherhood agrees with me.

I agree with Hokan's feelings on ostentatious grandeur; in fiction or in reality, it gives me a massive headache.

Di'kut Count: 3

"Fulier couldn't have been good at calculating odds or he'd have never on Gar-Ul in the tavern. But at least he was prepared to stand up for himself, despite all that mystical nonsense he spouted. Hokan admired guts, even if he rarely tolerated them. They were always in short supply."

This is coming from the villain, so I was debating whether or not to put it on the Jedi-Bashing count; after all, we aren't supposed to side with him. But, as I've previously mentioned, I am not cutting this series even a molecule of slack when it comes to how it regards the Jedi. Can't you just hear Traviss behind the page, commenting that a Mandalorian would have calculated the odds and defeated Hokan easily?

Jedi-Bashing: 4

"Niner wanted to laugh, but you didn't laugh at a Jedi, especially one who seemed to care what happened to you."

This is one of the lines that wouldn't be a problem if it was written by anyone else.

Also, "seemed" to care? Again, if it were anyone else... I'll just say that Plo Koon is living proof that the Jedi genuinely care about the clones.

Jedi-Bashing: 5

"Ah. For all their skills and wisdom, there were still some things the Jedi didn't know. Niner hesitated to to lecture Jusik.

[...]

It wasn't Jusik's fault. He had far bigger issues to worry about. There was no reason for a Jedi commander to concern himself with the details of a clone commando's life. But Niner thought he probably would, and he admired the Padawan all the more for that."

I don't know how many times I'm going to end up saying this (I suspect a lot), but I would not have any issues with these lines if they weren't written by Karen Traviss.

Jedi-Bashing: 6

"He meant good luck. He wanted them to survive.

Niner, who had known for as long as he could remember that he was a soldier bred to die, found that intriguing."

Okay, this is just depressing. The clones' lives are incredibly sad and become more so with every new installment.

Jedi-Bashing: 6

Di'kut Count: 3

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#star wars #star wars read through #star wars republic commando #republic commando #repcomm #ghez hokan #niner skirata #bardan jusik #pro jedi #karen traviss critical #star wars: republic commando #omega squad

[2stepadmiral]

Vader saved Nute Gunray for last.

More than that, he gave Gunray a chance to beg for his life, knowing full well that nothing the grubby little viceroy could say would ever save him. After cutting down every other Separatist leader in front of him, possibly actively timing his movements to make it seem that Gunray was just lucky, possibly deliberately trying not to kill him and to give him hope of survival in the process, Vader leapt across the room, stood before the pathetic Neimodian, and waited. Waited for him to realize that he might be able to save his skin, waited for him to start begging. None of the others had gotten the opportunity. Vader had cut them down without a moment’s hesitation, but Nute got a few moments to try and talk his way out of his imminent demise, got a small dose of hope mixed with the additional moments of added terror, before Vader had ended him.

Because of all of the Separatist leaders, Nute Gunray was the one Anakin had hated the most.

Wat Tambor had tried to burn Ryloth and it’s people when he lost. Poggle had tried to turn him and Obi Wan into mindless slaves and had been ready to let Ahsoka become one as well. The Muuns had likely enabled Clovis, or at least been associates of his.

But Gunray? Gunray had tried to invade Naboo, and had spent years afterwards trying to murder Padme. He’d sent bounty hunter after bounty hunter after her, gloated as she had been sentenced to death on Geonosis, and had even tried luring her into his clutches on Rodia. He’d taken time out of the middle of the largest war in over a thousand years, a war in which he was a crucial figure, to try and hurt Padme.

And for that, Gunray needed to suffer, as anyone else who would hurt Padme would suffer.

In Gunray’s final moments, as he pleaded with the new dark lord to see that the massacre was a pointless betrayal, Vader felt his fear, and felt it strengthen him. He felt it flow through him, along with the quiet hatred he’d tried to suppress since Naboo, the hatred he now unleashed in full, as his saber slashed across Gunray’s torso. In Gunray’s final scream of pain and terror, Vader felt a rush of power. It was the first time Vader had used someone’s fear, but it would not be the last.

#star wars #anakin skywalker #darth vader #lord vader #sith #sith lord #dark lord #mustafar #separatists #confederacy of independent systems #nute gunray #viceroy #wat tambor #geonosis #clone wars #star wars the clone wars #ryloth #darth sidious #anakin and padme #padme naberrie #padme amidala #queen amidala #senator amidala #galactic empire

[responderandrew]

I finished reading star wars: brotherhood

There will be slight spoilers on this post

Okay so I really liked it!

The book is mainly obi-wan and Anakin chapters but there are some chapters with other characters pov

I gotta say really loved the obi wan chapters. The Anakin chapters were good but not as good.

The other characters chapters were quite good too.

A lot of the book is about neimodians and their home planet and it's nice to learn more about that species's culture and history.

Also in this book we have asajj ventress first meeting with obi-wan and anakin so that's neat. Specially since we have some chapters from her pov

Overall it's a good book although not perfect. Recommend if you want to read More about the prequel era

8/10

#star wars #star wars books #star wars:brotherhood #anakin #obi wan kenobi #asajj ventress

[supersanderman]

Sci-Tech Camps and A Few Fandoms

Oh… welcome back. I’m glad you decided to keep reading, clearly, you tolerated my first post enough to want to keep reading. I hope that you learned something from my first post, either about me, how universal some experiences are, or that learning takes time. If you learned nothing then hopefully this time around will be a little more educational.

So let’s continue the story of how I got to where I am today, and the biggest step was a Jewish Sci Tech camp in the middle of Massachusetts. It for many was a home away from home, and for me it was no different. I had gone there during its first three years of operation, becoming a pioneer camper and loving every step of it. The camp used a boarding school as home base, and they, as John Hammond in Jurrasic Park said, “spared no expense.” It was magical and as a kid I felt like I was in wonderland. Finally a place where I could be a nerd with people who were also Jewish. A place where everyone liked Star Wars and Marvel and Mario. 

Now flash forward to the summer of the second pandemic year of 2021, and I am a jobless soon to be junior in college. I hated my old camp, the toxicity could poision a person a mile away. I was done working for a place that did nothing for me, and made me feel like shit. So I decided to look into jobs at my old camp, a place where I felt at home. I was offered a position on the spot and I was ready to begin a new. And boy did I begin a new.

It actually probably started during staff training. Many of the people there were part of the LGBTQ+ community, and we had a training on what to do with kids who were questioning their identiy and how to make camp a safe space. I, at this point, was also questioning my identity and I knew I definitely wasn’t straight but I also didn’t feel I was queer. I had said if “how queer are you on a scale of 1 to 10” was the question, where 1 was straight and 10 was queer, I’d be a 3 or a 4. Definitely not entirely straight but not fully gay, bi or queer. And that was just fine. And then, as most things go, shit hit the fan and I once again began to question everything. I began to have feelings for a non-binary person named Caden. I soon came to learn that they also had feelings for me. I was filled with so many emotions, and I wasn’t sure where to place all of them. Long story short, we were alone one night, as close to a date at sleep away camp could be, and I hesitated, then I may have trauma dumped. It wasn’t pretty. We both became awkward until the third session where we finally got a chance to talk and we came to a mutual understanding and were back to being friends. But that night solidified everything I was feeling was real, and not just in my head. But that didn’t stop the imposter syndrome from hitting my brain like a truck speeding down the freeway. We would have prideday fridays and I would wear a shirt with a unicorn and a rainbow, but when I wore it, I felt off. Like I was lying to myself. It hurt, but I realized that those feelings were valid. It took some crying, some feeling helpless, some talking to people, but I was able to work through it. 

Other than that emotional journey of epic proportions, I got to run events and activities based on some of my favorite fandoms. My favorite was for an elective we had an activity I ran called something something something dark side, a family guy reference, where the campers had to design a new and improved death star and we would determine a winner based on a number of categories. And with that its time to break two fandoms down. Being at a sci tech camp we love Star Wars and Harry Potter but oh boy do they have issues. Both have been plagued with gross stereotypes. Star Wars in particular has been criticized for its stereotyping. The Gungans, especially Jar Jar Binks, whose speech and looks such as saying “misa and yousa” and having big bulging eyes seem to be stereotyping black people. Additionally, the Neimodians accent, and mannerisms stereotype Asians. The junker Watto is a Jewish stereotype, as he is a greedy alien with a big nose. Star Wars also has a history of having token black character, Lando from the original, Mace Windu from the prequels, and Finn from the sequels, which was called out by Finn actor John Boyega. Plus there’s a random lesbian kiss in the ninth movie, which I personally forgot about which has been criticised for being forced and an example of queerbaiting. 

Harry Potter isn’t much better. Token race and ethnic characters like Cho Chang, Seamus Finnigan, and Dean Thomas/Lee Jordan, the whole goblin banker jewish stereotype, especially being bad in the new hogwarts legacy game, and of course the dumpster fire that is J.K. Rowling’s transphobic twitter. Harry Potter has tried and failed to make things better by adding a trans character to the new video game. It is hard for a lot of people to try and enjoy these fandoms after their eyes are open to just how problematic they are. Some people just decide they are done and will avoid watching star wars and reading harry potter. I personally try and understand that, while not an excuse, the books and movies were mostly made well before this new age of analysis and representation. 

And now more than every, LGBTQ+ people have been trying to mix the fandom with their identity. Fanfics and ships try to make up for the lack of LGBTQ+ representation by making traditionally staright characters gay and lesbian, something I am all for. I am the president of a Harry Potter club at Rutgers and every year we do a charity dance. Last year we donated our funds to the Trans Lifeline as a direct FU to J.K Rowling. It's not impossible to love fandoms and be aware of their flaws. The fandoms can be appreciated while also being scrutinized for their shortcomings, and hating J.K. Rowling with every fiber in your body does not have to equate to disliking Harry Potter. The hope is that these cash cows will do better and create characters who aren’t just stereotypes and tokens, but rather are characters who serve a purpose as well as represent under represented groups. From the looks of Hogwarts Legacy that may be a pipe dream, but we can hope. 

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[pykestowatchoutfor]

One or Several Amidalas

While visiting my family for the holidays I decided to take another crack at E.K. Johnston’s young adult Padme novels. I’d briefly dipped into the third book a little while ago, curious about the trans clone trooper, with the vague intention of reading the first two at some indeterminate point in the future. Well, this was the week, and I knocked out Queen’s Shadow and Queen’s Peril in short order.

These were quick reads-- they have the cushy line-spacing of a lot of YA and are not terribly long to begin with, and have a nice brisk pace. What struck me the most how comfortable they were with being a bit uneventful. I loved this. Even Queen’s Peril, which takes place in the stray interstices of The Phantom Menace and is, ostensibly, a thrilling story of wartime resistance and espionage, seems most at home when puzzling over issues of quotidian personal exigency-- the fit of a gown, the dull pain of a tightly pulled-back braid, the myriad questions of decorum and interpersonal empathy that crop up between Padme and her responsibilities and the young women imbricated in that labor.

This gives the frankly somewhat deranged customs of Naboo as seen in the movies-- elected child monarchs! with body doubles! who all have names riffing on their ruler!-- a sense of ingrained habit and custom, which modern women like Padme and Sabe and the rest can rankle at or push back against while still being part of the rhythms of those customs. Much like Charles Soule’s and Claudia Gray’s wonderful work with Leia, this all makes a character left somewhat thin in the movies (Padme much moreso than Leia, to be fair) pop as a complicated and conflicted person hurled into a rapidly escalating and chaotic situation.

A few things I like:

-Panaka is a huge weirdo, and somewhat ominous-- Johnston seems to be working backwards from the reveal that he eventually became moff of the sector. 

-Padme comes off as shrewd and intelligent but a little too eager to see the best in people. There’s a fascinating runner in Queen’s Shadow where almost every time she interacts with Palpatine she gets the clear sense that he’s lying, but she keeps rationalizing benign reasons why that might be the case.

-Sabe is fantastic, and Johnston sells the peculiar psychosexual dynamic between her and Padme with a beautiful candor and prickliness. There are moments of real discomfort and poetry surrounding Sabe’s desire to be, you know, a sexual human being, and her sense of obligation to Padme, which often takes on a heavily eroticized sense of awe and fealty. Padme herself comes off as repressed, eager to deny herself a love life, but still kind of inchoately jealous of Sabe’s freedom to flirt and mingle and fuck Richard Armitage. It makes her eventual romance with Anakin feel a bit more plausible-- they’re both deeply repressed people, unable to grapple openly with their sexuality (albeit in different ways), and so when they come together there are lines of communication that just aren’t available to them. Two profoundly weird kids locked in a depressing and tragic mess of a marriage. C’est la (star) guerre I guess!

-Sabe-- bi queen, love her, and this makes Pak’s strong work with her in Darth Vader even more compelling. The rest of the handmaidens are a bit sketchily drawn in Queen’s Shadow, but Peril does a nice job of delineating each of them more clearly. Sache in particular is another stand-out, and Rabe the little rat-fink criminal.

-For all of the verisimilitude and crunchy textural stuff Johnston gives to Naboo and life in the Coruscant political milieu, the nitty gritty of the Trade Federation still feels floaty to me. Palpatine’s stakes in the scheme and his pirouetting from position to position is super lucid and crisp in these books-- Johnston does a splendid job with an elusive character-- but the Neimodians themselves still feel a little rote. I think a lot of writers struggle with this-- it’s not like the movies give a ton to work with. 

-Every time Johnston dropped a nugget about the gungans I had to go double check it because it felt so wild. For what it’s worth she gives Jar Jar a peculiar sense of quiet dignity, and a weirdly pointed emphasis on his aesthetic sensibilities. I’m more than happy with this! It’s high time the dude caught a break and got his moment of sober poise. 

Anyway! My wife went whole hog this Christmas since we’ve both been having fun talkin’ Star Wars together, along with our sister-in-law and her best friend’s husband, and so I have on my docket: the first two books of Phase II of the High Republic, the High Republic short story collection, Dooku: Jedi Lost, and the little omnibus of novels about Hera & Kanan and Tarkin. She also had on the audiobook of Thrawn on the drive down to my mom’s house, but frankly I spent much of that trip napping and could not tell you much about the travails of Thrawn and his twink. 

[campaigncharacterbracket]

Round two of the Campaign Character bracket polls are now live! Go vote for your favorite characters! Links to all the polls are below the cut!

Here is a link to the bracket if you’re interested!

I’m also running a twin of these polls on my twitter! Whichever character wins the Tumblr polls will be going head-to-head against the winner of the twitter polls!

2x1: Tryst Valentine vs Chartreuse 2x2: Neimodian Sparks vs Bacta 2x3: Minister Blue vs Tony Vornskr 2x4: Pliff Swalk vs Tamlin Jorun 2x5: Agent Zero vs Venton Geelo 2x6: Leenik Geelo vs Binbon 2x7: Aava Arek vs Bort 2x8: Rendezvous Valentine vs Lyntel'luroon

#star wars campaign #campaign star wars #sw campaign #campaign sw #campaign podcast #campaignpod #tryst valentine #leenik geelo #minister blue #tamlin jorun #lyntel luroon #aava arek #lets fucking goooooo!!

[frustrationinexcelsis]

Random Star Wars Species Trivia

Mostly taken from Legends sources, but some bits are from current canon as well:

Humans were one of the first species to spread into the galaxy when space travel was re-invented after the fall of the old precursor empires, and in the tens of millennia between the first slower-than-light ships heading out and the Republic being eventually formed and slowly spreading across the galaxy several isolated human colonies gradually became new species and subspecies of their own. Basically every species that looks like a human with one or two odd traits, like odd skin colors or different numbers of fingers or the like, is descended from an ancient human colony.

Relatedly, Twi’leks descend from human slaves that were subjected to genetic experiments by the Rakata, a precursor empire that once ruled most of the galaxy and enslaved all species it encountered.

Duros -- Cad Bane’s species -- were also early developers of spaceflight and developed a number of offshoot species in the same manner; the only named one in the franchise so far are the Neimodians. Duros don’t like Neimodians much and find being confused with them to be incredibly insulting.

Togrutas (like Ahsoka and Shaak Ti) are hypercarnivores, meaning they eat nothing but meat and mostly prefer it raw. One of their favorite foods is a kind of rodent from their homeworld, which has a physiological quirk that causes its nervous system to fire off random signals postmortem and thus twitch and thrash for a while after being killed. The traditional way to enjoy this delicacy is to kill it with a bite to the neck and tuck in while it’s still wriggling.

Wookiees have retractable claws, but have a very strong cultural taboo against using them for anything other than climbing or working, as they consider self-control to be a defining trait of intelligent beings. Wookiees who use their claws for physical violence, even against animals, are termed Madclaws, considered to be bestial savages and exiled.

Trandoshans can regrow whole limbs.

The Trandoshan and Wookiee homeworlds are in the same solar system; the two species have consequently been in contact for most of their history, and absolutely despise each other. The Trandoshans hate the Wookiees for having a lot of advantages they were denied (Trandoshans are lucky to hit fifty years of age while Wookiees routinely top four centuries, and Kashyyyk is much more fertile and welcoming than Hsskhor) that they “squander” by remaining a pre-industrial culture; the Wookiees hate the Trandoshans because they keep raiding their planet, enslaving them, and hunting them for their pelts.

Kel Dors -- Plo Koon’s species -- need to breathe a specific kind of gas that only their homeworld’s atmosphere has in large quantities. More commonplace gases, including oxygen, are fatal to them, and they need to wear breathing masks and protective goggles offworld. They can also live to over four hundred years of age.

Hutts are hermaphrodites -- every Hutt can both fertilize other Hutts and become pregnant itself; they only adopt gendered personas to interact with other species. They also carry their young in pouches; Jabba is considered unusual for having mostly kept Rotta outside of his pouch.

(Incidentally, Hutts don’t normally have any sexual interest in humanoid beings. Jabba claims that his thing with slave dancers is a power play over his mostly humanoid subjects; other Hutts just think that he’s a freak.)

A Hutt’s maximum lifespan is about a thousand years, and they grow steadily in corpulence over that time. Thus, in Hutt society, the fattest individuals are the ones with most social clout.

The Hutts were also forced to abandon their original homeworld, Varl, after turning it uninhabitable through centuries of warfare and pollution. The world they selected as a replacement, Evocar, already had sapient natives named the Evocii, so they essentially scammed them out of ownership of most of the planet and forced them to live on its moon once they had enough of a foothold to just use brute force to take over the rest, after which they renamed the planet Nal Hutta after themselves. The Hutts then took over the moon as well.

Also, Nal Hutta means “glorious jewel” in Huttese, which has interesting implications regarding what the Hutts’ name for themselves means.

#star wars #twi'lek #duros #neimodian #togruta #wookiee #trandoshan #kel dor #hutt

[clonewarsarchives]

Cato Neimodia Castle, Interior, Library and Portraits from 2.04 Senate Spy

#the clone wars #cwarchives #Cato Neimodia #Neimodian #in-universe art #environment #interior #Season 2 #204 #S2 art book #swcomepg

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Rune Haako was a Neimodian who acted as Settlement Officer in the Trade Federation. Haako served as second-in-command to Nute Gunray, commanding many scores of battle droids and the wealth of the Trade Federation. Haako was especially paranoid, and did not trust Gunray’s relationship with Darth Sidious.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20131222051728/http://starwars.com/explore/encyclopedia/characters/runehaako/

First Appearance: Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999)

#rune haako #star wars aliens #neimodian #trade federation #nute gunray #darth sidious #star wars episode i #the phantom menace #tpm #star wars #expanded universe #star wars canon #star wars legends

[dumpsterthot]

Hell Yeah I support OcxCanon pairings. @nicow4fer‘s Vek Durd and Cad Bane. My favorite Neimodian ever. 

Whoops. Almost forgot I used one of those draw the OTP prompt base things for the pose. Found it browsing so I’m not sure who the original artist is but credit goes to the prompt artist. 

If you like this :> consider reblogging <3

#Star Wars #Cad Bane #OcXCanon #Art #Neimodian #Star Wars OC #Gift Art for others #Vek Durd