Omi

Omi was a Force-sensitive female dianoga which lived inside garbage masher 3263827 aboard the Death Star.

Description
Omi, like other dianoga, was a sentient carnivorous cephalopod which possessed multiple hearts, seven suckered tentacles, and a single eyestalk protruding from the center of their bodies. She had a red skin and a green eye with red sclera. Omi was also 10.0 meters tall.

History
After her capture on her homeworld at the hands of the native Vodran, Omi was handed to Imperials en route to the Death Star. While en route to the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, she received a vision of fiery destruction and was able to escape her containment. She attempted to flee the vessel by making use of her species' natural ability to camouflage, but was discovered by two Imperial stormtroopers. Although she was able to dispatch the two stormtroopers, by surrendering herself to the power of what she could only describe as "It", she realised that there was nowhere to go, and retreated back into her containment, until finally arriving to the Death Star.

Once aboard, Omi once again received a vision of fire, and was dumped into a garbage chute, introducing her to garbage masher 3263827, where she would feed on the organic materials that would fall in. After rescuing Princess Leia Organa aboard the Death Star, Han Solo, Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker were temporarily stranded inside garbage masher 3263827, along with the Princess in the year 0 BBY. Enacting the belief of her people, Omi pulled Skywalker into the water, "baptizing" him, after she had sensed that he too was Force-sensitive, and letting him go shortly thereafter. As the compression cycle was about to start, the dianoga disappeared deep underwater. When Luke Skywalker was able to escape the trash compactor unharmed, Omi sensed that he would go on to do great things.

Before the Death Star's destruction, Omi would continue to submit to "It", being able to telepathically lift objects into the air. When her vision was fulfilled, and the Death Star was destroyed, she pondered what she would be in the next life.

Behind the scenes
Omi, and the dianoga species, first appeared in the original 1977 Star Wars film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Nnedi Okorafor, writer of the short story "The Baptist" for the upcoming anthology From a Certain Point of View, revealed Omi's name in a preview for her short story on September 16, 2017. Okorafor stated that she named the dianoga Omi, as Omi means "water" in Yoruba language.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
 * Star Wars: The Original Trilogy – A Graphic Novel