- "Are you playing dead?"
"Yeah. Like a di—"
"Didelum rodent!" - ―Tep Tep and Churo
Didelum rodents were a type of rodent with prehensile tails that played dead when approached by predators.[1] In 228 BBY,[2] after the young Hutt Churo crashed on the planet Palagosal, he encountered the crew of the Galactic Republic yacht Redemption, who he had accidentally shot down while attempting to help them evade members of the Nihil pirates. Upon realizing that the crew included Jedi, who the Hutts had previously come into conflict with, Churo thought about didelum rodents and plopped on the ground to play dead like one. The Jedi youngling Tep Tep found him and asked if he was playing dead. Churo began to respond that he was doing so like a didelum rodent, but Tep Tep finished his explanation by exclaiming the rodent's name.[1]
Behind the scenes
Didelum rodents were mentioned in the 2024 junior novel The High Republic: Beware the Nameless, written by Zoraida Córdova and published as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's[1] Phase III.[3]
Appearances
- The High Republic: Beware the Nameless (and audiobook) (First mentioned, in book)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The High Republic: Beware the Nameless
- ↑ 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: Beware the Nameless takes place one and a half years after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, it must be set in 228 BBY.
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