Belugan

The Belugans were a crystalline-aquatic species native to the planet Quarzite.

Biology and appearance[]

Belugans were humanoids notable for their tentacled mouths divided in four separated parts.^[1] Their eyes rolled back white when showing attack expressions.^[3]

Society and culture[]

The Belugans, who had wealth and technology on their side,^[4] did show some martial arts, as Major Rigosso was seen giving a butterfly kick to an incoming Kage Warrior.^[1]

History[]

QuarziteCaves-Bounty — The caves of Quarzite, the Belugans' home.

Belugans were native to Quarzite,^[1] a planet from the Mid Rim.^[5] Due to the inhospitable atmospheric pressure on the surface of Quarzite, the Belugan and Kage people lived in subterranean passages beneath the planet's crust.^[6] Its inhospitable nature prevented it from truly flourishing as part of the galactic community.^[7] Transit and transportation for the Belugans were provided by a series of subtram lines.^[6] By the years of the Clone Wars Lord Otua Blank ruled the small planet with an iron fist.^[2]

Unidentified Belugan guard 2 — A Belugan dressed in protective suit.

An ongoing conflict between the outnumbered Kage and the powerful Belugans, who had wealth and technology on their side,^[4] had been going by the times of the Clone Wars. In this conflict the Kage could keep pace with the subtram transports that supplied Blank's strongholds,^[1] and launch raids that caught the Belugan security forces off-guard.^[4] Blank had marshaled an elite military force that protected his domain, but that weren't skilled enough to deal with the Kage warriors.^[2]

In 20 BBY^[8] Otua Blank kidnapped Pluma Sodi, sister of the leader of Kage Warriors Krismo Sodi, to make her his bride. A group of mercenaries, including Dathomirian Asajj Ventress, was assembled to deliver the girl, closed in a box, to Blank's stronghold. In the ensuing mission Ventress liberated Pluma and delivered her to his brother, leaving instead at Blank a tied up Boba Fett.^[1]