Tsil

Tsil, also known as Tsil Electrical Crystals, Spook-Crystals, Or Smokies, were mineral based life forms that resided on the planet of Nam Chorios. Oldtimers, descendants of the planet's original Human settlers, gave the tsils their names and nicknames, and were unaffected by the electrical storms they produced. If offworlders were caught in the five-to-ten minute electrical storms that the tsils created, they were left sick. untill death

As Luke Skywalker discovered, Tsils could reflect and amplify light and life energy. This increases the Force sensitivity on Nam Chorios, and the slightest use of the Force on the planet would set off a wild Force storm. Tsils communicated via telepathy by putting images in another's mind. Oldtimer religious leaders known as "Listeners" could hear these "voices." One apparently had to be Force-sensitive to understand a Tsil. The Tsils warned the Oldtimer prophet Theras that the drochs which inhabited the planet were the cause of the terrible Death Seed plague. Drochs are weakened by light, so the Tsils ability to amplify light rendered drochs harmless on Nam Chorios.

A number of Tsils were taken offworld for commercial and industrial exploitation. They were officially designated for use in filtering light for K-Class planets, but their primary purpose was to function as the core component of Centrally Controlled Independent Replicant systems in the CCIR Needle and synthdroid projects undertaken by Loronar Corporation. The reprogramming process used to harness a Tsil for these purposes was considered an atrocity by the Tsils, who compared it to a Jawa having his brain ripped out and replaced with a new one, and the victim being placed in Stormtrooper armor. Tsils offered the solution to the Death Seed plague to Leia Organa Solo if she made sure all the Tsils thus enslaved were returned. She agreed, and most of the Tsils were returned to Nam Chorios after containing the droch threat.

Tsil Crystals were very powerfull, Having the ability to charge electricity into its opponents, Killing them. Though how the crystal got its powers is unaware, the crystal is very much, a deadly oppenent.

Soon enough the crystals lost the nutriants it needed to live, dieing out, one by one the crystals lost there energy. After the process had ended, they crystals surged back with electricity, but there were no signs of the crystals being alive any further. Therefor creating a sort of crystal that could harness electricity.

Appearances

 * Planet of Twilight