Cephalon

"That's cryptic even for a giant floating four-dimensional sack of brains. Think you can translate the translation?"

- Den Dhur to Laranth Tarak after viewing a translated message from a Cephalon

Cephalons were an extremely odd alien species. They perceived the galaxy in four dimensions, seeing time in the way that other species see space. They had ganglionic intelligence, with multiple semi-autonomous sub-brains that sent information to a large, sessile central brain. They had no visible sensory organs such as eyes, noses, or mouths. Because of the way they saw the galaxy, Cephalons could not specify past or future-tense verbs. To communicate, their thoughts were translated by a computer and projected onto a screen, though because of the complexity of their thoughts, the translations were often very cryptic.

Appearances

 * Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows