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- "Balada and the Hunter visited Balada's office where she showed off one of her rarest finds – an Antarean butterfly – a poisonous creature long thought to be extinct!"
- ―Arena News
An Antarean butterfly was a type of poisonous butterfly long thought to be extinct[1] by 9 ABY. That year,[2] Arena News reported that[1] the planet Vespaara's[3] Grand Arena co-owner Balada the Hutt brought[1] the Zabrak Hunter Nox[3] to her office and showed an Antarean butterfly, noting that it was the Hutt's rarest find.[1]
Behind the scenes
The Star Wars Legends depiction of the butterfly
An Antarean butterfly was mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in "Poison in Private," an article of the in-universe media coverage of the video game Star Wars: Hunters, which was released on October 31, 2024.[1] In the Star Wars Legends continuity, the butterfly first appeared, albeit unidentified, in the forty-eighth issue of the comic-book series Star Wars, which was written by Larry Hama, illustrated by Carmine Infantino,[4] and published by Marvel Comics on March 24, 1981.[5]
Sources
Poison in Private on Arena News (original site is defunct) (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7
Poison in Private on Arena News (original site is defunct)
- ↑ Hunters Goes Galactic! on Arena News (original site is defunct) establishes that Star Wars: Hunters begins when the Grand Arena partnered with the Outer Rim Sports Network, dated to 9 ABY in Star Wars: Timelines.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars: Hunters
- ↑ Star Wars (1977) 48
- ↑
Star Wars (1977) #48 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link) (First printing)