Cambylictus tree

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Cambylictus trees were a type of tree found in the swampy foothills of the Gallo Mountains on the planet Naboo. By 228 BBY, the San Tekka family's compound used the tree's wood as wall paneling. Several cambylictus trees grew over the statues of the Gungan Sacred Place, where in 32 BBY the Gungan Boss Rugor Nass stood among the roots of one of these trees as he listened to Queen Padmé Amidala ask for aid amidst the Trade Federation's Invasion of Naboo.

Description

Cambylictus trees had brown bark; green leaves; and large, tangled roots that lifted the trunk of the tree above the ground. They could grow in swampy terrain.[1] Its wood could be polished and used as wall paneling in structures.[2]

History

Boss Nass stands in a brown robe atop a large statue head partial submerged in the ground and covered in cambylictus tree roots. Behind him, two cowled Gungan High Council Reps also stand on the statue, with another of the statue heads visible in the background with a kaadu-riding militiagung soldier beside it.

Boss Nass stands among the roots of a cambylictus tree.

At least three[3] cambylictus trees could be found growing over the stone structures of the ruined temple known as the Gungan Sacred Place, located in the swampy foothills of the Gallo Mountains, north of the Lianorm Swamp on the planet Naboo. The trees made up part of the dense foliage that cut off the site from the outside world.[1] By 228 BBY,[4] the compound of the wealthy San Tekka family patriarchs Vellis and Marlowe had an observation deck room decorated with marble and polished cambylictus wood paneling.[2]

In 32 BBY,[5] Boss Rugor Nass stood among the roots of a cambylictus tree atop one of the Sacred Place's fallen statues as he listened to Queen Padmé Amidala of the Naboo plead for help in fighting the Trade Federation during the Invasion of Naboo.[3] At some point after 34 ABY, an illustration of a cambylictus tree was included on a map of Naboo thought to have been drawn by the artist Gammit Chond based purely on travelers' tales. The map was later restored and published by the Graf Archive.[6]

Behind the scenes

A member of the Episode I production crew stands amidst the minatures used for the Gungan sacred place set, including a number of camylictus trees that stand taller then crewmember's head. Miniatures of the statue heads and ruins are also present and a painted forest background stands behind the brightly-lit miniatures.

The cambylictus trees were made in miniature.

Cambylictus trees first appeared in the 1999 prequel trilogy film, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace.[3] They were first identified by name in the current Star Wars canon in the 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations.[1] The cambylictus tree's name originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, in the 2000 reference book Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I, written by Kristin Lund.[7]

The trees seen in the film were part of a miniature set built by Industrial Light & Magic. They were included in order to make the scenery of the Gungan Sacred Place a little more exotic than the Whippendell Woods location, where the rest of the scene was shot.[8]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Star Wars: Complete Locations
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The High Republic: Temptation of the Force
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
  4. ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates Starlight Beacon's destruction to 230 BBY. The implementation of the Guardian Protocols, which Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia places in 229 BBY, took place one week after Starlight Beacon's fall according to The High Republic – Shadows of Starlight 1. As The High Republic: Temptation of the Force takes place one year and six weeks after the destruction of Starlight Beacon and its events span a few months, it must be set in 228 BBY.
  5. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas: Updated Edition dates the events of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace to 32 BBY.
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
  7. ↑ Inside the Worlds of Star Wars: Episode I
  8. ↑ Creating the Worlds of Star Wars: 365 Days