Fambaa

This article covers the Canon version of this subject.  Click here for Wookieepedia's article on the Legends version of this subject. 

OnACanonArticleGoToLegends

"Huge powerful amphibians, fambaas are born with moist skins and gills, but as they mature the gills vanish and the skin dries and thickens. Gungans make use of fambaas as both beasts of burden and draft beasts for artillery, breeding herds in secret swamp pastures located deep within their sacred places."
―The Galactic Explorer's Guide[4]

Fambaas were quadruped amphibians with tough hides[2] that could be found on the planets Naboo and Onderon.[3] They had a tail made out of cartilage, strong joints[5] in pillar-like limbs[2] to handle heavy loads and broad feet with wide toes to increase their stability[5] and stop them sinking into marshes.[2] Biologists surmised that both the fambaas and the falumpasets of Onderon were originally brought there by Naboo merchants, but there was little fossil evidence to back up that hypothesis.[6]

Gungans used fambaas to carry deflector shield generators, a saddle and leather girth around their torso to hold the device and a bridle to control the creature's direction.[2] During a fight on Great Grass Plains, faamba with shield generators were deployed with kaadu and falumpasets to support the Gungan Grand Army.[7]

Behind the scenes

Original concept sketches of the fambaa depicted them as two-legged dinosaur-like creatures. The four-legged design was approved later, whereupon concept artist Terryl Whitlatch hand-drew its walk cycle to demonstrate to Industrial Light & Magic animators how the animals would move.[8]

Appearances

Non-canon appearances

Sources

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1: Creatures of the Galaxy
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Star Wars: The Visual Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 StarWars-DatabankII Fambaa in the Databank (backup link)
  4. ↑ Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
  7. ↑ Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
  8. ↑ Databank title fambaa in the Databank (original site is defunct)
In other languages