Gutter rat

"Follow him. I don't trust that mange-crusted gutter rat."

―Marchion Ro, to X-10 and Zagyar, on Kisma Uttersond^[1]

A gutter rat was a type of rat.^[1] In 230 BBY,^[2] when Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro instructed the Nihil pirates X-10 and Zagyar to follow Nihil Chadra-Fan Doctor Kisma Uttersond as^[1] he^[3] did not trust Uttersond and believed he may have betrayed the Nihil, Ro called the doctor a "mange-crusted gutter rat."^[1]

Two years later,^[4] "The Warden"—a disgraced Nihil enforcer who served as the warden of the Nihil prison ship Korvix Vorn—gathered his prisoners so they could be tested by the Nihil scientist Niv Drendow Apruk to determine which of them was a Jedi. Apruk's associate, the Valon Nihil Driggit Parse, informed the Warden that^[5] she^[6] felt they were too exposed and that the prisoners knew something was about to happen. In response, the warden told Parse that the reality of the situation was too complex for a "tag-along gutter rat" from^[5] the Outer Rim planet^[6] Valo to understand.^[5]

Behind the scenes

A gutter rat was mentioned in the third issue of the 2021 comic miniseries Star Wars: The High Republic: Trail of Shadows, released as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project's^[1] Phase I.^[7] The issue was written by Daniel José Older and published by Marvel Comics on December 22, 2021. Prior to the release of the comic, the rat was mentioned in a preview article of the issue that was published on StarWars.com on December 15 of the same year.^[3]