Droxine

"No&hellip; it can't be&hellip;"

- Luke Skywalker on seeing a Nightmare Demon of Droxine

Droxine was a planet located in the Esstran sector of the Outer Rim Territories. It was home to the carchar and Nightmare Demon species, althought the latter were believed to have been eradicated by the time of the Clone Wars. Nightmare Demons were telepathic killers. One such Demon, Reist, was forced to work for the Galactic Empire. He was sent to Lapez-3 to kill Rebel Luke Skywalker but was defeated by the pilot.

Description
Droxine was a planet located in the Esstran sector of the Outer Rim Territories. The planet had a number of oceans which were home to the carchar species. These poriferal creatures had a distinctive water-vascular system, similar to that of the aiwha of Kamino.

History
Sometime prior to the Clone Wars, the Nightmare Demons of Droxine were believed to have been eradicated. However, some of the Demons survived past into the Imperial Period where they were used by some of Emperor Palpatine's specialist assassins. One Demon, Reist, was used by the Galactic Empire as an assassin. The Human replica droid Altin Wuho controlled Reist, and sent it to attack Luke Skywalker on the neighboring planet Lapez-3; Skywalker, however, attacked and killed the Demon with his lightsaber.

Inhabitants
Droxine was inhabited by Nightmare Demons. These were a small bipedal species covered in fur, except for their head which resembled a Human skull, and their twin tails. The Nightmare Demons were telepathic killers; the Demons caused individuals to hallucinate, seeing a variety of morbid images. When an individual was entralled by a Demon, they were unable to move. The Demons were generally thought to have been eradicated prior to the Clone Wars.

Other inhabitants of Droxine worked as freight haulers. Two such freight haulers claimed to have seen the infamous bounty hunter Boba Fett disable a significantly larger starship using a concealed ion cannon on his Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft Slave I.

Behind the scenes
"Fans missed Luke battling Reist, 'a telepathic killer from the planet Droxine.' Sounds scary, but Reist was a monkey with a skull for a head."

- Jason Fry, in Comic Marvels

Droxine was created by Steve Moore, and first mentioned in his comic "Death Masque", published in The Empire Strikes Back Monthly 149 in 1981. It next received a mention in the first edition of Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back, written by Michael Stern and published by West End Games in 1989, although this mention was not repeated in the second edition. The planet received a third mention, in Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds, published by Wizards of the Coast in 2004. Droxine was also mentioned in the article Comic Marvels by Jason Fry and published in Star Wars Insider 91 in 2006.

Appearances

 * Death Masque