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- "When their elderly grow too old to regenerate, beat them to death, the Abyssin do, to conserve their resources."
- ―Yoda, to Qui-Gon Jinn
Abyssins were a sentient species of cycloptic bipeds[5] native to Byss.[4] Their physical characteristics included a swarthy greenish[1] or blue[2] skin, green and white hair, and a single slit-pupilled eye.[1] They also had the ability to regenerate missing limbs and could live to be three hundred years old.[3] Some of them had three claw-tipped digits on each hand,[1] while others had four human-like fingers.[6] Jackar Bowmani, a male Abyssin, worked in the Jedi Temple as a munitions expert during the Clone Wars,[6] while another,[1] Myo,[5] was a patron of Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in Mos Eisley when Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi first met Han Solo and Chewbacca shortly before the Battle of Yavin.[1]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
An Abyssin first appeared in the 1977 movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.[1] The name "Abyssin" itself was only coined in the Legends roleplaying game sourcebook Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races in 1984.[7] The first canon source to use the species's name was the reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations, released in 2016. Although the name was misspelt as "Abbysin" in that book,[5] author Jason Fry has confirmed this is merely a typo.[8]
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- Dooku: Jedi Lost (Appears in flashback(s))
- Dooku: Jedi Lost script (Appears in flashback(s))
- Master & Apprentice (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Battlefront II (Statue only) (DLC)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars film (Statue only)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Sphere of Influence" (Statue only)- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Hunt for Ziro" (Statue only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Eminence" (Statue only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Sabotage" (Arm only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Gone with a Trace"
- Star Wars Battlefront (Statue only) (DLC)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
- "The Kloo Horn Cantina Caper"—From a Certain Point of View
- Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (Statue only)
- Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (Statue only)
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization (Statue only)
- Rescue from Jabba's Palace (Statue only)
- Alphabet Squadron (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Uprising (Statue only)
- The Mandalorian – "Chapter 9: The Marshal"
- The Mandalorian – "Chapter 16: The Rescue" (as a statue)
- Poe Dameron 9 (Statue only)
- "Tales from Wild Space: Majordomo, Major Problems"—Star Wars Adventures 23 (Appears in flashback(s))
Sources[edit | edit source]
- "Sabotage" Episode Guide - The Clone Wars on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars The Complete Season Five (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Force Collection (First identified as Abyssin)
- Mos Eisley Cantina in the Encyclopedia (content now obsolete; backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars: Complete Locations (as Abbysin)
- Star Wars: Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious
- Star Wars: How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other Galactic Survival Skills (Picture only)
- Every Language in Star Wars Movies | Star Wars By the Numbers on the official Star Wars Kids YouTube channel (backup link) (Picture only)
- The Mandalorian | Season 2 Official Trailer | Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian: Making of Season Two
- Pintu in the Databank (backup link) (Picture only)
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Gone with a Trace"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars: Uprising—Crew Member: "Shryo"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Master & Apprentice
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Star Wars: Complete Locations
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Sabotage"
- ↑ Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races
- ↑ Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) on Twitter: "@LelalMekha Typo" (content obsolete and backup link not available)
