Post by Caitlin Windancer on Jun 11, 2011 22:12:55 GMT -5
A Brief guide to the flora and fauna of Yavin IV.
Animals and plants that you might in encounter in and around the jungles of Yavin.
This guide is to help you identify them and what you need to know when you encounter them.
Red=dangerous
Yellow=possibly dangerous caution needed
Blue=harmless or benign
Green=plants
Angler
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless
The Angler is a multi-ocular crustacean mollusk that is brown in color.
The Angler "fishes" for underwater prey by dangling root-like tentacle-claws below the water's surface.
Not usually dangerous except to mucous salamanders.
Aquatic Gundark
Designation: Non-sentient, dangerous predator
Not a true gundark.
So named because of its similarly vicious, surly temperament to true Gundarks.
They have multiple eyes, making them capable of seeing below and above water simultaneously.
They are medium sized creatures that prey on smaller animals.
Among them runyips and whisper birds.
They are considered very dangerous predators, extreme caution is advised around them.
Armored eel
Designation: Non-sentient
It resides in the rivers of the moon's jungle.
It is just one of many eel species found throughout the galaxy.
Newly discovered species not much is known about it.
Approach with caution.
Belly-bird
Designation:Unknown
Not much is known about these creatures other than their name.
Approach with caution.
Blueleaf shrub
Designation: Non-sentient plant, edible
They are known for their ability to encroach even on cleared spaces.
They are edible.
When crushed, they gave off a spicy scent.
Crawlfish
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless,edible
Crawlfish are aquatic creatures.
Harmless, they can grow up to a meter in length, and are covered in chitin.
They can be eaten.
Crystal Snake
Designation: Non-sentient, can be dangerous but not usually aggressive
Crystal snakes are a poisonous reptile native to Yavin 4.
Though the venom that crystal snakes secretes when they bite is nonlethal, it can be extremely dangerous, since the victim will fall into an hour-long deep sleep.
The crystal snake has curiously translucent flesh that, with the naked eye under typical lighting conditions, could barely be seen.
One sign that a crystal snake is present would be the small shimmer of light that is reflected off its scales, or its deep black eyes.
Howler
Designation: Non-sentient, dangerous predator
Howlers have a green skin, with an orange-yellow head, yellow eyes, an orange dorsal spines and a red tail.
Howlers are somewhat reptilian in appearance.
They usually crawl on all four limbs, but sometimes when charging, leaping, and clawing, they use two legs for mobility.
They got their name from their method of attack, which is howling loud enough to stun their prey.
Howlers are predators.
They are considered very dangerous.
Massassi tree
Designation: Non-sentient plant
Massassi trees are purple-barked trees native to Yavin 4.
They are capable of reaching 200 meters in height.
They were named after the ancient civilization, the Massassi, that once inhabited the moon.
Mucous salamander(also known as pinkish salamander)
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless
Mucous salamanders are amphibians native to the bogs of Yavin 4.
They possess the distinct ability to diffuse their molecular structures underwater, which allow them to swim faster and pass through hunters' nets.
When entering dry areas, it can change its molecular structure into hardened scales for protection from predators, particularly the angler.
Considered harmless.
Nebula Orchid
Designation: Non-sentient plant
Nebula orchids have woody, lanky roots and flowers colored with brilliant swirls.
When their vines are severed, they will writhe and leak the plant's deep purple sap.
A short time later, the vines will stop writhing and start to contract.
Piranha Beetle
Designation: Non-sentient, carnivorous insect, Extremely Dangerous
Piranha beetles are colorfully-shelled carnivorous insects. Though they are only three centimeters long, when gathered in large swarms they can kill much larger prey by eating the flesh directly off living beings.
Piranha beetle swarms build hives made from chewed vegetation and saliva in the treetops. Each hive has a queen that leads the hive's reproductive and food-gathering activities.
DANGER FROM THESE LIFEFORMS IS EXTREME!
Don't go anywhere near them if they smell blood they will attack immediately and they attack anything living or dead.
"One bit me, then at the smell of blood the others swarmed over me."
¯Bevel Lemelisk
Runyip Yavin IV
Designation: Non-sentient, general harmless herbivores
Not true runyips which are herbivores native to Tran Mariel.
Runyips of Yavin VI are named "runyip" because of similar appearance and grumpy temperament to the Tran Mariel runyips.
Yavinian runyips have claws on their toes which they used to dig for food and live in holes. They have brown and green fur, white spotty tails, long ears and semi-prehensile noses.
They feed on decomposing forest mulch and in shallows of streams, rivers, and lakes.
They do this by using their flexible lips and three clawed feet for sifting through dirt. They emit loud grunts, squawks, squeals, and sighs as they feed.
True runyip from Tran Mariel
True runyips are known for the stubbornness, but are still commonly used a pack animals on frontier worlds.
They possess long ears and a long, bifurcated trunk to grab vegetation.
Runyips are capable of carrying heavy loads (up to 250 kilograms in normal circumstances, and up to 500 in emergencies) and of traversing uneven terrain, with a top speed of 27 kilometers per hour.
Rebel SpecForce troopers were also known to use them to carry equipment.
Stinger lizard
Designation: Unknown
Stinger lizards are rarely seen and have an unusual green and red coloring.
Not much else is known about them.
Approach with caution.
Stintaril
Designation: Non-sentient,dangerous predatory rodents
Stintarils are a species of rapacious rodents.
They dwell in the mid-to-upper levels of the jungle canopy.
They have sharp teeth that can easily puncture and hold on to their prey with a knobby hairless tail that is used for balance.
They are not particularly dangerous when alone but they usually travel in large groups.
These rodents attack in swarms, and are known for their great speed.
They are nomadic and, as such, are constantly on the move; even their young, born in litters of four or five, were born in transit.
Their prey mainly consists of Woolamander and Whisper birds.
They have an extremely high metabolism and they have to eat often or risk starving to death within a few hours.
Hungry Stintarils have been known to turn on their own kind as a last resort, cannibalizing the weaker among them in order to survive.
These Rodents are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS when they swarm.
If you are alone and see a swarm of these rodents RUN!
Thyrsl
Designation: Unknown
Thyrsls are serpentine animals with twelve legs and spots.
Not much is known about them.
Approach with caution.
Whisper bird
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless[/i]
Native avian species known for their radiant plumage.
They gained their name due to their seemingly noiseless flight.
They use their dexterous tongue to emit a sweet, low-pitched song or call.
Whisper birds are at home in both in the trees and water.
They would go quietly when they desire food.
Their diet consists of fish and weeds, as well nectar funnels that grow on vines.
They are prey to stintarils and other predators.
Woolamander
Designation: Non-sentient, usually harmless
Woolamanders are curious social creatures that live in Massassi trees.
Males can often be heard belting out morning vocalizations with their baggy throat pouches.
Caring and kind, Woolamander females give birth to one young per litter.
Safe in their mothers' powerful front claws, babies will become members of troops numbering 20 individuals.
They feed on fruit that would ferment in their rotund pot-bellies.
Most woolamander fur is colored blue and gold, though there are some troops whose fur is bright purple or dark green.
Woolmander green fur subspecies
They enjoy pelting debris at moving targets below but are generally harmless.
Woolamanders are prey to piranha beetles and stintarils.
A temple in the forests of Yavin 4 seems to have been erected in respect to the Woolamander species, earning itself the name Palace of the Woolamander due to the variety of statues and stone carvings created in their likeness.
The creatures seem to be unusually protective of the structure and are known to attack anyone who gets too close to it.
The bones of the Harrower subspecies of Woolmander is said to be excellent material for making armor, especially Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor.
These creatures are generally harmless but sometimes can be annoying when they throw things.
Immigrated species
Sith wyrm
Designation: Non-sentient, Extremely dangerous,
now extinct on Yavin IV
The Sith wyrm was a massive creature that lived on the the fourth moon of Yavin in large subterranean lairs.
The Sith wyrm was actually an exogorth(see Exogorth) altered through Sith alchemy by the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow and designed as a guardian.
It was learned later that the creature was originally an infant exogorth that had attached itself to Sadow's battleship.
It was killed by Exar Kun.
As the Sith wyrms were later hunted by the Jedi during the Great Hunt, it is evident that the creature was not the only one of his kind.
Exogorth are also known as "space slugs".
(A gigantic species of toothed gastropod.
They are silicon-based lifeforms that survive in the vacuum of space by making their homes in the caverns and craters of asteroids.
They feed on the minerals of asteroids, various stellar energy fields, and mynocks.
The average adult space slug grow to about 10 meters in length, but some slugs have been known to continuously grow to sizes that rivaled capital ships in sheer bulk, with some weighing over a million kilograms.)
Terentatek (Jedi Killers)
Designation: Non-sentient, ULTRA EXTREME DANGER
Terentatek are creatures which feed off the blood of Force-sensitives, and inhabit caves and tombs that are strong with the dark side of the Force.
Terentatek resemble rancors, except they have a number of spines growing from their backs and a pair of flaps, or tusk-like projections attached to their mouths.
They also have massive claws (three to a hand).
The tusks and claws of a Terentatek are highly venomous.
And a terentatek's hide is immune to effects of the Force.
Several guarded the entrance to a section of Naga Sadow's tomb.
They are thought to be extinct on Yavin VI.
If you see one of these creatures leave the area immediately and notified those in authority.
DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO KILL IT ALONE.
Even several Jedi working together will find killing one of these creatures is very difficult.
Do not try to kill these creatures on your own.
They are the UTMOST DANGER to Jedi.
They were bred to kill Jedi.
They are so powerful and dangerous to the Jedi, that they were nicknamed Jedi Killers.
Tuk'ata(Sith hound)
Designation:Semi-sentient, EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
They are gigantic creatures.
They have glowing red eyes with triple rows of teeth, six inch claws, and three horns.
They can move on four legs or two.
They have two winglike extensions--not functional wings, but with poisonous stingers.
They are very fast.
They are intelligent.
These creatures are Force-sensitive and were used for thousands of years to guard the tombs of the Dark Lords of the Sith on Korriban.
They are fearless and will kill anything that enters their territory.
They are semi-sentient and can speak the Sith language.
Be very careful when encountering these creatures.
If you don't feel that you can't handle them retreat immediately.
Races Of Yavin IV
SEE RACES
Native Races
Critokian
Designation: Sentient
Non-Native Races
Chazrach also known as reptoids
Designation: Sentient
(Yuuzhan Vong slave race)
no longer on Yavin IV
Yuuzhan Vong
Designation: Sentient
no longer on Yavin IV
Massassi
Designation: Sentient
(sub-species of the ancient Sith)
Extinct on Yavin IV
Humans
Designation: Sentient
95% of population
Various other Races make up the other 5% of population.
Animals and plants that you might in encounter in and around the jungles of Yavin.
This guide is to help you identify them and what you need to know when you encounter them.
Red=dangerous
Yellow=possibly dangerous caution needed
Blue=harmless or benign
Green=plants
Angler
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless
The Angler is a multi-ocular crustacean mollusk that is brown in color.
The Angler "fishes" for underwater prey by dangling root-like tentacle-claws below the water's surface.
Not usually dangerous except to mucous salamanders.
Aquatic Gundark
Designation: Non-sentient, dangerous predator
Not a true gundark.
So named because of its similarly vicious, surly temperament to true Gundarks.
They have multiple eyes, making them capable of seeing below and above water simultaneously.
They are medium sized creatures that prey on smaller animals.
Among them runyips and whisper birds.
They are considered very dangerous predators, extreme caution is advised around them.
Armored eel
Designation: Non-sentient
It resides in the rivers of the moon's jungle.
It is just one of many eel species found throughout the galaxy.
Newly discovered species not much is known about it.
Approach with caution.
Belly-bird
Designation:Unknown
Not much is known about these creatures other than their name.
Approach with caution.
Blueleaf shrub
Designation: Non-sentient plant, edible
They are known for their ability to encroach even on cleared spaces.
They are edible.
When crushed, they gave off a spicy scent.
Crawlfish
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless,edible
Crawlfish are aquatic creatures.
Harmless, they can grow up to a meter in length, and are covered in chitin.
They can be eaten.
Crystal Snake
Designation: Non-sentient, can be dangerous but not usually aggressive
Crystal snakes are a poisonous reptile native to Yavin 4.
Though the venom that crystal snakes secretes when they bite is nonlethal, it can be extremely dangerous, since the victim will fall into an hour-long deep sleep.
The crystal snake has curiously translucent flesh that, with the naked eye under typical lighting conditions, could barely be seen.
One sign that a crystal snake is present would be the small shimmer of light that is reflected off its scales, or its deep black eyes.
Howler
Designation: Non-sentient, dangerous predator
Howlers have a green skin, with an orange-yellow head, yellow eyes, an orange dorsal spines and a red tail.
Howlers are somewhat reptilian in appearance.
They usually crawl on all four limbs, but sometimes when charging, leaping, and clawing, they use two legs for mobility.
They got their name from their method of attack, which is howling loud enough to stun their prey.
Howlers are predators.
They are considered very dangerous.
Massassi tree
Designation: Non-sentient plant
Massassi trees are purple-barked trees native to Yavin 4.
They are capable of reaching 200 meters in height.
They were named after the ancient civilization, the Massassi, that once inhabited the moon.
Mucous salamander(also known as pinkish salamander)
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless
Mucous salamanders are amphibians native to the bogs of Yavin 4.
They possess the distinct ability to diffuse their molecular structures underwater, which allow them to swim faster and pass through hunters' nets.
When entering dry areas, it can change its molecular structure into hardened scales for protection from predators, particularly the angler.
Considered harmless.
Nebula Orchid
Designation: Non-sentient plant
Nebula orchids have woody, lanky roots and flowers colored with brilliant swirls.
When their vines are severed, they will writhe and leak the plant's deep purple sap.
A short time later, the vines will stop writhing and start to contract.
Piranha Beetle
Designation: Non-sentient, carnivorous insect, Extremely Dangerous
Piranha beetles are colorfully-shelled carnivorous insects. Though they are only three centimeters long, when gathered in large swarms they can kill much larger prey by eating the flesh directly off living beings.
Piranha beetle swarms build hives made from chewed vegetation and saliva in the treetops. Each hive has a queen that leads the hive's reproductive and food-gathering activities.
DANGER FROM THESE LIFEFORMS IS EXTREME!
Don't go anywhere near them if they smell blood they will attack immediately and they attack anything living or dead.
"One bit me, then at the smell of blood the others swarmed over me."
¯Bevel Lemelisk
Runyip Yavin IV
Designation: Non-sentient, general harmless herbivores
Not true runyips which are herbivores native to Tran Mariel.
Runyips of Yavin VI are named "runyip" because of similar appearance and grumpy temperament to the Tran Mariel runyips.
Yavinian runyips have claws on their toes which they used to dig for food and live in holes. They have brown and green fur, white spotty tails, long ears and semi-prehensile noses.
They feed on decomposing forest mulch and in shallows of streams, rivers, and lakes.
They do this by using their flexible lips and three clawed feet for sifting through dirt. They emit loud grunts, squawks, squeals, and sighs as they feed.
True runyip from Tran Mariel
True runyips are known for the stubbornness, but are still commonly used a pack animals on frontier worlds.
They possess long ears and a long, bifurcated trunk to grab vegetation.
Runyips are capable of carrying heavy loads (up to 250 kilograms in normal circumstances, and up to 500 in emergencies) and of traversing uneven terrain, with a top speed of 27 kilometers per hour.
Rebel SpecForce troopers were also known to use them to carry equipment.
Stinger lizard
Designation: Unknown
Stinger lizards are rarely seen and have an unusual green and red coloring.
Not much else is known about them.
Approach with caution.
Stintaril
Designation: Non-sentient,dangerous predatory rodents
Stintarils are a species of rapacious rodents.
They dwell in the mid-to-upper levels of the jungle canopy.
They have sharp teeth that can easily puncture and hold on to their prey with a knobby hairless tail that is used for balance.
They are not particularly dangerous when alone but they usually travel in large groups.
These rodents attack in swarms, and are known for their great speed.
They are nomadic and, as such, are constantly on the move; even their young, born in litters of four or five, were born in transit.
Their prey mainly consists of Woolamander and Whisper birds.
They have an extremely high metabolism and they have to eat often or risk starving to death within a few hours.
Hungry Stintarils have been known to turn on their own kind as a last resort, cannibalizing the weaker among them in order to survive.
These Rodents are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS when they swarm.
If you are alone and see a swarm of these rodents RUN!
Thyrsl
Designation: Unknown
Thyrsls are serpentine animals with twelve legs and spots.
Not much is known about them.
Approach with caution.
Whisper bird
Designation: Non-sentient, harmless[/i]
Native avian species known for their radiant plumage.
They gained their name due to their seemingly noiseless flight.
They use their dexterous tongue to emit a sweet, low-pitched song or call.
Whisper birds are at home in both in the trees and water.
They would go quietly when they desire food.
Their diet consists of fish and weeds, as well nectar funnels that grow on vines.
They are prey to stintarils and other predators.
Woolamander
Designation: Non-sentient, usually harmless
Woolamanders are curious social creatures that live in Massassi trees.
Males can often be heard belting out morning vocalizations with their baggy throat pouches.
Caring and kind, Woolamander females give birth to one young per litter.
Safe in their mothers' powerful front claws, babies will become members of troops numbering 20 individuals.
They feed on fruit that would ferment in their rotund pot-bellies.
Most woolamander fur is colored blue and gold, though there are some troops whose fur is bright purple or dark green.
Woolmander green fur subspecies
They enjoy pelting debris at moving targets below but are generally harmless.
Woolamanders are prey to piranha beetles and stintarils.
A temple in the forests of Yavin 4 seems to have been erected in respect to the Woolamander species, earning itself the name Palace of the Woolamander due to the variety of statues and stone carvings created in their likeness.
The creatures seem to be unusually protective of the structure and are known to attack anyone who gets too close to it.
The bones of the Harrower subspecies of Woolmander is said to be excellent material for making armor, especially Reinforced Insulated Sheath armor.
These creatures are generally harmless but sometimes can be annoying when they throw things.
Immigrated species
Sith wyrm
Designation: Non-sentient, Extremely dangerous,
now extinct on Yavin IV
The Sith wyrm was a massive creature that lived on the the fourth moon of Yavin in large subterranean lairs.
The Sith wyrm was actually an exogorth(see Exogorth) altered through Sith alchemy by the Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow and designed as a guardian.
It was learned later that the creature was originally an infant exogorth that had attached itself to Sadow's battleship.
It was killed by Exar Kun.
As the Sith wyrms were later hunted by the Jedi during the Great Hunt, it is evident that the creature was not the only one of his kind.
Exogorth are also known as "space slugs".
(A gigantic species of toothed gastropod.
They are silicon-based lifeforms that survive in the vacuum of space by making their homes in the caverns and craters of asteroids.
They feed on the minerals of asteroids, various stellar energy fields, and mynocks.
The average adult space slug grow to about 10 meters in length, but some slugs have been known to continuously grow to sizes that rivaled capital ships in sheer bulk, with some weighing over a million kilograms.)
Terentatek (Jedi Killers)
Designation: Non-sentient, ULTRA EXTREME DANGER
Terentatek are creatures which feed off the blood of Force-sensitives, and inhabit caves and tombs that are strong with the dark side of the Force.
Terentatek resemble rancors, except they have a number of spines growing from their backs and a pair of flaps, or tusk-like projections attached to their mouths.
They also have massive claws (three to a hand).
The tusks and claws of a Terentatek are highly venomous.
And a terentatek's hide is immune to effects of the Force.
Several guarded the entrance to a section of Naga Sadow's tomb.
They are thought to be extinct on Yavin VI.
If you see one of these creatures leave the area immediately and notified those in authority.
DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO KILL IT ALONE.
Even several Jedi working together will find killing one of these creatures is very difficult.
Do not try to kill these creatures on your own.
They are the UTMOST DANGER to Jedi.
They were bred to kill Jedi.
They are so powerful and dangerous to the Jedi, that they were nicknamed Jedi Killers.
Tuk'ata(Sith hound)
Designation:Semi-sentient, EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
They are gigantic creatures.
They have glowing red eyes with triple rows of teeth, six inch claws, and three horns.
They can move on four legs or two.
They have two winglike extensions--not functional wings, but with poisonous stingers.
They are very fast.
They are intelligent.
These creatures are Force-sensitive and were used for thousands of years to guard the tombs of the Dark Lords of the Sith on Korriban.
They are fearless and will kill anything that enters their territory.
They are semi-sentient and can speak the Sith language.
Be very careful when encountering these creatures.
If you don't feel that you can't handle them retreat immediately.
Races Of Yavin IV
SEE RACES
Native Races
Critokian
Designation: Sentient
Non-Native Races
Chazrach also known as reptoids
Designation: Sentient
(Yuuzhan Vong slave race)
no longer on Yavin IV
Yuuzhan Vong
Designation: Sentient
no longer on Yavin IV
Massassi
Designation: Sentient
(sub-species of the ancient Sith)
Extinct on Yavin IV
Humans
Designation: Sentient
95% of population
Various other Races make up the other 5% of population.
