Hawk-bat/Legends


 * You may be looking for the the spacecraft named the Hawk-Bat.

Hawk-bats were avian creatures with a curved beak and leathery wings. They could be purple or red. Hawk-bats could be found on urbanized worlds like Coruscant and Taris. Hawk-bat meat was very delicious, and their eggs were considered a delicacy. Emperor Palpatine had a private aviary of hawk-bats in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, where he and guests could have hawk-bats at their leisure.

The hawk-bat's wingspan averaged 1.5 meters. The hawk-bat's wings consisted of a thin membrane stretched over a series of wing-bones. Hawk-bats used their eyesight and echolocation to find their prey. They usually travelled in large flocks through the pipes and lower-levels of Coruscant. Every few months, they migrated despite lack of seasons in the lower-levels. Because of this, many scientists have come to believe that hawk-bats evolved during ancient Coruscant, making them the only known species to survive Coruscant's urbanization. Hawk-bats hated the cold and usually stayed away from it. Many lived on power-cables or in heated vents, hanging upside down warm pipes below buildings.

Hawk-bats hunted and attacked together; their entire flock as one. Flocks liked to feed on anything that moved, though they favored granite slugs. The flocks managed to overwhelm their enemies by swarming over them; even large enemies could be taken down by a flock, but alone a hawk-bat was very weak. If one hawk-bat was disturbed, all of its companions would attack the enemy at once. Hawk-bats became a symbol for swoop gangs and pirates, both of which attacked in large numbers.

Hawk-bats managed to survive the Yuuzhan Vong war, and seem to have adapted to Coruscant's newly introduced biological components.