Glow worm

Glow worms, or glowworms, were a type of microscopic worm that glowed and could be found on the Hutt Space planet Nal Hutta. In 382 BBY, the Evereni Path of the Open Hand cult member Marda Ro noted glow worms did not light for as long as flutterbugs did after she saw a number of the bugs glowing while walking at night on the Outer Rim planet Dalna.

During Nal Hutta's summer in 229 BBY, glow worms infested soil samples the Hutt Churo kept in his greenhouse laboratory. Churo recalled the incident a year later when speaking with his sister Dahara Devirsivik Norri.

Biology and appearance

Glow worms,^[2] also known as glowworms, were a type of worm with orange skin that glowed. They were microscopic in size and could be found on the Hutt Space planet Nal Hutta.^[1] According to Marda Ro—an Evereni member of the Path of the Open Hand cult on the Outer Rim planet Dalna—while the worms glowed, they did not glow for as long as flutterbugs, which lighted constantly.^[2]

Glow worms in the galaxy

In 382 BBY,^[3] while Marda Ro and^[2] Werth Plouth^[4]—a Nautolan who served as the Path's Herald—walked through a forest and meadow near the Path compound on Dalna at night, Ro noticed small glowing flutterbugs crawl up from mud to hang on the ends of ruined lompop flowers. After the bugs leapt into the sky and drifted along with the breeze, the Evereni mentally noted they were like glow worms, before comparing the constant light of the flutterbugs to that of glow worms, which she noted did not light as long.^[2]

During the summer^[1] of 229 BBY^[5] on Nal Hutta, glow worms infested soil samples that the Hutt Churo kept in his greenhouse laboratory within his family's palace on Nal Hutta.^[1] In 228 BBY,^[5] while speaking with his sister Dahara Devirsivik Norri before leaving Nal Hutta for a mission, Churo mentally noted the orange skin and eyes the two shared were the only common factor between them. He then added that their skin and eyes were the same shade as the microscopic worms that had infested his samples the previous summer, though he knew Dahara would not appreciate that fact.^[1] Churo later owned a ship which he named the Glowworm.^[6]

Behind the scenes

Glow worms were first mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in the 2022 young-adult novel The High Republic: Path of Deceit, written by Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's^[2] Phase II.^[7] Within the novel, glow worms were mentioned in a chapter written by Gratton.^[8] The 2024 junior novel The High Republic: Beware the Nameless, written by Zoraida Córdova and published as part of the multimedia project's^[1] Phase III,^[7] spelled the creature's name as "glowworms."^[1]

In the Star Wars Legends continuity, glowworms first appeared in Star Wars Missions 15: Voyage to the Underworld, a 1998 novel written by Dave Wolverton as the fifteenth adventure book in the Star Wars Missions young-reader series and roleplaying game.^[9] Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, a 2004 novel written by Sean Stewart, identified the the worms as glow-worms.^[10] In the real world, a glowworm is a type of beetle larva or wingless female that emits a glow.^[11]

Appearances

• The High Republic: Path of Deceit (and audiobook) (First mentioned)
• The High Republic: Beware the Nameless (and audiobook) (Mentioned only) (First identified as glowworm, in book)
• "The Adventures of Churo the Hutt and the Heart of Eroudac" — The High Republic Adventures Phase III Annual (Mentioned only) (In Glowworm's name)

Notes and references

External links

• Glowworm on Wikipedia