Etro Edthatt

"And it proves to me, that life does exist on other planets. I'm just not sure how intelligent it is."

- Etro Edthatt

Etro Edthatt was a Duros male known for, along with his wife Droza Edthatt, making headlines after being kidnapped by members of the Human species. Shortly after marrying Droza and returning from their honeymoon, the couple was abducted by Humans, who held the newlyweds hostage on the planet Urthha for more than four solar periods, until the couple managed to escape the planet using a matter catalyst, a common local piece of transportation technology.

Biography
"They were quite happy to have us, actually. They took us to something called a 'party.' This is where a group of Humans dress in different uniforms and gather around various liquid canisters."

- Etro Edthatt

Etro Edthatt was born a male Duros, a species of blue-green skin, noseless humanoids that originated on the polluted Core World planet of Duro, long before the dawn of the Galactic Republic. He at one point married fellow Duros Droza Edthatt and, upon returning from their honeymoon, the newlyweds, while still mid-digestion, were battered with metal sticks by Human beings, forced out of their transport and loaded into another transport that, according to them, resembled an "upside down" re-humidifier. The Humans then blinded the Duros and levitated them to their homeworld, which the couple believed was a planet called "Urthha." Etro and Droza would be stranded there for over four solar periods.

Arriving on the planet, the Duros couple adjusted their portable simultaneous translation devices known as aural synchronizers, since neither one of them spoke the local language, in order to readily comprehend Human speech. Confused, they were then taken to a dinner party, where they were pinched and looked at as the guests laughed. One male Human insisted in showing Etro his collection of images of naked females, which surprised the alien.

The Edthatts were then led to a table, until then an unknown object to them, being forced to sit and consume food. To the Edthatts, Human cuisine resembled stationary products from the Vretha system &mdash;a galactic location within the Mid Rim's Hollan sector &mdash;, which, out of habit, prompted Etro to start stamping it, angering the hostess in the process and making her leave in what they believed to be a 'hufff.' When trying to eat a potato, an extreme physiological reaction erupted, making him break out in collard lesions, a condition that affected Duros. This sudden reaction scared away all the Humans, including the home owners, who ran off in fear and did not return to their house for the whole period the aliens stayed there. With the domicile empty, the Duros couple used the privacy to go to the freezer, seeing as it was their honeymoon.

The Edthatts spent their remaining solar periods on Urrtha enjoying themselves, practicing activities such as bouncing on antennas, reading vegetables and choking books and paintings, which, unlike the ones from their homeworld, put up little resistance. They bemoaned, however, the lack of suitable objects to scratch. When one day a young Human tried to throw folded piles of paper at the exterior of the domicile, he saw the couple and helped them to leave the planet by means of a matter catalyst, a device large enough to fit two grown Duros and known locally as a "blender." After the child beat them in what they believed was a "professional-level" game of Twister, the kid put them in the device and sent them on their way home.

The married couple would later recall the experience with joy in a thorough article published in an edition of the news periodical The Galactic Gossip, as part of an interview conducted by staff writer Trebor Uarrac. The article included a photo of the couple, as well as an image of the technological device that ensured their safe return, a seven-speed vortex-equipped matter catalyst.

Personality and traits
"One Human kept showing me his collection of female naked imagery. They were very interesting. Not at all what you would expect."

- Etro Edthatt

Although the Duros were famed for being a species with a strong interest on space travel and for being one of the first civilizations to develop the technology to do so, Etro Edthatt and his wife, until the abduction, were not completely sure life developed elsewere and had never before seen Humans, the most populous species in the galaxy. Additionally, he could not speak Urthha's language, a high-pitched form of verbal communication that, at first, reminded him of Mocking Trees, which required Etro and his wife to wear portable aural synchronizers to communicate with some off-worlders, including the Humans from Urthha. He struggled to grasp many cultural concepts and objects common to Humans such as "party," "table," "potato" or pieces of technology like matter catalysts.

Initially frightened with the kidnapping and the profound cultural shock, Edthatt over time developed a positive view of the whole affair, enjoying his time on Urthha. He displayed curiosity and surprise towards Human anatomy, particularly female, constantly maintaining an inquisitive stance, often trying out new experiences, although this exploratory behavior was the cause for his collard lesion breakout on one occasion. Edthatt only lamented he and Droza could not find suitable objects to scratch. Overall, all the events that transpired during his honeymoon served to confirm his hypothesis that life, especially sentient life, indeed existed outside of his homeworld, although it was not necessarily very intelligent.

Edthatt, like all Duros, possessed red eyes, no hair, a green-blue skin color, a mouth with no lips, a long, thin and noseless head and green-colored blood. Etro also possessed an olfactory organ beneath his eyes, which was responsible for his sense of smell. He displayed an usual Duros trait upon having enjoyed telling the story about his trip, using his photographic memory.

Behind the scenes
Etro Edthatt was featured in a two-page story titled "Aliens Kidnapped by Humans!," a gossip magazine parody attributed to Trebor Uarrac of The Galactic Gossip, originally written by Bob Carrau for the 1993 book Monsters and Aliens from George Lucas, a publication that combines creature designs and photographs from various projects of George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars franchise, with a variety of original short fiction pieces written by Carrau. Lucasfilm employee Leland Chee, who maintains the Holocron continuity database, has indicated that information contained in the book is non-canonical.

In the story, two Duros newlyweds named Etro and Droza Edthatt are "abducted by human beings" from the planet "Urthha." After more than four solar periods of unusual experiences, they use a "matter catalyst," which the humans call a "blender," to leave the planet.

A picture of the Edthatts, originally a production photo from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, is included in the segment, although the newlyweds are not individually identified in the image. The Duros in the original picture were canonically revealed to be Chachi De Maal and Ohwun De Maal.