Burra fish

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Burra fish were a species of fish native to the planet of Dathomir, who's flesh was edible by the Kiffar, Dathomirians, and Latero. After fishing families on the planet Batuu cultivated the foreign Burra fish for consumption, the Burra fish was sold as a part of several notable dishes at the Black Spire Outpost on Batuu and aboard the MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser Halcyon.

Description

Burra fish,[1] referred to plurally as burra,[2] were a species of fish from the[1] Outer Rim Territories[3] planet Dathomir. The fish were notably known as a food item, consumable by several sentient species such as the Dathomirians, Kiffar,[1] and Latero.[4] Canned burra fish were often tightly packed together,[5] and cooked burra fish was often brown[6] or beige in color. They reproduced by laying small, black eggs.[7]

There were also several slang terms centered around burra fish. To have bigger burra fish to fry was slang that meant to have more important or more interesting things to do or attend to.[8][9] To be snared like burra in a trap was slang that could be said when someone was stuck, especially when in mud.[2]

History

Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos (both pictured) ate a burra fish stew together on Dathomir.

Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos (both pictured) ate a burra fish stew together on Dathomir.

In 19 BBY,[10] the Dathomirian bounty hunter and former Sith assassin Asajj Ventress brought the Kiffar Jedi Master Quinlan Vos to Dathomir, in order to learn about her homeworld and her history as a Nightsister. During this time, Vos went out and killed a burra fish, and the two ate stew with burra fish later that day.[1] The Latero captain Greez Dritus often made burra fish in his starship, the Stinger Mantis, which he described as poorly cooked.[4]

Jedi Knight Cal Kestis used the slang term "bigger fish to fry"[9] sometime between 12 BBY and 11 BBY[11] to describe his frustration with having to constantly deflect attacks from the bounty hunters of the Haxion Brood crime syndicate.[9] The pirate Hondo Ohnaka also used the term,[8] in 10 BBY,[12] after noticing that a Narquois in the Undervaults of Gwongdeen storage facility tried to conceal her treasure from him. At this time, Ohnaka was preoccupied helping the clone Mahjo Reeloo place a bomb in Jayyar Lu-wehs' storage box.[8] In 9 ABY,[13] as Hunters of the Outer Rim performer and contestant Rieve visited the Oasis Cantina in the Backwater District of the planet Vespaara and heard the music of the performing gonkrock band, she expressed that she missed the positive and nostalgic vibe of people being packed together like canned burra fish to listen to music.[5]

Fishing families on the planet Batuu cultivated the foreign Burra fish for consumption.[14] Oven-roasted Burra Fish was a dish available for purchase at Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo in Black Spire Outpost on Batuu[15][6] during the war between the First Order and the Resistance[14] in 34 ABY.[16] Around this same time,[17] Burra Fish Caviar and Tamarind-Glazed Burra Fish were sold on Chandrila Star Line's MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser, the Halcyon.[7]

Behind the scenes

A depiction of the burra fish in LEGO Fortnite Brick Life

A depiction of the burra fish in LEGO Fortnite Brick Life

Burra fish first appeared in the new Star Wars canon in the 2015 novel Dark Disciple, which was written by Christie Golden.[1] The species originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where they first appeared in the 1994 novel The Courtship of Princess Leia, which was written by Dave Wolverton.[18] Closed captioning in the 2023 video game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor erroneously misspells "burra" as "burrah."[19]

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Dark Disciple
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Choose Your Destiny: A Clone Trooper Mission
  3. ↑ StarWars.com Star Wars Galaxy Map on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hunters: Battle for the Arena
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 GalaxysEdgeLogo icon Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge — Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 SWGS-Logo Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser — Crown of Corellia Dining Room
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Pirate's Price
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Jedi: Battle Scars
  10. ↑ Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Character Encyclopedia - Join the Battle! dates the events of Dark Disciple to 19 years before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, which corresponds to 19 BBY according to Star Wars: Timelines.
  11. ↑ Jedi: Battle Scars dates itself to a few years after the events of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order which take place in 14 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines. Therefore, the events of Jedi: Battle Scars must take place in 12 BBY at the earliest. Additionally, the novel dates itself within the years before Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the events of which take place in 9 BBY per the reasoning here. Within Jedi: Survivor, it is also noted the Stinger Mantis crew has been broken up for "years." As the crew are together in Jedi: Battle Scars, the latest it can take place is 11 BBY. Therefore, the events of Jedi: Battle Scars occur between 12 and 11 BBY.
  12. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Part One of Pirate's Price to 10 BBY.
  13. ↑ Hunters: Battle for the Arena takes place after Aran Tal joined the Hunters of the Outer Rim, dated to 9 ABY by Star Wars: Timelines. As Battle for the Arena features Rieve join the Hunters, it takes place before Star Wars: The Secrets of the Bounty Hunters, and the in-universe book is set before The Mandalorian Season Three. Season Three takes place in 9 ABY per the reasoning here, therefore Battle for the Arena must be set around the same year.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has official backstory elements that, though not directly published for the public, are officially canon details that can be obtained verbally from cast members working in the land.
  15. ↑ Premium-Era-real What You Can Eat and Drink in STAR WARS: Galaxy's Edge by Amy Ratcliffe on Nerdist (February 27, 2019) (backup link archived on February 28, 2019)
  16. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge to 34 ABY.
  17. ↑ StarWars.com 31 Things We Learned in an Exclusive Preview of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser on StarWars.com (original link is obsolete) states that Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser takes place between the events of Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker. Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens to 34 ABY. As The Last Jedi takes place immediately after the end of The Force Awakens, it must also take place in 34 ABY. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary dates The Rise of Skywalker to a year after the events of The Force Awakens. Thus, The Rise of Skywalker takes place in 35 ABY and Galactic Starcrusier takes place between 34 ABY and 35 ABY.
  18. ↑ The Courtship of Princess Leia
  19. ↑ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
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