Starweird

"Aphra, what is that?!"
"No way—it looks like a Starweird?! All the records say they're extinct—"

―Luke Skywalker and Chelli Lona Aphra^[2]

Starweirds were a species^[3] of ancient creatures that resonated with the 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 a starfighter 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 the Imperial Era.^[2] During the time of the Clone Wars, one was sealed away by Jedi Masters Aayla Secura and Shaak Ti in the Jedi prison known as the Sason Temple on Sason.^[1] Between 3 ABY and 4 ABY,^[4] the rogue archaeologist Doctor Chelli Lona Aphra and the Jedi Luke Skywalker accidentally released the Starweird during Aphra's attempt to recover Kythoo's Bell, which she believed to be a Jedi 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 by Kyle Hotz on April 10, 2023, during Celebration Europe.^[5] However, it was brought back into canon through the thirty-third issue of the 2020 comic book series Star Wars: Doctor Aphra,^[1] which was written by Alyssa Wong, illustrated by Minkyu Jung, and published by Marvel Comics on June 28, 2023.^[6] The species was later identified in the thirty-fourth issue of the same series,^[2] which was also written by Wong and published by Marvel on July 19, 2023.^[7]