- "The bisected remains of the creatures, each split in two by a laser sword, were identified as Indoumodo kouhuns by myriapodologists from the Coruscant Zoo."
- ―Police Commissioner Exantor Divo, Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
Myriapodologists from the Coruscant Zoo were able to identify kouhuns (pictured) used in an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala.
A myriapodologist was a specialist who studied certain arthropods,[1] with the occupation's name being shared with the type of creature known as myriapod.[2] In 22 BBY,[3] myriapodologists from the Coruscant Zoo were involved in a Coruscant Security Force (CSF) investigation of an assassination attempt on Galactic Republic Senator Padmé Amidala on[1] the Core Worlds[4] planet Coruscant.[1] Amidala's bodyguard, Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker, had bisected with his lightsaber a pair of kouhuns,[5] venomous arthropods[1] from the Wild Space[6] planet Indoumodo,[7] after they had been stealthily inserted into Amidala's apartment.[5] The myriapodologists subsequently identified the creatures from their remains. The bisected kouhuns were preserved in a canister as evidence, with their venom sacs removed in order to attempt the creation of an antivenom.[1] In 34 ABY,[8] information from the CSF file on the case, which mentioned the myriapodologists' involvement, was published in the book Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, which was authored by New Republic Police Commissioner Exantor Divo.[1]
Behind the scenes
Myriapodologists were mentioned in the 2018 reference book Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, authored by Pablo Hidalgo.[1] In the real world, myriapodologists practice myriapodology,[9] or the study of myriapods—a group of arthropods that includes centipedes and millipedes.[10]
Sources
- Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious (First mentioned)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
- ↑ Spark of the Resistance
- ↑ Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious dates the involvement of myriapodologists in the investigation of an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala to 7955 C.R.C. and gives 7945 C.R.C. as the year that the Boonta Eve Classic took place. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the Boonta Eve Classic to 32 BBY, the investigation must therefore have taken place in 22 BBY.
- ↑
Star Systems of the Galaxy on StarWars.com (current version) (backup link) (previous version) — Based on corresponding data for the Coruscant system
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones
- ↑ Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, Updated and Expanded
- ↑
Kouhun in the Databank (backup link)
- ↑ The latest entries chronologically in Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious are dated to 8011 (C.R.C. date) and gives 7980 (C.R.C. date) as the year that the carbon-freezing of Han Solo, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 3 ABY. Therefore, 8011 C.R.C. must have been around 34 ABY. Scum and Villainy also mentions Hosnian Prime as still being capital of the New Republic, meaning the in-universe Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious must have been published prior to the destruction of the planet, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY. As the publishing must have occurred between the time of the latest entries and the destruction of Hosnian Prime, it therefore also took place around 34 ABY.
- ↑
CIM - Centre International de Myriapodologie on CIM (September 24, 2022) (backup link archived on April 15, 2024)
- ↑
Myriapod | Millipedes, Centipedes, Insects by The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica on Encyclopædia Britannica (July 26, 2023) (backup link archived on October 28, 2023)
